MQ Workflow - Towards Tempo

[Vijay]

Hi,

We are doing feasibility study of migrating the MQ Workflow related
processes to open source workflow product. These are the features of
our process which are very human centric

a) 50% of our processes are linear in nature
b) 25 % of processes are conditional
c) 25% of processes have loopbacks -- under some if else condition -
another activity can send the process back to previous user

All the processes only call to user assignment logic which selects the
user and supervisor for that particular activity (work item).

a) We supply the process data and start the process, before it reaches
any activity it will invoke the user assignment action and will get
the userid and supervisor user id -- and the work item gets assigned
to that user . If the user does not acts on the workitem with a given
period of time, supervisor will receive an alert notification and then
he can take some action - may be reassign this workitem manually to
some different user.

b) Now when this user queries the MQ for his worklist we get all the
workitems assigned to this user --- now making use of the process data
attached to that work item - user can complete his task --and can then
mark his task as complete --- and this cycle goes on till the full
process completes.

My questions is will Tempo be a good fit for this use case.

Thanks
Vijay

[Nicolas Modrzyk]

Hi,

Yes Tempo (and more generally BPMS) is definitely a good bet for a
solid solution. Mind you, I may be biased.

What Tempo propose is good set of APIs based on the Bpel4People
specifications. What that means is that the UIs and the APIs are
independent.
We have a good selections of process examples on the Intalio community
website: http://community.intalio.com/
and I also have collected a list of useful workflow processes examples
at: github.com/hellonico/tempodevprocesses/

We support general bpms and workflow questions on the intalio forums,
workflow extension and development questions here on this list, and
you can commit yourself to an intalio subscriptions for some SLAs
whenever your business is in mission critical mode.

Best Regards,

Nico