End of the last day at CamundaCon 2024 in New York, and I attended a last few sessions.
Bernd Ruecker and Leon Strauch led a panel to discuss their new book, Enterprise Process Orchestration, and talk about centres of excellence with guests Sanjay Sarpal from Atlassian and Prashant Appikatla from US Bank. Panels are pretty much impossible to live-blog; suffice it to say that it was an interesting discussion with an active Q&A. Although the book is not purely about CoEs, there’s definitely a move towards process orchestration maturity, CoE and other higher-level topics rather than just the technical mechanics of orchestration. We were given copies of the early access version of the book, and it will be generally available in the spring of 2025.
I went to a last technical session with Bastian Koerber and Calvin Robbins, who discussed and demonstrated the new capabilities that are coming in the 2025 releases: BPMN Copilot, FEEL Copilot, IDP, RPA and SAP integration. This was a bit more detailed than what we saw in the technical keynote, and gave a better sense of what the capabilities will look like to the developers and analysts. Some of these are available to play around with already, such as the FEEL Copilot alpha and the early release documentation.
Finally, I attended the fireside chat that co-founders Jakob Freund and Bernd Ruecker always have to wrap up CamundaCon. Both of them recommended that it’s a good next step to get your hands on the product and play around with it if you’re wanting to try out some functionality that you’re not already using. There were some funny recollections about how Jakob and Bernd first met and started working together: the days of startup culture and “no bullshit BPM”. Now, they’re introducing the same type of no-BS AI, RPA and IDP, with lighter weight capabilities that allow people to get started and address simpler needs. Hopefully they can keep that same philosophy for solving customer problems as they continue to grow.
Check Camunda’s socials next week for links to the recorded presentations from the conference — lots of great content.