Bonita Open Solution 5.6.2 Now Available

jeremy.lipp — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:39:09 +0000

This is a maintenance release for 5.6 branch. It can be downloaded here.

The following bugs have been fixed in this release:

- 0005807: [console-appli] Filenames with "&" don't work.
- 0008137: [studio-connectors] Groovy connector:can't get into the next when click 'next'
- 0003907: [console-bam-bi] Cannot delete a BIRT report in the User XP
- 0007379: [console-bam-bi] Unable to delete a report
- 0007464: [console-design] Lack of French translation in User XP
- 0007823: [console-appli] Dependency of dependency doesn't work
- 0007475: [console-appli] User XP - Bad redirection on logout with mutly tenancy
- 0008029: [console-appli] in username field of privileges details,the warning massage have been showing when you add a username which is not exist in list
- 0007206: [console-administration] Autosize (width) will be disabled from display of case & activity names
- 0008036: [console-appli] Error in the page when set show immediate condition
- 0008077: [studio-tools] Import and Export Look'n'Feel
- 0007405: [console-appli] Input special characters to the name of PDF report template and then input right name, can not save
- 0008075: [console-appli] Version displays error
- 0008074: [runtime-apis] Update getLastProcess documentation to change last to latest
- 0004268: [runtime-connectors] StartInstanceConnector cannot be executed due to a misconfiguration
- 0006976: [studio-import-export] Multiple issues after trying to import a 5.6 process in a studio 5.5.3
- 0005661: [console-worklist] Increase the space between columns in the documents list
- 0006437: [console-administration] When installing a incorrect report in admin view, there is no prompt.
- 0005694: [console-appli] The case update time doesn't update.
- 0007388: [console-design] Privileges-- Username tab,the Add button and input frame are overlapping
- 0007399: [console-administration] for Privileges when fill space in a rule's Tooltip or Description,they can not be edited again
- 0007742: [console-appli] The Hint light bulb icon disappears
- 0005561: [console-worklist] filter update time issue
- 0007415: [studio-connectors] Secure WS Connector : Message parameters screen is empty

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News

BPM's Opportunity in the Energy Vertical

jeremy.lipp — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:56:05 +0000

There’s been a lot of talk on this blog and elsewhere about BPM’s rise in the enterprise. More and more, organizations across all industries are looking to streamline workflows to increase operational efficiency.

BPM’s surge is part of the larger trend of agile development; organizations are weary of growing top-heavy and employing a number of individuals to perform tedious, manual processes that could easily be handled by a single person if they had greater visibility into the complete processes and tools to automate all or certain portions of it.

Lately, we’ve noticed a particularly strong level of interest from the energy vertical. We recently had a conversation with a prospective customer - a mid-sized energy company based United States - about how BPM could increase agility in their organization. In short, this company has experienced strong growth of late, which has in turn caused them to hire more field employees and contractors to research/survey potential drilling sites. The more field employees this company has, the more revenue they’re able to generate. However, it also causes a corresponding need for more corporate employees to support those in the field.

This is a fairly common problem for energy and land development companies. While you need to ensure that the proper infrastructure is in place to support operations, it’s of equal importance that you practice agility and not become too “top-heavy.” BPM solutions, including BonitaSoft, can document, implement, maintain, and monitor workflows to better coordinate processes - and even offer an improved reporting template. Transparency is key in these situations; the more insight managers have into a given process, the more freedom they have to structure it in a new, more efficient manner, and not simply be held hostage by the current process structure.

With that in mind, BonitaSoft has developed a user-friendly user interface that’s tailored towards business users, as opposed to something that can only be properly manager by IT staff. This is really the core of our business philosophy: BPM is an extremely powerful tool that can improve and transform processes. We’re committed to democratizing the practice by offering (and continuing to innovate around) a solution that can be used by business and technical users alike.

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Customers

Bonitasoft Discusses BPM and HR in CRM Buyer

jeremy.lipp — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:27:13 +0000

In a February 9 article titled, "BPM + HR = A Lean, Mean On-Boarding Machine," Bonitasoft CEO Miguel Valdés Faura discusses how BPM solutions can help HR managers with on-boarding and recruitment processes. If the recession taught us anything, it's that businesses of all sizes need to think critically about their processes and optimize their current resources to maximize efficiency. 2012 should be a year when businesses start seeing the results from years of trimming excess fat and leveraging flexible tools such as BPM software to manage and optimize their businesses. Read more about how BPM solutions can make HR processes, including recruiting, on-boarding payroll and performance reviews more efficient.

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News

Community Contest Update: Pimp My Bonita

rodrigue.legall@bonitasoft.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:42:46 +0000

We have a wide variety of exciting entrants for the Pimp My Bonita open source BPM community contest. There’s still plenty of time - enter by March 15! Prizes include BonitaSoft T-Shirts, free copies of BPMN Method and Style, 2^nd Edition featuring Bonita Open Solution, and a grand prize trip to San Francisco or Paris – See rules for details. Entrants from the 10,000 member BonitaSoft open source community are coming in across the globe. Here’s a selection of some of the entrants thus far:

Extending Bonita’s existing BPMN 2.0 capabilities to go farther. BonitaSoft is already a leader in BPMN 2.0, and it’s great to see the Community help it go farther.
A custom portal for business users to manage and interact with processes. While Bonita Open Solution’s User Experience portal (XP) allows your business users to interact with processes, one of the benefits of an open source solution is that we remove barriers that keeping you from achieving precisely what we want. We are pleased that organizations are taking advantage to custom and add-on wherever they wish.
Using Bonita Open Solution to create the workflows for cyber-security and cyber-defense solutions. Interestingly, the FUD about security with respect to open source solutions lingers in some places despite some of the most secure systems being based on open source. It’s great to see a project bring this important aspect to light with Bonita Open Solution.

We look forward to reporting about other entrants covering areas like mobile, social BPM, simulation, optimization, KPIs, reporting, and more. Stay tuned here for more updates!

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Customers

Process Excellence Week (PEX) 2012 - A Retrospective Account

haidar.hadi@bonitasoft.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:19:30 +0000

I spent the past four days the Process Excellence Week in Orlando, Florida - one of the largest annual gatherings for BPM-minded professionals. It was an extremely interesting few days; many of the leading voices in the BPM community shared their thoughts on how the practice is - and must continue - adapting to today’s IT realities, particularly cloud computing and big data. Below are some personal highlights that I took away from the conference - though this is by no means an exhaustive recap of the entire event:

Keynote address (Monday) - Connie Moore, one of Forrester’s lead BPM analysts, gave the keynote, entitled “Big Process Thinking.” Her talk focused on the importance of keeping the big picture in mind when it comes to BPM; no matter how big a given process may be, it’s small when you consider the operations of an entire organization -- it’s just a piece in a much larger puzzle. With that in mind, she advised evaluating the following criteria when assessing readiness for a BPM deployment:

Waste elimination
Cost reduction
Improving customer experience
Value innovation potential

The rise of process-as-a-service - Cloud computing has undeniably asserted itself across all of enterprise IT and BPM is no exception. While cloud BPM is still in its early stages, Forrester predicts that the as-a-service model will soon become a reality in BPM via cloud-based processes that bussinesses can remotely access.

Big data’s influence on BPM - Another recurring theme this week has been the need for BPM to embrace big data. Organizations are learning to store, sort and process their massive volumes of data for greater operational intelligence. BPM stands to benefit greatly from analytics tools that provide deeper insight for discovering and optimizing processes. It can also help data scientists more efficiently build processes of their own to analyze data.

2012: the year of social BPM? - Social is perhaps the single biggest buzzword in BPM circles these days. In the past, however, it’s been difficult to distill the hype around “social” and see what value it actually brings to BPM. As the social enterprise evolves, however, it’s increasingly clear that BPM solutions should - and will - incorporate social features into their offerings to allow for greater collaboration through the development and deployment of a given process.

Consequences of process inefficiencies - BPM is increasingly being recognized as a mission-critical, as opposed to complementary, IT tool. For one, it can be a vital in helping organizations maintain compliance. One case that was cited was the FDA being fined $16M for not being compliant.

I also uploaded several videos from the conference, which can be found at BonitaSoft’s YouTube channel.

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Events

Business Process Application Development (in Italian)

adrien.bayles@bonitasoft.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:43:14 +0000

March 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, 2012 - 9:00 am to 12:30 pm CET

Duration: 17,5 hours

Suitable for: Java developers

The purpose of this 5 half days training is to enable you to develop a process in Bonita Open Solution, connect it to external information systems, and deploy a business process application to execute it.

This training is designed for you if you are looking at:

developing complete end-to-end processes
connecting models to external information systems
automating processes
being involved in the details of design and execution

When the training is completed, you will:

Be comfortable using Bonita Open Solution to model processes
Be familiar with BPMN notation and best practices
Be able to draw and interpret process diagrams modeled in Bonita Open Solution
Be able to develop and deploy process(es) for end user(s)

with connections to external systems
with customized forms
with customized Web applications

Price: €1,800 / participant with certification exam

Date:

Monday, March 5, 2012 - 09:00 to Friday, March 9, 2012 - 12:30

Number of places:

100

Location:

Remote

Breakfast Seminar - Technical Education Session on Business Process Management (San Francisco, USA)

jeremy.lipp — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:56:52 +0000

Location: San Francisco, California

Date: March 1st, 2012

Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 am PT

This event will give you the opportunity to meet with BonitaSoft CEO, Miguel Valdes Faura and get an insightful view into Bonita Open Solution 5.6 and commercial offerings.

Agenda:
9:00 - 09:30 am:
Welcome! Coffee and Pastries

09:30 – 12:00 am:
Overview of BPM

What is BPM
History of BPM
Different applications for BPM
The benefits for BPM approach

Examples of how BPM is used in companies

Human Resources – New Employee Onboarding
Finance - Purchase Orders
Customer Service - Support Case Management

12:00 – 12:30 am:
Questions & Answers

Date:

Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 15:56

Number of places:

Location:

San Francisco, USA

BonitaSoft Announces 350 Percent Revenue Growth

jeremy.lipp — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:13:28 +0000

Company adds more than 200 new customers, closes new funding round in 2011 to become fastest-growing BPM provider

SAN FRANCISCO – January 16, 2012 – BonitaSoft, the leader in open source business process management (BPM), today announced corporate growth for 2011. The company achieved a record year, tripling its customer base to more than 300 and growing total revenue by 350 percent. The company added more than 200 new customers in 2011, including Stanford University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, SNCF, Portugal Telecom, Australian Department of Sustainability and Environment, Galapagos Province, and Sammons Financial Services.

In 2011, Bonita Open Solution reinforced its status as the leading open source BPM suite. Bonita Open Solution reached one million downloads, and the BonitaSoft Open Source Community welcomed its 10,000th member. Bonita Open Solution received recognition and a number of open source awards for its open source leadership: recognized by Gartner as “the only open source BPMS (Business Process Management Suite)” in its open source BPM report; awarded “Best Modeling Tool” at EclipseCon 2011; and received InfoWorld’s Bossie Award for Open Source Application.

BonitaSoft also aggressively grew its ecosystem throughout the year. The company expanded partnerships to more than 40 system integrator partners in more than 20 different countries. Finally, Bonita Open Solution was integrated by leading open source integration company Talend into its unified integration platform as “Talend Enterprise BPM.”

Additional BonitaSoft highlights for 2011 included:

$11M Series B funding round, led by Serena Capital and including existing investors VenTech and Auriga Partners;
The company received recognition from Gartner in its “Cool Vendors in Business Process Management, 2011”;
Bonita Open Solution was featured in the latest edition of leading BPM industry analyst Bruce Silver’s BPMN Method and Style;
The company released new Subscription Packs that deliver advanced features for collaboration, productivity, and mission-critical projects as well as business process templates to accelerate deployments for human resources, corporate finance, quality, and help desk.

“We experienced tremendous growth in 2011, driven by our stated goal of democratizing the BPM market with an extensible, flexible, open source-based tool,” said Miguel Valdés Faura, BonitaSoft CEO. “We were able to achieve significant, consistent wins against traditional BPM players and reach additional customers that were otherwise unserved, thanks to our business model and innovative solutions. We’re poised to accelerate this momentum heading into 2012 as we continue to deliver on our product roadmap and respond to the needs of our community.”

BonitaSoft Launches “Pimp My Bonita” Contest

BonitaSoft also recently announced the “Pimp My Bonita” competition, which seeks the most creative implementations of BPM across a variety of categories. The contest is open to all members of the BonitaSoft open source community, and winners will be able to select a prize of either U.S. $3,000 or a trip to either San Francisco or Paris.

More details can be found here: http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/contests/pimp-my-bonita

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News

BonitaSoft Launches “Pimp My Bonita” Open Source BPM Community Contest

jeremy.lipp — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:53:39 +0000

Nominations being accepted for most creative BPM use cases from the 10,000+ members of the BonitaSoft open source community

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 4, 2012 – BonitaSoft, the leader in open source business process management (BPM), today announced a call for nominations for its inaugural “Pimp My Bonita” open source BPM community contest. Open to all 10,000+ members of the open source BonitaSoft community, the “Pimp My Bonita” contest is intended to showcase the most creative and innovative BPM use cases implementing Bonita Open Solution. The thriving BonitaSoft community already garners hundreds of open source contributions including connectors, example code, and sample applications.

The grand prize for the contest will be the winner’s choice of either U.S. $3,000 or a trip to BonitaSoft’s offices in Paris or San Francisco.

“Pimp My Bonita” participants can choose to enter six separate categories:

Best Process Model
Best BPMN 2.0 Implementation
Best Process-Driven Application
Best Add-On or Connector
Best Use of User Experience Portal
Most Creative Use of Bonita Open Solution

In addition to the grand prize, each category finalist will receive an autographed copy of noted BPM analyst Bruce Silver’s latest edition of his book, BPMN Method and Style, which features Bonita Open Solution, as well as a BonitaSoft t-shirt.

The judging panel for Pimp My Bonita consists of:

Rodrigue Le Gall, BonitaSoft co-founder and Community Director
Bruce Silver, founder and Senior Analyst of BPMS Watch
Jay Lyman, Senior Analyst for Enterprise Applications at The 451 Group
Neil Ward-Dutton, co-founder and Research Director at MWD Advisors.

“The BonitaSoft open source community has grown exponentially over the past several years, from a small BPM project to a thriving community with thousands of active contributors,” said Rodrigue Le Gall, BonitaSoft co-founder. “Bonita has been deployed across a wide array of BPM scenarios, and we’re excited to see the different projects our community members will choose to highlight with their submissions.”

To be eligible, submitters must have signed the BonitaSoft Contributor Agreement and be above the age of majority in the jurisdiction of their legal residence at the time of entry. Interested users can register at http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/contests/pimp-my-bonita.

The contest will be open until March 15, 2012 and winners will be announced at www.bonitasoft.org.

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Events

Process Modeling (in French)

adrien.bayles@bonitasoft.com — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:27:49 +0000

March 14, 15 and 16, 2012 - 9:30 am to 5:30 pm CET

Duration: 21 hours

Suitable for: Non-Technical profiles

The purpose of this 3-day training is to familiarize you with Bonita Open Solution as a process modeling tool, and with how a Bonita Open Solution project is developed end-to-end. You will be able to design a process and communicate about it to different process stakeholders using the process diagram

This training is designed for your if:

You have a business analyst, management or any other non-IT profile
You needs to model processes, but may not personally be involved the development of web-applications designed to automate business processes
Wants to communicate effectively with all process stakeholders (i.e. IT teams)
Wants to understand “the big picture” of how Bonita Open Solution works from model to execution

Objectives

When the 3-day training aims to lead you:

Be comfortable using Bonita Open Solution to model processes
Be familiar with BPMN notation and best practices
Recognize and apply techniques for effective BPM collaboration between “business” and IT for executable processes
Understand how processes developed in Bonita Open Solution will interact with your Information Systems
Understand how a complete Bonita project is developed end-to-end

Price: €1,800 / participant with certification exam

Date:

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 09:30 to Friday, March 16, 2012 - 17:30

Number of places:

Location:

Paris