Pipeline
We're Working Towards Achieving A Positive Outcome Through Optimization and Automation of our Infrastructure
Pipeline Requirements
- Handle Multiple Processes, Tasks, Users, Concurrently
- Single login page for all workers but with independent "dashboards" for each worker based on login info.
- Specific Admin login "dashboard" where variables can be changed throughout the entire system.
- Ability to have forks (alternative paths) in workflows.
- Read / Write to multiple MySQL DB's.
- Read / Write to a File Server.
- Ability to assign a task to a group (team) and then based on the individual workloads, the system will assign the task to the worker with the lightest workload.
- The System needs the ability to auto approve work flows based on pulling records from a DB and then using if/then logic to "approve or deny" work flows.
- System needs to auto-scale from 10 workers to 100 with no system changes
Globalization Automation (GA) is in the business of Web Development. GA creates websites from ideas and then monetizes them for the purpose of long-term residual income. We own all the sites we develop and we do not work for clients.
GA is currently seeking advice and developer assistance in building an internal business process management pipeline. We wish to take all of our business processes and have them in one contiguous online web-based BPM system "pipeline". Each business step feeds into the next and work flows all the way down the pipeline.
The pipeline will automate all our business functions and maintain consistent work flow. We want each job role to be a different module in the pipeline and all tasks to be tracked in MySQL DB's as they are completed. Some steps will have logic in them that needs to be worked out. We have detailed steps written out as to what each and every step in the pipeline is and all the logic steps that needs to go into the system.
Our basic departments and process are: Idea - Web Design - Content - SEO - Monetization - Optimization.
UPDATE AUGUST 2011:
We have chosen a BPM platform, and the winner is:
Runner up: Joget - Still in beta but a GREAT future BPM platform!
NO: ProcessMaker - Not as "refined" as Bonita
NO: Activiti - Too complex
NO: UEngine - Too complex
NO: EBdesk - Looks half finished
NO: Intalio - Too complex
NO: Liferay - Not a business process management framework
NO: Alfresco - ECM Solution... Not a BPM Framework
NO: ActiveVOS - Didn't like the forced Dashboard view
NO: Jetspeed2 - Not a business process management framework
NO: OpenBravo - ERM solution... Not a business process management framework
NO: Jboss/Exo GateIn Not a BPM framework
Thank you to BonitaSoft for a great BPM product!