Modeling tools consist of the usual palette of drag-and-drop, BPMN-compliant constructs and familiar swimlane layouts. Drill-down into services is good, and the Teamworks Library of saved services and connections encourages the encapsulation and reuse of best practices. The Activity Wizard made creating rules, and defining human- and system-side interactions, much easier tasks.
Solid introspection across Java and Web services — including a new UDDI tool — helped hasten discovery and development. Support for BPMN intermediate events helps you flag exceptions and initiate compensation rollback procedures in the absence of more ACID-grade transaction management. I did find minor nits in the process modeler. For example, you must manually reroute flows whenever you insert new steps into an existing process.
But other time-savers — such as built-in dependency tracking, which is essential for change management and often overlooked by vendors — more than make up for the blemishes. The built-in forms editor offers easy creation and testing of AJAX-based forms. These "coaches," as Lombardi calls them, help keep collaborative processes on track with an integrated help facility that guides users.
While Lombardi could enhance certain aspects of forms development — by providing AJAX widgets and tools for CSS, JavaScript, and XSL manipulation, for example — the editor provides a good start to creating dynamic, forms-based interfaces.
Lombardi's simulation tools rank among the best that I've ever used. They're also the easiest to implement, requiring neither a separate deployment process nor involved instrumentation, as is the more prevalent practice in the market today. I was able to launch into process validation, step-by-step debugging, and time-lapse simulation immediately, via the Process Inspector within the IDE. I found it easy to tap historic playback via the Performance Server repository and to test process updates with quick-click changes; you can even switch perspectives on your data say, average value vs.
Teamworks tracks historical trends, workload metrics, and overall efficiency — even across multiple processes. The Process Inspector and Optimizer views zero in on hot spots and make recommendations for removing bottlenecks and improving process performance.
Because Teamworks manages the entire back end — schema definition, SQL, data transfer, etc. Collaborative process discovery To help business users jointly map out new processes, Lombardi offers a Web-hosted modeling tool called Blueprint.
Backed by a chat facility that supports close collaboration, Blueprint's browser-based interface helps nontechnical workers build text-based, hierarchical outlines of process information. From this outline, Blueprint creates a graphical BPMN map that can be synced back to Teamworks and integrated into the process engine. Blueprint could use a few enhancements.
But other time-savers — such as built-in dependency tracking, which is essential for change management and often overlooked by vendors — more than make up for the blemishes. The built-in forms editor offers easy creation and testing of AJAX-based forms. While Lombardi could enhance certain aspects of forms development — by providing AJAX widgets and tools for CSS, JavaScript, and XSL manipulation, for example — the editor provides a good start to creating dynamic, forms-based interfaces.
I was able to launch into process validation, step-by-step debugging, and time-lapse simulation immediately, via the Process Inspector within the IDE. I found it easy to tap historic playback via the Performance Server repository and to test process updates with quick-click changes; you can even switch perspectives on your data say, average value vs.
Teamworks tracks historical trends, workload metrics, and overall efficiency — even across multiple processes. The Process Inspector and Optimizer views zero in on hot spots and make recommendations for removing bottlenecks and improving process performance.
Because Teamworks manages the entire back end — schema definition, SQL, data transfer, etc. To help business users jointly map out new processes, Lombardi offers a Web-hosted modeling tool called Blueprint. Since I explored the beta last February, Lombardi has made some marked improvements. From this outline, Blueprint creates a graphical BPMN map that can be synced back to Teamworks and integrated into the process engine.
Blueprint could use a few enhancements. Access to live data, such as org charts, would be helpful. Also, traversing large models in a browser can be cumbersome without a zoom thumbnail. Nice improvements since my look at beta include an undo command, revision histories with quick rollback to previous versions, and process goal analysis. Although the price for Blueprint is a bit steep on a per-user basis, Lombardi deserves kudos for this effort.
No one else is offering such an easy way for business users to embark on the important, exploratory first steps into BPM. Teamworks offers multiple entry points for human-centric processing, including a Web-based portal and a plug-in for Outlook Login or register below to download this research. Create new account Request new password. Shopping cart View your shopping cart.
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