Workflow automation with Bernd Ruecker A Side of Data

In this episode of A Side Of Data, I interview Bernd Ruecker, a co-founder and chief technologist at Camunda - workflow and decision automation platform. We talk about workflow automation, workflow engines, business process modeling notation (BPMN), robotic process automation (RPA).
 
The episode timeline:
 
2:00 what are the workflows and what is workflow automation?
4:00 the difference between workflow, process, and routine?
6:00 what are the workflow engines?
8:00 Historical overview of workflow engines and BPMS.
12:00 why using BPMN? What is a good visual representation of the workflow/process
17:00 competition of the BPMN? Powerpoint? Event-driven process chain?
19:00 Process mining tools (DFGs, process maps vs BPMN)
22:00 workflow use case, on the granularity of BPMN model design
26:00 business process use cases vs software engineering use case for the workflow engines
28:40 RPA (robotic process automation) vs workflow automation
35:00 Future of workflow engines
39:00 How to see that your company needs workflow engines?
42:00 As a student, would you study workflow engines?
43:30 How to get started?
 
Additional info:
Bernd's page: https://berndruecker.io/ 
Bernd's blog: https://blog.bernd-ruecker.com/
Camunda: https://camunda.com/
 
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Listen to more A Side Of Data:
Building a process mining startup with Raffaele Conforti: https://soundcloud.com/asideofdata/building-a-process-mining-startup-with-raffaele-conforti
 
New decade for process mining with Wil van der Aalst: https://soundcloud.com/asideofdata/new-decade-for-process-mining-with-wil-van-der-aalst