flowable/flowable-engine
Flowable Engine
Flowable Engine is a business process management platform and workflow engine used to automate business processes and orchestrate human and system activities. It provides a suite for modeling, deploying, and executing complex workflows and decision rules across distributed environments, including a dedicated case management system for unstructured processes and ad-hoc activities.
The platform is a Kubernetes native workflow orchestrator that can be deployed as a containerized service using manifests and Helm charts. It supports an embedded runtime model, allowing the engine to integrate as a library within a host application or operate as a standalone service.
The system covers process design through visual workflow modeling and standard process modeling. Orchestration capabilities include BPMN-based execution, rule-engine decision logic, and relational database state persistence.
Deployment is supported via Docker Compose bootstrapping and Kubernetes manifests.
Features
- Business Process Automation - Implements a comprehensive platform for orchestrating human and system activities using process, case, and rule engines.
- BPMN Execution Engines - Executes business workflows by interpreting standardized BPMN XML models to manage state transitions and activity sequences.
- BPM Orchestration Suites - Offers a complete orchestration suite for modeling, deploying and executing complex business workflows and decision rules.
- Business Process Management - Provides a comprehensive system for designing and automating complex organizational workflows using visual models and an execution engine.
- Business Rule Engines - Evaluates complex business rules and decision tables to automate branching and data output during process execution.
- Business Workflow Automation - Implements standardized business process models to automate repetitive tasks and ensure consistent execution of corporate rules.
- Case Management Systems - Provides a dynamic workflow engine designed to handle unstructured processes and ad-hoc case management.
- Visual Workflow Modelers - Provides a visual design application for creating business process models and rule-sets through graphical representations.
- Workflow Orchestration - Manages the sequence of human tasks and system services through an API to coordinate distributed business operations.
- Workflow Orchestration Engines - Provides a platform for automating business processes and orchestrating activities using BPMN and CMMN standards.
- Workflow Management Interfaces - Exposes internal engine capabilities through REST interfaces for external orchestration and monitoring of active workflows.
- Case Management Engines - Manages unstructured work items through a flexible case engine that adapts to data changes and ad-hoc activities.
- Visual Process Modeling - Allows the creation of visual representations of business processes and rules using industry-standard model types.
- Process Orchestration Interfaces - Provides a standardized interface for calling process orchestration capabilities to manage workflows in embedded or standalone services.
- Relational State Management - Stores process variables and execution history in relational databases to ensure ACID compliance and recovery.
- Kubernetes Deployments - Supports installing the application via manifests or charts to manage pods, services, and persistent storage.
- Kubernetes Application Deployments - Runs workflow orchestration engines as scalable services within a cluster using manifests and container management.
- Kubernetes Orchestration - Provides a process engine deployable as a containerized service within Kubernetes clusters using manifests and Helm charts.
- Orchestration Engine Deployments - Enables running workflow orchestration as an embedded application or a standalone service within clusters and cloud environments.
- Embedded Runtime Models - Integrates the core execution logic as a library within a host application or runs as a standalone service.
- Workflow Orchestration - Efficient engine for business process and workflow management.
- Business Process Suites - Compact set of open-source business process engines.
