What is the Current State of Process Orchestration? | Camunda Monthly - January 2024

Hello and welcome to the very first edition of Camunda Monthly for 2024. You can always catch up on earlier editions here .?

As 2024 gets underway, there’s a lot we’re thankful for and even more we’re excited about!?

Less than a month into this new year, we’ve released Camunda 8.4, The State of Process Orchestration 2024, and the official agenda for #CamundaCon 2024 Berlin ???? (check out Day 1?? and Day 2?? ); and we’re just getting started.?

We also can’t wait to see how you, our community, will continue to grow, connect, and orchestrate with us! ??

?? What’s New This Month

Camunda 8.4 is here and it includes:

• Camunda Self-Managed on the AWS Marketplace
• Support for Amazon OpenSearch?
• Improved AWS Self-Managed installation guide
• Multi-Tenancy for signal events and process deletion
• Zeebe scalability with scale brokers
• Process instance migration
• Improved form deployment and linking in Modeler
• New form components for structured and unstructured data
• Bring your own OIDC Identity Provider
• Adjustments to ElasticSearch support (ES 8.9+)

A closer look at Camunda 8.4 can be found on our blog and our release notes .

Camunda Marketplace

• OpenBots Connector , built by BP3
• Microsoft 365 Outlook Connector , built by Camunda

?? Developer Resources

VIDEO

See Senior Developer Advocate Niall Deehan demonstrate his two favorite features of Camunda 8.4 : displaying JSON objects in Modeler and process instance migration.

BLOG

Connectors can communicate with any system or technology, reducing the time it takes to automate and orchestrate business processes. Camunda Marketplace is the place to discover existing Connectors and contribute new ones. On our blog, learn how you can make your mark in the Camunda Marketplace .

GUIDE

Whether you’re an experienced developer looking to expand your skill set or a newcomer eager to explore the world of microservices, our guide on writing microservices in Java covers everything you need to get started.

??? Save the Date

• January 30, 2024: Camunda Local: München ???? (DE) [in-person]
• February 1, 2024: Camunda Local: Paris ???? (FR) [in-person]
• February 1, 2024: Camunda Local: Charlotte, NC ???? (EN) [in-person]
• February 8, 2024: Roadmap to Process Automation Success [online]
• February 21, 2024: Camunda Local: Dallas, TX ???? (EN) [in-person]
• May 15-16, 2024: CamundaCon 2024 Berlin ???? [hybrid] - Pricing will increase on March 15!
• October 16-17, 2024: CamundaCon 2024 North America [hybrid] - Sign up for updates!

??? Around the Camunda Community

How many meet-ups will you attend, or host, this year?

??? Mark Your Calendars

• January 23: Karlsruhe-Ettlingen ???? (DE) [online] - Carbon Aware Process Execution mithilfe des Camunda Carbon Reductor?
• January 23: Rhein-Main ???? (DE) [in-person] - Erfahrungen mit Human Task Management?
• January 24: Münster ???? (DE) [in-person] - Camunda Connectors in der Theorie und Praxis - Wie die nachhaltige Entwicklung von Low-Code gelingt
• January 25: Pretoria ???? (EN) [online] - Camunda HyperAutomation and AI using Camunda 8 Connectors in Practice: eHealth and Life Insurance
• February 15: Pretoria ???? (EN) [online] - Camunda Carbon Reductor a Camunda 8 Connector for Climate Change Energy efficiency ?
• February 15: University (EN) [online] - Teaching BPM Hands-on!
• March 5: Sāo Paulo ????(PT) [hybrid] - Camunda User Group Brazil - Hybrid Meet-up #15 S?o Paulo

?? Deeper Dive

?? The State of Process Orchestration 2024

We surveyed more than 800 business leaders and IT decision-makers across the U.S. and Europe to learn more about what’s driving their digital transformation successes, the challenges they face when automating mission-critical processes, and the impact process orchestration has had in their organizations. We are proud to present these learnings in the newest edition of our annual State of Process Orchestration (also available in German and French ).

On our blog, our CEO and Co-founder Jakob Freund explores 3?? key learnings :

• Leaders see strong ROI, yet the percentage of automated processes lingers at 50%
• Process orchestration’s role in accelerating automation maturity
• Accelerating process orchestration in 2024

(Bonus: Read more about Jakob’s thoughts on the four trends impacting automation maturity in Forbes.)

We’ll dive even deeper into key takeaways from this year’s study with a live online discussion on February 8. Join Cognizant's Digital Technology Practice Leader Sridhar Narasimhan and our Bernd Ruecker , Daniel Levy , and Niall Deehan for Roadmap to Process Automation Success: Takeaways from the 2024 State of Process Orchestration Report .

If you’d like to further explore how trends have changed over the years, our past studies can be found here .

??? Keep in Touch

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