BPMN tagged posts

November 30, 2017 Posted in Blogs, BPM

Alfresco Activiti is a well-known open source BPM (Business Process Management) engine which may execute business processes depicted in BPMN 2.0. The authors of Alfresco Activiti developed jBPM for Red Hat previously, and after they left Alfresco in 2016, they forked Activiti code and created another open source workflow engine called Flowable. Later, Alfresco Activiti was re-branded as Alfresco Process Services (APS).

Before Activiti, the market of BPMN engines is already very crowded, Oracle, SAP, IBM and many others offer solutions. There are even more BPMN diagram tools, such as MS Visio,  LucidChart, MagicDraw, yEd and Sparx EA, etc...

June 30, 2016 Posted in Blogs

ArchiMate is an open and independent enterprise architecture modeling language to support the description, analysis and visualization of architecture within and across business domains in an unambiguous way. ArchiMate distinguishes itself from other languages such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) by its enterprise modelling scope.

There are quite a few tools which support ArchiMate specifications on the market, such as: IBM System Architect, Orbus iServer, Visual Paradigm ArchiMetric, Sparx Enterprise Architect, BiZZdesign Architect. Unfortunately these proprietary tools can be pricy.

So I would like to recommend to you a free, handy, open source and cross-platform ArchiMate tool called: Archi. It supports ArchiMate 2...