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Active Endpoints introduces business process 'rewind'


By David Worthington
February 25, 2009 —  Active Endpoints, a business process management and automation software maker, has released an update that enables business users to rewind processes and adjust work when the information in a system does not match what is expected.

ActiveVOS 6.1, which is slated for release on March 10, will introduce a process rewind feature that is intended to make BPM less rigid. "People can be afraid of BPM, thinking that it puts shackles on how the business is run; this new system fixes a pain point," said Michael Rowley, director of strategy and technology at Active Endpoints.

When a business user or operations staff rewinds a process, data is restored to where it was at an earlier point in time, he explained. "If a guy did a bad quote estimate, you can start again using the same data as it had last time."

ActiveVOS logs all activity during the rollback process and does not change back-end data.

The update also simplifies Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) programming by automating bidirectional process creation and letting developers work on processes without requiring them to fill in all of the details in order, the company says.

ActiveVOS 6.1 automatically generates a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) Web service for processes that have multiple participants by examining context. "BPEL can be difficult for new developers to pick up," said Rowley.

"Processes can be bidirectional with partner link requirements that confused people. In 6.1, you don't have to know this, but [you can] still get it absolutely right."

ActiveVOS maintains 100% fidelity with the BPEL, and developers still have the option of coding partner link themselves, he added.

"Any order development" allows developers to start work at the middle or end of a process, filling in the details later, said Rowley. "Previously, other tools, including ours, required developers to fill in details in a defined order."

Lastly, Active Endpoints simplified the BPEL process designer's view in ActiveVOS for business analysts by removing activities that make a process more difficult to follow. "[the designer's view] is standard BPEL nonetheless," said Rowley.


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