HEFLO vs jBPM

HEFLO is a cloud-based business process management platform for modeling, documenting, publishing, and automating workflows. It supports BPMN 2.0, process landscape design, PDF documentation generation, and online portal publishing. Users can automate processes by configuring graphical elements with little or no coding. HEFLO says its ChatGPT integration drafts diagrams and workflows from short descriptions for analysts to review and refine. Its responsive interface supports smartphones, tablets, and computers, and a mobile app is available for reviewing and approving tasks. Enterprise lists REST and JSON web service integration, including apps such as Zapier, as well as DocuSign and DeepL integrations. Listed safeguards include AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, and AWS KMS-managed keys. HEFLO states that it operates under a contractual availability SLA above 99%. The free Academic plan supports diagrams; Lite pricing is purchased in the application, and Enterprise pricing is available by contacting sales.

jBPM is an open-source Java toolkit for automating business processes, tasks, decisions and rules. It consists of Java libraries embedded in a service, rather than a standalone server, and executes processes modeled with BPMN 2.0. Human tasks can use configurable lifecycles, assignment strategies and deadlines. Process rule tasks can call DRL rules or DMN decisions evaluated by Drools in the same service. For long-running processes, jBPM supports durable state, timers, signals, message correlation, service-level agreement tracking and migration of running instances to a new process version. Persistence choices include PostgreSQL and other JDBC databases, MongoDB, Infinispan, RocksDB and the filesystem. Web and IDE modelers offer graphical drag-and-drop process creation. For Apache KIE 10, the documented service approach uses Kogito on Quarkus or Spring Boot; BPMN models compile at build time, with no runtime deployment step or process repository to manage. The project says jBPM is written in pure Java and runs on any JVM, and the software is available from Maven Central under Apache License 2.0. Getting started calls for an IDE, JDK 21 preferred or JDK 17, and Maven 3.9 or later. Community support channels include user and developer mailing lists and Zulip. Apache KIE is incubating and has not yet been fully endorsed by the ASF.