Presentation from Denis Gagne from Trisotech and Matteo Mortari from Red Hat at the Digital Transformation Summit of BPM.com

1. Building Business Applications
with DMN and BPMN
Denis Gagné
CEO& CTO
Trisotech
Matteo Mortari
Software Engineer
Red Hat Droolsteam

2. “Giving back controlto business”

3. Citizen Developersare key to businessagility
A citizen developeris a userwho createsnewbusiness
applications for consumption by others using development
and runtime environments sanctionedby corporate IT.
Gartner

4. During this session we will demonstrate how:
business users can easily
build robust Business
Applications with BPMN and
DMN using
and
modeling tools execution
platform

5. Trisotech Digital Enterprise Suite is an
innovative and easy-to-use software tools
that allow enables non-technical business
people to discover, model, analyze and find
insights into their digital enterprise.
Red Hat® JBoss® BPM and BRMS
Suites are comprehensive platforms
for business process, business rules
management and complex event
processing that can be deployed
across multiple cloud environments.
The combined Trisotech and Red Hat offering is currently the only
solution that offers:
• Business friendly modeling deployable on proven robust enterprise grade
execution
• Modeling and execution of full level 3-compliant DMN decision models

6. Value Propositionof the
proposedapproach
 Reachfaster agreementon the“as is” and “tobe” operationsthroughunambiguousmodels
 Encouragestakeholderparticipationthroughgraphicallyexpressive notations
 Facilitatethe analysisandimprovement of operations
 Createa libraryof processes, casedefinitionsandbusiness decisions tospecify operationsor
onboardnew employees,partners,or clients

7. AboutBPMN and DMN

8. Trisotech is a global leader in digital enterprise solutions, offering innovative and easy-to-use software tools
that allow customers to discover, model, analyze and find insights into their digital enterprise.
BASIC ELEMENTS
Pool
Event
Activity
Gateway
FLOW
20161007
BPMN Quick Guide
A simple, basic, yet
complete, BPMN reference
accessible to everyone.
www.BPMNQuickGuide.com
Start
Event
Service
Task
Decision
Task
Data
Object
End
Event
End
Event
Intermediate
Message
Event
BPMN is a universal graphical notation for documenting business processes and driving process
improvement initiatives. It enables a disciplined process approach that allows organizations to
become more efficient.
www.Trisotech.com
Download Free
BPMN, CMMN and DMN
templates at
www.Trisotech.com/Visio
Sequence
Flow
Message
Flow
Data
Association
Subprocess
Case
TaskTriggers a new
process instance
External Participant
to the process
What is done next
Task to be
completed
Routing
Information
required as input
End state
of the process
External
communication
Current Status
BPMN 2.0 Released 2010

9. Decision
Input Data
Decision 1
Decision 2 Input Data 3
Input Data 1 Input Data 2
Knowledge
Source
www.Trisotech.com
BASIC ELEMENTS
REQUIREMENTBusiness
Knowledge
Model
20161007
Download Free
BPMN, CMMN and DMN
templates at
www.Trisotech.com/Visio
Trisotech is a global leader in digital enterprise solutions, offering innovative and easy-to-use software tools
that allow customers to discover, model, analyze and find insights into their digital enterprise.
DMN provides a modeling notation to capture business decision requirements and decision logic.
It increases an organization’s agility and adaptability by capturing the business decisions
independently from where they are used.
Decision logic using a Decision Table
Decision Requirement Diagram (DRD)
Each row
is a rule
Conditions
Result
Defined
decision logic
Re- usable
decision logic
Input required
for the decision
Authority source
of this data
Information Knowledge Authority
Current Status
DMN 1.1 Released 2016

10. Benefitsof using StandardNotations and Execution
 Unambiguousformatfor modelingprocesses, cases anddecisions
 Canbeinterchangedbetween differentvendors’ products
 Providecommonandreadily-transferableskillsthatare learnedbybusiness andIT professionals

11. Aboutthe demo

12. Decision Task
Inputs of Decision
Branching based on Decision
BPMN: Process Modeled Graphically

13. Inputs of Decision
Decision
DMN: Decision Modeled Graphically
Captures the Decision’s Requirements
via the Decision Requirement Diagram
(DRD)
Captures the Decision’s Logic via
Decision Tables or Boxed Expressions

14. BPM
N
DMN

16. Name of Decision
Hit policy
Rule number
Conditions
Result
DMN: Decision Table
Inputs

20. FEEL
Expressions
Invocation Parameters
Context entries
(“Local variables”)
Result
Name of Decision
DMN: Boxed Expression

21. Executing the demo

28. https://dmn-tck.github.io/tck/
https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Silver/e/B0062AXUFY/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite:
https://developers.redhat.com/products/bpmsuite/overview/
https://Trisotech.com/DMNQuickStart

29. Thank you!
Questions?