Camunda BPM 7.12.0-alpha5 is here and the highlights are:

• Comments on Process Instance Modification
• Query for Process Definitions without Version Tag
• Contextual Process Data in Logging
• Improved Task Event Lifecycle
• Change the CSRF Prevention Cookie Name
• Support for WildFly 17 & 18
• Discontinued Support for Legacy Environments
• 19 Bug Fixes

You can Download Camunda for free (click on Preview Release) or Run it with Docker.

If you are interested, you can see the complete release notes.

If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.

This blog post is the second of a five-part series based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2019 (You can find the recording on YouTube). You can read the first blog in this series here.

In essence, I recommend:

• Prioritizing customer-focused innovation.
• Bringing technology to the heart of your company.
• Automating your business, one project at a time.
• Putting executives in charge who care about long-term success, their people and the world.

This blog post is the first of a five-part series based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2019 (You can find the recording on YouTube).

The Quest for the Digital Enterprise

A few weeks ago a Startup called Ethos raised $60M Venture Capital, bringing their external funding to more than $100M within 14 Months. Ethos want to make getting life insurance fast and easy by “turning a process that was once like going to the DMV to more like shopping online”.

We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Modeler v3.4. It is shipped with two important improvements: Extension point for UI Plugins and features for a better deployment experience. In addition, we included several bug fixes.

Download the latest release and start modeling.

Sometimes we start a process, and after some initial processing, it does not continue for no apparent reason. Usually, this happens at asynchronous continuations or BPMN timer events, so points in the process where the job executor, the process engine’s component for deferred work, takes over.

While the job executor is a well-tested and battle-proven piece of software, it is not a closed system. It integrates with a relational database, an application server and the processes and applications it runs. Problems with job execution typically arise in this interaction of components. In this article, we look at common reasons why job execution can be delayed or stuck, how to diagnose, and how to resolve them.

We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.6.0.

The release includes many exciting features including:

• New User Permissions Concept
• Outlier Analysis
• Enhanced Reporting
  • Multi-Version Support for Process and Decision Reports
  • Durations for Running Process Instances
  • New User Task Assignee & Candidate Group Reports
  • Improved Support for Undefined and Null Variable Values
• Supported Docker Image

The complete release notes are available in Jira.

Camunda BPM 7.12.0-alpha4 is here and the highlights are:

• Handling Bpmn Error and Escalation in User Tasks
• Cascading Changes to Due Dates of Recurring Timers
• Add Time Triggered Task Listeners in User Tasks
• Java 13 Support
• 7 Bug Fixes

You can Download Camunda for free (click on Preview Release) or Run it with Docker.

If you are interested, you can see the complete release notes.

If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.

There’s a perception that business process management (BPM) platforms are one of those staid categories of software where the pace of innovation is glacial. However, at CamundaCon 2019 last week, it quickly became apparent that modern BPM software is quickly emerging as one of the pillars of digital business innovation.

Business today is more dynamic than ever before. As organizations begin to realize how pervasively businesses rely on software, a steady stream of updates to applications is key to attaining and maintaining competitive advantage. The sooner reliable software updates are deployed, the faster the business can evolve and adapt.

Building microservices is relatively easy. The hard part is teaching them to dance.

That’s the challenge software development teams now find themselves wrestling with as the number of microservices in an IT environment that need to be managed starts to exponentially increase, says Bernd Rücker, co-founder, chief technologist and developer advocate.