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International Business Times
18-07-2025
- Business
- International Business Times
The Role of Workflow Automation in Modern Enterprises: A Deep Dive into Camunda BPM
In a modern high-velocity digital economy, workflow automation has proven to be a foundation stone of operational efficiency and enterprise agility. Companies in all sectors are looking to swap frozen, manual procedures with versatile, expandable, and responsive frameworks. Central to this change is the Camunda BPM open-source workflow and decision automation platform, which provides a powerful means of coordinating intricate business processes. The fact that it can be smoothly integrated with event-driven architectures, microservices, and third-party APIs has also turned it into a popular choice among enterprises that want to standardize operations without compromising on compliance, observability, and scale. Sashi Kiran Vuppala is a technical architect and thought leader in the workflow automation domain who has consistently carved a prominent reputation. Over the past few years, he has made substantial progress in scaling both professionally and academically in the area of workflow automation, particularly through the integration of Camunda BPM into large-scale enterprise environments. As a Technical Architect and Lead, he has driven automation initiatives at global firms including Boeing and Ziply. At Boeing, his architecture and rollout of Camunda within content workflow systems like LSIE and ToolBox significantly enhanced turnaround speed and compliance. At Ziply, he led network orchestration flows that improved incident management efficiency by 40%. In his work on Camunda BPM integration into enterprise ecosystems, Vuppala has steadily risen in both profession and academia. His achievements span end-to-end BPM framework design and include the publication of 17 peer-reviewed research papers exploring orchestration challenges in real-world domains such as aerospace and telecom. He has also contributed to the BPM research community as a keynote speaker and reviewer for international automation conferences and journals, demonstrating his ongoing impact on both practice and theory. Diving deeper into his work, Vuppala uses Camunda BPM not only as a task execution engine but as a comprehensive digital transformation platform. For example, at Boeing, he automated content ingestion and validation for high-volume XML data, reducing the publishing pipeline's turnaround time by 30% and enhancing real-time monitoring. At Ziply, his automation of escalation workflows cut delay in response resolution by 40% and improved customer satisfaction through Kafka-based real-time events. These implementations not only accelerated delivery but enabled better SLA adherence and governance. Vuppala has been the architect behind retry and compensation patterns using Camunda's error-handling features, building resilience into BPM environments dealing with high-throughput, asynchronous data. His innovation includes building internal toolkits like a JSON-to-BPMN converter, reducing workflow deployment cycles by 35% and improving delivery timelines across TCS. These advances have led to 20% reductions in workflow failure rates, and up to 25% cost savings by modularizing API orchestration and introducing fault-tolerant patterns. Among the most outstanding elements of his work is the resolution of deep-rooted operational inefficiencies. At Boeing, legacy XML systems with tight coupling and manual batch jobs presented a major challenge Vuppala resolved this with adapter layers and Camunda-based cron triggers, bringing in automated orchestration where none existed. At another telecom organization, he developed Kafka-integrated BPM workflows for CRM triggers and dispute resolution, which enabled real-time customer sync across distributed microservices and improved SLA alignment. Another innovation was his use of layered BPMN subprocesses to enable cross-departmental ownership of workflows. This modular architecture allowed decentralized business units to co-own and govern workflows without process fragmentation, an especially powerful approach in highly regulated environments where human-in-the-loop and SLAs must co-exist with automation. In the future, Vuppala envisions workflow automation becoming increasingly adaptive and intelligent. Based on his enterprise-level implementations, he identifies AI-assisted orchestration, human-in-the-loop patterns, and full-stack observability as key frontiers. His current work involves exploring how Camunda can intersect with platforms like Splunk for telemetry, JWT for security, and Prometheus for runtime metrics shaping the next generation of BPM-enabled enterprise agility. Workflow automation is no longer confined to back-office optimization in the role of modern enterprises. It is now a digital strategy foundation, a provider of resilience, scale, and compliance. Professionals who succeed in this space are those who combine domain knowledge with hands-on technical mastery like Sashi Kiran Vuppala. His work offers a benchmark of how organizations can modernize process orchestration in a way that aligns with both operational goals and real-world complexity, all through a thoughtful and quantifiable application of Camunda BPM.
Yahoo
19-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Camunda and Liferay Announce Partnership
This partnership empowers businesses to achieve agile collaboration and deliver exceptional digital experiences through intelligent automation. Diamond Bar, CA, June 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Camunda, and Liferay, Inc., are joining forces to build and deliver cutting-edge digital experiences. By leveraging Liferay's enterprise cloud platform and Camunda's advanced orchestration and automation capabilities, businesses can now unify internal and external processes for seamless, personalized experiences. Our partnership with Camunda enables organizations to seamlessly integrate internal operations with external engagement, driving agility and innovation through intelligent automation. Camunda and Liferay will focus on empowering businesses to accelerate their digital transformation by seamlessly blending powerful process automation with dynamic digital experiences. This collaboration combines Liferay's intuitive, personalized user experiences with Camunda's robust process orchestration and automation platform, enabling organizations to streamline complex workflows, automate manual tasks, and drive operational efficiency. Digital transformation has driven businesses toward automation and AI, but complex digital infrastructures in large organizations make end-to-end process automation challenging. Process orchestration is essential for coordinating tasks, integrating systems, and enabling centralized updates, ensuring compliance, reducing technical debt, and maximizing AI investments. The Camunda Connect Partner Program is a global ecosystem of partners spanning every region of the world. Partners receive top-tier training and support, aiming to tackle automation challenges with process orchestration. We welcome Liferay into the program", highlighted Christiana Christenson, VP Global Partners at Camunda "We are excited to have Camunda join us in empowering businesses to design, execute, and monitor complex workflows, providing real-time process visibility and enhancing agility with Camunda's process orchestration and automation platform", said Linda Hartman, Vice President of Partnerships at Liferay. "Additionally, the partnership will also enable businesses to empower their business users with low-code/no-code capabilities, driving innovation and faster time-to-market'. About Liferay Liferay helps organizations build for the future by enabling them to create, manage, and scale powerful solutions on the world's most flexible Digital Experience Platform (DXP). Trusted globally by over a thousand companies spanning multiple industries, Liferay's open-source DXP facilitates the development of marketing and commerce websites, customer portals, intranets, and more. Learn how we can use technology to change the world together at © 2025 Liferay, Inc. All rights reserved. About Camunda Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate and automate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity, increase efficiency, and fully operationalize AI. Built for business and IT, Camunda's leading orchestration and automation platform executes any process at the required speed and scale to remain competitive without compromising security, governance, or innovation. Over 700 companies across all industries, including Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, trust Camunda with the design, orchestration, automation, and improvement of their business-critical processes to accelerate digital transformation. To learn more, visit CONTACT: Yotam Levy Liferay 1-877-LIFERAY in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
18-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Camunda Partners With rebuy to Automate and Orchestrate Device Repair Lifecycle
BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Camunda, the leader in process orchestration and automation, today announced that rebuy is using its platform to automate and orchestrate the device repair lifecycle for customers. Camunda is working with rebuy to streamline the company's end-to-end device refurbishment process, which can be complex and vary depending on the device type and nature of the repair. rebuy operates throughout the entire device sales cycle including purchasing, refurbishment, order processing (fulfillment), logistics, and sales. The company is using Camunda to manage complex repair processes across internal departments and supply chain partners, while prioritizing time-sensitive repairs such as customer warranty cases. By adopting Camunda, the rebuy team has gained visibility into their complex processes, minimizes process bottlenecks, and makes improvements where they're needed most. The rebuy team selected Camunda for its ability to visualize automated processes from end to end. Team members can now view process states and definitions quickly and easily while in production. These capabilities make it easier for rebuy to understand what's working and what isn't within automated business processes, address issues quickly, and update processes so they're operating optimally at all times. Björn Häuser, head of platform & operations development, rebuy said: 'rebuy plays a critical role in the sustainable circular economy for devices. We view Camunda as an important part of our core business functionality to improve efficiency. It helps eliminate redundant steps, automate as much as possible, and increase both our throughput and the number of repairs performed per employee. By continuously improving our processes, we can create a better overall experience for our customers.' Frederic Meier, senior vice president, sales, Camunda, added: 'Using Camunda, rebuy is able to reduce automation silos, making its entire business process work seamlessly for employees, partners, and customers alike. It's great to see Camunda in action for rebuy's most critical business process, sustainably reusing existing resources and extending the lifecycle of electronic devices.' About rebuy rebuy reCommerce GmbH, or rebuy for short, is a Berlin-based recommerce company founded in 2004 as trade-a-game GmbH. rebuy's goal is to bring used media such as books and CDs, as well as electronic items such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops, back into the economic cycle. Sellers sell their products directly to rebuy at a fixed price, without fees or lengthy descriptions. Buyers can then purchase them from rebuy, technically tested and refurbished, with a three-year warranty. To ensure consistently high product and process quality, rebuy uses the most modern grading, refurbishment, and processing technologies. Over 600 employees from a total of 40 nations are currently working to save raw materials and energy while raising awareness of conscious consumption and the circular economy. rebuy is active in six countries: Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Spain. For further information, visit About Camunda Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate and automate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity, increase efficiency, and fully operationalize AI. Built for business and IT, Camunda's leading orchestration and automation platform executes any process at the required speed and scale to remain competitive without compromising security, governance, or innovation. Over 700 companies across all industries, including Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, trust Camunda with the design, orchestration, automation, and improvement of their business-critical processes to accelerate digital transformation. To learn more, visit
Forbes
17-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How Enterprises Can Keep Up With Rising Complexity
Jakob Freund is the CEO of Camunda, a software company innovating end-to-end process orchestration. Digital transformation efforts are pushing many businesses to automate more. For the typical enterprise, however, increasing the level of automation is becoming more complicated than expected. My company commissioned an independent research firm to survey 800 senior IT decision-makers, business leaders and software architects for the 2025 "State of Process Orchestration & Automation" (SOPO&A) report. The results indicated that "organizations average about 50 components/endpoints" in their automated processes, a number that has increased 19% year-over-year. These endpoints include people, systems (including legacy systems, microservices and AI) and devices. Paired with the rapid pace of innovation around tools like generative AI and agentic AI, many are concerned about their ability to integrate even more technologies into their existing workflows—without disrupting their overall automation efforts. In fact, 77% of organizations surveyed for the SOPO&A report say "a lack of control has resulted in increased risk that core business processes are not working anymore." An overwhelming majority say that if left unchecked, these risks could lead to an 'automation armageddon,' where automation errors snowball into catastrophic consequences. Organizations can't afford these compounding risks, so the time to act is now. The topic on everyone's minds is incorporating more AI into automated business processes to increase efficiency and improve customer experience. However, the adoption of AI hasn't gone as smoothly as many companies surveyed for the SOPO&A report would have liked: Eighty-five percent of organizations said "they face challenges being able to scale and operationalize AI across their organization." Research from McKinsey also shows that only 1% of C-suite executives describe their generative AI rollouts as mature. These same leaders surveyed by McKinsey are increasing their investments in AI, with 92% expecting to boost spending in this area. To get the maximum benefit and ROI from AI, 93% of organizations surveyed for the SOPO&A report agree that AI "will need to be orchestrated across their business processes." The same orchestration principles hold true for other technologies involved in an automated process, along with the people who use them. Combined with inflexible legacy systems, many organizations face issues with outdated processes and a general inability to keep up with the rate of change. Other McKinsey research found that "as much as 70 percent of the software used by Fortune 500 companies was developed 20 or more years ago." To help increase the efficacy of their automation efforts, 89% of companies surveyed for the SOPO&A report are orchestrating older technologies and human workflows alongside what's new. Well-coordinated processes are the secret to automation success for many of the organizations surveyed. In fact, 72% of organizations surveyed for the SOPO&A report "believe process orchestration plays an important role in digital transformation." By improving their processes, these companies have experienced real business benefits from their digital transformation efforts. For example, more than half of the companies that have leveraged process orchestration in the SOPO&A report have improved their customer service and customer experience. By standardizing processes with orchestration, 44% of these same organizations have become more efficient. Yet, not all organizations are at the level of process orchestration maturity they desire: Eighty-two percent of companies surveyed for the SOPO&A report still say "they need to have better tools to manage how their processes all intersect." As many organizations look toward future trends like the fully autonomous organization, orchestration will become even more important. While the idea of automated and AI-based systems making decisions independently sounds appealing, organizations must make sure they can trace these AI-powered decisions and maintain compliance with industry regulations. By centralizing and orchestrating processes, organizations can gain better visibility into their process outcomes, regardless of the endpoints involved, and reduce the risk of error. It's all about taking back control while still keeping up with a rapid rate of change that otherwise would seem too difficult to manage. Automation teams who orchestrate their processes prove that it is possible to move fast without breaking the core business processes that give their organizations a clear competitive advantage. As we've seen from the data, automation on its own isn't enough. Without orchestration, things can get messy fast—more tools, more complexity and more risk. The good news is that with the right approach, it's possible to stay in control even as everything speeds up: A major obstacle to orchestration maturity is misalignment between business and technical stakeholders. Without a shared language, even the best automation tools can't deliver business value. Organizations should adopt visual process modeling standards like Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to bridge the gap. These standards make process automation understandable for everyone, from IT architects to line-of-business leaders. Cross-functional alignment also means involving stakeholders earlier. Instead of treating orchestration as an IT-only initiative, bring different business functions into the planning phase. This fosters shared ownership and helps ensure that automation outcomes map directly to business needs. Many enterprises are sitting on a mix of legacy systems, SaaS platforms and manual business processes. Rather than waiting for a massive digital transformation, organizations should begin by orchestrating what they already have. Start by identifying high-impact processes that touch multiple systems or teams. Use orchestration to link systems together—even if some of them are outdated or siloed. This creates a foundation for end-to-end automation, which is more powerful than isolated fixes. At the same time, avoid point solutions that create more silos, like AI technologies or RPA bots deployed without governance or oversight. Instead, orchestrate around a vision that spans business functions, channels and data sources. Orchestration maturity doesn't stop at deployment. Leading organizations treat automation like a product: launched, monitored and iterated over time. This requires real-time visibility into process performance. Ensure that your team is tracking key metrics, identifying bottlenecks and responding quickly to changes. The goal is to shift from reactive triage to proactive optimization. That way, teams can forecast outcomes, simulate improvements and make better decisions. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
Techday NZ
21-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Hapag-Lloyd selects Camunda to automate shipping processes
Camunda has announced a partnership with Hapag-Lloyd to enhance process orchestration for the global shipping company's Freight Information System (FIS) software. Hapag-Lloyd operates its FIS as a central ERP system, supporting all operational activities for international door-to-door transportation and covering the whole transport chain. The company has selected Camunda to replace its existing in-house workflow engine for process orchestration across FIS and connected systems. The implementation introduces Camunda's process orchestration capabilities to automate and integrate business processes throughout Hapag-Lloyd's technology landscape. The partnership is designed to increase transparency, improve business agility, and elevate the customer experience by reducing reliance on homegrown technologies and automating manual tasks, including calls to microservices. With Camunda's open architecture, Hapag-Lloyd gains access to Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), fostering greater collaboration between IT and business stakeholders. The system's flexibility enables the automation of business processes spanning multiple systems, which previously required significant manual intervention. IBA Group is supporting the implementation of Camunda as part of its established development partnership with Hapag-Lloyd. Jan Piekuszewski, Project Lead at Hapag-Lloyd, said, "Hapag-Lloyd's FIS provides our users real-time access to key data necessary for the management of the operations of our container shipping business. Our team selected Camunda to increase transparency of our business processes and integrate processes that were previously done without system support." "Camunda will enable us to integrate our FIS software seamlessly with other systems, reduce the use of homegrown technologies, and cut back on operating costs. From a technical perspective, Camunda's self-hosted cloud-native version, which we are running on AWS, fits very well into our FIS architecture." Frederic Meier, Senior Vice President of Sales at Camunda, said, "More and more organisations are building upon process orchestration as the foundation of successful business process automation initiatives. We are proud to partner with Hapag-Lloyd to help the company further improve its operational excellence with our process orchestration and automation software." "We look forward to working with one of the world's leading liner shipping companies to further optimise its global door-to-door transport business, as well as improve internal efficiency and agility." Hapag-Lloyd operates a fleet of 308 container ships with a total transport capacity of 2.4 million TEU and maintains 400 offices in approximately 140 countries. The company also holds equity stakes in 21 terminals worldwide and offers a range of logistics and terminal services. Follow us on: Share on:
