Daniel Chalef

ProcessMaker, Easy to Use Open Source Workflow & Business Process Management

Brian Reale and his team at Colosa launched their very cool ProcessMaker product this week. ProcessMaker is a commercial open source Workflow / Business Process Management (BPM) software tool designed for medium-sized organizations and is designed to allow a business or process expert with no programming experience to model and then automate an organization’s business processs. ProcessMaker includes a nifty AJAX web interface for form design and process mapping, and includes powerful document creation, security and 3rd party application integration capabilities (with a KnowledgeTree interface coming Real Soon Now(tm)).

ProcessMaker has been released under the Affero GPLv3 and is available for download from SourceForge.net. The tool is written in PHP and one-click installers are currently available for Linux and Windows.

As mentioned above, the team at Colosa are integrating ProcessMaker with KnowledgeTree, providing ProcessMaker with a secure, version controlled repository for documents created during processes. The interface is also likely to provide the ability to attach documents stored in the KnowledgeTree repository to activities in a process.

We wish the team all the best as they develop the product, build community and build their business!