Effektif allows business professionals to coordinate tasks in workflows that connect to enterprise services.

1. How BPM Connects
The Internet of Enterprise Things
Using Effektif
Tom Baeyens

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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7. IFTTT for the enterprise

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

9. Build apps without
coding
for
business
professionals

10. BPMN model
to execution
for
BPM professionals

11. Jumpstart
for
developers

12. Add workflow
feature
for
enterprise
products

13. Enterprise
software
applications
Traditional enterprise
environment

14. Enterprise
software
applications
New hybrid
enterprise
environment

15. Process Engine
Cloud changed integration
A
B
Transaction
1. Update A
2. Update B
3. Commit or rollback

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)

19. Enterprise
things

20. Enterprise
things
Custom apps Tasks for
people

21. Custom apps Tasks for
people

22. Demo