Dear Community,

We’ve got video capture of the BonitaSoft and eXo webinar “Integrating BPM and Content;” if you missed the live webinar, check it out here.  Featuring the voices of Bonita Open Solution guru Olivier Delcroix and eXo VP Tug Grall.

The latest from R&D and Services

This week our Services team of consultants and trainers are all out in the field – we have (and have had recently) folks in Epinal, Geneva, Colombes, Boulogne, Paris, Seattle, Rome, London…and even, for a few hours here and there…in Grenoble! (Some South American-based training too, remote from Venezuela.)

Our customer base now includes clients from more than 25 countries in 5 continents.  This is keeping us pretty busy.

They’re blogging about us

Bilal Siddiqui shows how to add Twitter data to a CRM at IBM developerWorks.

This two-part article by Bilal Siddiqui at IBM developerWorks shows how to build a business process management (BPM) application that collects, displays, and uses data from a social-networking site. Part 1 shows how application connects to the Twitter web service and enables users to do a keyword search for relevant tweets. In Part 2, you’ll finish configuring the application and interface it with a customer relationship management (CRM) system to put the search data to practical business use.

Part 2:  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-sb2/index.html

Part 1:  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-sb1/index.html

This is fun.  We’re on Sramana Mitra’s Deal Radar.

Let us know if you see Bonita in the blogosphere.

They’re tweeting about us

Want to follow BonitaSoft developers and consultants on Twitter?  You’ll find them here:

R&D: @rbioteau; @a_birembaut; @chabanoles; @chaffotm; @sphax; @apupier; @eliasricken; @csouillard

Services: @bouquetf; @olivierdelcroix; @lamicque; @NigeBonita; @rodrigue; @antoinemottier; @renoatbonita;

(and of course there’s that guy @miguelvaldes, BonitaSoft CEO…)

And elsewhere in the twittersphere…keep tweeting, we appreciate your buzz.

@eXo_espagnol; @wernerkeil; @sunilband; @economia_feed_0; @tgrall; @stevanLM; @benjmestrallet; @chapin4U; @PhilJ; @fbastos79; @eXo_portugues; @retxus; @knrpraveen; @KenE3C; @patelankitm; @rajeevpareek; @ravibulusu; @SupplyChainMgt; @CitizenAdv_Equen; @pcoffre; @smanjunath; @raphael_diluzio; @TheBPMArchitect; @minhdv81; @Managementbase; @ipoBound; @eXoPlatform; @bobickel; @Helivisie; @VinzLux; @techsnoop; @devstonez

Our hash tags: #bos5 = Bonita Open Solution 5, #bonitasoft, #bpm = business process management, #workflow , #opensource = Open Source, #oss = Open Source Software, #ow2

and remember: be BOSsy…be Bonita!

You never know what you’re going to find in the community contributions – the Bonita community is wide and deep!

A Simple Business Collaboration Scenario was recently contributed by community member allweyer, aka  Prof. Dr. Thomas Allweyer, Department of Computer Science and Micro Systems Technology at Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences) Kaiserslautern (Germany).

Along with the 2 choreographed processes which you can download from the contributions page directly, Dr. Allweyer provides a link to a very well-written whitepaper that describes the design of these processes.

In it he describes a detailed, clear example using BPMN to model a business collaboration, consisting of interaction between a customer process and a vendor process. Prof. Dr. Allweyer shows the the development of choreography diagrams, the collaboration diagrams, data structures, and messages using several different modeling tools and explains how to implement them.

He then uses Bonita Open Solution to model, deploy, and run the scenario.

Download the whitepaper, and the customer and supplier processes, for yourself – and follow along step-by-step; some of the topics he covers as he builds the processes include

• Conversations and choreographies
• Collaborations
• Message exchange
• Message and timer events
• Defining message structures and implementing them with XML schema
• Implementation alternatives for business-to-business integration
• Correlating messages and process instances

Share and enjoy! (And many thanks to Prof. Dr. Allweyer for this excellent contribution to the Bonita community.)

Check out the cool demo of BOS integrated into eXo platform.  For more detail, sign up for the Webinar on 8 June, hosted by eXo, featuring Tug Grall and Rodrigue Le Gall.

The latest from R&D

The R&D team has been keenly focused since the release of BOS 5.5 on making improvements to the Bonita Execution Engine. The goal is to make integration of your external IS smoother and easier. Stay tuned. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear Community,

Here is a new Tutorial: How to configure a MySQL database Connector in BOS 5.5.

Thanks again for your feedback.
Enjoy!

I recently had the opportunity to see a presentation about NetBeans RCP given by Geertjan Wielenga at AlpesJUG, and to chat with the speaker afterwards. We had an interesting discussion about how NetBeans RCP and Eclipse RCP compare to each other.

Some food for the trolls

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Dear Community,

Here is the link to a new “How To” tutorial on the Community website:
How to configure an email connector in BOS 5.5

This tutorial describes how to configure an email Connector in Bonita Studio to send a notification email to candidates, when a new task is assigned.

Thanks for your feedback.
Have fun with Bonita!