Scalability and Resilience of Business Applications

Requirements for a business application can vary widely, depending on the nature of the underlying business process. A transactional business process for example can be processed within seconds. On the other hand a human based workflow can take days, weeks or even months to be completed. Under these circumstances a workflow engine needs to be scalable, efficiently and resilient in managing the business data for a long running business process.

To accomplish these requirements, we decided to build Imixs-Workflow on top of a standardized and open technology.

One of the strengths of Imixs-Workflow is the fact that the workflow engine is based on Jakarta EE . A Java application server (e.g JBoss, Wildfly, GlassFish) handles transactions, security, scalability, and concurrency. All these features and characteristics are also part of Imixs-Workflow. For that reason Imixs-Workflow fits perfectly into a modern software environment and can be deployed as a self contained service also into a distributed microservice architecture.

The Imixs Process Manager allows you to start within seconds.

The integrated Business Process Management Suite can be used for development, testing and productive environments. It provides you with a generic user interface which can be easily adapted. The Imixs Process Manager comes with a Docker image that can be deployed locally or in a containerized environment like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.

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