In this episode of A Side Of Data, I interview Bernd Ruecker, a co-founder and chief technologist at Camunda - workflow and decision automation platform. We talk about workflow automation, workflow engines, business process modeling notation (BPMN), robotic process automation (RPA).

 

The episode timeline:

 

2:00 what are the workflows and what is workflow automation?

4:00 the difference between workflow, process, and routine?

6:00 what are the workflow engines?

8:00 Historical overview of workflow engines and BPMS.

12:00 why using BPMN? What is a good visual representation of the workflow/process

17:00 competition of the BPMN? Powerpoint? Event-driven process chain?

19:00 Process mining tools (DFGs, process maps vs BPMN)

22:00 workflow use case, on the granularity of BPMN model design

26:00 business process use cases vs software engineering use case for the workflow engines

28:40 RPA (robotic process automation) vs workflow automation

35:00 Future of workflow engines

39:00 How to see that your company needs workflow engines?

42:00 As a student, would you study workflow engines?

43:30 How to get started?

 

Additional info:

Bernd's page: https://berndruecker.io/ 

Bernd's blog: https://blog.bernd-ruecker.com/

Camunda: https://camunda.com/

 

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