BPM & Bonita

Mickael Istria
@LyonJUG, 15th February 2011

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What is BPM? Why is this useful?

What does BPMS provide? Bonita Open Solution: demo Under the hood
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BPM is...

Business Process Management

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a BPM use-case

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BPM (for functional)

Speaks about how to do things.

Defines your how business works.

Ensure it works!

It is all about organization, and is clearly driven by business.

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BPM (for end users)

Business processes answer to questions such as:

And now, what do I have to do? How can I do that? How am I expected to do that? Ensure you do what is expected of you.

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BPMN is...

Business Process Modeling Notation

An
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BPMN samples

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BPMN samples

BPMN defines...

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From BPM to BPMS

I can automate that!

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But...

BPMS already did that for you!

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BPMS is...

Business Process Management Solution

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BPMS

Set of tooling to go from Business Process Modeling to Business Process Automation. Can include extra BPM features such as process simulation, or application generation.

Helps transforming functional into technical

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BPM lifecycle

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BPMS and agility

By uncoupling business logic from technical issues, BPMS provides agility to your business. Improve = edit diagram + redeploy a file Improving business processes is transparent for people affected by these processes.

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BPMS and continuous improvement

Open the doors towards monitoring, reporting, business intelligence, simulation...

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Bonita Open Solution

Version 5.4 available since January the 27th

Very active community (3500+ members) GPL v2
http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/BPM_download.php

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Demo

Process modeling

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Demo

Connect

There is a connector for that...

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Demo

User Experience as easy as email

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Demo

Customize your end user forms

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Demo

Generate an application from your process

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Demo

Simulate your process and improve it

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Under the hood

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Runtime architecture - Big picture

Users
3rd Party Information System Bonita User Experience Co nn ec t o r s Mail DB Google Cal

Your App

Bonita Applications

Bonita Engine

DB
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BOS Engine
Je suis l'une des technologies utilises dans le moteur de Bonita... notamment pour la persistence des dfinitions de processus, et des tats de leurs instances. Je suis sans doute le framework de persistence ORM le plus utilis dans le monde Java. Je suis, je suis...?

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BOS Engine

The engine is basically an API to manipulate processes. (create, instantiate, execute, delete)
It deals with persistence of process definitions and instances, and with execution of the flow.

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BOS Engine

BOS Engine can be accessed locally or remotely with Java, using the same code
Local Application Server EJB REST bonita-client.jar HTTP Client (PHP, Python...) Remote Java Client

bonita-server.jar

bonita-server.jar

REST

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BOS Engine

Code sample

http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/tutorial/building-your-applications-with-bonita-runtime-part-1/
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BOS Engine

Bonita Engine can be embedded in your apps

bonita-server and bonita-client are available as Maven artifacts on repositories

It is distributed under LGPL v2.

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Bonita Studio

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Bonita Studio

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Bonita Studio

The studio is an Eclipse RCP application. It contains the core of Eclipse, some other Eclipse projects, and a lot of Bonita specific plugins.

It relies on Bonita engine for export.

Imports process in BAR(Bonita archive), 33 BPMN

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User XP and process apps

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User XP and process apps

Which RIA framework is used for the web part? Google Web Toolkit !
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User XP and process apps

The studio exports a forms.xml file that describe the form. The process application reads this forms.xml to render it on the web, using GWT.

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Product development Roadmap & Tracking

Bonita Open Solution development follows Scrum methodology:

Sprints & Roadmap

Rigorous usage of a tracker Backlogs & Burn-down chart

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Product development Continuous Integration

~2300 tests for each platform

22 dedicated cores are used for continuous build and testing.
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Questions?

Unfortunately there are no more mugs !

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