What is BPMS? and when to go for BPMS? is there any free tools for .net or java? is there any plug-in available for eclipse?
+2
A:
It is short for Business Process Management System or Software and basically is a tool for very high level modelling how the business will do whatever they do and how automation tools are integrated.
These things are typically huge and composed of a big collection of tools and infrastructure stuff. Eclipse based tooling may be a part of that, but it is much larger than just a plugin.
If you want to dip your toe in these waters you might look at JBoss Tools which has support for JBPM and Webservices which is a workflow package and the infrastructure which is usually core to these systems.
Good Luck!
Peter Tillemans
2010-08-18 14:19:59
+1
A:
As Peter said, BPMS is a huge topic. To get an idea of its scope, check out IBM's home page on it here: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/info/bpm
johnnieb
2010-08-18 15:02:10
A:
Have a look at the Activiti BPMN 2.0 engine. It is still in beta but a project everybody interested in BPM software should know about. It is implemented in Java and an Eclipse plugin also will be part of the set of tools.
Andreas Kuckartz
2010-09-01 20:00:40