Process Driven Information Systems, the current reality Breaking the hype into the realm of real business strengths

1. Process Driven Information Systems,
the current reality
breaking the hype into the realm of real business strengths
26 May 2015DRAFT

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The journey of information systems
Observations on present and future
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the thoughts & view on the
evolution of
process driven information
systems
the first steps towards
giving control back to
business
process modeling &
execution sits at your
fingertips
the path

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Why is it so difficult to make it work ?
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too many emerging technologies
CAF, SOA, CLOUD, MASHUPS
too many angles of approach
BPM, middleware, ERP & WFL
too big gap between
business and technology
too much focus on
SMAC and IoT

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Why is it going to work now ?
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convergence of technologies is making it happen with a
large touch of business and modeling standards

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Remember this!
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it will make you agile,
lower your cost and improve compliancy,
solve your customization and legacy issues,
make your customers happy
only if you are ready for it

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Are you ready?
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the further you are, the lower the cost to implement,
the more functionality is in immediate reach

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What kind of software is available ?
Where can we get the building blocks ?
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the market is much more stable and mature than expected
(classification based on personal judgement)

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Business Process Management Systems
Commercial
 BizFlow
 Progress OpenEdge
 SAP NetWeaver CE
 Pegasystems
 Skelta
 bizagi
 K2
 IBM Lombardi
 Appian
 Tibco
 AuraPortal
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Community Edition
 WebRatio
 Intalio
 jBPM
 Characteristics
 BPMN2 = Business Model and Notation
 Modeling business processes
 Signavio
 Everteam – Intalio

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Business Rule Management System
 Characteristics
 DMN = Decision Model and Notation
 Modeling business rules
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Community Edition
 OpenRules
 Signavio Decision Manager
 Drools
Commercial
 Bosch Software Innovations Visual
Rules BRM

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Process Editor
 Characteristics
 BPMN2= Business Process Model and Notation
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Community Edition
 Signavio Process Editor
 Yaoqiang
Commercial

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Process Execution Engine
 Characteristics
 Executing process instances
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Community Edition
 Activiti

12. Let us look at a typical production company
how becoming more process driven

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Typical Production Company
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different processes are taking place: product development,
purchasing, sales, logistics

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Traditional application environment
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- Different applications are used to support the
processes, each with some degree of customization
- Applications are connected by means of customized
integration points

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Function oriented use of applications
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users know
what
functions
they have to
use
different
applications
are used at
the same
time to
support a
process
data is
maintained
redundantly
in all these
applications

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Integration points replaced by ESB
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To make integration between applications work more
independently the enterprise service bus plays an important
role because it eliminates the complexity of point-to-point
connections

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ESB solved integration complexity
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the
enterprise
service bus
solved the
integration
complexity
using event
service
driven
interaction
between
applications

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we are entering the area of
process driven systems
here we can get rid of customization
and hide the complexity of the
application environment from the
process

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the production company
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through the
user
interface
users will
execute the
process
steps in the
processes
they are
assigned to

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Process driven information system
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the process steps are
executed by users
through the user
interface (forms,
widgets, apps)
a process activity
executes a service
(an entry form asking
for input, create a
record in a the
database)
services are
configured in the
service layer and
know what application
functionality to
retrieve / execute
data is stored in the
normalized model
the respective
application databases
are updated from the
normalized model in
the background once
the process activity
ends

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Finally some last comments
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 the normalized information model and storage
- ensures the user gets a unified view of data across all
applications (commercial, legacy, open source, custom build) and
- enables independency from the database systems of these
applications
 the user interface provides mobile, desktop and web
accessibility
 customization is replaced by functionality built with
modern scripting and/or programming languages

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Some links
 Bosch Software Innovations: https://www.bosch-si.com/
 Ultimus: http://www.ultimus.com/bpms
 Signavio: http://www.signavio.com/
 Intalio: http://www.intalio.com/
 Pegasystems: http://www.pega.com/
 bizagi: http://www.bizagi.com/
 BizFlow: http://www.bizflow.com/
 Skelta: http://www.skelta.com/
 K2: http://www.k2.com/
 Appian: http://www.appian.com/
 Mendix: https://www.mendix.com/
 AuraPortal: http://www.auraportal.com/
 ActiveVOS: http://www.activevos.com/
 E2E: http://e2ebridge.com/
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23. For more information please contact:
Danny Gaethofs | Consultant / Adviseur
Business to Technologies
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