Cockpit Plugin

We are happy to announce, that Camunda BPM 7.14 (scheduled for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020) includes an all new frontend plugin system for Cockpit. It replaces the current AngularJS 1.8 based plugin system and enables you to extend Cockpit with domain-specific information written in the web-technologies of your choice. What are Plugins Webapp plugins are user extensions that provide custom functionality to Cockpit, Tasklist, and Admin, which Camunda does not provide out of the box. It allows you to embed domain-specific information into Camunda tooling without switching applications. The new plugin system allows you to use the Javascript framework you are most familiar with, whether it be React, Angular, or just plain Javascript. Cockpit is the first webapp to receive...

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the most important metric for analyzing statistical data of business processes: KPIs can not only be used to highlight efficiencies and inefficiencies in business processes, but they can help to subsequently improve specific activities in order to speed up process execution. Choosing the right KPIs and displaying the data in a simple and intuitive way is key for process improvement. One of the most common requirements for KPI monitoring is about time-sensitive business processes. The question that you might ask is ‘How can we monitor which business processes or specific steps were completed in time and which did not?’ Within this blog entry I will outline how one can make use of Camunda’s open architecture...