Organizations embrace DevOps for a variety of reasons, but one of the core value propositions is speed. DevOps enables business to build, test, deploy and update applications more quickly than without DevOps. With so many quickly-moving parts, though, organizations also need tools to help keep track of it all like a business process management platform.
Bonitasoft developed its business process management platform—Bonita BPM 7—to facilitate the creation of engaging, process-based applications. It was also important, however, that the applications be able to adapt in real-time to changing business requirements. The latest release is an open source version that represents a strategic shift for Bonitasoft—a somewhat inevitable evolution to leverage the same practices and principles in designing and maintaining the platform as the platform is intended to manage.
“We’ve embarked on a new mission to create solutions that empower developers to build applications that support continuous change,” Bonitasoft CEO and co-founder Miguel Valdes Faura said in a press release statement. “To win in today’s competitive climate, you need to be able to adapt to change quickly and continually improve your business processes and the applications that support them. Bonita BPM 7 is the first solution leveraging the power of open source and BPM process-based applications that meets the demands of today’s business requirements.”
Bonita BPM 7 is built on a popular and widely used open source BPM solution. Developers can create processes in Bonita BPM 7 using the BPMN 2.0 standard, and can seamlessly connect with existing third-party systems such as CRM and ERP systems. Bonita BPM 7 builds on the open source foundation, though, with more extensible frameworks, and a powerful connector builder tool to enable developers to freely code their own graphical components and REST APIs.
The “secret sauce” of BPM 7 is the way Bonitasoft segregates business logic from the data and user interfaces. The separation makes it easier to introduce changes in real-time. Developers can perform maintenance or push updates to the user interface independently of the business workflow and without taking the application offline.
According to Bonitasoft, the key benefits of Bonita BPM 7 include the following:
- Speed – Developers can build applications faster, improving developer productivity
- Freedom – Developers can easily build what business really wants, and companies can maintain their applications easier and more affordably with live updates
- Adoption – Development teams can empower their users with more accessible, engaging and usable applications, boosting competitive advantage
“Bonita BPM 7 represents a real convergence between the world of the ‘BPM app’ and traditional enterprise software,” Valdes Faura said. “It gives developers the freedom to easily code and extend the system whenever they hit the limit with its native features. Plus, the platform is built for change, so developers and business users can apply changes, updates and improvements over time – creating what we call ‘living applications’ that live and breathe and grow along with your business.”
As developers develop faster and DevOps enables organizations to push and update applications more rapidly the need for tools and platforms to monitor and manage things grows. By leveraging open source software Bonita BPM 7 follows a successful strategy already employed by companies like Github and CloudBees. If you’re looking for a business process management platform you should check out Bonita BPM 7.
