@dan_funk Congrats on the launch SpiffWorkflow team! Honestly, I'm not so familiar with the concept of BPMN. Can it connect some other software with Python code and run the process automatically once the workflow has been created? The visualization part looks amazing.

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1yr ago

Kevin Burnett

SpiffWorkflow

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@dan_funk @atsuhiro_teshima thank you so much for the suppport. BPMN is a hidden gem. It really depends where you’re from whether you’ve ever even heard of it. It’s an international standard for creating business processes of arbitrary complexity using a text based format that is also designed to be visualized as a diagram AND executed. Yep, you can connect the python code in SpiffWorkflow to python code elsewhere using built in API connectors, and yep, SpiffWorkflow runs the process automatically!

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1yr ago

Naveed Rehman

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watched the video. not sure why will i not just used python (or any language) to get the whole job done e.g. fetching data from api, processing it and generating output. your tool looks sleek and the design is amazing. but the benefit isn't very clear. what you say? congratz on the launch!

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1yr ago

Kevin Burnett

SpiffWorkflow

Maker

@naveed_rehman Sure, good question. There might be times when a tool like SpiffWorkflow would be superior and times when just using python or another custom code solution might work better. SpiffWorkflow could be a better fit if: * You don't want to worry about installing and deploying code, but you just want to start solving problems * You or your teammates could benefit from a picture of what is going on, rather than just code * You or colleagues need a user-friendly interface or have limited coding expertise * You want to allow business people to update business processes rather than requiring developers for all maintenance and updates * Scalability is a concern, and you prefer to let a system handle scaling up your processes as your needs grow * You have multiple use cases that need to communicate with similar APIs, and people can simple plug in the same connector Some of these cut both ways (with picture vs code, perhaps you find code more clear and intuitive), and therefore it will depend on your context which you choose for any given situation. There are times when I would reach for custom code. But SpiffWorkflow also provides a good middle ground, where it can help you get going quickly for the easy stuff and not trap you or limit options as requirements change as your organization grows in the future. Thank you for checking out our product!

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1yr ago

Viswanatha Reddy

@burnett thanks for your detailed explanation.

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1yr ago

Harmeet Singh

I've been introduced to SpiffWorkflow about 1.5 years ago and I have a background in integration and enterprise service bus. Spiff allows you to diagrammatically create workflows that touch multiple systems, with the goal of making the workflow easy to read, so that business people can read and understand how processes and the lifecycle of things works, without needing to always talk to a developer for specific details. I personally have worked with the Sartography team over the last 1.5yrs to help develop Spiff to our organisation's needs and build workflows in BPMN which federate the understanding of processes across the organisation. Initially we looked at Camunda and thought we like the functionality here however there are many things that we would like to change, with a special focus on making Spiff a user-facing tool, rather than an admin back office tool. We have managed to achieve this and the tool is now sleep and user interface self-explanatory. I see great potential in Spiff over the coming years, as it gets adopted by larger organisations! I wish the team all the best and would love to see them succeed, where Spiff is direct challenger to established players like Camunda, but provided in an open-source license so that developers around the world come together and continue it's development.

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1yr ago