Evaluation Activiti for Work Flow solution

[jasminindia]

Hi ,

We are evaluating activity as workflow solution. I can't find below answers any where hence posted here. Please guide to appropriate URL in case it is not correct one?

Replication : Is replication supported with various nodes? How process and Jobs can be replcated with different servers?
Load balance and Fail Over : How Fail over can be handled?
Enterprise Support : Is there any paid Enterprise support provided?
Cloud : Any number of number nodes supported? any restriction?
Reporting: Is it ptovide customization reporting? jBPM provide BIRT reporting feature?
In house SSO Integration : We have CAS sso in place is there any way we can integrate activit with existing SSO?

I find activiti simple to implement.
We are evaluating activity with jBPM and there are lots of posts online. but none of them provide clear benefits over jBPM. appreciated if i get that information.

Thanks

[ronald_van_kuij]

Replication : Is replication supported with various nodes? How process and Jobs can be replcated with different servers?

Load balance and Fail Over : How Fail over can be handled?
Activiti can be installed on many nodes. The database is the central point of storage and if one node fails, others can easily take over. The only thing to take into account is the jobexecutor. It can run on multiple nodes but in some cases it is better to run it on one node and start it on a second one if needed.

Enterprise Support : Is there any paid Enterprise support provided?

I now Alfresco and Camunda have paid support. But other companies might to…

Cloud : Any number of number nodes supported? any restriction?

The database is the crucial thing. See http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2012/06/28/the-activiti-performance-showdown/

Reporting: Is it ptovide customization reporting? jBPM provide BIRT reporting feature?

Well, you have full access to the database, so if needed you can do almost anything with any reporting tool you need.

In house SSO Integration : We have CAS sso in place is there any way we can integrate activit with existing SSO?

Activiti (the core engine) is not dependant on any SSO layer or whatever. We 'integrated' with Spring Security (Acegi) but I also integrated with opensso once… When you want to use the activiti explorer (we do not use it) it might be a little customization work, but not to difficult)

Cheers,

Ronald

[meyerd]

Hi jasminindia,

We (camunda) provide enterprise subscriptions for activiti. The commercial product is called camunda fox.
See http://www.camunda.com/fox/

Here are some sections from our user guide that might partly address your questions:
https://app.camunda.com/confluence/display/foxUserGuide/Product+Overview
https://app.camunda.com/confluence/display/foxUserGuide/Reports+with+BIRT
https://app.camunda.com/confluence/display/foxUserGuide/Job+Execution

Feel free to contact our support team or request an evaluation version.

[jasminindia]

Thanks ronald for taking time to respond.
I have query. What Job executor we need to take care? do we need to start manually when servers goes down?
Any thought about cloud? We are moving on cloud so need compatibly for same.