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All Camunda blog posts tagged with Community.
Nov 12, 2018
Decision tables are the most common element from DMN. They are easy to use and can solve many problems. However, DMN has more elements like Business Knowledge Models, Contexts, Literal Expressions, Function Definitions, Invocations and more. In this post, I want to introduce the new extension for DMN and show how it can be used to model an example decision with the full power of DMN.
Oct 18, 2018
This blog post is based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2018. It covers these four points: We’re all turning into technology companies. Digital Transformation relies on Business Process Automation (BPA). BPA is a technology puzzle that suits your business. Workflow automation is always one piece of that puzzle. I am going to elaborate on each point and describe how I see Camunda contributing to this general development.
By Jakob Freund
Aug 29, 2018
In my recent post on RPA, I used asynchronous REST calls to integrate UiPath with Camunda. This only works if your RPA solution provides an API that can be used by third-party applications. Since I promised you that there would be a follow-up post, I want to take the opportunity to show you another approach of integrating an RPA tool with Camunda. This time, I decided to try out WorkFusion’s RPA Express, which is available for free. Scenario The overall scenario for using an RPA product is the same that I described in my last post — you need to replace manual work with an automated task, but the external system does not provide an API that can be called…
Aug 14, 2018
Having read Mike’s post on why it makes sense to combine RPA products with Camunda BPM, I got curious about prototyping an example with a specific RPA tool. I decided to work with UiPath since it’s been getting a lot of attention from the community. In this post, I want to share what I learned and what I built during my one-week journey into the world of RPA. Scenario The example can be applied to any scenario where you need to replace manual work (the User Task in BPMN) with an automated task and where an external system — often a legacy graphical user interface — does not provide an API that can be called directly from Camunda. So instead…
Jul 13, 2018
In Camunda, you can use scripts at different places of a process. For example, inside a Script Task, as an execution/task listener, as a condition expression on a sequence flow or inside an input/output mapping. Usually, the scripts are written in JavaScript, Groovy or JUEL. Using the FEEL extension, it is also possible to write scripts in FEEL (Friendly Enough Expression Language) which is a part of the DMN specification.
Jul 9, 2018
When we talk about Zeebe, we also talk a lot about the challenges that organizations face when managing business processes that span many independent microservices. “Microservices orchestration” is a useful term for describing one potential solution to this problem. But every organization will take a different approach to a microservices architecture, and we want to be sure we have a clear understanding of what microservices orchestration means to the many different users who might benefit from Zeebe.
Nov 10, 2017
The first Camunda community day in San Francisco took place on November 9th. More than 80% of people registered actually dropped by which is really great considering that registration was free. It was great to welcome attendees from all over the bay area, including Autodesk, SAP, LinkedIn, Gainsight, Intuit and Zymergen. The highlight of the day was the presentation given by Jimmy Floyd from 24 Hour Fitness. 24 Hour Fitness “is the world’s largest (by memberships) privately owned and operated fitness center chain” (Wikipedia) with more than 400 locations. Jimmy explained how they use Camunda BPM for running their core business processes. They have more than 190 processes in production. BPMN given them great visibility into their business. Before mapping…
By Daniel Meyer
Oct 24, 2017
Process applications basically consist of process model(s) and Java code which both exist side by side and are edited in different tools. For the process models you will most likely use the Camunda Modeler, for the Java code the IDE of your choice. However, no one checks whether model and code are aligned beforehand, e.g. if a bean referenced in a delegate expression actually exists in the code. With the viadee Process Application Validator (vPAV, Open-Source), you can validate your process application regarding these inconsistencies with a simple JUnit test. You can also ensure that specific best-practices are met (e.g. naming conventions). If you feel addressed by now, we might give it a try. It is as easy as adding…
Sep 28, 2017
Last Thursday, for our annual Community Day, we hosted our first user feedback session for Camunda Cockpit. If you attended and even better joined the conversation and provided your feedback — thank you! We truly appreciated your input and are committed to base the future evolution of Cockpit on it.
By Franz Heidl
