And if you are a Drools or jBPM enthusiast, you will be busy: another top presentation that we have lined up for you comes from a partnership between Signavio and Red Hat. Duncan Doyle and Tom Debevoise will be driving the show on this one with a great example of how do model processes (and a few decisions) with the BPMN and DMN standards using the awesome tools from Signavio, and then deploying those models into the solid Drools and jBPM engines for execution!
This is End to End BPM: from Process Modeling to Execution with Signavio and Red Hat !
Join us on Wednesday, May 3rd, at 3:30pm!
And here is some extra detail from Tom:
End to End BPM
For nearly a decade designing processes in Business Process
Model Notation (BPMN) has been a best practice for aligning business and
technical objectives. With BPMN, the business analyst or subject matter expert
can precisely define the interactions of customers, systems and trading
partners with the activities and events that drive them. Because the notation
is a standard, the meaning of the process model is unambiguous.
Business uses BPMN to define
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The roles of the participants
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Their responsibilities
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The timing and sequence of events
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How to handle errors and exceptions
Figure1 Example BPMN process in Signavio
With the Signavio Process Manager, all stakeholders can
collaborate on the process model using an ability to commutate comments and
concerns and a shared definition of terms. As shown in the figure 1, BPMN
activities can denote where forms, services and scripts are needed. BPMN is
more than a drawing convention. Compliant software can export the diagram in an
XML format that other systems can read. Signavio and Red Hat have leveraged
this capability so that processes and more can be exchanged.
Figure 2, the same BPMN process in BPM Suite’s KIE Workbench
To create an executable process, the technical team would
then and the code for user forms, scripts and services. So processes in the
Signavio Process Manager can be exported to the BPM Suite for this objective.
Most business analysts are not concerned with ‘Code’, except
in the areas of compliance where very detailed logic, including quantities,
dates and computational logic is critical. Recently BPMN has been extended to
include decision modeling with the decision modeling notation (DMN). While
separate from BPMN, DMN has been designed to work with BPMN. With decision modeling
the business analysts can control a process by determining the logic for:
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What needs to be done next
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Who need to do it
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When and where it is done
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And importantly, were any important rules broken
Figure 3, Decision logic for the process in DMN
Decision logic can be exported from the Signavio Process
Manager and incorporated into the KIE workbench. The process in figure 1 and 2
is controlled by the decision in figure 3.
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The teamwork of Signavio and Red Hat is a perfect separation
of concerns between the business and IT. Because it is designed to be easy to
use and collaborative, the Signavio Process Manager is the perfect environment
for developing the business view of a process or a decision. Similarly, because
it can leverage the power and scalability of the entire Red Hat middleware
stack, the BPM Suite is the perfect environment for turning these decisions
into an executable form and hosting them.
