Active Endpoints Ships Upgrades to ActiveVOS 
Active Endpoints, Inc is shipping an upgrade to its flagship ActiveVOS BPM software product. ActiveVOS 8.0 adds key supports for standards, security and ease-of use to improve collaboration between knowledge experts and solutions architects, according to a company official.
ActiveVOS 8.0 adds supports Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) swimlanes and BPMN 2.0 boundary events, new data access integration functions, enhanced deployment management, and expanded task management.
Together, these new functions help project managers, application architects, solutions architects, and developers more effectively use ActiveVOS for designing, developing and deploying mission-critical, custom process applications, said Mark Taber, CEO Active Endpoints, in a statement.
ActiveVOS Central is a convenient way for users to interact
with processes, tasks and reports. Users can search for tasks,
initiate new processes and access reports and graphs
Solving some of the really hard development and operational problems associated with building, integrating, and deploying process applications quickly,” Taber said. “Improving the collaboration between business knowledge experts and solutions architects has been our top priority.”
New capabilities ActiveVOS 8.0 include support for these services:
- BPMN “pool” and” lanes” – Making it easy for process designers to convey the process steps being carried out by each participant (which can be an automated service or human tasks) of the process being automated.
- BPMN 2.0 boundary events -- Providing process automation designers powerful graphical annotations that allow them to directly specify the interrupting and non-interrupting execution behaviors that follow the arrival of message, timer, error and compensation events.
- Unstructured process design capabilities – These, combined with ActiveVOS’s already innovative structured design features, provide designers the freedom they want to design process automation activities. With ActiveVOS’s structured and unstructured design capabilities, all process automation BPMN 2.0 designs are guaranteed to be executable.
- Data Access Service -- Giving designers direct access to data sources. They don’t have to service-enable data sources before they use them in their process automation designs.
- Improved Deployment Management – Helping dev teams incrementally build and deploy versions of a process automation application, cutting down the risk of introducing incompatibilities at runtime.
- Single Sign-On (SSO) – Enabling organizations use their existing SSO environments to deploy ActiveVOS process automation applications. Users don’t need a separate log-on step to work on human tasks.
“Improving the collaboration between business knowledge experts and solutions architects has been our top priority.”
Mark Taber
CEO
Active Endpoints
A key principal that underlies the ActiveVOS upgrade is the ability to use BPM, SOA and unstructured technologies and standards to provide a way to better enable process designers, architects and business users to collaborate and get on the same page.
One of the Active EndPoints’ support materials for the release describes it this way: “How a process looks and is presented to users matters particularly when lanes are used by the designer. To allow a high degree of control over the process’s layout, advancements in unstructured modeling in ActiveVOS 8.0 make it easy to place activities on the canvas at a specific location, unlike the structured modeling style, that helps the user by automating layout. [With ActiveVOS 8.0], users now have a choice over the modeling style to use for your processes.
