Ismael Ghalimi of Intalio is still a young man but one of the founding fathers of modern BPM. Maybe the founding father. Anyway, today he briefed me on what he says he was aiming for all along, a project called Helium. It’s BPM, it’s a database application builder, it’s CRM and case management, document management, social networking and online office tools. It’s built for the cloud, all browser-based (Ajax, no Flash. Runs on an IPad… Ismael seemed particularly fixated on that). It’s free for 5 users or less, with SaaS subscription pricing for production deployment.
It is very cool. And there aren’t many BPM products I can say that about.
The difference between Helium and conventional BPM is data management. Tons of prebuilt business objects built in – contacts, appointments, tasks, etc. – and very easy to create your own. It’s a short leap from there to CRM, ECM, and case management. Everything is exposed through widgets that you mash up in various workspaces. Here is one for CRM.
There is a BPMN 2.0 editor, and coming this fall a native BPMN 2.0 runtime (supports BPEL today).
There is a Mashup Studio where you can graphically extract data from various places, manipulate it, and publish the result to a feed or widget or whatever else you want.
You can select any object – process, document, case, appointment – and in one click create a social BPM collaboration space prepopulated by widgets defined in a template. Case management seems a natural fit for Helium.
Helium’s social BPM features make the use of that term by other BPMS vendors look pathetic by comparison.
I want it. (And I don’t even own an IPad.)
Tags: bpmn 2.0, BPMS, helium, intalio, social bpm
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Bruce, it seems to me that the BPMN2.0 editor is actually Oryx/Signavio – the tool you weren’t that much happy about? (http://www.brsilver.com/2009/0.....d-signavio)
Marcello,
I don’t know if it is or not. Ismael said all the IP in Helium was either Intalio-developed or open source. But my reaction was not based on the BPMN editor – I didn’t even get a close look at it – but rather on the overall concept. Also, re Signavio/Oryx when I reviewed – I think that was quite a while back – the developers acknowledged my issues and said they were being addressed. I probably should take another look at it.
–Bruce
The BPMN editor code basis of Oryx/Signavio is also used in the Activiti Open Source project (http://activiti.org). And it is also used by a publicly available extension for Google Wave (http://www.processwave.org/).
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bruce,
Judging from the second screenshot, the editor is definitely Oryx.
it`s going to be open source?
only IntaloLabs feeds from opensource to build and then not share?
only SaaS?
Have any information of this kind?
Thanks
I don’t have these details. Best to ask Intalio directly.