Define and Execute BPMN 2.0 Standard Based Business Processes

• Supports BPMN 2.0 standard
• REST API for external applications to interact with BPMN processes
• Ability to extend the runtime by adding custom activities
• Supports user, manual, receive, script, service task types, sub-process and call activity types
• Supports user substitution for user tasks
• Supports built-in REST and SOAP services invocation

Define and Execute WS-BPEL 2.0 Standard Based Business Processes

• Supports WS-BPEL 2.0 and BPEL4WS 1.1
• Long running stateful processes and short running stateless or stateful processes
• In-memory process execution for short running processes
• Message and time triggered message handling
• Secure invocation of partners, processes secured with WS-Security and more

Data Manipulation & Extensibility

• Powerful data manipulation via XPath 1.0/2.0, XSLT 1.0/2.0, XQuery 1.0 and E4X
• Extensible via custom activities defined using Java APIs and XPath extensions for Java invocation
• Ability to manipulate text-based data formats (XML and JSON) with JSONPath and XPath

Define Workflows Interacting with People

• Supports WS-Human Task 1.1, BPEL4People 1.1
• BPMN user tasks with ability to substitute task assignees
• Integration of people for performing tasks and receiving notifications
• Role based access control for activities
• Ability to create custom user interfaces for tasks

Graphical Process Modeling

• Drag-n-drop visual editor for any BPMN process model
• Drag-n-drop visual editor for any WS-BPEL process model including XPath assistant
• Create and manage process deployment artifacts
• Import and edit BPEL processes developed using other tools such as SoftwareAG ARIS, Oracle SOA Suite, Microsoft BizTalk and IBM Process Manager

Process Management via Graphical Administration Console

• Flexible deployment and management of processes including security
• Ability to initiate BPMN process instances and Task Instances from BPMN Explorer
• Process versioning including dynamic updates to running processes
• Flexible management of process instances including terminate, suspend, resume, retry and cleanup
• Graphical auditing and troubleshooting of instances
• Dashboard with snapshot of failed, suspended, active and long running instances
• Audit log, graphical instance view and advanced process instance and task instance search capabilities

Integrates to Existing Environment

• Pluggable storage choices including MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL and PostgreSQL
• Use any existing enterprise identity system including LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory or any JDBC database
• Task client API for integrating human tasks to any enterprise infrastructure including portals and e-mail clients
• Comprehensive REST API to integrate BPMN processes and tasks

High Availability, Scalability and Stability

• Horizontal scaling via clustering with stateless server architecture
• Supports highly available deployment
• Process dehydration for running large volumes of processes
• Long-term execution stability via configurable persistence levels with low resource utilization

Lightweight, Developer Friendly and Easy to Deploy

• Easy to debug processes with tools for message tracing and interactive testing with TryIt capabilities
• Server customization via feature provisioning of any WSO2 middleware capability
• Integrated with SVN, Maven, Ant and other standard tools for development & deployment
• Choice of deployment to on-premise servers, private cloud, or managed cloud, without configuration changes

Manage & Monitor

• Comprehensive management & monitoring Web console with enterprise-level security
• Customizable BPMN Explorer Web application to manage BPMN processes and user tasks
• Customizable Human Tasks Explorer Web application to manage WS-HumanTasks
• Built-in collection and monitoring of standard access and performance statistics
• Built-in reporting dashboard for BPMN processes and tasks
• JMX MBeans for key metrics monitoring and management
• Flexible logging support with integration to enterprise logging systems