With the pre-built connectors available in the Bonita BPM suite, it's possible to connect a business process to most existing ERPs, CRMs, email systems, and more. Additionally, Bonita BPM provides a tool to build your own. This slidedeck provides an overview of the Bonita BPM Connector Architecture & Configuration, as well as steps on how to create a connector to retrieve emails from a mail server . For more, listen to this webinar recording http://bit.ly/1cwG9Pw

1. Create a Connector in Bonita BPM
Vivecca Yong Tim & Sapna Maheswari
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2. Agenda
Why choose Bonita BPM
Connectors: Architecture & Configuration
Overview
Demo: how to create a connector to
retrieve emails from a mail
Questions Addressed
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3. Why Bonita BPM?
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4. 600 customers in 60 countries

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6. DESIGN.
Bonita Studio
• BPMN 2.0
• Drag-n-drop application
development
• Powerful form builder
• Easy connectivity
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7. CONNECT.
… to almost any Information System
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8. RUN.
...in Bonita Portal...
Desktop & Mobile
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9. … or as a standalone application
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10. Commercial Offerings
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11. Commercial offerings
We support your projects and accelerate their success
• Professional Services
- Training
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- Consulting: On-Site or Remote
• Annual Subscriptions
- Gold or Platinum Technical Support
- Features to facilitate collaboration, speed development,
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advanced portal features
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12. Bonita BPM Subscriptions
Subscriptions
• Commercial license
• Professional Support
• Software Upgrades
Team collaboration
• Shared repository
• Productivity features
Mission-critical
• Monitoring
• Error management
• Live reconfiguration
End-User Centric
• Advanced Portal
• Mobile
• Process templates

13. Creating a custom connector with Bonita
BPM
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14. Connectivity
 No process functions in
isolation, integration with other
systems is an absolute need
 High technical expertise
needed for such integration
 Time intensive activity
 Upgrade and maintenance
cost
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15. Bonita BPM Connectors
 Bonita BPM comes with a suite
of connectors for external system
integration
 Not bundled with proprietary
frameworks but provide flexibility
to integrate with existing
applications in your ecosystem
 Ability to create your own
custom connector
Step by Step widget for ease of
configuring these connectors
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16. Bonita BPM Connector Configuration
Step by Step Connector Wizard
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17. Connector Architecture
Connector Definition
Inputs
Outputs
Java code
(Implementation)
External System
Connectors are designed
with a clear separation
between definition and
implementation
 Definition - comprises of
the input parameters and the
resulting output
 Implementation - Java code
to connect with external
system interfaces
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18. Upgrading a connector implementation
Bonita BPM 6 provides the
ability to modify a connector
implementation and update it
on a deployed process
Eliminates the need for a
new deployment
 Minimizes effort needed to
keep up to date with external
interface changes
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19. Demonstration
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20. Initiate a support case from an email
Customer
System
Support Team
Customer sends an
issue over email
Automatically pulls
email using Email
Receiver connector
Analyse & Resolve
Issue
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21. Create Email Receiver Connector
• Account
Password
Implementation
• Emails: List of
the new received
emails containing
• Sender
• Subject
• Body
Dependency
• Email Host
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• Account
Username
Output
Input
Definition
• Use Java Mail API
to retrieve mails
for the configured
account
• Mail.jar
• Activation.jar
• IMAP protocol to
access email on
the server
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22. Thank you, and…
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