SunGardInfinity
Introduction
Features
- process modeling in Eclipse
- Shared modeling 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
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,
- 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.
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
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.