Comparison of the workflow management systems bizagi, process maker, and joget

Comparison of The Workflow Management
Systems Bizagi, ProcessMaker, and Joget
Mohamed Zeinelabdeen Abdelgader [1], Omer Salih Dawood [2],
Mohamed Elhafiz Mustafa Musa [3]
Lecturer & Director of Computer Centre , Bayan College of Technology , Sudan(1)
Lecturer , Computer and Information System,College of Arts and Science ,Salman Bin Abdualaziz University , KSA(2)
Associate Professor, College of computer Science and Information Technology, Sudan University of Science and Technology
, Sudan(3)
The International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT’2013) 1

Agenda
• Introduction.
• Generations of WFMS.
• Workflow Reference Model.
• Overview of the Tools.
• Case Study.
• Comparison Framework.
• Comparison study results.
• Conclusion.
• Future Work.
2The International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT’2013)

Introduction
• Nowadays there are tens of Workflow
Management Systems (WFMS) with different
capabilities and features.
• The first goal of this comparison study is to
find out how these systems are different.
• The second goal is about the current status of
these three WFMS.

Generations of WFMS
• According to Gromann et al, there are four generations of
WFMS:
• First generation is application specific and the workflow
capabilities are expressed in particular applications like e-
mails and document management.
• The second generation the workflow capabilities are
factored out from application domains and thus workflows
are separate applications.
• Third generation has an open standard-based architecture
and can be fully integrated in 3rd party tools.
• Fourth generation the workflow management systems are
completely integrated with other middle-ware services like
e-mail, desktop management, have standardized interfaces
and interchange formats .

Workflow Reference Model
• In 1995 The Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC)
was developed the Workflow reference model from the
generic workflow application structure, by identifying the
interfaces within this structure which enables products to
interoperate at a variety of levels. It consists of five
interfaces as follows :
1. The Workflow Definition Interchange(Interface 1).
2. Workflow Client Application Interface (Interface 2).
3. Invoked Applications Interface (Interface 3).
4. Interoperability (Interface 4).
5. Administration & Monitoring Interface (Interface 5).

Workflow Reference Model
Figure(1)Workflow Reference Model
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Overview of the Tools
• Bizagi is (WFMS) solution designed to
support the organizational processes and their
life cycle (model, execute, and improve) .
• ProcessMaker (WFMS) allows public and
private organizations to automate document
intensive, approval-based processes across
departments and systems.

Cont..
• Joget Workflow is a workflow management
system that serves as a platform for users to
design, deploy and run workflows for their
organization's business processes.

Case Study
• Three systems have been developed using
Processmaker, Bizagi, and Joget.
• The case study was chosen because it covers many
tasks, user with different privileges and business rules.

Case Study
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Comparison Framework
Figure(3):Comparison Framework

Business Process Modeling
• Process modeling is used to simulate a system using
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) as shown in
figure (2).
• ProcessMaker allows piping out and rolling in processes into
.XPDL and .pm. formats.
• BizAgi piping out and rolling in the process in many
formats includes: XPDL, Visio, and export PDF, Word,
Image.
• Joget piping out and rolling in XPDL format only.
• Bizagi and ProcessMaker support the XPDL2.1, while Joget
support XPDL1.0,this causes compatibility problems.
• From the experiment the Bizagi and Joget support lane,
while the ProcessMaker does not support it.

Business Rules
• A business rule is anything that captures and implements
business policies and practices. A rule can enforce business
policy and make a decision .
• Bizagi offers a simple graphical environment which enables
business analysts to define and manage business rules and
policies.
• ProcessMaker has embedded business rules engine which
drives the logic behind the process.
• In Joget the Routes are typically nodes where decisions are
made and (based on the rules of your process), the flow of
the application maybe be altered .

User Management and Authorization
• In workflow, needs to assign each task to user or group of
users during system execution.
• An organization in Bizagi is where the user can define the
hierarchical structure: area, location, position, role, skill,
user properties, user groups , and holiday schema.
• ProcessMaker organizes system users into users, groups,
departments and roles.
• Joget in order for activities to be routed to the correct
users, participants should be mapped to the appropriate
users, group or department of users.

Form
• Users interact with the system through the form and pass it
to the next users.
• Bizagi is not rich in form field types, as some fields like
check box is absence.
• ProcessMaker is richer in form field types. The main
property you can view the form code as HTML or XML
and easily manage and edit it.
• In Joget, forms can be designed and edited using the Form
Builder tool, or using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
is a lightweight data-interchange format.

Database
• Bizagi Database can be managed through Bizagi or
SQL Server Management Studio Express.
• ProcessMaker and Joget do not provide facilities to
manage database (need to install apache server to
access database).

Comparison study results
Features Bizagi ProcessMaker Joget
Business Process
Modelling 3 2 2
Business Rule 1 1 1
User Management
and Authorization 2 1 1
Form 1 2 2
Database 2 1 1
Total 9 7 7

Conclusion
•This study compared three of WorkFlow
Management Systems; namely: Bizagi (academic
version), ProcessMaker (free open source
version) and Joget (community version).
•The study focused on the developing process.
• It showed that all of these systems have
satisfactory performance during development, as
it was quite easy to conduct the case study
through each tool.

Future Work
• This study is the first part of multi phase’s
comparison.
• The other parts contain: Comparing tools
internal structures, activities monitoring,
security measurement and process mining.

Thank you

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