{"id":1268,"date":"2009-04-12T00:51:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T16:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softwareforenterprise.us\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2023-10-03T10:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T02:07:19","slug":"an-initial-review-of-processmaker-open-source-bpm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softwareforenterprise.us\/hub\/an-initial-review-of-processmaker-open-source-bpm\/","title":{"rendered":"An initial review of ProcessMaker – Open Source BPM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I wrote about a list of top open source bpm \/ workflow solution<\/a>. One of the mentioned solution is ProcessMaker.com<\/strong><\/a> – an open source business<\/a> process management (BPM) and workflow software designed for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and organizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I decided to give ProcessMaker a try just to check out the features and to find out if I could really automate a business process based on the community edition of ProcessMaker.<\/p>\n

Some of my previous experience with BPM tools were Metastorm BPM as well as K2<\/a>, both are proprietary and works on .NET platform.<\/p>\n

If you ask me what’s my understanding of Business Process Management, I would say it’s all about automating business processes.<\/p>\n

Most organizations have complex business processes which involves multiple parties to make a decision. A BPM tool will definitely assist and help to determine what and who should take an action based on a designed process map.<\/p>\n

My ProcessMaker Review<\/h2>\n

\"ProcessmakerI started off by downloading ProcessMaker and attempted to set it up on my existing LAMP environment. It took me about 2-3 hours just to set it up since I wasn’t that familiar with tweaking Apache’s virtual host. Looking through their online setup guide as well as looking through the forum definitely helped.<\/p>\n

My suggestion to those who are also planning<\/a> to install ProcessMaker, if you’re not too familiar configuring and setting up the LAMP environment, try downloading the Windows Installer version instead. With this version, all you need to do is to run the setup file and there will be an installation wizard to help you set everything up. I tried this on another machine with Windows XP and ProcessMaker was installed successfully without any problems.<\/p>\n

Once installed, I logged in. As usual, I was like, what is this for? Where should I start? etc?<\/p>\n

This is what I did!<\/p>\n

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  1. Glanced through quickly the ProcessMaker Wiki<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Downloaded the Credit Card Application process and imported it to my local ProcessMaker.<\/li>\n
  3. Tried creating users, processes, etc. Was having difficulty here since I didnt know what was really going on.<\/li>\n
  4. Went through the ProcessMaker Demos<\/a>. This was an important step as many of the questions that I had was answered through the demos. If the ProcessMaker people are reading this, I would suggest to reordering the demo’s from 1 – 7 rather than 7 – 1. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
  5. Downloaded the Expense Report process and tweaked it further.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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