BPM on RailsMikhail Klishevich

Business Optimization, LLC www.busation.com/bpm

2015

What is BPM?BPM - Business Process Management. Good BPM system is build for change.

Examples for BPM system usage:

• bank account opening

• contract negotiation

• procurement process

BPM overview: Light BPM-systems

Cons and Pros:

+ Build on new technologies

+ Not expensive ($1000)

+ Good for standard tasks

- Expensive / not possible in customisation

- licensing limitations

BPM overview: Heavy BPM-systems

Cons and Pros

+ provide 100% customisation

- expensive ($100 000)

- legacy technologies

- limited number of specialists

BPM on RailsBPM on Rails - Open source BPM platform

+ HTML 5 web application

+ Easy to develop and configure

+ Build on well known framework Ruby on Rails

Key principals:

• Convenient process description

• Good process visualisation

• Fast application deployment

• Great testing tools

• Familiar user interface

BPM on Rails: states model example

BPM on Rails: process visualisation

• Create graphical representation from source file

• Using open source library graphviz

• Easy to understand for business users (not programmers)

BPM on Rails: automated deployment

cap deploy - to move code to production

• it takes code from remote repository

• copy code to server

• create system links

• update libraries

• run database migrate tasks

• restart server

Capistrano

BPM on Rails: Automated tests example

BPM on Rails: UI example

BPM on Rails: UI example

BPM on Rails today• Authentication / Authorization

• Class for state model customisation

• Graphical state model creation from code

• Roles for process customisation

• Automatic decisions

• Class for integration tests

• Emails delivery

• Deployment tasks automation

BPM on Rails: plans for tomorrow

• Multiprocess solution

• Saving history of changes

• 1C, SAP integration

• Mobile version (iOS, Android)

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