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Automated Business Processing

bhargavdesai99 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:26:12 GMT

Hi Tom , Does Activiti provide support for Automated Business Processing ? If yes what are the features provided for the same ? Thanks ,Bhargav

Re: Automated Business Processing

ronald_van_kuij — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:58:02 GMT

Could you explain to me what automated business processing means to you?

Re: Automated Business Processing

bhargavdesai99 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:18:51 GMT

Hi Ronald ,

ABPD(Automated Business Processing discovery) techniques start from event logs (audit trails, messages, transactions, databases and so forth) and try to discover patterns to fit a process model to the information obtained from the events. The underlying techniques are strong enough so that users don't have to specify a process model; it is created from scratch by pattern recognition. Moreover, it delivers information on bottlenecks, variances, root causes and the distribution of the process instances, thus enabling meaningful simulation. It's all about capturing what has happened in a real-life process.

Re: Automated Business Processing

ronald_van_kuij — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:51:38 GMT

Ahhhh, but now there is the 'discovery' added 😉 That explains it all.

Sorry, no that kind of tooling is not present, nor planned. Finding bottlenecks once implemented kan be done based on the history database, but requires manual queries

Re: Automated Business Processing

nemesis1 — Tue, 08 May 2012 05:20:46 GMT

Hi,

I want to ask a question about process simulation and debug.

From your previous reply, I see there is no plan in the near future. Can I run my process without deployment to discover the errors. (design time; not run time)

Now which methods do activiti users utilize to check their process design?

Thanks.

Re: Automated Business Processing

trademak — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:24:56 GMT

Hi,

You could use the parser used in the Activiti Engine, but you could also deploy the process to an in-memory Activiti Engine to get the feedback.

Best regards,

Re: Automated Business Processing

nemesis1 — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:26:18 GMT

Hi,

in memory test is it imperative to write unit-test. I don't want to write unit test. If there is another opportunity which designer can use without writing code or (with simple code), I will prefer it.

thanks.

Re: Automated Business Processing

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:43:05 GMT

Put the users behind a screen and have them use it?

Organizing that, processing the feedback etc is way more workthan writing a unittest.