1. Prakash Aradhya1
JBoss BRMS, BPM and Beyond
Prakash Aradhya
Sr. Product Manager
paradhya@redhat.com

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Topics
● Evolution for JBoss Business Platforms
● Overview of BRMS 5.3 – Business Rules, Workflow
● About Polymita
● JBoss and Polymita Integration Plan
● Roadmap

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Integration and BPM Week – October 15-18
Craig Muzilla, General Manager of JBoss - welcome
Mark Little, Vice President of Engineering - vision
Customer videos - INTTRA & TW Telecom
http://www.redhat.com/promo/jboss_integration_week_sessions/

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Evolution of JBoss Business Platforms

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JBoss Business Solution Offering
Yesterday Today

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JBoss BRMS – Stage Infancy: Drools Rules
● Decision Box
● Pricing, Promotions, premium
● Reasoning

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JBoss BRMS – Stage Teen: Drools Goes Real
● Realtime Decisions
● Logistics, routing, trading

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JBoss BRMS – Stage Adult: Drools Weds jBPM
● Realtime Intelligent Workflows
● Automate, optimize

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JBoss BRMS – Evolution from BRMS to BPM
Intelligent Realtime Intelligent Realtime Intelligent Workflow

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BRMS 5.3 Overview

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BRMS 5.3 – Overview

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Strengths of BRMS and jBPM
● Synergetic Business Aspects – Rules, Business Events, Workflows
● Lightweight Deployment
● Choice of Deployment – Embedded Vs Stand Alone
● Choice of Containers – JBoss Vs Non-JBoss
● Choice of Packages – Integrated Vs Components
● Choice of Tools – Web based Vs Eclipse based
● Pluggable Persistence and Transaction
● Easily Extensible – Rich and Robust APIs

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What we heard from you
Love it
Critical
Need
Out of the
Box BAM
Prefer
Richer
Interface
User
Experience
Process
Analysis
Complimentary
Excellent

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About Polymita

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About Polymita
● Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain
● Extensive experience in building BPM Suite for several years
● Highly differentiated BPMS offering keeping business user productivity as
the center of focus
● Positioned as a visionary in Gartner BPM MQ
● Considered as a Major Player by IDC Marketscape

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Strengths of Polymita BPM

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Integration Plan

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Integration Plan
● An Integrated BPM Product - Bringing the best of both world together
● Multiple Releases over the next 6 to 18 months

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Integration Plan - Contd
● Continue to build on fundamentally strong integrated business aspects –
Business Rules, Business Events and Business Processes
● A natural extension to jBPM 5 runtime component – This means no
migration hassles upgrading to BPM 6.0
● Empower business users with rich user experience

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Integration Plan
Current: BRMS 5.3.x Next: BPMS 6.0, BRMS 6.0
Polymita
Polymita BPMS
JBoss
JBoss BRMS JBoss BRMS 6.0
JBoss BRMS 6.0
JBoss BPMS 6.0

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Integration Plan
BRMS 5.3.x
Current: BRMS 5.3.x Next: BPMS 6.0, BRMS 6.0
JON
+
Plugins
Managed
BRMS 6.0
JON
+
Plugins
ManagedBPMS 6.0
Rules
EAP v5
CEP Process
BRM Process Designer
Process and Task Mgmt
EAP v6
Rules CEP
Business Rules Manager JON
+
Plugins
Managed
Polymita
Polymita BPMS
EAP v6
Rules CEP Process
Process Modeler BRM
Simulation Process & Task Mgmt
BAM

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Integration Stage 1 - JBoss BPM 6.0

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Integration Stage 2 - JBoss BPM 6.1

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Roadmap

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BRMS 6
JBoss BRMS Roadmap
Subject to Change
BRMS 5
BRMS 5.3.1 (Target : Q4 CY12)
● Maintenance, Java 1.7
● Additional Certs. - EAP 6
● Minor Enhancements
6.0
BRMS 6.0 (Target : Mid CY13)
● Wizard-assisted rules authoring
● Rete++ algorithm
● Performance Improvements
● Drools Planner – Tech Preview
5.25.2 5.35.3 5.3.1
BRMS 6.1 (Target : End CY13)
● Enhance User Experience
● Drools Planner
6.1

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BRMS 6
JBoss BPM Platform Roadmap
Subject to Change
6.0
BPM 6.0 (Target : Mid CY13)
● Frist phase of integrated Polymita and jBPM
● Dashboarding and reporting
● Rich task management and process monitoring tools
● Process Simulation
6.1
BPM 6.1 (Target : End CY13)
● Next phase of integrated Polymita and jBPM
● Enriched User Experience
● Interoperability with other JBoss products

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● ...about the intelligent, integrated
enterprise vision
http://www.getcontrolwithjboss.com/
● ...about BRMS Products
http://www.redhat.com/products/jbossenterprisemiddleware/business-rules/
● Upcoming BRMS Workshops
http://intellifest.org/wordpress/
● Evaluation Download
https://access.redhat.com/downloads
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