How BPM Connects The Internet of Enterprise Things Using EffektifTom Baeyens

My background

• jBPM, JBoss, Red Hat• Activiti, Alfresco• A large portion of running BPM engines

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The Team

• Tom Baeyens• Signavio– Best SaaS BPM modeling– 5 years– 500+ enterprise customers– 50+ people – Without venture capital

• Signavio invested 1.2M € (resources & cash)

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The Goal

• Build business apps– Simpler– Faster– Cheaper

• Works well with cloud services

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Use building blocks

• Coordinate tasks to people– Tasks can be managed in Effektif– Escalations

• Listen to events in external services• Perform actions in external services– Upload a file to Google Drive– Create a Salesforce lead

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Easy

• Process is a small business app– Building blocks– Flow

• Focus on simplicity– Separation of concerns

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IFTTT for the enterprise

Process

• Trigger An event in any enterprise system

can trigger an Effektif process automatic• Actions

Box in the Effektif process that performs an operation on the enterprise system system

Build apps without coding

for business

professionals

BPMN model to execution

for BPM professionals

Jumpstart for

developers

Add workflow feature

for enterprise products

Enterprise software applications

Traditional enterprise environment

Enterprise software applications

New hybrid enterpriseenvironment

Process Engine

Cloud changed integration

A

B

Transaction

1. Update A2. Update B3. Commit or rollback

Cloud changed integration

Process Engine

1. Log update A starts2. Perform update A3. Log update A done

4. Log update B starts5. Perform update B6. Log update B done

A

B

Cloud changed a lot more

• REST• OAuth• Polyglot programming– Use the right tool for the job

Effektif

• Easiest to use as a service– Just register an account

• Built for the cloud– New cloud services– In new hybrid environments (cloud / on-premise)

Enterprise things

Enterprise things

Custom apps Tasks for people

Custom apps Tasks for people

Demo