Archive for the ‘Behind the scenes’ Category
Have you weighed in on the “email is dead” discussion?
BonitaSoft CEO Miguel Valdes Faura authored an article on GigaOM earlier this month. He pointed to the example of Atos Origin, which declared its intentions to completely phase email out of their internal operations within the next three years, and mused: Is email in the enterprise entering its twilight at 40?
As you can well imagine, this provoked a bit of back-and-forth both in the blog comments and in the Twittersphere…
OK, email isn’t actually going away any time soon for most of us, of course. But business communication channels are evolving…and so is Bonita Open Solution User Experience.
Bonita Open Solution v5.X bases the Bonita User Experience on an email model – manage your processes and tasks in an interface that feels rather gmail-like.
Bonita Open Solution v6, currently under development by the R&D team in Grenoble, is going to be…different.
It’s too soon to share details (we’re in the early mock-up stage), but they look sweet. Think…process apps. Clean, crisp, and pretty cool.
Our process communication channels are evolving. (And we promise not mess with your email, either.)
Stay tuned!
There was a bit of a buzz today in the BonitaSoft offices when our copy* of BPMN Method and Style, Second Edition, arrived.
We’ve been using Bruce Silver’s method and style in Bonita Open Solution development (as well as in our training on business process modeling with BOS). So it’s very cool to see Bonita Open Solution used to illustrate the relationship between a process model and a executable design in a real BPMS in Chapter 23, Executable BPMN in Practice.
If you’re interested in Bruce’s disciplined method and style of applying the BPMN2 standard – here’s one place where you can get your copy. (Put it on your Wish List for a holiday gift! Sorry, Kindle edition not yet available…)
*autographed by the author. Double cool.
Have fun with Bonita and BPMN!
The gang at BonitaSoft is definitely NOT all work, no play.
Aren’t the French Alps breathtaking at the crack of dawn?
Those are the Swiss Alps in the background. Mont Blanc (and beyond it, Switzerland/Italy) are just to center right here:
And, that’s Julien Mege to the left up there. A little hard to recognize without his laptop, maybe?
…and the deed is done!
Some 40 PITA bugs have been dealt with…
…watch for the results in a release near you (in BOS 5.6.1, coming soon).
Here’s the whole PITA gang after 2 long days of intensity, with the winning team in the front row.
Yep, those guys holding the valuable prizes are the Wet Bandits (les Casseurs-Flotteurs):
Anthony Birembaut, Antoine Mottier, Elias Ricken de Medeiros, Yhon Acurio, Romain Bioteau, and Mihai Coucy.
Congratulations guys!
And thanks to all the PITA players for your contributions to improving Bonita Open Solution for everyone.
Today and tomorrow are PITA*-killer days. All those little bugs that make us crazy (and hey, probably make you crazy too) are gettin’ squished. We’ve identified somewhere around 30-40 of them.
The R&D and Services teams have merged, and split out again, into 3 teams that are in hot competition to determine who can crush the most (and the most annoying) bugs the fastest.
Each team has a Studio developer, an Engine developer, and a web developer from R&D; plus 2 guys from Services. The 3 teams are:
- the Captain’s crew (arrrrrr)
- the We Are Anonymous, and
- the Wet Bandits (ok, it sounds better in French: les Casseurs-Flotteurs).
Almost halfway through – who’s ahead? Hard to say, as the day is not yet over.
The PITA TaskMaster, Rodrigue, is in charge. In the appropriate uniform, of course.
(In case you can’t see the uniform…)
We’ll check back in again tomorrow.
*PITA = “Pain in the…” (You get to play too, fill in the blank!)
Dear Community,
Behind the Scenes has been a bit behind. Time to start catching up.
How about a quick look at who’s been blogging about us? Since we released BOS 5.6 last month, there’s been a bit of a buzz in the blogosphere:
- Alternative to offers Bonita Open Solution for – you know the usual suspects – BPM, workflow, etc. If you think BOS is a good alternative for BPM solutions – Go give us a “like” and up our ranking!
- Antelink provides the Antepedia report for Software Quality Assurance and Trustworthiness of BOS 5.5 at OW2.
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And the business bits…our release of BOS 5.6 has hit the e-newsstands with
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Bonita Open Solution in the Spanish blogosfera
Bonita Open Solution in the French blogosphère
Bonita Open Solution in the Italian blogosfera
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We love being spread around the world!
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Are you blogging about Bonita Open Solution? In any language? Let us know – we’ll be happy to mention you here and tweet it out to our ~1500 followers.
And if you want to tweet about us…our hash tags are: #bos5 = Bonita Open Solution 5, #bonitasoft, #bpm = business process management, #workflow , #opensource = Open Source, #oss = Open Source Software, #ow2
and remember: be bloggy, be Bonita! 
