Building Sustainable Process-Based Apps

Miguel Valdes FauraCEO - Bonitasoft

Today’s business environment is in constant state of… change.Business Applications needs to change

too.

The Great Promise of process-based applications.Easy to create. Easy to maintain. Easy to update.

Hard to create customized user interfaces.

WE CAN DO BETTER!!

Hard to continuously update business applications.

“Living Applications”

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Let’s provide graphical tooling AND freedom for developers

Let’s go way beyond

generic BPM portalsand

standard forms

…and create amazing

interfaces

Let’s provide real live changes in process-based applications

…any update,

any time.

Today we’ll demonstrate some of the innovation

currently in development

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User Interfaces, Not Forms.

Design engaging User Interfaces.

Tooling extensibility and manual coding when needed.

Add components developed with other tools.

BUSINESS LOGIC

BUSINESS DATA

USER INTERFACES

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Managing Security Has Become More Difficult

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Devices Users

Applications

? Compliance

Intrusions

Theft

SaaS Apps Processes, connectors, scripts, actors, parameters, dependencies

Business data model Web pages, forms, look & feel, navigation

Enable live changes through decoupling.

{"summary": "New video projector","description": "I need a new video projector with 1080p support.“,"suppliers": [ {"id" : 1}, {"id" : 2} ]

}

Use a “Contract” between processes and user interfaces.

Business

Data

Model

Business

Data

Model

Clear separation between business data model and business logic.

Process CProcess C

Process AProcess A

Process BProcess B

BPM DB

Business DB

User Interfaces interaction with Business logic.

Form v1.0User InterfaceHuman taskContract

Form v1.0

The whole picture.

REST APIJava API

User Interface

Business

Data

Model

Business

Data

Model

Human taskContract

Form v1.0

Form v1.0

Form v3.0

Form v2.0

Form v1.0

Apply live changes.

Running processRunning process

Human task

Form v1.0

Contract