Alfresco Activiti tagged posts

January 31, 2018 Posted in Blogs, BPM, Enterprise Integration, ESB, SOA

It’s an era with many directions! There are so many tools available for enterprise integration. To choose the right one usually means whether the organization may get expected return on the possible huge investment.

Each enterprise integration requirement can be different. I assume you are working in a SOA environment, facing the pressure to move to cloud, but not quite ready.

We will talk about our preferred BPM and ESB tools, plus the choice of SOA integration and web service protocols.

Let’s start from analyzing business requirements and setting the processes using BPM application. By defining business processes, we get well-defined boundaries of services.

BPM: Activiti (Open Source, Free)

Alfresco Activiti can be the best choice to define and manage business processes and workflows...

November 30, 2017 Posted in Blogs, BPM

Alfresco Activiti is a well-known open source BPM (Business Process Management) engine which may execute business processes depicted in BPMN 2.0. The authors of Alfresco Activiti developed jBPM for Red Hat previously, and after they left Alfresco in 2016, they forked Activiti code and created another open source workflow engine called Flowable. Later, Alfresco Activiti was re-branded as Alfresco Process Services (APS).

Before Activiti, the market of BPMN engines is already very crowded, Oracle, SAP, IBM and many others offer solutions. There are even more BPMN diagram tools, such as MS Visio,  LucidChart, MagicDraw, yEd and Sparx EA, etc...