We provide quite a lot of customers with BPMN onsite-trainings these days. And sometimes, when our customer’s policies allow it, we ask for a nice reference quote afterwards. The nicest quote we got now comes from the “Schweizer Mobiliar Versicherung”, an insurance company in Switzerland: They testify that we have sent them a “cool Trainer” Unfortunately I have not been there personally, so I have to live with the headache that I am probably not quite as cool as Robert Gimbel from our team. But anyway, a bit of that glory may shine down on the rest of us at Camunda. And hey, since even Robert’s new born son is already familiar with BPMN, I think his new certification as “cool BPMN-Trainer” won’t surprise anyone

	Our BPMN 2.0 training has been a real success. The choice of subjects as well as the answers to our questions was very flexible and competently conveyed. The trainer was cool and had much practical knowledge; he didn’t conceal any problems and didn’t try to sell BPMN as the world formula. The documents were significant without being dull. The workshop was fun and we learned a lot for our daily work. Ursula Gruber-Brandt, Enterprise Architecture Management Schweizerische Mobiliar Versicherungsgesellschaft AG

BPMN it too complicated for the business? Nonsense! See the prove on Willy, Roberts brand new son. Best wishes from the whole camunda team to Willy and his parents. But we are sure that nothing can happen, since all important processes are perfectly described now

P.S: And camunda has an business plan B now…

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This year in September, camunda will present the BPMCon 2011, a somehow different BPM conference. Unfortunately, all the talks there will be in German. But if you don’t mind that, please check the German version of the conference’s website for all the details.

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Have you ever wondered whether processe-xml files could be picked up directly by activiti and deployed if they have changed? Or have you ever tried to use the same activiti instance with multiple applications and then invoke custom java code from the processes? We currently use activiti in a number of projects and often we get to a point where the default servlet-container-based configuration and infrastructure is not enough to satisfy all the requirements. Today, I want to briefly outline our technology stack for using activiti with Java EE. As with many of our projects, the stack is available open source for you to try out

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Lately I found a really useful innovation again and bought me a Samsonite Micro Scooter. Long ways at the train station or on the last meters to the customer now are really fun and sports Whoever sees me with that in the real world and shouts “Heureka! Activiti” gets a Online Crashcourse Activiti for free. But conferences, talks or the way to the customer, partner or the like doesn’t count

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We lately did quite some projects with the Business Rules Engine JBoss Drools for our customers. And as I noted in various talks or posts already, I really like Drools as a Rule Engine. For Guvnor as the “BRMS” System covering use cases as rules editing, versioning, release management, testing, searching and so on I am not that convinced of the current solution, basically due to some technical problems and the overall user experience of the UI. Read on..

Wieder ist es soweit, die JAX öffnet von 2. bis 5. Mai ihre Pforten in Mainz. Wer die JAX nicht kennt: Es ist eine der größten Konferenzen rund um Architektur und Java Software Entwicklung (naja, neuerdings natürlich auch Cloud ). Wie schon seid einigen Jahren gibt es auch einen speziellen BPM Day, nämlich am Donnerstag den 05.05.2011, welchen ich als so genannter “Track Chair” inhaltlich organisieren durfte, das vollständige Programm findet sich hier. Read on..

Lately and just in time for the Cebit – one of the biggest IT fares worldwide – we did a huge step in the Activiti Cycle development and can now proudly present the first working version of our BPM round-trip. At this point I want to stress again, that the vision behind Activiti Cycle is not about being a Zero Coding tool (see Making the BPMN Round-trip real for some more thoughts why Zero Coding doesn’t work in a lot of situations), but a tool which really facilitates collaboration between different roles being part of any BPM project. We accept that there are different tools out there, serving different roles with different needs and capabilities. The feedback at the Cebit and different User Group presentations was very good and seems we are heading in the right direction, but judge yourself

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It took a while, but now we also have one of those fancy “success stories”. Until now, we just did not have the time for such kind of things. But now it’s done, and if you want to, you can learn about a BPM-project we realized in 2010 for the German 1&1 Internet AG (Big Telco Provider). This project was about automating a core process with the open source process engine JBoss jBPM, including process modeling in BPMN, so I hope it’s interesting for you.

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Activiti was released in December and we already got quite some customers and see a lot of interesting projects starting, despite the relatively young project! Time to start an Activiti User Group, for the moment we concentrate on the German speaking area, where we want to organize some events with news and talks about Activiti.

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