JBoss BPM Suite v6.1 available

Last week, Red Hat annouced the official release of JBoss BPM Suite v6.1. This brings you (almost) all of the new features that came in jBPM 6.1 and 6.2 into the supported offering.

You can take a look at the release notes of jBPM 6.1 and jBPM 6.2 to see all the details, but at a (very) high level this for example brings you new features:

• Document attachments: attach documents to forms and manage them in your processes
• Embeddable forms: embed process and task forms in your own application
• Remote EJB + WS interfaces
• Camel service tasks
• Social features: profile page, follow other people using event streams, etc.
  
• Customizable workbench: extend the workbench web UI with your own views
  
• Asset management [Tech Preview]: manage assets moving from a development branch into a production branch before being pushed into production
• Certification on top of EAP 6.4, WebLogic, Fuse and Java8

A lot of effort was also put into stabilizing and improving existing features.

Since JBoss BPM Suite is a super-set of JBoss BRMS, you get an integrated solution that offers  support for your business rules, complex event processing and optimization problems as well (based on Drools and Optaplanner v6.2).   This for example introduces a new 'realtime decision server' as part of BRMS 6.1.

If you want to know more, take a look at the following page:

http://www.jboss.org/products/bpmsuite/overview/

Eric also posted a blog with some more details and a bunch of examples to get started !

Below are some slides that list most of the features.

Partner Workshops in Madrid and London in October

Red Hat is organizing two 3-day workshop for partners about various technologies, including JBoss BPM Suite, FSW and xPaas.  Both will take place in the next few weeks, one in Madrid and one in London, and I'll be attending both.

Important: this event is for Red Hat Channel Partners***, not end users or customers. 

Come spend three days with Red Hat experts and learn about JBoss BPM Suite, Fuse Service Works, and OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service. This three-day master class will include product presentations, roadmaps, industrial use cases, panel discussions, and hands-on lab sessions, as well as the opportunity to talk one-on-one with the experts.

The speakers of the events are: middleware product leaders, principal architects and partner enablement experts. Many of them work as commiters in many open source communities. This is a great chance to meet the worldwide experts!

Madrid:  Tuesday, Oct 21 - Thursday Oct 23 2014

London: Monday, Oct 27 - Wednesday, Oct 29 2014

This is pretty last minute, but if you're interested and (would like to) qualify as Red Hat Partner, ask for an invitation from emea-partner-team@redhat.com

*** Red Hat Partners create an eco-system where they are building solutions or offering services based on existing Red Hat products.  For example, they might be delivering service projects or IT product as ISV partners, or delivering solutions based on Red Hat products as system integrators.  For more info, check out http://www.redhat.com/en/partners

Interview with Jim Whitehurst on JBoss BPM Suite

Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, has given an interview related to BPM in general and Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite more specifically in the run up to BPM Open House 2014.  Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite is the supported Business Process Management platform based on jBPM6.  For more information related to this, check out one of my earlier blogs.

In the interview, Jim talks about why Red Hat is interested in the BPM market, what open source means in this context, and a lot more.  You can listen to the podcast or read the text transcript.

Red Hat Summit Middleware Keynote and Demo

This year, JBoss BPM Suite 6 / jBPM6 was an important part of the middleware keynote once again !

 

Mark Little explained why the release of the JBoss BPM Suite 6 is an important step forward.

And later it was used as part of the keynote demo to drive requests (coming in from twitter), all running on openshift, set up on a bunch of laptops.

The full keynote video is available here, enjoy!