What is BPMN?

Originally IT infrastructure relied on a model where only the business data was stored leaving any knowledge on how to work with the data with humans: for example, if a client wanted to open a bank account, the client filled out an application form and a bank employee performed and overlooked the processing of the application, which could lead to errors.

BPMN is a standard that defines how to capture and execute such processing in a set of steps that achieve your goal called a business process. These steps can be performed by people or automatically. Business processes are represented visually and executed in a standardized way: the visual representation provides common grounds for business people on the one side and programmers on the other: unlike code, the business people can understand the visualization, and check and analyze the process.

What is LSPS?

LSPS is a set of tools that allows you to design and execute BPMN processes. Built up based on BPMN, LSPS expands its capabilities: it adds support for GO-BPMN, conservative goal-focused processes; role-based access control; front-end page definitions, data type models, and much more.

The core of LSPS is the LSPS Application, a standard JEE enterprise application. The application stores your models, executes them, manages users, distributes work, provides access to the data from web applications, communicates with external systems and users, etc.

To create the models of your business processes for the LSPS Application, you will use the Process Design Suite. Apart from being a development tool for models, it is also a thick client for management and administration of the LSPS Application resources.

When it comes to interactions with the LSPS Application, you have also other options than PDS:

• If you are a process participant, use the Application User Interface, a web application that serves to get input for processes from human users.
• If you are an administrator, use the cli console or Management Console, a web application that serves to manage the resources of the LSPS Application, such as, models, model instances, users, etc.
• If you need to integrate with other systems or tools, use the web services API.

Depending on your needs, consider to install the following:

• Enterprise Edition comes with the Process Design Suite and LSPS SDK, which allows you to generate the LSPS Application EAR with the source code of the Application User Interface.
• Runtime Suite contains the LSPS Server EAR, CLI console, and database migration scripts. It is intended as an administration tool bundle.

To install the enterprise edition, follow the instructions in the Installation Guide.