Building business applications with DMN and BPMN

1. Building Business Applications
with DMN and BPMN
Denis Gagné
CEO & CTO
Trisotech
Matteo Mortari
Software Engineer
Red Hat Drools team

2. “Giving back control to business”

3. Citizen Developers are key to business agility
A citizen developer is a user who creates new
business applications for consumption by others
using development and runtime environments
sanctioned by corporate IT.
Gartner

4. During this session we will demonstrate how:
business users can easily build
robust Business Applications
with BPMN and DMN using
and
modeling tools execution platform

5. Trisotech Digital Enterprise Suite is an
innovative and easy-to-use software tools that
allow enables non-technical business people to
discover, model, analyze and find insights into
their digital enterprise.
Red Hat® JBoss® BPM and BRMS
Suites are comprehensive platforms for
business process, business rules
management and complex event
processing that can be deployed across
multiple cloud environments.
The combined Trisotech and Red Hat offering is currently the only solution
that offers:
• Business friendly modeling deployable on proven robust enterprise grade execution
• Modeling and execution of full level 3-compliant DMN decision models

6. Value Proposition of the
proposed approach
v Reach faster agreement on the “as is” and “to be” operations through unambiguous models
v Encourage stakeholder participation through graphically expressive notations
v Facilitate the analysis and improvement of operations
v Create a library of processes, case definitions and business decisions to specify operations or
onboard new employees, partners, or clients

7. About BPMN and DMN

8. Trisotech is a global leader in digital enterprise solutions, offering innovative and easy-to-use software tools
that allow customers to discover, model, analyze and find insights into their digital enterprise.
BASIC ELEMENTS
Pool
Event
Activity
Gateway
FLOW
20161007
BPMN Quick Guide
A simple, basic, yet
complete, BPMN reference
accessible to everyone.
www.BPMNQuickGuide.com
Start
Event
Service
Task
Decision
Task
Data
Object
End
Event
End
Event
Intermediate
Message
Event
BPMN is a universal graphical notation for documenting business processes and driving process
improvement initiatives. It enables a disciplined process approach that allows organizations to
become more efficient.
www.Trisotech.com
Download Free
BPMN, CMMN and DMN
templates at
www.Trisotech.com/Visio
Sequence
Flow
Message
Flow
Data
Association
Subprocess
Case
TaskTriggers a new
process instance
External Participant
to the process
What is done next
Task to be
completed
Routing
Information
required as input
End state
of the process
External
communication
Current Status
BPMN 2.0 Released 2010

9. Decision
Input Data
Decision 1
Decision 2 Input Data 3
Input Data 1 Input Data 2
Knowledge
Source
www.Trisotech.com
BASIC ELEMENTS
REQUIREMENTBusiness
Knowledge
Model
20161007
Download Free
BPMN, CMMN and DMN
templates at
www.Trisotech.com/Visio
Trisotech is a global leader in digital enterprise solutions, offering innovative and easy-to-use software tools
that allow customers to discover, model, analyze and find insights into their digital enterprise.
DMN provides a modeling notation to capture business decision requirements and decision logic.
It increases an organization’s agility and adaptability by capturing the business decisions
independently from where they are used.
Dec ision logic using a Dec ision Table
Dec ision Requirem ent Diagram (DRD)
Each row
is a rule
Conditions
Result
Defined
decision logic
Re- usable
decision logic
Input required
for the decision
Authority source
of this data
Information
Knowledge Authority
Current Status
DMN 1.1 Released 2016

10. Benefits of using Standard Notations and Execution
v Unambiguous format for modeling processes, cases and decisions
v Can be interchanged between different vendors’ products
v Provide common and readily-transferable skills that are learned by business and IT professionals

11. About the demo

12. Decision Task
Inputs of Decision
Branching based on Decision
BPMN: Process Modeled Graphically

13. Inputs of Decision
Decision
DMN: Decision Modeled Graphically
Captures the Decision’s Requirements via
the Decision Requirement Diagram (DRD)
Captures the Decision’s Logic via
Decision Tables or Boxed Expressions

14. BPMN DMN

16. Name of Decision
Hit policy
Rule number
Conditions
Result
DMN: Decision Table
Inputs

20. FEEL
Expressions
Invocation Parameters
Context entries
(“Local variables”)
Result
Name of Decision
DMN: Boxed Expression

21. Executing the demo

28. https://dmn-tck.github.io/tck/
https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Silver/e/B0062AXUFY/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite:
https://developers.redhat.com/products/bpmsuite/overview/
https://Trisotech.com/DMNQuickStart

29. Thank you!
Questions?