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Process Orchestration

All Camunda blog posts tagged with Process Orchestration.

The State of Process Automation 2020

Digital transformation is not a “nice-to-have.” Today, it’s essential to business survival, and you’ll find organizations around the world scrambling to make the vision of the digital enterprise a reality. Many are moving to modern architectures, incorporating the cloud, microservices and mobile applications while also fixing short-term bottlenecks using RPA or automating human tasks as remote work becomes widespread. As a result, process automation has emerged as a linchpin for digital transformation, powering innovation across a company. Process automation is equally sought after to improve an organization’s top line as well as its bottom line – helping to improve customer service, lower costs and drive business growth. With process automation playing an outsized role in powering innovation, Camunda commissioned a…

By Gottfried Sehringer

Orchestrating Microservices with Zeebe

Last Tuesday, I gave a presentation about “Orchestrating Microservices with Zeebe” for a London Meetup. In this blog post you can find the slides and video for the presentation – but first, a few words about the content of the presentation. I’ve focused more on the orchestration side of an example on GitHub for rearchitecting a Java Monolith application. Instead of spending time discussing the frameworks used for the example, I’ve highlighted the importance of exposing the business logic and flow of our applications to other relevant stakeholders. You can always follow the links to download and run the example in your own Kubernertes Clusters. The first half of the presentation was focused on the example scenario and some tools that…

By Mauricio Salatino

Automation Reinvented

How Deutsche Telekom scaled automation fast – using RPA and Camunda  Deutsche Telekom, one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, manages one of Europe’s largest Robotic Process Automation (RPA) implementations, automating more than 450 processes managed by 3000 unattended bots. Despite achieving savings of more than EUR 93 million last year through RPA, Deutsche Telekom’s Service division, which takes care of 100 million customer requests each year, has embarked on a mission-critical journey to gradually transition from frontend to backend automation, replacing bots with APIs. Significant Scale Deutsche Telekom’s digital transformation journey began in 2015 as the business sought to tackle pain points in manual customer service processes, according to Vice President Service IT  Marco Einacker. However, with underlying…

By Charley Mann

CloudEvents Orchestration

A couple of weeks ago, I presented at the Knative Meetup (Video, Slides) about how you can leverage the Cloud Native workflow engine Zeebe to understand, enhance and orchestrate your applications that are already using CloudEvents. I wanted to expand a bit on how these tools can help you gain a deeper understanding of how your distributed applications are working. You can find the Demo application, installation instructions, and some videos of the application and the tools in action on GitHub. You can find the full article in the official Knative Blog. If you want to get involved with the project and help me to make the demo and the components better, please get in touch. Drop me a comment…

By Mauricio Salatino

Zeebe Helm Profiles

If you are looking to start evaluating Zeebe in your own Kubernetes Cluster or if you are already doing so with our Helm Charts you should take a look at the following GitHub repository which contains a set of configurations (profiles) based on different use cases. Zeebe Helm Profiles are just configurations for the official Zeebe Helm Charts. The idea behind these profiles is to configure Zeebe and surrounding components for different use cases. A common requirement is to evaluate Zeebe into Minikube or Kubernetes KIND, or in a Cloud Provider. For each of these scenarios, you will need to configure the charts in slightly different ways. If you want to run Zeebe on your own laptop, one of the…

By Mauricio Salatino

RPA and Enabling End-to-end Process Automation

The Case for End-to-end Process Automation Processes are the algorithms that determine how an organization runs. Successful businesses grow from proven, effective processes. At Camunda, we have made it our mission to enable organizations to design, automate and improve these processes — no matter where they are and what they entail. Our ambition is to “automate any process, anywhere”.  Automation is not new, it is basically the core value of any software product. And if there was one single software product that could successfully run the entire operations of a company, there might not even be a need for Camunda. In fact, SAP tried to become that product in the 1990s. But although there are thousands of companies running SAP,…

By Jakob Freund

Three hidden threats of RPA technical debt you might have overlooked

If you’re looking to selectively automate the work of individual components in legacy systems, and help automate processes without a significant time investment — RPA should be on your radar.  Global companies like Deutsche Telekom have already introduced and automated 2,500 individual bots, resulting in savings of more than 100 million Euros. However, relying too heavily on RPA can land you in hot water. Paul Jones, Business Automation Services at NatWest even classifies RPA as technical debt.  So what can you do to avoid this debt? Prevention is the best cure and before jumping on the RPA bandwagon, think carefully about whether you need an RPA solution, or a workflow engine. Losing control of long-running processes The ability to automate…

By Daniel Meyer

Creating an Extraordinary Contributor Experience for Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest is coming! And Camunda is participating, with the opportunity to get a sweet limited-edition Camunda Hacktoberfest t-shirt by making just two pull requests to any of our open source projects. We’ve also put together a guide for open source repository maintainers, to empower you to create an extraordinary contributor experience. Creating an Extraordinary Contributor Experience This document is for open source project maintainers who want to increase community contributions to their project. We’ll look at the Contributor Experience and how you can create an Extraordinary Contributor Experience. So You’re a Maintainer You’re an open source project maintainer. You’re probably also a contributor to the project – maybe the only one. Wouldn’t it be great to have other people making…

By Josh Wulf

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