SunGardInfinity
Introduction
Features
- Shared modeling integrating in Eclipse for business analysts and IT development staff
- reporting for real-time business data
- models are stored in XPDL
- models can be imported from ARIS and Income Process Designer by Get Process AG
- Simulation without deployment
- Customizing of the worklist
Components
The Infinity Process Platform Consists of
- the Infinity Process Workbench, the graphical modeler for designing business process models
- the Infinity Process Workbench Analyst Edition the graphical modeler for analysts to design business process models with generic objects
- the Infinity Process Portal, the end-user application for process enactment
- the administrative environment comprising the Infinity Administration Portal and a set of Command Line Tools.
- the Business Control Center
- obtaining workload and performance of resources
- adjusting priorities of processes
- merging processes being performed with the same goal
- retrieving information about hibernated or postponed activities
- optimizing workload according to business status (workload management)
- assigning users to roles in which work load is extraordinary high
- releasing users from roles where work can be handled with less people
- changing standard priorities of processes
- taking actions that ensure SLAs are reached
- retrieving information about cumulated busines status
- retrieving information about dedicated proces instances or activity instances, e.g.:
- for a specific process/activity instance, if an employee has questions/concerns
- for a specific customer
- for a specific user or group of users
- delegating activity instances
- single activity instances due to priority or complexity
- list of activity instances due to a non-present user
- the Infinity Process Engine in a deployable archive (carnot.ear)
- the Infinity installation is shipped with several add-ons, like the Infinity Agent Framework, the Hibernate Data Type Integration, Hibernate Data Type Integration, the Business Analysis and Reporting Component, Business Analysis and Reporting Component, the Simulation Feature Simulation Feature and the Infinity Spring Integration. Infinity Spring Integration.
- Additionally, there are different examples in the range of authentication, authorization and synchronization. Please refer to the Infinity Authentication and Authorization chapter in the Operation Guide.
Concepts
A model
- represents all the organizational and operational context of the business processes
- includes process definitions
- enables multi-user modeling
- contains versioning information
- is stored in a xml model file
A process definition includes
- n process diagrams
- ...
A process diagram contains
- activities (atomic piece of work)
- transitions
- diagram information
- an unique ID
Infinity stores all workflow data defined in the model in a so-called symbol table.
Used Standards
- JSF (Tomahawk, Trinidad, Tobago)
- JMS
- EJB ?
- Xalan XSLT Transformator
- Xerces XML Parsing and Generation
- JavaBean Activation Framework
- JavaServerPages Standard Template Library
- Saxon XSLT and XQuery Processor
- Axis
- JAAS
- JTA
Versions
- 1.x 2001
- 2.x 2002
- Web Services
Trial Version
- installation of carnot-process-workbench.exe, the Infinity Process Workbench 4.5.1
- carnot.exe, the Infity Process Platform 4.5.1
Adjustments made to (s.[file:///C:/Uwes/Programme/InfinityProcessPlatform_4_5_1/docs/carnot/ag.carnot.docs.deployment_4.5.1.4/html/audittraildatabasesetup/mysql.html])
- C:\Uwes\xampp\mysql\bin\my.cnf
transaction-isolation = READ-COMMITTED - copy C:\Uwes\eclipse\workspace\uweheuer\lib_tomcat\mysql-connector-java-5.1.5-bin.jar to %CARNOT_WORK%/default/lib
- in MySQL create database carnot
- C:\Uwes\Programme\InfinityProcessPlatform_4_5_1\bin>sysconsole -v -r com.mysql.jdbc.Driver -dbtype MYSQL -bschema carnot -l jdbc:mysql://localhost/carnot -d root -s "" createschema
- adjust C:\Uwes\Programme\InfinityProcessPlatform_4_5_1\work\default\etc\carnot.properties
- in Infinity Process Platform File->New->Other->Server, select C:\Uwes\Programme\InfinityProcessPlatform_4_5_1\apache-tomcat\apache-tomcat-5.5.23
- in Infinity Process Platform Window->Show View->Other->Server
Links:
- http://localhost:8080/
- Process Portal for Tutorial http://localhost:8080/Support-Case UweHeuer halloo UweEngineer halloo
- Business Control Center for Tutorial http://localhost:8080/Support-Case motu motu ->Administration
Documentation
- Infinity Process Platform Online Documentation
- Business Analyst Handbooks
- ...
- Analyst Modeling Guide
- Workflow Basics
- The Infinity Process Workbench
- ...
- Developer Handbooks
- Installation and Getting Started
- Tutorial
Weakness
- graphical features (overlapping guard conditions, direction of transistions, overview, scrolling)
Questions
- What's the difference between Infinity Process Workbench and Infinity Process Workbench Analyst Edition? Perhaps because there are two different perspectives.