Today's business processes can be characterized by being highly distributed and crossing organizational boundaries. Due to the large impact of such processes, collaborative design and quick team access to the process design is considered of paramount importance. With expressFlow you can collaborate with others in the design of business processes. Furthermore, you can analyze the data flow and the control flow to identify possible performance bottlenecks.
For free, and from anywhere!
Here you may find the latest news concerning platform features and community activities:
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02.12.2009: expressFlow Reference
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Martin Treiber, Daniel Schall et al. used expressFlow to model the concepts introduced in their work entitled
"Modeling Context-aware and Socially-enriched Mashups".
They introduce a Human provided Service (HPS)
- aware Service Mashup model which they call socially oriented mashups (SOM).
They use expressFlow to model the socially oriented Mashup models by the use of
Context Channels. Their work was published on the 3rd International Workshop on
Web APIs and Services Mashups (Mashups'09), colocated with OOPSLA 2009.
Full paper [PDF]
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12.10.2009: Benefit / Cost Analysis available
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Today we successfully deployed the Benefit / Cost Analysis tool for your Service
Mashup. You can now define benefit and cost value pairs for each Service
invocation or abstract Activity performed within a Service Mashup and calculate
the overall performance of the Mashup.
Read more
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13.08.2009: Service Mashup Data Flow analysis available
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From now on you can anaylze the dataflow of your Service Mashups! Integrate RESTful Web services
and WSDL based WS-* Web services and analyze the resulting Service Mashups.
Read more
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10.07.2009: RESTful access to expressFlow resources activated!
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expressflow.com enables coequal Service
integration of RESTful Web services and WS-* Web services - and in the last
weeks we found time to implement a RESTful Web service to your resources ;)
From now on you are able to access all your WSDLs, WADLs and Service Mashups
through a RESTful interface!
Read more
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06.06.2009: Community Process design activated!
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expressflow.com is proud to announce community-driven
process design! Share your processes with the community and reuse existing
processes to speed up your process design ;)
Read more
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14.05.2009: expressFlow.com won the 3rd place of the
Microsoft Innovation Award!
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We won the 3rd place of this year's Microsoft Innovation Award! Thanks to all voters and supporters! This price encouraged us to head in the right direction and we are moving on - so expect BIG things happening in the near future ;)
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06.05.2009: expressFlow is in the final round of the
Microsoft Innovation Award! Yeah!!!
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expressFlow is proud to announce that we reached the final round of the Microsoft Innovation Award. We have the opportunity to present our project at the Microsoft Innovation Center. You can talk with the Core Developers and discuss about new features and future plans about collaborative workflow design - and we promise, there are BIG things happening in the future ... ;)
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17.04.2009: expressFlow is on the shortlist for this year's
Microsoft Innovation Award!
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expressFlow participates in the Microsoft Innovation Award and is nominated for the Shortlist! Cross your fingers for the finals ;)
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06.03.2009: Create your own Activities!
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Figure: Create your own XML Activities
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Long time, no see! We put every free resource in the new XML Wizard to enable a flexible definition of Activities. Now you as the Service Mashup designer have full access to the generated XML Source code. Define your own activities, integrate them into your Service Mashups and share them in teams -
expressFlow just became more flexible ;) For more information refer to the new tutorial
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12.01.2009: Improved Service Integration
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Figure: After dropping Service Invoke onto the design area the Service Wizard comes up
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| The Service Wizards leads you in three steps through the integration of external services. With this new feature the integration of WSDL based Web services and WADL
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