2016-03-02

25 Open Source and Free Business Process Management (BPM) tools

Business Process Management (BPM) tools are used for modelling, optimizing, automating and measuring the business processes. BPMN is a is a standard for business process modeling which provides a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a business process model. This is presented in a Business Process Diagram (BPD), based on a flowcharting technique very similar to activity diagrams from Unified Modeling Language (UML). The primary goal is to provide a standard notation readily understandable by all business stakeholders. These stakeholders include the business analysts who create and refine the processes, the technical developers responsible for implementing them, and the business managers who monitor and manage them.

jSonic BPM, jBPM, Activiti, Red Hat JBoss BPM, ProcessMaker, Bonita BPM, Camunda, Orchestra, Joget, Yaoqiang BPMN Editor, ADONIS:Community Edition, ARCWAY Cockpit Designer, Bizagi BPMN Modeler, ARIS Express, bpmn.io, Cubetto, BPMN2 Modeler, W4 Web Modeler, SYDLE SEED, Imixs-BPMN, Innovator, Modelio, yEd, RunaWFE, and Feng Office are some of the top Open Source and Free BPM tools.

1.jSonic BPM

jSonic Business Process Management suite enables enterprise owners to align business processes with dynamic market conditions, statutory compliances and, customer and partner requirements. It is a comprehensive solution that improves the bottom line of organizations by increasing process efficiency, optimizing resource utilization and automating human workflow.The major components of the suite include Process Management, Workflow Management and the Interface DesignerProcess Modeler. Rules governing processes can be defined using the Business Rules Engine, and validated using the Process Simulator – which allows a dry run for the system.

jSonic Business Process Management

2.jBPM

jBPM is a flexible Business Process Management (BPM) Suite. It makes the bridge between business analysts and developers. jBPM has a dual focus: it offers process management features in a way that both business users and developers like it.jBPM supports adaptive and dynamic processes that require flexibility to model complex, real-life situations that cannot easily be described using a rigid process.

jBPM

3.Activiti

Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It’s open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts.

Activiti

4.Red Hat JBoss BPM

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite is the JBoss platform for Business Process Management (BPM). It enables enterprise business and IT users to document, simulate, manage, automate and monitor business processes and policies. It is designed to empower business and IT users to collaborate more effectively, so business applications can be changed more easily and quickly. JBoss BPM Suite combines all the decision management and event processing capabilities of Red Hat JBoss BRMS with the advanced BPM tools and runtime from the jBPM project, to create a single, integrated platform for business [...]

The post 25 Open Source and Free Business Process Management (BPM) tools appeared first on Predictive Analytics Today.

Show more