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1. The Process Orchestration
Journey
Getting from 0 to 100 with process automation
1
CamundaCon 2022
Daniel Meyer & Bernd Ruecker

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We need to speed up
our bank account
opening. Others do
this in minutes, we
need 3 days!
“

3. Enter bank
account request
Manual Approval
Create Customer
in Core Banking
Inform Customer
3
The as-is situation

4. Core Banking
System
CRM System Scoring System Address Check
Website
Clerks
The as-is situation
Enter bank
account request
Manual Approval
Create Customer
in Core Banking
Inform Customer
4

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Core Banking
System
CRM System Scoring System Address Check
Website
Clerks
Integration
A first automation project

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Core Banking
System
CRM System Scoring System Address Check
Website
Clerks
Integration
A first automation project

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Task vs. process automation
Tasks Process Orchestration

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Core Banking
System
CRM System Scoring System Address Check
Website
Endpoint diversity
Clerks Messaging
User
Interface
REST
Library
SOAP
Proprietary
API

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Endpoint diversity
No problem!
Just code
in Spring
Boot!

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Demo
https://github.com/berndruecker/customer-onboarding
-camunda-8-springboot/tree/camunda-con-2022

11. Solution architecture
BPMN
Zeebe
Client
Spring Boot Application
Any
Endpoint
Camunda 8
SaaS
or
self-managed
Custom
Code
Runs anywhere
Supports any
programming language
Available as a SaaS service
Manage it yourself (in your own
cloud, your datacenter, your
laptop)
Clients for Java, C#,
NodeJS, Go, … available
Natively integrates into
your stack

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Your code to implement the REST call
Your code to provide a REST endpoint

13. Scalability and resiliency built-in
Camunda 8
SaaS
or
self-managed
Cluster Size
Process
Instances
/ second
125
100
75
50
25
0
G3-S G3-M G3-L

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We need to speed up
our bank account
opening. Others do
this in minutes, we
need 3 days!
“

15. Changing tasks

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Core Banking
System
CRM System Scoring System Address Check
Website
Clerks
Integration
A first automation project

17. Are You the Amazon of your Industry now?
17

18. DANIEL

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The Transformation Journey
First Solution Automated Enterprise
■ How to get from a first solution
to 100s of solutions?
■ How to get there quickly?
?

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20
Our vision is to enable a broader range of personas to
create and run process orchestration solutions a lot
faster than they can today.
Mo Ladha
VP Product Management, Camunda

21. Let’s start by looking at endpoint
connectivity
■ Do we need to re-implement endpoint
integrations in each project?
■ Can there be out-of-the box integrations with
common types of endpoints, e.g. Rest,
Messaging, etc.?
■ Can we enable less technical developers to
reuse integrations that others have built?

22. Available out of the box Connectors
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● Amazon SQS Connector - Send messages to Amazon
Simple Queue Service from your BPMN process.
● AWS Lambda Connector - Invoke AWS Lambda
Functions from your BPMN process.
● Google Drive Connector - Create folders or files from a
Google Drive template from your BPMN process.
● REST Connector - Make a request to a REST API and use
the response in the next steps of your process.
● SendGrid Connector - Quickly send emails from your
BPMN processes.
● Slack Connector - Send messages to channels or users
in your Slack workspace from your BPMN process.

23. On the Roadmap (Q4)
23
Kafka
Teams
Send message to
channel or user
Amazon SNS
Send message to
topic
Sharepoint
Create folder
Update contents of file
Send message to
queue
RabbitMQ
Send message to
queue
Subject to change

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What is a Connector?
Connector Code
(Java)
Modeler UI
(Element Templates)
Connector
Camunda Platform 8
Camunda
Endpoint

25. BERND

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Live
Hacking

27. Camunda Superpower:
External Job Workers
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28. Connector
Runtime
Solution architecture
BPMN
Zeebe
Client
Spring Boot Application
Any
Endpoint
Camunda 8
SaaS
or
Self-managed
Custom
code
Runs anywhere
Multiple connector runtime options,
including SaaS, self-managed, and
local installations

29. Connector
Runtime
Solution architecture
BPMN
Zeebe
Client
Spring Boot Application
Any
Endpoint
Camunda 8
SaaS
or
Self-managed
Custom
code
Superpower inside:
External Job Workers
Runs anywhere
Multiple connector runtime options,
including SaaS, self-managed, and
local installations

30. Connector
Runtime
BPMN
Zeebe
Client
Spring Boot Application
Any
Endpoint
Camunda 8
SaaS
or
Self-managed
Custom
code
Scaling connectors
BPMN
Zeebe
Client
Spring Boot Application E.g. Customer onboarding and
Credit card replacement can
share connectors

31. Connector
Runtime
BPMN
Zeebe
Client
Spring Boot Application
Any
Endpoint
Camunda 8
SaaS
or
Self-managed
Custom
code
Scaling connectors
Multiple connector types
Outbound
Inbound
— Webhook
— Polling
— Subscription

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Connectivity Vision

33. DANIEL

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Connectivity Vision
Out of the box
connectors
Connector
Ecosystem
Connector
SDK

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The First Accelerator:
Connectors
First Solution Automated Enterprise
Build solutions faster
■ using out-of-the box connectors
■ developing reusable connectors
to accelerate future projects
Connectors
1

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I want to enable any developer, regardless how
technical they are, to model & run processes within
minutes, not days
Nico Rehwaldt
Creator of Bpmn.io, Camunda

37. Web Modeler
■ Shared repository for processes,
decisions, forms and templates
■ No local installation needed
■ Fast onboarding of new developers

38. Token Simulation
Learn BPMN semantics

39. Diagram validation
Improve quality of your diagrams Prevent errors BEFORE you deploy.

40. FEEL Editor
■ Syntax validation
■ Built-in function suggestion
■ Suggesting variable names
declared in the process

41. Coming soon: Data Schemas
Increases productivity,
prevents errors, and allow
less technical developers to
participate in modeling:
■ Schema can be defined
once, used in every
process
■ Offers type support

42. The next Idea: Interactive Debugging

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The Second Accelerator:
Modeling Experience
First Solution Automated Enterprise
Connectors Modeling
Experience
1 2
■ Build solutions faster through
great modeling experience and
lowering the knowledge bar
■ Onboard new developers faster,
enable low-code developers to
participate

44. Massive Adoption in the whole Firm
44
Source: Presentation by Goldman Sachs at Camunda Community Summit 2022

45. Low-code Form Builder
Coming soon:
■ Interactive preview mode
■ New fields and layouting
mechanisms such as:
— Flexboxes
— Repeatable Subforms
— Formula Fields

46. Meeting Employees where they are
■ Slack and Microsoft Teams have
established themselves as the
main productivity and collaboration
applications
■ By bringing human task
orchestration (e.g. the ability to
start a process or complete tasks
using a form) into slack, we can
reach all employees without
introducing a new tool like a
tasklist
■ This lowers the bar to introduce
automation to the organization
Inside Camunda: Slack App as frontend
of a BPMN process to request and
approve new hires.

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The Third Accelerator:
Low-code Forms and Human Task Orchestration
First Solution Automated Enterprise
Build human task
orchestration solutions
faster leveraging low-code
Connectors Modeling
Experience
Low-code Forms and Human Task
Orchestration
1 2 3

48. BERND

50. Is Camunda becoming
low-code?

51. Dial-in low-code as much as you need

52. Low-code as an accelerator
Dial-in low-code as much as you need
Connectors Modeling
Experience
Low-code
Forms
Human Task
Orchestration
CAMUNDA
CCON-22
Low-code Pro-code
Process Orchestration
Kopfhörer

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Project Types
Complexity
Solution/project types:
Local automations or
individuals automating parts
of their job
No IT project
Organizations automate their
most critical core processes
Full IT projects, Continuous
Delivery
Smaller, probably department internal
processes
IT project often hard to justify

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Project Types and Skill Levels
Principal
Developer
Business
Person
Senior
Developer
or
Camunda
Co-founder
Citizen
Developer
Junior
Developer or
Career
Changer
Consultant
or
Power User
Bot
Developer
Just code
in Spring
Boot!
Low-code
Developer
Complexity
Solution/project types:
Local automations or
individuals automating parts
of their job
No IT project
Organizations automate their
most critical core processes
Full IT projects, Continuous
Delivery
Smaller, probably department internal
processes
IT project often hard to justify

55. Complexity
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Solution/project types:
Microservices
Orchestration
(pro-code)
Endpoint
Orchestration
(low-code-ish)
Bot
Orchestration
(low-code-ish)
Camunda
Local automations or
individuals automating parts
of their job
No IT project
Organizations automate their
most critical core processes
Full IT projects, Continuous
Delivery
Smaller, probably department internal
processes
IT project often hard to justify
Java Process
Application
(pro-code)
Project Types

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Solution/project types:
Microservices
Orchestration
(pro-code)
Endpoint
Orchestration
(low-code-ish)
Bot
Orchestration
(low-code-ish)
Complexity
Camunda
Local automations or
individuals automating parts
of their job
No IT project
Organizations automate their
most critical core processes
Full IT projects, Continuous
Delivery
Smaller, probably department internal
processes
IT project often hard to justify
Camunda

57. DANIEL

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I want teams to focus on building solutions,
not running Camunda
Sebastian Menski
Director Camunda 8 Automation Platform Engineering, Camunda

59. Available as SaaS Today

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The Forth Accelerator
Provide Camunda as a central platform to the organization
First Solution Automated Enterprise
Connectors Modeling
Experience
Low-code Forms and Human Task
Orchestration
1 2 3
4
Managed Orchestration
Platform

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From 0 to 100 with Camunda!
First Solution Automated Enterprise
✓
1
100

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Thank
you

63. THANK YOU
linkedin.com/company/camunda
camunda.com
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twitter.com/camunda