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Introduction In several projects I have been using Cordys BOP4 platform. I really like the multi-tenancy possibilities within the project. Also the Provisioning Component of the produkt is highly appreciated and used. However there is one thing that i sometimes run into. Chain integration Within the projects we have several Organisations that participate in the process of chain integration. They work with each other and they handover tasks to each other. However currently the modelling of such "inter Organisation processes" is not possible. You can sent tasks to other Organizations but you can not model this with BPMN models. This is a pitty because you loose the control and monitoring of the total process. Maybe you can customize this and implement it, but it is not present (yet??) in the Cordys project.

This is my last week in a Cordys project I did.. It was a high pressure Cordys Case Management project with an Agile approach. The things I learned (again) and in random order: You need Cordys consultants Introspection after each iteration Invest in automatic testing Invest in setting up your Services Invest in the Domain Model Requirement management (user stories) Consult a scrum master Assign responsibilities Cordys consultants The Cordys (BOP4.1) still contains bugs and this is not remarkable given the young produkt. However this means that you need to know if it is a programming error or a Cordys bug. For this you really need a Cordys  consultant who really knows the core produkt.  Introspection  Within each (Agile) project you will have difficulties with the development process. This is not a problem as long as you are open for introspection. This will help the project in what goes wrong and what goes well. If you do not do this then the process wi...

Today i saw a CDATA text within the BPM i used with the file poller. With the file poller you can trigger a webservice. In this case i triggered a executeProcess. Below a small part of the configuration of this polling mechanism.

Today I wanted to change the title of a UI, but could not find where the current title was set. I looked into the properties and settings of the XForms, but no succes. In the runtime the title I saw was: "Aanvraag Documenten" but the fields i saw were not: Name Description Caption I also looked at the corresponding JScript of the XForms and searched for setCaption. But also no success. Finally thanks to a tip of a colleague i found it. It was at the calling XForm that used the following construction: I would recommend to use the Caption field of the XForm itself, so that the title is always the same and in one place, unless of course you want the caption to be dynamic.

Introduction In a previous Blog I showed how to create a Dashboard from a Business Measure. In this Blog I will show how to create a KPI (Key Performance Indicator). As can be seen from the picture, a KPI is based on a Business Measure. A Business Measure measures parts of a process or data and a KPI monitors whether the measured part reaches a particular value. So: KPI helps to monitor and capture critical information pertaining to Business Process or Activity. Step 1 - Create Business Measure for KPI First you have to create a Business Measure on which the KPI will be based. In this example we take a Webservice as the source for the business measure. Create Business Measure Fill in the following details, and choose the correct Webservice Click Next and Select New to create a new webservice Click Finish The Business Measure and its corresponding webservice is generated. The UnitsinstocksMeasure can be used in a Dashboard. Step 2 - Create KPI Cre...

Monitoring Within an enterprise and on your processes you want monitoring. Monitoring is used to for example: View the number of ongoing processes and its status If certain KPI's are met Triggering other processes when a certain event takes place Cordys supports this in the form of BAM and uses certain constructs for this. In this Blog i will describe a small example on how to set up BAM and how to create Dashboards. It gives an idea on how this can be done in Cordys. I use the following picture in which the created Cordys artifacts are displayed. Step 1 - Create a webservice This step is not described here, but a webservice can be generated from a BPM, database or an external service can be used for example. Next i will use this webservice to create a Business Measure artifact. Step 2 - Create a Business Measure A Business Measure helps in measuring a particular aspect of a business process or any external data. The Business Measure provides a view on the...

Previous week I got my Cordys Fundamentals Certification and I will explain how to prepare for this exam. Of course it depends on the number of years/months experience you already have with the produkt. In my case i have done several projects already and i have almost three years experience. The certification has three parts: Multiple choice questions Handson Interview The most difficult part is the Multiple choice questions. This requires some study and this can be found on the Wiki. This gives a good overview of the questions you can expect. In the handson part you get a couple of questions which you must make. You have 5 days for the questions and these are relatively easy. I suggest you do the Fundamentals training online which is available on the Wiki. In case you already have project experience then even this is not needed. Within the interview you need to explain your solution of the handson and this is also easy if you made the questions yourself of course. Th...