Agile Business Processes With Service Enabled Applications

Business processes optimization with service-enabled applications is on the CIO's high priority agenda (according to a recent study of Gartner's Executive Program - EXP). At the same time a German study for SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) has confirmed this business need especially for Germany's distinct high share of SMEs.

• AgilPro is a process integration framework based on a service oriented architecture (SOA).
• AgilPro integrates existing ERP (enterprise resource planning), material management and proprietary data processing systems using service adapters.
• Particularly SMEs are known to use isolated solutions which prevent integrated process flow. AgilPro Integration Framework will help to close this gap.
• AgilPro integrates BPEL compliant process engines for process execution (e.g. JBoss jBPM).

The AgilPro Tools for Modeling and Simulation are realized in a joint venture project with the University of Augsburg. The AgilPro Modeler is based on the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and Graphical Editing Framework (GEF).

• AgilPro has joined the Java Workflow Tooling Project (JWT), wich is an open source project under Eclipse License. AgilPro was the initial code contribution for JWT.
• Download AgilPro Light Modeler (LiMo) at Sourceforge.

The service adapters for ERP and production planning systems are realized in cooperation with the system vendor Helium V ERP Systems