Introduction to Alfresco ECM and Activiti, the open source Business Process Management Platform by Alfresco. Presented at the Amplexor seminar on Case Management, 15 september 2011, Brussels

1. The Open source Business Process Management Platform by FrederikHeremans, Alfresco Software Ltd.

3. Before joining Alfresco: J2EE + ECM Consultant

4. Open-source enthusiast

6. Alfresco ECM ‘An open source and open standards Java content platform for building any content-rich application’

7. Alfresco ECM Document Management Create, capture, share and retain corporate content Records Management Ensure governance, compliance and retention Enterprise Collaboration Create, collaborate, discuss and discover content Web content Management Author, collaborate, approve and publish to the web WORKFLOW

8. Activiti BPM Open source BPM-engine (Apache license) Founded by Tom Baeyens and his right-hand JoramBarrez (former RedHat/Jboss JBPM-team) Processes are BPMN 2.0 OMG standard for modeling (executable)processes Lightweight, embeddable, testable and extensible Active community, many contributions

9. More than just a library…

10. Activiti Modeler (browser)

11. Activiti Designer (Eclipse)

12. Activiti Cycle

13. Activiti Explorer

14. But what about ACM? ?

15. ACM principles in Activiti Explorer Create ‘ad hoc’ tasks, without process Involve people with the task/case Add subtasks (also to process-tasks) Add related documents/url’s Contextual task-lists (role-based, involvement, assigned, …) Activity stream (Case History + collaboration) Possibility of leveraging history of engine

16. Demo Activiti Explorer in Action

17. Any Questions?