Ecosyste.ms: Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

Awesome Lists | Featured Topics | Projects

https://github.com/ungerts/awesome-bpm

A curated list of awesome Business Process Management (BPM) tools, engines, frameworks, resources and other awesomeness.
https://github.com/ungerts/awesome-bpm

List: awesome-bpm

Last synced: 21 days ago
JSON representation

A curated list of awesome Business Process Management (BPM) tools, engines, frameworks, resources and other awesomeness.

Awesome Lists containing this project

README 

        
# Awesome BPM [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)



> A curated list of awesome Business Process Management (BPM) tools, engines, frameworks, resources and other awesomeness.



Business Process Management ([BPM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_management)) is a discipline to improve the performance of a company by taking advantage of explicit business processes.



Contributions welcome.

Add links through pull requests or create an issue to start a discussion.



## Contents



- [Alliances](#alliances)

- [Assessments](#assessments)

- [Books](#books)

- [BPM Platforms/Suites](#bpm-platformssuites)

- [Certifications](#certifications)

- [Comparisons](#comparisons)

- [Engines](#engines)

- [Guidelines](#guidelines)

- [Learning BPM](#learning-bpm)

- [Methods](#methods)

- [Mining](#mining)

- [Modeling Tools](#modeling-tools)

  * [Supportive Tooling](#supportive-tooling)

- [Monitoring Tools](#monitoring-tools)

- [Process Libraries](#process-libraries)

- [Standards](#standards)

- [Testing/Validation](#testingvalidation)



## Alliances

- [Enterprise BPM Alliance](http://bpm-alliance.org/bpm-alliance/)

- [Workflow Management Coalition](http://www.wfmc.org)



## Assessments

- [BPM Maturity Model](http://www.bpm-maturitymodel.com) - Measures the majurity of BPM in a company.



## Books

- Bruce Silver: BPMN Method and Style, Second Edition, with BPMN Implementer's Guide, 2012. ISBN-13: [978-0982368114](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0982368114) - Great book on BPMN 2.0, recommended reference regarding modelling methodoligy and style.

- Bruce Silver: DMN Method and Style: The Practitioner's Guide to Decision Modeling with Business Rules, 2016. ISBN-13: [978-0982368152](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0982368152) - Follows the same approach like in Silver's BPMN book, but for DMN.

- Dirk Slama; Ralph Nelius: Enterprise BPM: Erfolgsrezepte für unternehmensweites Prozessmanagement. dpunkt, 2001. ISBN-13: [978-3898646871](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3898646871) - Awesome German book introducing the basic concepts on BPM.

- Frank Leymann, Dieter Roller: Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques. Prentice Hall PTR, 2000. ISBN [0–13–021753–0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0130217530) - This is the first book on enterprise-grade workflows. The concepts are still valid todday.

- Jakob Freund: Real-Life BPMN: Using BPMN 2.0 to Analyze, Improve, and Automate Processes in Your Company. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN-13: [978-1502972323](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-642-28615-5) - Describes using BPMN 2.0 to work on processes in companies.

- Jakob Freund, Bernd Rücker: Praxishandbuch BPMN 2.0. Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG; Auflage: 4., aktualisierte Auflage, 2014. ISBN-13: [978-3446442559](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3446442559) - Awesome German book on using the executable part of BPMN.

- Keith D. Swenson: Mastering the Unpredictable: How Adaptive Case Management Will Revolutionize the Way That Knowledge Workers Get Things Done. Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2010. ISBN [978-0-929652-12-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-929652-12-2) - Presents foundations on adaptive case management.

- Marlon Dumas, Marcello La Rosa, Jan Mendling, Hajo A. Reijers: [Fundamentals of Business Process Management](http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/). ISBN: [978-3-642-33142-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-642-33142-8) - An awesome text book teaching the background of BPM. It is used throughout the world in BPM lectures as basis.

- Tammo van Lessen, Daniel Lübke, Jörg Nitzsche: Geschäftsprozesse automatisieren mit BPEL. dpunkt, 2011. ISBN-13: [978-3898646703](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3898646703) - Awesome German book on making workflow happen using BPEL.

- Mathias Weske: Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures, 2nd ed. 2012, XV, 403 p. 300 illus. Hardcover ISBN [978-3-642-28615-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-642-28615-5) - Foundation on business process management ranging from theory to practical applications.



## MOOCs

- [BPMN Meets DMN: Business Process and Decision Modeling (openhpi, Mathias Weske)](https://open.hpi.de/courses/bpm2016) - An online course showing modeling using BPMN and DMN

- [Fundamentals of Business Process Management](http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/mooc/) - An online course covering the topic of the book "Fundamentals of Business Process Management".



## Certifications

- [OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB) 2](http://www.omg.org/oceb-2/index.htm)



## BPMN 2.0 Microservice Orchestration Engines

- [ProcessMaker I/O](http://processmaker.io)

- [zeebe](https://zeebe.io/)



## BPM Platforms/Suites

- [Appian BPM](http://www.appian.com/bpm-software/) - An all-in-one BPM solution, the "Leader in Low-Code BPM".

- [Bonita BPM](http://www.bonitasoft.com/products-v2#about-bonita-bpm) - A comprehensive BPM suite.

- [Bosch SI Inubit BPM](https://www.bosch-si.com/products/business-process-management-bpm/business-process-management.html)

- [Bosch SI Visual Rules](https://www.bosch-si.com/products/business-rules-management-brm/visual-rules.html)

- [Signavio Workflow](http://www.signavio.com/products/workflow/)

- [IBM Business Process Manager](http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/de/business-process-manager-family)

- [IBM Operational Decision Manager](http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/odm)

- [Intalio BPMS](http://www.intalio.com/products/bpms/overview/)

- [Intellior](http://www.intellior.ag/software/leistungsstaerke/modularitaet-und-preise/ueberblick/)

- [OpenText Process Suite](http://www.opentext.com/what-we-do/products/business-process-management)

- [Oracle Business Process Management Suite 12c](http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/bpm/suite/overview/index.html)

- [Pega 7 Platform](http://www.pega.com/products/pega-7)

- [ProcessMaker BPM](http://www.processmaker.com)

- [Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite](http://www.jboss.org/products/bpmsuite/overview/)

- [Tibco Active Matrix BPM](http://www.tibco.com/products/automation/business-process-management/activematrix-bpm)

- [Edorasware](http://www.edorasware.com)

- [SoftProject X4 BPM Suite](http://www.x4bpm.com/bpm-suite.html)



## Certifications

- [OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB) 2](http://www.omg.org/oceb-2/index.htm)



## Comparisons

- [BPMN Tool Matrix](https://bpmnmatrix.github.io/) - Github-hosted comparison of popular BPMN 2.0 tooling.

- [Tool Markt Monitor](http://www.toolmarktmonitor.de/) - A German survey on available BPM tooling. They update it yearly and provide a comprehensive survey and comparison of tools.



## Engines

- [ActiveVOS](http://www.activevos.com/)

- [Activiti](http://activiti.org/)

- [Apache ODE](http://ode.apache.org)

- [Bizagi Engine](http://www.bizagi.com/en/products/bpm-suite/engine)

- [Camunda BPM](https://camunda.org) - A production-ready BPMN engine used in many German companies, such as 1&1 Internet and Zalando.

- [flowable](http://www.flowable.org/) -  BPMN process engine, with accompanying DMN decision tables and CMMN case management engines, all written in Java.

- [inubit BPM](https://www.bosch-si.com/products/business-process-management-bpm/business-process-management.html)

- [jBPM](http://www.jbpm.org)

- [Onedecison (DMN)](http://onedecision.io/)

- [ProcessMaker I/O](http://processmaker.io/)

- [Awesome Workflow Engines](https://github.com/meirwah/awesome-workflow-engines) - List of awesome workflow engines collected by [@meirwah](https://github.com/meirwah/)



## Guidelines

- [BPMN 2.0 Best Practices](https://camunda.org/bpmn/examples/)

- [BPMN Modeling Guidelines](http://www.modeling-guidelines.org/)

- [Best practices in modeling](http://help.bizagi.com/processmodeler/en/index.html?best_practices_in_modeling.htm)

- [eCH-0158: BPMN-Modellierungskonventionen für die öffentliche Verwaltung (in German)](https://www.ech.ch/vechweb/page?p=dossier&documentNumber=eCH-0158&documentVersion=1.1)

- [APQC Process Classification Framework](https://www.apqc.org/pcf)



## Learning BPM

- [BPMN 2.0 Poster](http://www.bpmb.de/images/BPMN2_0_Poster_EN.pdf) - Poster containing all symbols of BPMN 2.0 including a short explanation.

- [BPMN Meets DMN: Business Process and Decision Modeling (openhpi, Mathias Weske)](https://open.hpi.de/courses/bpm2016) - An online course showing modeling using BPMN and DMN.

- [Fundamentals of Business Process Management](http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/mooc/) - An online course covering the topic of the book "Fundamentals of Business Process Management".



## Methods

- [Business Process Management Framework](http://bpm-alliance.org/bpmf/)

- [Behavior-driven Business Process Development with BPMN](https://speakerdeck.com/vanto/behavior-driven-business-process-development-with-bpmn)

- [Workflow Patterns](http://www.workflowpatterns.com/) - NOT BPMN specific, but it does list BPMN compatibility for those patterns



## Mining

- [Celonis](https://www.celonis.com/product/) - All-in-one dashboard showing mined processes.

- [Disco](https://fluxicon.com/disco/) - Fast process mining.

- [ProM Tools](http://www.promtools.org/doku.php) - The largest body of work for academic process mining.



## Modeling Tools

- [Aris Business Process Analysis](http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/aris_alfabet/bpa/overview/default.asp)

- [Bizagi Modeler](http://www.bizagi.com/en/products/bpm-suite/modeler)

- [bpmn.io](http://bpmn.io/) - Open-Source web-based BPMN modeler

- [Cawemo](https://cawemo.com/) - Commercial offering of the bpmn.io modeler with advanced collaboration features.

- [Eclipse BPMN Modeler](https://www.eclipse.org/bpmn2-modeler/). Actively developed and high BPMN conformance.

- [Enterprise Architect](http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/platforms/business_process_modeling.html)

- [Fico DMN Modeler](http://www.ficoanalyticcloud.com/platform/fico-dmn-modeler/)

- [Gliffy](https://www.gliffy.com/uses/business-process-modeling-software/)

- [Signavio Process Editor](http://www.signavio.com/products/process-editor/)

- [Signavio Decision Manager](http://www.signavio.com/products/decision-manager/)

- [Microsoft Visio 2013](https://blogs.office.com/2012/11/19/introducing-bpmn-2-0-in-visio/)

- [MID Process Note](http://www.mid.de/en/process-note.html)

- [MID Innovator for Business Analysts](http://www.mid.de/en/products/innovator-for-business-analysts.html)

- [Modelio](https://www.modelio.org/)

- [Trisotech](http://www.trisotech.com)

- [Visual Paradigm](https://www.visual-paradigm.com/)

- [Yaoqiang BPMN Editor](http://bpmn.sourceforge.net/) - A desktop BPMN modelling application very close to the standard and supporting all elements.



### Supportive Tooling

- [BPMeter](http://benchflow.inf.usi.ch/bpmeter) - Measure the size and structural complexity of your BPMN models through a simple Web application.

- [BPMNspector-fixSeqFlow](https://github.com/matthiasgeiger/BPMNspector-fixSeqFlow) - Fixing Sequence Flow Issues in BPMN models.



## Monitoring Tools

- [IBM Business Monitor](http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/de/business-monitor) - Helps getting insights to data.



## Process Libraries

- [Signavio ITIL®2011 Process Library](http://www.signavio.com/products/itil-2011-process-library/) -  ITIL®2011 Processes modeled using BPMN.



## Standards

- [Business Process Model And Notation (BPMN) Version 2.0](http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/) - Most-adopted BPM standard.

- [Case Management Model And Notation (CMMN) 1.0](http://www.omg.org/spec/CMMN/) - Graphically depict case mamanagement.

- [Decision Model And Notation (DMN) 1.1](http://www.omg.org/spec/DMN/) - Visually depict business rules.

- [Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) Version 2.0](http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/OS/wsbpel-v2.0-OS.html) - Well-defined execution semantics for business processes.

- [WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) Specification Version 1.1](http://docs.oasis-open.org/bpel4people/bpel4people-1.1.html) - Specifies how human tasks can be integrated in BPEL with interesting concepts.

- [Web Services – Human Task (WS-HumanTask) Specification Version 1.1](http://docs.oasis-open.org/bpel4people/ws-humantask-1.1-spec-cs-01.html) - Standard to describe human tasks

- [XML Process Definition Language (XPDL)](http://www.xpdl.org/) - Laid the groundwork for BPMN 2.0



## Testing/Validation

- [BenchFlow](https://github.com/benchflow/benchflow) - Performance and conformance checking for BPEL and BPMN.

- [betsy](https://github.com/uniba-dsg/betsy) - Engine Test System for BPEL and BPMN.

- [BPELlint](https://github.com/uniba-dsg/BPELlint) - Validation tool which statically analyzes BPEL files using the statical analysis rules from the BPEL 2.0 specification. Also available as [IntelliJ IDEA plugin](https://github.com/uniba-dsg/BPELlint-idea)

- [BPELStats](https://github.com/dluebke/bpelstats) - BPELStats is a tool for calculating a variety of BPEL Metrics.

- [BPELUnit](http://bpelunit.github.io) - Unit testing for BPEL

- [bpmnlint](https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmnlint) - Validate BPMN diagrams based on configurable lint rules

- [BPMNspector](https://github.com/uniba-dsg/BPMNspector) - Static analysis for BPMN 2.0 process models

- [BPP](https://github.com/uniba-dsg/bpp) - The BPEL Portability Profile