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Call Public APIs Without Programming

Interest in Business Automation is being accelerated by the thousands of public REST APIs available from countless service providers.  Most are available on a Freemium basis - free low-volume use for development, with a modest monthly fee for production use.  The Trisotech Low-Code Business Automation platform lets you incorporate these services in your BPMN models [...]

By |2022-01-26T13:48:36-08:00January 26th, 2022|BPMN|0 Comments

Data Flow in Business Automation

In BPMN Method and Style, which deals with non-executable models, we don't worry about process data.  It's left out of the models entirely.  We just pretend that any data produced or received by process tasks is available downstream.  In Business Automation, i.e., executable BPMN, that's not the case.  Process data is not pervasive, available automatically [...]

By |2022-01-14T10:53:23-08:00January 14th, 2022|BPMN|0 Comments

What Makes BPMN and DMN Standards?

A couple weeks ago my attention was called to a LinkedIn post, one of those clickbait polls: "Is BPMN the standard? Do you use it? Would you expect it from others?" About 65% said Yes, but naturally the haters clogged the comment thread. Of most interest to me was a comment by Alec Sharp, a [...]

By |2021-12-07T09:49:32-08:00December 2nd, 2021|BPMN, DMN|0 Comments

BPMN Call Activity vs Subprocess: What’s the Difference?

BPMN has an element that looks very much like a subprocess, except drawn with a thick border.  Perhaps you have used it yourself... probably incorrectly.  Its name is call activity, and it is similar in several ways to a subprocess, but it is not the same.  Both elements are important, but valuable for different reasons.  [...]

By |2021-12-02T07:21:34-08:00December 2nd, 2021|BPMN|0 Comments

Inspect Process Data with Attended Tasks

Debugging executable processes can be a challenge because, unlike DMN models, you cannot test them in the Modeler.  You need to compile and deploy them first, and problems are often reported as runtime errors.  Until fairly recently, to zero in on the problem you needed to isolate it in a small fragment of the process [...]

By |2021-10-21T10:05:01-07:00October 21st, 2021|BPMN|0 Comments

Translating Excel Examples into DMN Logic

In my Low-Code Business Automation methodology, the first step is something I call whiteboarding - developing examples of the logic created in Excel with an eye toward generalizing the logic to handle any possible example and then translating to DMN.  This is actually the hardest part of the project, and the only part requiring subject [...]

By |2021-09-30T13:22:28-07:00September 30th, 2021|DMN|0 Comments

What’s Behind Vendor Resistance to FEEL?

I read with mixed feelings Larry Goldberg's post "Just Not FEELin It". Larry is the one who introduced me to decision management a decade ago.  He was the first to promote a strict methodology for business users creating model-driven decision requirements, which is essential.  So he is a very smart guy, and I respect his [...]

By |2021-09-20T13:35:47-07:00September 20th, 2021|DMN|0 Comments

A Methodology for Low-Code Business Automation with BPMN and DMN

In recent posts, I have explained why anyone who can create rich spreadsheet models using Excel formulas can learn to turn those into Low-Code Business Automation services on the Trisotech platform, using BPMN and DMN, and why FEEL and boxed expressions are actually more business-friendly than PowerFX, the new name for Excel's formula language.  That's [...]

By |2021-09-21T10:03:28-07:00September 9th, 2021|BPMN, DMN|0 Comments

FEEL vs Excel Formulas

Last month I showed why Trisotech is a great Low-Code Business Automation platform, based on its use of FEEL and boxed expressions in executable BPMN.  How ironic is it, then, that many decision management vendors don't even include those features in their DMN tools!  The only part of DMN they use is the Decision Requirements [...]

By |2021-09-02T09:26:53-07:00September 2nd, 2021|BPMN, DMN|0 Comments

Low-Code Standards-Based Business Automation Services

There is no hotter segment of Business Automation software today than Low-Code.  Low-Code refers to application development based on models - diagrams and tables - and business-accessible expression languages, not program code.  Gartner assesses Low-Code as a $13.8 billion market in 2021, growing to $46.6 billion in 2023.  And, they say, by 2024 it will [...]

By |2021-08-13T08:50:05-07:00August 13th, 2021|BPMN, DMN|0 Comments

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