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BPM with Bonita Open Solution
Elias Ricken de Medeiros
@riojug, July 6th, 2011
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How to generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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A business process is...● a collection of related, structured activities or
tasks that produce a specific service or product and have to be executed in a specific sequence.
● It often can be visualized with a flowchart as a sequence of activities.
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Processes are everywhere...
● Marketing and sales
● Customer relations
● Human resources
● Communications
● Internal policies and procedures
● Manufacturing
● R&D
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Business Process Management (BPM) is…
a set of tools and methodologies
to model, automate, monitor and optimize
the processes of an organization
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Process lifecycle: continuous improvement
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Many applications are process based
● BPM should be everywhere in any type of company
● BUT ….
It is not the case today
Many processes are hard coded
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Why ?
● Because BPM solutions are historically complex to implement and very expensive
➔ So there are exclusively used by wealthiest companies for mission critical projects
● Because it can be tempting to hard code the processes
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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A Business Process Management System (BPMS) is…
a set of software tools
to implement Business Process Management
in an organization
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BPMS● Set of tools to go from Business Process Modeling to
Business Process execution and monitoring.
● Can include extra BPM features such as process simulation, or application generation.
● Helps transforming business logic into something that can be executed
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BPMS and agility
● By uncoupling business logic from technical issues, a BPMS brings agility to your business.
● Modify a process =
edit a 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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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is…
● A standardized graphical notation for modeling business processes
● BPMN 2.0 standard released in January 2011
● proposed by the Object Management Group
● contains standard graphical elements
● uses standard semantics
● identifies standard execution
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BPMN samples
BPMN defines...
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BPMN samples
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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BPM (for business users)
● BPM answer to questions such as:● “And now, what do I have to do?”
● “How am I expected to do that?”
● “What is going on with the things I was involved in?”
● BPM is all about giving to the end-user the application that exactly reproduce the way he works with those processes on a day to day.
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Process based web applications
Process design
Information System Connectivity
Web Application developmentWeb framework
BPM Solution
Software Main steps
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How to develop a process based web application ?
BPM Execution Engine
Web ApplicationPageFlow and GUI
BPM API
BPM Interface
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What are the benefits ?
● Business logic is externalized in a process● The BPM solution will manage the life cycle of
the process as well as human and system interactions
● Only link between the web application and the BPM solution is the BPM API
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How could we go further ?
Generic graphical interface for processes
Process based web applications generation
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Generic graphical interface for processes
BPM Execution Engine
BPM Portal
BPM API
Process 1 Process 2 Process n
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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Bonita in a nutshell
2003-2009: Bonita v2, v3 and v4
Since 2009: Bonita Open Solution 5...
2001 – 2003: v1
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Bonita Open Solution● Version 5.5.1 available since June 30th
● Very active community (3500+ members)
● 500.000 downloads since the creation of the project
● Best Modeling Tool 2011
● GPL license for the studio
● LGPL for the execution engine and the web applications
● http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/BPM_download.php
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What is Bonita Open Solution?
Bonita Execution Engine
Bonita Studio Bonita User Experience
draw and connect run your application manage your processes
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What is Bonita Open Solution?
● Bonita Studio● model processes ● connect processes to external information systems● design end-user forms
● Bonita User Experience● provides end-user interface for interaction with process● allows administrator management of process● stand-alone applications
● Bonita Execution Engine
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Architecture: big picture
Bonita EngineBonita Engine
Bonita User ExperienceBonita User Experience
Bonita Applications
Bonita Applications
CONNECTORS
CONNECTORS
UsersUsers
3rd Party Information
System
3rd Party Information
System
MailMail
……
DBDB
LDAPLDAP
Your AppYour App
DB
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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Demo
Process modeling
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Demo
Run
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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DemoCustomize your end user's forms
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DemoGenerate an application from your process
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Demo
User Experience – as easy as email
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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Runtime Architecture
…Transaction HistoryJournal LDR Identity
Services container
Process engine
API
Forms server
App1 App2
BAMBI
Users Management
Tasks management
ProcessManagement
User Experience
Connectors
3rd Party
Users
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BOS Engine
● Bonita execution Engine can be embedded in your applications
● bonita-server and bonita-client are available as Maven artifacts on repositories
● It is distributed under LGPL v2.
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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.
● is used for ORM
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BOS Engine● BOS Engine can be accessed locally or remotely with
Java, using the same code
Local
Application
bonita-server.jar
Remote
Java Client
bonita-client.jarEJB
JAXRS
HTTP Client(PHP, Python...)
Server
bonita-server.jar HTTP
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Bonita Studio
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Bonita Studio● Is an Eclipse RCP application. It contains the core of Eclipse,
some other Eclipse projects, and a lot of Bonita specific plugins.
●
● Relies on Bonita engine for export.● Imports process in BAR(Bonita archive), BPMN 2, XPDL 1
and jBPM 3● Exports process in BAR and BMPN 2
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User XP
● Is based on GWT
● Provides a modular UI easy to customize
● Supports BIRT and JasperReports
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Process applications
● The studio exports a forms.xml file that describes the form.
● The process application reads this forms.xml build the form model and render it on the page, using GWT.
● The UI can be customized using HTML templates
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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Demo
Connect
There is a connector for that...
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Agenda
● What is BPM? Why is this useful?
● What does a BPMS provide?
● What is BPMN?
● From the process to the application
● What is Bonita Open Solution?
● How to model a process?
● How generate a web application?
● Under the hood
● How to develop connectors?
● Use the execution engine's API
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BOS Engine: the API● ManagementAPI
● Operations related to process installation/removal, resources management.● e.g. deploy(businessArchive), deleteProcess(processUUID), addMetadata(key, value)
● QueryDefinitionAPI● Query operations related to the ‘Definition’ object model.● e.g. getProcesses(), getProcess(processUUID), getProcessActivities(processUUID,
activityName)● RuntimeAPI
● Modification operations related to the ‘Runtime’ object model.● e.g. executeTask(taskUUID), assignTask(taskUUID, userId),
instantiateProcess(processUUID)● QueryRuntimeAPI
● Query operations related to the ‘Runtime’ object model.● e.g. getProcessInstances(), getTaskList(taskState), getVariable(activityInstanceUUID,
variableName)
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BOS Engine: the API● RepairAPI
● Advanced administration operations to handle executing process instances that may be off nominal
● e.g. stopExecution(processInstanceUUID, activityName)● CommandAPI
● Operations to execute commands available in a given process or in the overall engine● e.g. execute(command, processUUID), execute(command)
● IdentityAPI● Operations related to the embedded user module● e.g. addUser(userName, password), addRole(roleName), getUsers()
● BAMAPI● Query operations to retrieve statistics from the runtime data● e.g. getNumberOfOverdueSteps(), getNumberOfOpenStepsPerDay(startDate)
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http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/tutorial/building-your-applications-with-bonita-runtime-part-1/
BOS Engine: the API
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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
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