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Jan 7, 2021

Modernizing RPA Deployment with an Eye Toward the Future

Your organization is only as successful as its processes. But if your business is, like many, using a patchwork of off-the-shelf and proprietary software and platforms — your core business processes aren’t running in true end-to-end fashion; instead, they’re executed in silos. The Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bots you deployed to replace repetitive human tasks? If you’re like 9 out of 10 process automation experts we surveyed, those bots may still provide value, but will likely turn cumbersome and complex as your business needs and processes evolve. And if you’ve tried to scale RPA deployments or implement more complex RPA script orchestrations, you’ve discovered how brittle and high-maintenance your RPAs have become. The end result of this situation is that…

By Amy Hooker Kidd

Announcements Community

Jan 5, 2021

Test Your Processes With JUnit 5

If you’re a fan of JUnit5 for testing on the JVM, we have good news — there’s a brand-new library available: camunda-bpm-junit5, published as a community extension for Camunda BPM. The project is now available on Maven central, so you can start testing your processes with the latest technology. Getting started To add the extension to your project, just add the Maven dependency to your pom file: <dependency> <groupId>org.camunda.bpm.extension</groupId> <artifactId>camunda-bpm-junit5</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> Add the dependencies to JUnit 5 if you don’t already have them (they are included in the spring-boot-starter-test artifact): <dependency> <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId> <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId> <version>5.6.2</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> To start testing you can extend your test class with the ProcessEngineExtension: This injects the ProcessEngine configured in the camunda.cfg.xml file into…

By Ingo Richtsmeier

Community Process Orchestration

Dec 17, 2020

Retaining Community Knowledge on the Slack Free Tier with a Slack bot

“There is a lot of valuable information in this Slack, but whenever I come back to find it, it’s gone because of the 10,000 message limit. Can we move this community to Discord, which has persistent message history?” That message, from a community member in the Zeebe Slack, triggered a DevRel project that resulted in the Slack Archivist – a Slack bot that allows valuable conversations to be archived from the community Slack to a dedicated searchable topic in our Discourse-powered Forum. The Problem Slack is ubiquitous. You probably have it open right now, and are in several different Slack teams. We use Slack internally at Camunda, on a paid plan, and when it came time to stand something up…

By Josh Wulf

Getting Started Process Orchestration

Dec 14, 2020

Refactoring an Actor Model System from Nact.io to Camunda Cloud

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Open Source Erlang language and the Erlang virtual machine. Renowned for its reliability, the ability to hot-patch running code, and the Actor model, Erlang has been incredibly influential in software development, particularly in scalable distributed systems. If you look through the Zeebe source code, you’ll see Actor components sprinkled throughout. Zeebe core engineer Deepthi Akkoorath did her PhD thesis in Scalable Consistency in theMulti-core Era and is a huge fan of Erlang. Here is a video of Deepthi describing the architecture of Zeebe, the workflow engine powering Camunda Cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXKgQQmukE A couple of months ago, I wrote a statistics collector for the Camunda DevRel team. You can see the project in the…

By Josh Wulf

Product

Dec 8, 2020

Camunda Optimize 3.3.0-alpha2 Released

We’re excited to announce the release of Camunda Optimize 3.3.0-alpha2. Refreshed Report Builder and Reporting capabilities Process Analysis and Filtering improvements New Flow Node by Variable Process Reports Custom Values in Variable Filters Moving Process and Decision Reports across environments External Process Events Inspection and Deletion Improved Updates and Maintenance Resumable Updates Updated Support for Elasticsearch What’s next? How to get it? Camunda Optimize provides business activity monitoring for workflows, supporting continuous process improvement by providing transparency into your automated workflows and decisions. Business-friendly reports, dashboards, and alerts make it possible to identify process bottlenecks and improve end-to-end processes. If you’d like to get started with Optimize 3.3.0-alpha2 right away, you can download the release here with your Camunda Enterprise…

By Camunda Optimize Team

Product Releases

Dec 8, 2020

Camunda BPM Runtime 7.15.0-alpha2 Released

We are pleased to announce the next release of Camunda BPM 7.15 with you. This release features the following improvements: Extend OpenAPI documentation The Source Code of the Webapps has a new home Add Spring Boot 2.4.x Support Template Repositories for Maven Archetypes 11 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda for free or Run it with Docker. For a complete list of all improvements, take a look at the release notes. Please also see the list of known issues.If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub. Extend OpenAPI documentation Within this alpha release we added OpenAPI documentation for three REST API endpoints: Group Identity Tenant Please have a look at OpenAPI documentation page…

By Camunda Platform Team

Community Process Orchestration

Nov 26, 2020

Virtual Conference Swag

One of the things that I love about being a Developer Advocate is attending and speaking at conferences. I loved that as a developer – in fact, I first met (now, fellow-) Camunda Developer Advocate Niall Deehan at the Camunda booth when speaking at NDC Oslo, in 2017. A essential part of the conference experience is getting some cool swag. My wardrobe is literally 70% conference and swag t-shirts. But as a Developer Advocate, I get to be one of the people handing out cool swag (as well as still snagging some cool stuff while I’m there). The recent move to online events has changed the world – creating some constraints, but also opening some novel possibilities: No more travelling…

By Josh Wulf

Process Orchestration Product

Nov 20, 2020

Zeebe Performance Tuning tool

Falko Menge, one of our Camunda Consultants, has released a performance benchmarking/tuning tool that he has been using for the past year with Camunda customers to tune Zeebe for their production workloads. It is a spreadsheet template for creating and recording performance tests, and observing the effects of the various parameters on performance. We did a live stream explaining how it works, which you can view here. The spreadsheet itself is available here. You can make a copy of the spreadsheet and use it for your own testing. If you want to watch a longer explanation of the parameters, we did a more detailed stream on it a month ago, which you can watch here. If you want to provide…

By Josh Wulf

Product

Nov 13, 2020

Toward a Unified Camunda Account

Camunda Account offers Single Sign-On and Single Sign-Out while laying the foundation of a common user and role management across Camunda products and LDAP support.

By Aleksandar Petrovic, Beriwan Tepe

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