Business Automation: Red Hat Process Automation Manager

What is Red Hat Process Automation Manager ?

Red Hat® Process Automation Manager is a platform for developing containerized microservices and applications that automate business decisions and processes. It includes business process management (BPM), business rules management (BRM), and complex event processing (CEP) technologies and is compliant with popular industry standards like Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 (BPMN 2.0) and Decision Model and Notation 1.2 (DMN 1.2) for process and decision management. Process Automation Manager lets users capture business policies and procedures, create applications that automate business operations, and measure the results of business activities. It includes easy-to-use graphical tools that foster collaboration between IT and business users in addition to providing better visibility into the rules and procedures that govern business applications.

Red Hat Process Automation Manager is produced using Red Hat’s open source development model and by the members of the Drools and jBPM communities. It includes a rich set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable straightforward integration with a wide range of complementary solutions. In particular, Process Automation Manager interoperates with Red Hat’s portfolio of middleware products, including Red Hat Integration for integration with external applications and Red Hat Runtimes for access to supporting services such as single sign-on and in-memory databases.

Features:

Red Hat Process Automation Manager comprises powerful process and rules engines, easy-to-use authoring tools, and a standards-based repository for business logic definitions.

Web-based business modeling tools

Red Hat Process Automation Manager includes easy-to-use, web-based tools for business users to manage the complete project life cycle, including:

• Business process modeling with drag-and-drop BPMN 2.0 diagramming and a powerful forms designer.
• Business decision modeling with drag-and-drop DMN 1.3 diagramming, decision tables and a guided rule editor that supports business-friendly domain-specific languages (DSL).
• Dynamic case management for unstructured processes and better collaboration.

 

Cloud-native development

Red Hat Process Automation Manager runs in the cloud and generates cloud-native applications in conjunction with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. All components of the product are available as container images, ready for deployment on OpenShift. Decision and process models can be built into containers and deployed via OpenShift Container Platform’s source-toimage pipeline.

Applications also can be deployed to standalone or clustered servers within more traditional IT environments—accessed via representational state transfer (REST), Java™, and Java Message Service (JMS) APIs.

Runtime engines

Red Hat Process Automation Manager includes Drools 7, a highly scalable forward- and backwardchaining inference engine capable of efficiently processing large rule and data sets.

New with Drools 7 is support for native execution of DMN decision models. This highly efficient approach to automating business decisions allows Drools 7 to directly execute DMN models without the need to convert to an intermediate rules format. Drools 7 includes full runtime support for DMN 1.2 models at conformance level 3, as defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) DMN specification, ensuring that any valid DMN 1.2 model can be properly automated. In addition, Process Automation Manager enables users to combine machine-learned predictive models with DMN models to automate more complex business decisions. Machine-learned models can be imported via the industry-standard Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), and executed as part of a DMN decision.

For efficient execution of process models, Process Automation Manager includes the jBPM 7 business process management engine. Lightweight and flexible, jBPM 7 automates process and case models and can efficiently support thousands of process and case instances.

Resource optimization with Opta Planner

Red Hat Process Automation Manager includes OptaPlanner, a tool for constructing metaheuristic solvers for complex optimization problems. It can be used to build applications that optimize common business resource planning use cases, such as vehicle routing, employee rostering, cloud optimization, task assignment, job scheduling, bin packing, and many more. Every organization faces such scheduling puzzles and must assign a set of constrained resources—employees, assets, time, and money—to provide products or services. OptaPlanner helps users build real-time constraint optimization apps with minimal knowledge of metaheuristic techniques and algorithms and deliver more efficient plans to improve service quality and reduce costs.

Modern user experience for business users

Red Hat Process Automation Manager includes a rich, open source user experience (UX) platform for building modern, process-driven applications in the cloud. Business experts can quickly compose applications by dragging and dropping reusable user interface (UI) components to pages, while developers are free to work in the front-end frameworks of their choice. A library of prebuilt, micro front-end widgets are available, enabling task lists, forms, process graphs, and more. The UX platform streamlines development and allows business users to create compelling experiences for customers across a wide range of devices and channels.

Supported platforms

For a list of supported platforms on which Red Hat Process Automation Manager will run, visit https:// red.ht/pam.

 

Benefits:

• Automated business operations
• Continuous optimization of business processes
• Accelerated development
• Business process and decision logic separated from application code
• Greater business agility, shorter development cycles, and faster time to market

 

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