General requirements
- Business process automation – process definition in design view and its subsequent publication to BPM solution, where the process is executed automatically
- Joget Process Designer provides the capability - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Process+Builder
- Business rules – the ability to integrate business rules into process and evaluate them
- Business rules can be created using transitions and rules router - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Simple+Rules+Decision
- Support for low-code implementation, where the development is based on graphic basis using symbols and their interconnection in a defined graphic notation
- Most of the development is Joget is Drag and Drop features -
- Form Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Form+Builder
- Process Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Process+Builder
- Datalist Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Datalist+Builder
- User Interface Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Userview+Builder
- API Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/marketplace/API+Builder
- Report Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/marketplace/Report+Builder
- Integration into published interface, support of different apps
- There are various ways to integrate with Joget -- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Integration
- Support for manual tasks that must be performed by specific workers without automation
- There are activities and tasks that can map to manual tasks
- Mobility support, the ability to access solutions from devices of different types
- All the apps created using get are mobile accessible.
- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Progressive+Web+Application+-+PWA
- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Native+Mobile+App
- Monitoring of process metrics, evaluation of process throughput, identification of possible improvements, data for process analysis
- There is enhanced process data collection capability for detailed analysis -- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Process+Data+Collector
- Securing the execution of business processes, ensuring protection
- Available out of the box
- System setup and management, environment supervision
- Available out of the box – Check System Settings
Functional requirements:
- GUI designed for drag & drop process design, encapsulating processes into reusable sequences; collaboration to create process diagrams
- All the builders including Form, Datalist, User Interface, Process and in DX API Builder and Report Builder are all Drag and Drop
- Form Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Form+Builder
- Process Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Process+Builder
- Datalist Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Datalist+Builder
- User Interface Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Userview+Builder
- API Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/marketplace/API+Builder
- Report Builder: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/marketplace/Report+Builder
- Both Form and Processes have capabilities to reuse
- Decision-making rules: flexibility of internal decision-making rules; ease of integration of external rule engine
- Integrates with external rules engine using APIs
- Integration Details: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Integration
- Simple Rules Capability - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Simple+Rules+Decision
- AI (Artificial Intelligence) Rules - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Simple+Tensorflow+AI+Decision
- Form designer with possibility to specify input fields and implement validations
- Yes, you can specify a various property
- Versioning, deploying a new “on-the-fly” version of processes, without the need to interrupt work in progress
- There is process versioning and app versioning - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Version+Control
- User portal – management of the tasks of the user and teams; integration to email clients, notifications
- User Management - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Managing+Users
- Integration with Active Directory / LDAP - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Joget+SSO+to+Active+Directory+with+Kerberos
- Problem solving in running processes – possibility of manual intervention such as move the process to the next step, skip the step, assign it to another user, etc.
- Complete Admin functionality available to manage processes
- Process measurement and reporting. Detailed monitoring of process state, number of instances in different states, processing time of different paths, etc.
- Detailed Monitoring - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Monitoring+Apps
Non-functional requirements:
- Integrability:
- Support for Rest API
- Support for containerization, integration into microservice architecture or into IoC containers (Java, Spring, SpringBoot)
- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Automated+Deployment+on+Red+Hat+OpenShift+with+the+Joget+Operator
- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Joget+on+Docker
- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Joget+on+Cloud+Foundry
- Pre-assembled external connectors / plug-ins
- Most of the integration can be achieved via JSON API Tool
- Integration into message broker platforms (Apache Kafka)
- Kafka Integration - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Apache+Kafka+Plugins
- RPA integration (specifically UiPath)
- UiPath - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Integration+with+UiPath+Robotic+Process+Automation
- Supported databases for persistence of metadata and messages
- All Major Databases supported including MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc.
- Operability:
- Deployment in on-premise, cloud, hybrid mode
- Deploy anywhere you want
- Deploying processes into production, supporting automation
- DevOps supported via Git Integration - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Git+Configuration
- OpenShift Containers automation using Joget Operator
- Possibilities from the perspective of SLA - high availability of solutions; 24x7 mode option
- Has a High Availability Deployment Options - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Deployment+Best+Practices#DeploymentBestPractices-ClusteringandLoadBalancing
- Security, auditability, logging, integration to external SIEM, etc.
- Has 5 Star security rating from Fortify - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Security+and+Compliance
- Audit Trail: https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Audit+Trail
- Performance and scalability
- Primarily, there is no need for a fast transaction environment that provides tens of millisecond responses. However, performance is needed to handle high volumes (hundreds of thousands of operations) per day at near-real time. responses in the order of hundreds of ms.
- Performance Test Results - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Joget+Clustering+and+Performance+Testing+on+AWS
Workflow is focused on support of manual tasks, typically as a sequence of manual activities of employees working on different roles. Workflow is a complex procedure divided into sub-sections that are performed by employees in different roles. Workflow can contain rules and assignments for different users. Workflow is manual process oriented.
Workflow functions:
- Definition of workflow in predefined view including the definition of the data sentences over which the workflow is performed
- Completely Visual - https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Process+Builder
- Manage permissions in each workflow step, set workflow to roles, map people to individual roles
- Custom data visibility for each step and role that is involved in workflow
- There are various ways to manage the visibility of date based on roles
- Definition and pass-ability of workflow according to pre-defined rules
- As shared earlier there are various ways to define rules
- Notification of new assigned task, notification of assigned task with expired processing time
- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/User+Notification+Plugin
- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/User+Notifications+Tutorial
- Overview of workflows and status of all workflows
- Integration into the surrounding environment, the ability to trigger actions on surrounding systems
- Various ways to integration as shared earlier in the documents
- System setup and management, environment supervision
- Support for mobility (such as mobile devices, …)
- You can generate customer mobile applications as well
- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Progressive+Web+Application+-+PWA
- https://dev.joget.org/community/display/DX7/Native+Mobile+App