Infoworld prize & Intalio|BPMS 5.2 Released

Salut à tout le monde!

I’m sorry for having abandoned my blog for so long, but I’ll soon have exciting examples that I’ll include here. I have been working in a couple of projects (ITIL, e-Government) that have allowed me to exercise a bit more on the art of BPM.

You’ll see short examples on those domains in the next weeks. I’ll also discuss about portals (Liferay, eXo, and even Sharepoint) and JCR (Java Content Repository), and how to integrate BPs with them.

My entry today is related to the prize that Infoworld awarded to Intalio a couple of days ago. This shows that
the effort pays, and that the product is mature and really outstanding in what concerns quality. More information here.

The second issue today is the newest release of Intalio. The official information is here. Now, some information is missing regarding the technical features. I hope they will correct that missing link.

You’ll see some changes, in particular in what regards the look&feel (3-D is nice!) and about layout. Deeper in the functionality, you’ll see that the menus are much more contextual (”intelligent”) when you change views. This allows modeler to concentrate on the taks at hand.

I had used the enterprise version a couple of months ago, and it seems that the just released community (CE) version integrates even newer features. For example, when in the mapper you can apply filters that reduce the overwhelming amount of items on input/output. The filter icon is a bit bizarre, but easy to spot (it’s the green one) and it explains the principle: only an arrow from three goes through. The other two menus on the right have also been improved.

Intalio mapper 5v2 new contextual menus

There are other new features related to connection to service registries, improved Web-service imports, etc. Since my goal is to remain in the domain of the community version only, I will not talk about them here.

Once I’ll have tested some new CE features (native support for REST web services, enriched XForms, enhanced DBC connector) in some real-world project, I’ll keep you informed.

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