2. My background
• jBPM, JBoss, Red Hat
• Activiti, Alfresco
• A large portion of running BPM engines
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3. The Team
• Tom Baeyens
• Signavio
– Best SaaS BPM modeling
– 5 years
– 500+ enterprise customers
– 50+ people
– Without venture capital
• Signavio invested 1.2M € (resources & cash)
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4. The Goal
• Build business apps
– Simpler
– Faster
– Cheaper
• Works well with cloud services
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5. Use building blocks
• Coordinate tasks to people
– Tasks can be managed in Effektif
– Escalations
• Listen to events in external services
• Perform actions in external services
– Upload a file to Google Drive
– Create a Salesforce lead
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6. Easy
• Process is a small business app
– Building blocks
– Flow
• Focus on simplicity
– Separation of concerns
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8. Process
• Trigger
An event in any enterprise system
can trigger an Effektif process automatic
• Actions
Box in the Effektif process that performs
an operation on the enterprise system
system
16. Cloud changed integration
Process Engine
1. Log update A starts
2. Perform update A
3. Log update A done
4. Log update B starts
5. Perform update B
6. Log update B done
A
B
17. Cloud changed a lot more
• REST
• OAuth
• Polyglot programming
– Use the right tool for the job
18. Effektif
• Easiest to use as a service
– Just register an account
• Built for the cloud
– New cloud services
– In new hybrid environments (cloud / on-premise)
