How to design a web application with
Bonita, the open source BPM Solution?
the use case of a large
telecom&internet account in spain.
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Rodrigue Le Gall / BonitaSoft
Chief Services Officer and co-founder
BonitaSoft leads Bonita, the open source BPM
project
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Agenda
The customer needs
Bonita in the heart of the customer IS
The web application development
methodology
The solution benefits
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Agenda
The customer needs
Bonita in the heart of the customer IS
The web application development
methodology
The solution benefits
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The customer
Main actor of international directories business
Total employees : 15,000
Spanish employees : 3,000
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Customer context
All its activities are process based
Difficulties to adapt its applications to new
business needs
High skilled team in web development with
Struts 2
High skilled team in tomcat administration
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Customer needs
Move to a business process oriented IS with
Bonita
Be independent of Bonita
Manage access rights
Keep its expertise in Struts 2
Use tomcat
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Agenda
The customer needs
Bonita in the heart of the customer IS
The web application development
methodology
The solution benefits
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The current customer architecture
Apply 1 Apply … Apply n
Tomcat / Struts 2
IS Resources
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The new architecture
Apply 1 Apply … Apply n
Tomcat / Struts 2
WS
Axis
OpenESB Bonita
WS
WS
Progress
IS Resources
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Agenda
The customer needs
Bonita in the heart of the customer IS
The web application development
methodology
The solution benefits
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What is a web application ?
“The fundamental purpose of all
web applications is to facilitate the
completion of one or more tasks.”
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Process based web applications
Software Main steps
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Process design
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Process connectivity to IS
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Agenda
The customer needs
Bonita in the heart of the customer IS
The web application development
methodology
The solution benefits
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What are the benefits ?
Business logic is externalized in a process
The BPM solution will manage the life cycle of
the process as well as human and system
interactions
Link between the web application and the BPM
solution is handle by Web Services
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Bonita in a nutshell
• 2001 : Pioneer on the open
source BPM
• 2008 : V4 release, flexible
architecture
• 140.000 downloads :
x10 since V4 release
• 300+ active contributors
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Bonita what next?
Bonita is supported by BonitaSoft SA founded
by Bonita core team in july 2009
BPMN easy process drawing
Easy connectivity to your SI
Web application generation
User experience : end-user centric
Stay tuned for the preview… October 2009
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More information…
BonitaSoft
http://www.bonitasoft.com
Bonita on Twitter
http://twitter.com/bonitasoft
OW2 Consortium
http://www.ow2.org
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Thanks, and remember:
HAVE FUN WITH BONITA
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