Camunda BPM

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Camunda BPM
Basic data

Maintainer Camunda committer
developer camunda services GmbH
Current  version 7.13.0
( May 19, 2020 )
operating system platform independent
programming language Java
category Workflow management system
License Apache license 2.0
camunda.org

Camunda BPM is a free workflow management system written in Java , with which business processes can be defined and executed in BPMN 2.0 . Camunda BPM also supports the CMMN 1.1 and DMN 1.1 standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG) . Camunda's focus is on the automation of processes. Another area of ​​application is the orchestration of microservices .

history

Camunda BPM is an originally commercial workflow management system from the Berlin- based company Camunda, which was based on Activiti , a free workflow management system. Camunda was one of the biggest supporters for Activiti alongside Alfresco .

On March 18, 2013, the development of Camunda BPM was split off from the development of Activiti .

Camunda BPM is the main topic at the annual CamundaCon (formerly BPM Con ) conference in Berlin, but also at other conferences such as JAX and W-JAX or Devoxx .

Components

Camunda architecture overview

Camunda BPM consists of a number of components and applications that are used together to define and execute business processes:

Tools
  • Camunda Modeler, an open source modeling tool for BPMN 2.0 diagrams and Camunda BPM specific properties. Standalone or as an Eclipse plug-in.
  • Cockpit, a web application for the administration and monitoring of the workflow engine in production.
Runtime components
  • Process engine, the core of the Camunda project: The workflow processor, a Java process engine that lets BPMN processes run.
  • Model Repository, the repository in which the BPMN 2.0 models of the defined workflows are stored
  • Camunda Tasklist, a web application for human workflow management and user tasks.
Groupware
  • Cycle, a web application for collaboration between business users and software developers.

commitment

Camunda BPM runs on Apache Tomcat , JBoss WildFly and EAP, GlassFish , IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic as well as in Spring Boot and is embedded in a Java application with all common Java runtime environments and supports a number of databases for storing business processes and their process instances: Db2 , H2 Database , Oracle , MySQL , MariaDB , MS SQL and PostgreSQL .

Camunda BPM is used in particular by financial service providers (including DAB BNP Paribas , Deutsche Vermögensberatung , Hamburger Sparkasse , Raiffeisen Informatik , Sparda-Bank , Wüstenrot ) and insurance companies (including Basler Versicherungen , Generali Versicherungen , Hannover Re , HanseMerkur Insurance Group , Helvetia Insurance , LVM Landwirtschaftlicher Versicherungsverein Münster) , Provinzial NordWest and Provinzial Rheinland , VHV Group ), but also telecommunications companies ( freenet AG , Swisscom , Telekom , Magenta Telekom ) and companies in other sectors (e.g. 1 & 1 Internet , Zalando , Lufthansa Technik , Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property , Alba Group or Südwestrundfunk ).

literature

  • Jakob Freund, Bernd Rücker: Practical Guide BPMN 2.0 . Ed .: Camunda. 4th edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-44255-9 (covered in chapter 6.4.3. Camunda BPM, both authors are employees of Camunda).
  • Bernd Rücker: New open source BPM for Java developers: camunda BPM 7.0 . Ed .: jaxenter. June 3, 2013 ( jaxenter.de [accessed June 20, 2015]).
  • Fraunhofer is testing eight BPM suites

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Camunda team
  2. ↑ Release 7.13.0 . May 19, 2020 (accessed May 19, 2020).
  3. ↑ camunda-bpm-platform / LICENSE
  4. ↑ Thomas Winkler: Camunda BPM and Serverless at Universal Music at W-JAX 2019
  5. ↑ Camunda BPM Splits From Activiti
  6. ↑ camunda forks Activiti and launches camunda BPM blog.camunda.org from March 18, 2013
  7. ↑ Signavio press release on the fork
  8. ↑ CamundaCon
  9. ↑ Meet us ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / camunda.com
  10. ↑ Activiti Components ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / activiti.org
  11. ↑ Camunda Modeler
  12. ↑ Supported Environments
  13. ↑ Camunda BPM references