The document summarizes the status and roadmap of the Camunda stack for business process automation. It discusses Camunda's vision of powering all significant automation projects. The stack currently provides lightweight workflow implementation and enterprise-grade operations features. The roadmap includes expanding support for broad adoption, operating at scale, continuous improvement through data and analytics, and facilitating collaboration. It also introduces Zeebe as a new workflow engine for large workflows across microservices.

1. The Camunda Stack: Status Quo and Further
Roadmap
Daniel Meyer - CamundaCon 2018

2. Our Vision:
Any significant business process
automation project in any organization is
using Camunda technology.

3. It is about the right Kind of Automation
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4. It is about Scale
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Number of
Business Processes
Number of
Stakeholders
Load & Throughput

5. Continuous Process Improvement
Adoption Journey
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Value
Time / Invest
1
2
3
4
5
Technical Workflow Implementation
Operating mission-critical Processes
Broad-scale Adoption of Automation
Automated Enterprise

6. Continuous Process Improvement
Adoption Journey
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Value
Time / Invest
1
2
3
4
5
Technical Workflow Implementation
Operating mission-critical Processes
Broad-scale Adoption of Automation
Automated Enterprise

7. Business Units request Process Automation Solutions
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ITBusiness Units
Software Developers
Software Architects
IT Project Managers
Business Analysts
Technical Operations
Manager Employee Project Lead
Process
Owners X (X)
Process
Workers X
Process
Stake-
holders
X X X
CIO /
VP Engineering
Request
Solution

8. Awareness: Workflow Automation Problem Space
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9. Lightweight, Developer-friendly Platform
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Great Developer Experience, immediate Productivity and long-term maintainability of Solution
1. Open Source and no Vendor Lock-in
2. Apply proven Software Engineering Practices
3. Use with any Technology Stack

10. Continuous Process Improvement
Adoption Journey
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Value
Time / Invest
1
2
3
4
5
Technical Workflow Implementation
Operating mission-critical Processes
Broad-scale Adoption of Automation
Automated Enterprise

11. Mission-critical Processes
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Make sure, every...
Webshop Order gets delivered
Damage Report is processed
Trade gets settled
Sim Card is activated

12. Camunda Cockpit: Powerful Operations
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- Visibility
- Control
Discover
Problems
Analyze
Problems
Solve Problems

13. Continuous Operations of the Camunda Stack
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Currently available
1. Updates without downtime
2. Continuous Security Patches
3. Solution to History Data Retention
We are considering
1. Out-of-the-box archive Solution for
History Data
2. Camunda as a hosted Service

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A powerful Combination
Lightweight, great
developer-experience
Enterprise-class
Operation Features

15. Continuous Process Improvement
Adoption Journey
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Value
Time / Invest
1
2
3
4
5
Technical Workflow Implementation
Operating mission-critical Processes
Broad-scale Adoption of Automation
Automated Enterprise

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What is the value in automating a “crappy” process?
German Version:
„Wenn sie einen Scheißprozess digitalisieren, dann haben sie einen scheiß digitalen Prozess“
Thorsten Dirks, CEO Telefónica

17. Explicit Processes facilitate data-driven Improvement
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18. Big data Architecture
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Camunda
Engine
Optimize
Data
Pipeline

19. Camunda Optimize
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Visualize Analyze Improve

20. Next Step: Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and AI
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21. Continuous Process Improvement
Adoption Journey
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Value
Time / Invest
1
2
3
4
5
Technical Workflow Implementation
Operating mission-critical Processes
Broad-scale Adoption of Automation
Automated Enterprise

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23. Deutsche Bahn
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1. Project 1: “Replacement of a document-based business process”
2. Project 2: “Introduction of a new capacity management system which forms the foundation for
both national & international transport” (X-Cargo)
3. More projects on the way...

24. Facilitate Communication and drive Adoption BPA
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ITBusiness Units
Software Developers
Software Architects
IT Project Managers
Business Analysts
Technical Operations
Manager Employee Project Lead
Process
Owners X (X)
Process
Workers X
Process
Stake-
holders
X X X
CIO /
VP Engineering
Request
Solution

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26. Cawemo’s Mission:
Facilitate Collaboration around Process
Modeling between all Stakeholders in a
Business Process Automation Project.

27. On a Quest to automate an Industrial Biofactory...
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Zymergen’s platform includes an industrial biofactory where servers and
robots interact with scientists to accomplish complex workflows. We have
extended Camunda to coordinate and execute work in the factory while
collecting, analyzing, and responding to data.
-Dylan Webster, Product Manager

28. A Current Idea
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Framework for domain-specific low-code platforms
Developers &
Domain Experts
Reusable
Building Blocks
Non-Developers
Service Tasks,
Process Fragments,
...
provide combine

29. Continuous Process Improvement
Adoption Journey
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Value
Time / Invest
1
2
3
4
5
Technical Workflow Implementation
Operating mission-critical Processes
Broad-scale Adoption of Automation
Automated Enterprise

30. Source: Case Study: Richard Tarling, Managing Director and Randall Graebner, Senior Engineer from Goldman Sachs - Camunda Day NYC
Enterprise Scale
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31. A Business Process too:
Approving Calls
• Customer dials a number
• Provider checks if customer is allowed to
call that number
• If positive, connection is established
• Customers of AT&T Wireless: > 110 million

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The wrong Kind of Automation: Batch Processing

33. Consider: All Business Process automation Usecases
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34. Consider: All Business Process automation Usecases
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Big Workflow

35. 1. Horizontal scalability
2. Fault tolerance via an easy-to-configure
replication mechanism
3. A message-driven architecture
4. A publish-subscribe interaction model
5. A language-agnostic client model
Zeebe - A completely new kind of Workflow Engine
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36. Zeebe Roadmap
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Try out at https://zeebe.io (Open Source)
Currently: R&D Phase, Stable release targeted in Q1 / 2019
Upcoming Big Workflow Platform:
Zeebe (engine)
Modeler
Operations tool (Operate),
Analytics tool (Optimize)
Zeebe Sessions(Tomorrow 1:30 pm)

37. Continuous Process Improvement
Adoption Journey
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Value
Time / Invest
1
2
3
4
5
Technical Workflow Implementation
Operating mission-critical Processes
Broad-scale Adoption of Automation
Automated Enterprise

38. Product Strategy
1. Continue to provide the best, developer-friendly solution to implement
and operate mission-critical Workflows

39. Continuous Process Improvement
Product Strategy
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Value
Time / Invest
1
2
3
4
5
Technical Workflow Implementation
Operating mission-critical Processes
Process Automation at Scale
Automated Enterprise
Cawemo
Optimize
Zeebe & Big
Workflow
Domain-specific Low
Code
Microservice
Orchestration

40. Product Strategy
1. Continue to provide the best, developer-friendly solution to implement
and operate mission-critical Workflows
2. Evolve the stack to enable broad-scale Adoption of
Business Process Automation

41. Contact
US +1.415.513.0111
Germany +49 30 664 04 09 00
info@camunda.com
https://camunda.com