Red Hat Process Automation 7 Goes Cloud-Native

Red Hat adds dynamic case management features to its business process management suite. Business process management (BPM) technology helps organizations with operations management issues and processes. Among the vendors that develop and support BPM technology is Red Hat, which released its Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7 update on June 19. The new release extends the BPM platform to Red Hat's OpenShift Kubernetes container platform. It also adds new dynamic case management capabilities for different types of operational workflows. The core business process automation functionality in Process Automation Manager 7 is based on the open-source jBPM project. "When organizations can use a tool like Red Hat Process Automation Manager to build applications that automate business processes and workflows, they can automate not only individual business decisions, but the business itself," Meg Foley, product marketing manager of business automation at Red Hat, told eWEEK. subscription for Red Hat Process Automation Manager also includes a full subscription to Red Hat Decision Manager, which is based on the open-source Drools project, as well as complex event processing and business resource planning capabilities based on the open-source OptaPlanner project. Red Hat Decision Manager is available under a separate, stand-alone subscription, Foley said; however, the product is also packaged with Red Hat Process Automation Manager, so a customer buying the latter will receive both. Red Hat Decision Manager includes a business rules engine and functionality for complex event processing, she added.