BPM with Bonita Open Solution

An introduction of BPM

1. BPM with Bonita Open Solution
Elias Ricken de Medeiros
@riojug, July 6
th
, 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...
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Marketing and sales
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Customer relations
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Human resources
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Communications
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Internal policies and procedures
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Manufacturing
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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
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BPM should be everywhere in any type of
company
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BUT ….
It is not the case today
Many processes are hard coded

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Why ?
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Because BPM solutions are historically complex to
implement and very expensive
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So there are exclusively used by wealthiest companies
for mission critical projects
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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
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Set of tools to go from Business Process Modeling to
Business Process execution and monitoring.
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Can include extra BPM features such as process
simulation, or application generation.
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Helps transforming business logic into something that
can be executed

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

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BPMS and continuous improvement
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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)
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BPM answer to questions such as:
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“And now, what do I have to do?”
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“How am I expected to do that?”
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“What is going on with the things I was involved in?”
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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 Application
PageFlow and GUI
BPM API
BPM Interface

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What are the benefits ?
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Business logic is externalized in a process
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The BPM solution will manage the life cycle of
the process as well as human and system
interactions
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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 1Process 2Process 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
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Version 5.5.1 available since June 30
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Very active community (3500+ members)
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500.000 downloads since the creation of the project
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Best Modeling Tool 2011
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GPL license for the studio
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LGPL for the execution engine and the web applications
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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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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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Demo
Customize your end user's forms

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Demo
Generate 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
BAM
BI
Users
Management
Tasks
management
Process
Management
User Experience
Connectors
3rd
Party
Users

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BOS Engine
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Bonita execution Engine can be embedded in
your applications
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bonita-server and bonita-client are available as
Maven artifacts on repositories
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It is distributed under LGPL v2.

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

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BOS Engine
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BOS Engine can be accessed locally or remotely with
Java, using the same code
Local
Application
bonita-server.jar
Remote
Java Client
bonita-client.jar
EJB
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.
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●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
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Is based on GWT
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Provides a modular UI easy to customize
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Supports BIRT and JasperReports

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Process applications
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The studio exports a forms.xml file that describes the
form.
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The process application reads this forms.xml build the
form model and render it on the page, using GWT.
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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
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Bonita Open Solution development follows
Scrum methodology:
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Sprints & Roadmap
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Rigorous usage of a tracker
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Backlogs & Burn-down chart

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Product development -
Continuous Integration
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~2300 tests for each platform

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