Business Process Management

Challenge

My business processes can’t keep up with the changing demands of my enterprise

To improve BPM, companies need to accelerate application development, digitalize and transform business processes, and enhance their ability to contextualize business insights.

Solution

Peregrine provides a foundation to build scalable business processes that adapt to your needs

Built-in message and service brokers

Peregrine provides built-in infrastructure to help you accelerate application development.

• Message Broker streamlines communication between applications, systems and databases
• Service Broker simplifies service abstraction, orchestration and hosting
• Solution Connectors include connectors to many common applications, databases, queueing systems and protocols
• Simplified Connector Framework provides code templates and samples to help you quickly build customer connectors 

Advanced BPM features

Peregrine gives you more control to transform your existing business processes and rapidly bring new capabilities to market.

• Model existing business processes using graphical design tools
• Use graphical tools to Test and Debug business processes to identify business risks and bottlenecks
• Schedule processes based on any business event using hierarchical topic-based messaging, services, rules or connectors
• Wrap existing processes with new capabilities using Peregrine’s business process features
• Use Workflow Tracking to report on the state of any active or completed business process
• Build fault tolerant, resilient business processes that can be restarted upon failure Automatic load balancing and fail-over of business process execution

Real-time business processing features

Peregrine Business Process Designer and runtime provide unparalleled ease of use and performance where real-time business processing overrides the needs for activity tracking and fault tolerance. These processes are typically used as the foundation for service API business logic, service orchestration, validation, mediation, enrichment, and message transformation. The Business Process Designer and runtime provide users with a variety of capabilities.

• Over 40 'Drag and Drop' activities eliminating the need for complex custom code
• Control Flow activities for parallel, asynchronous and synchronous processing
• Ability to test and simulate execution in a Design environment
• Direct integration with all of Peregrine’s platform features (e.g., Service Broker, Connectors, Messaging)
• Service and application composition and aggregation
• .NET style debugging of end-to-end business processes in the Designer environment, including the ability to set breakpoints at activity and code level
• C#, VB.NET and JavaScript Code Designers that allow users to write code directly in the Business Process
• Ability to reference existing .NET assemblies
• Can be exposed as a Service API
• All forms of message translation, transformation and encoding
• Extensible by creating custom activities

Long running, fault-tolerant BPM features

The Workflow Designer and runtime are unique in their ability to provide fault tolerant, business resilient processes that can run for hours, days, weeks or months. Users can track the details of the business process at any time and even replay their events.

When workflows fail, they can be automatically restarted on rolled over to another machine to finish where they left off. Workflows can be used to receive and aggregate incoming events from external sources or people so they can be evaluated and used as part of the business automation process.

• Over 80 Drag and Drop activities, eliminating the need for complex custom code
• Control Flow activities for parallel, asynchronous and synchronous processing
• Ability to Test and Simulate execution in a Design environment
• Direct integration with all of Peregrine’s platform features (e.g., Service Broker, Connectors, Messaging)
• Service and application composition and aggregation
• C#, VB.NET and JavaScript Code Designers that allow users to write code directly in the Workflow
• Ability to reference existing .NET assemblies
• Can be exposed as a Service API
• All forms of message translation, transformation and encoding
• Extensible by creating custom workflow activities
• Custom Correlation and delegation/escalation pattern support
• Support for Singleton patterns (e.g., batch aggregation and temporal patterns)
• Ability to import existing Windows Workflow Foundation workflow activities
• Support for long running transactions (e.g. compensation, saga)

Enhanced historical and real-time data analytics

Peregrine delivers the capabilities necessary to expose and propagate business insights throughout your organization.

• Easily store and query live and historical data and status of business processes
• View the detailed activity event processing of any business process
• Group and sort the business processes based on workflow types, status and events
• Access any state, message or environment information within any business processes
• Monitor real-time workflow execution using Endpoint Health, Workflow Tracking or WMI