Heather Simpson, Author at Camunda https://camunda.com Workflow and Decision Automation Platform Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:56:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://camunda.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Secondary-Logo_Rounded-Black-150x150.png Heather Simpson, Author at Camunda https://camunda.com 32 32 Camunda 8.8 Preview: Introducing FEEL Capabilities in Copilot https://camunda.com/blog/2025/05/camunda-88-preview-feel-capabilities-copilot/ Mon, 19 May 2025 21:18:07 +0000 https://camunda.com/?p=139288 Easily turn plain language into accurate FEEL expressions with the latest capabilities coming to Camunda Copilot.

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Despite FEEL being friendly enough, users, both professional and low-code developers alike, can still stumble at times when writing, debugging, and managing FEEL expressions.

According to the 2025 State of Process Orchestration & Automation Report, the complexity of processes and the diversity of systems are major hurdles for both business and IT teams. Nearly 78% of organizations report that complex logic and conditionality increase the difficulty of automation. That’s why we are excited to give you a preview of the FEEL capabilities that will be introduced in Camunda’s Copilot for Camunda Web Modeler SaaS in the Camunda 8.8 release. These new features will empower users to author FEEL logic much more easily and accurately.

With this added functionality, users will be able to type their intent in plain text, and Copilot has been trained and tested to generate valid FEEL expressions using the available process variables and context. It can also fix incorrect or incomplete FEEL expressions, guiding users toward valid logic. Additionally, Copilot can explain the purpose and syntax of FEEL functions, helping users understand how each expression works and translate code snippets like Java, JUEL or Python into FEEL. Lastly, seamless debugging is built in; users can test, refine and validate FEEL expressions directly within the Modeler without switching to Play mode. Copilot can even create missing context variables and generate mock values for testing, reducing time-consuming trial and error.

Generate, explain, debug, and convert FEEL expressions from plain text or code with Camunda Copilot’s new FEEL capabilities.

From natural language to executable processes

This new support for FEEL expressions adds a powerful dimension to Camunda Copilot’s existing BPMN capabilities. Users can now generate BPMN-compliant diagrams from natural language descriptions (or, for that matter, create documentation based on a BPMN diagram) and immediately enrich them with executable business logic. Imagine describing a process in plain language, watching it take shape as a BPMN diagram, and then seamlessly using Copilot to define conditions, calculations, and decision logic, all without writing complex code or switching out of Modeler.

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Quickly generate BPMN diagrams from any text input, whether it’s simple natural language or legacy code, or generate documentation or suggestions from existing diagrams in seconds using Camunda Copilot.

Whether migrating legacy models, translating documentation into BPMN, or iterating on end-to-end processes, Copilot can help you accelerate and improve your process modeling. It enables both technical and business users to rapidly prototype, validate, and enhance process models with high-quality, executable logic, reducing manual effort and increasing model quality. We’re excited that this feature is coming soon to Web Modeler and we can’t wait for you to try it out and let us know your feedback!

Update: As of the June Camunda alpha release, this feature is now available and ready for use! Check it out in the latest alpha and learn more here.

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Camunda Releases Agentic Orchestration for the Enterprise https://camunda.com/blog/2025/04/camunda-87-agentic-orchestration-for-enterprise/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:45:00 +0000 https://camunda.com/?p=132966 Operationalize AI across people, systems, and devices with new AI agents and task automation capabilities.

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Quickly dive into our new agentic orchestration, AI-powered and task automation capabilities:

AI is fueling a new era of innovation that is rapidly reshaping how businesses serve their customers and how they operate, compete and win.

AI’s early impact has been most notable in driving significant advancements in personal productivity. Its true potential, however, lies in its transformative ability to revolutionize how organizations engage with customers, innovate and deliver products, collaborate seamlessly with partners and suppliers, and empower their teams to achieve greater efficiency and impact.

The current reality is that many organizations are struggling to move beyond isolated AI use cases, leading to fragmented solutions delivering only marginal benefits. According to Camunda’s 2025 State of Process Orchestration and Automation Report, 84% of IT and business leaders are looking to add more AI capabilities over the next three years. However, that same report indicates that 85% of organizations say they are facing challenges in being able to scale and operationalize AI across their organization.

The key to unlocking AI’s full potential is going beyond isolated applications and operationalizing AI within a holistic, composable enterprise architecture—one that seamlessly integrates AI with people, systems, and devices. Process Orchestration and Automation (PO&A) is that essential, intelligent building block for this transformation; bridging the engagement layer—where customers and employees interact—with the core technology and data layer. Without this connection, experiences remain fragmented, limiting AI’s ability to enhance operations and deliver seamless, intelligent interactions.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of new agentic process orchestration capabilities to model, deploy and manage AI agents seamlessly into your end-to-end processes. We’re also debuting new AI-enabled capabilities, including agents powered by BPMN ad-hoc sub-processes, for dynamic, intelligent decision-making, as well as powerful new Camunda Copilot features for AI-powered process generation.

Balance compliance with adaptability in AI agents

Camunda’s process orchestration and automation enables organizations to operationalize AI with both flexibility and control by blending both deterministic and non-deterministic orchestration. This balance ensures compliance and standardization where needed while introducing AI-powered personalization, adaptability and resilience wherever it benefits them. Our highly scalable orchestration layer is designed to process real-time data and high transaction volumes, which is essential for delivering personalized customer experiences and proactive employee assistance.

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Camunda allows you to blend deterministic orchestration (via BPMN) with non-deterministic orchestration (via agents) so you can implement as much or as little AI as you want within guardrails.

Camunda’s composable architecture means you’re never locked into a single AI or automation technology. Our flexible, full-stack process orchestration platform enables end-to-end automation across people, systems, devices, and AI, driving efficiency, agility, and innovation at scale, and now, with the general availability of two new out-of-the-box capabilities, customers can further reduce automation sprawl and silos. Which is why we’re also excited to share more details around our new robotic process automation (RPA) solution and AI-powered intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions to help customers reduce the automation sprawl and silos they’ve created with task automation solutions backed by the best process orchestration and automation engine available!

Build better AI agents leveraging BPMN standards

Camunda’s new agentic process orchestration capability empowers organizations to model, deploy and manage AI agents seamlessly into your end-to-end processes. Combining deterministic (orchestration logic that’s defined at design time) and non-deterministic (orchestration logic is determined at runtime, leveraging AI models and runtime data) process execution ensures compliance and provides organizations control and transparency while leveraging AI-driven decision-making to enhance automation and optimize and scale business processes efficiently.

Build your first AI agent leveraging BPMN ad-hoc sub-processes with this step-by-step guide.

The introduction of ad-hoc sub-processes to Camunda (released in 8.7) allows tasks to be activated dynamically, removing requirements for modeling task sequence, task order or task completion; this is all handled in runtime by the ad-hoc sub-process logic. By utilizing BPMN ad-hoc sub-processes, AI agents can autonomously manage tasks within a defined scope, executing them in any order, repeating steps as needed, or skipping them entirely based on real-time conditions. With Camunda’s agentic process orchestration, companies achieve greater efficiency, transparency, and resilience in their operations, all while maintaining governance and alignment with business objectives. And, built-in support for ad-hoc sub-processes and AI connectors means organizations can confidently experiment and build AI into their processes with reduced risk.

Enable tasks to be activated dynamically, removing the need to define the task sequence beforehand with ad-hoc sub-processes

Get started building AI agents and using agentic process orchestration with Camunda.

Go from 0 to process diagram in seconds with Camunda Copilot

We’ve added more exciting features to our Camunda Copilot to help you accelerate process modeling; enabling technical and business users alike to generate BPMN-compliant diagrams from natural language descriptions in minutes. Users can describe their process using the text-based UI in Camunda’s SaaS Web Modeler and quickly receive a BPMN diagram, complete with context and diffs to help them understand their new process. They can ask any follow up question, like how the process works, which test cases are recommended or what suggested performance KPIs might be, along with their expected values. They can also iterate on the process through chat to address more business requirements like designing to meet an SLA or ensuring certain steps occur.

The possibilities to save time, reduce manual effort and increase the quality in your process models with Camunda Copilot grow with each new use case we ideate. Two exciting use cases are to instantly create BPMN models from existing process documentation, or convert legacy code or proprietary non-BPMN models (XML, COBOL, BPEL, Java, etc) to BPMN standard models to aid in migration from other tools and platforms. We’re excited for customers to begin putting Camunda Copilot to the test and can’t wait to hear your feedback—especially about the new use cases you’re exploring!  

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Quickly generate BPMN diagrams from any text input, whether it’s simple natural language or legacy code, or generate documentation or suggestions from existing diagrams in seconds using Camunda Copilot.

Comprehensive orchestration with composable task automation

Shifting from isolated applications to a holistic, composable enterprise architecture that integrates AI alongside people, systems, and devices will operationalize AI and drive intelligent automation across end-to-end business processes. This shift is critical for organizations to realize the full potential of AI. We’re excited to share more information about new built-in task automation capabilities; however, Camunda’s composable architecture means you can opt for best-of-breed, blended, or fully Camunda-powered end-to-end automation solution as part of our comprehensive, scalable orchestration layer.

Flexible and composable AI-powered document processing from Camunda

Leverage the power of large language models (LLM) to automate and simplify how complex documents are handled with Camunda’s seamlessly integrated Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution. With an intuitive, user-friendly interface, you can effortlessly configure, test, and optimize data extraction—all in one place.

With Camunda’s IDP solution, you can easily digitize non-machine-readable documents and convert them into structured data, making them accessible and actionable for AI-driven automation and decision-making. Benefit from seamless integration into your end-to-end process orchestration efforts and effortlessly extract and process information from any document type to gain valuable insights, identify trends, and streamline workflows—minimizing errors, saving time, and strengthening your competitive edge. Plus, with one-click deployment, you can quickly create reusable templates, accelerating implementation and scaling efficiency. What’s more, you have the flexibility to choose the right LLM model for your needs, customize and extend IDP capabilities as required, and leverage Camunda’s composable architecture to either use our IDP solution or integrate another best-of-breed capability.

See the IDP documentation to get started.

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Transform documents into actionable data with AI-powered document processing with the flexibility to choose your LLM and customize and extend the solution to fit your needs.

Bridge the gap between legacy and modern technology with Camunda RPA

Traditional RPA tools often create automation silos, making it difficult to scale and adapt as business needs and technology evolve. Camunda’s RPA solution takes a different approach, seamlessly integrating legacy systems into end-to-end process orchestration. By simulating APIs and decoupling business logic from integration logic, our RPA ensures that automation remains scalable, adaptable, and future-proof.

Through a curated subset of the RPA Framework library built on Robot Framework, our RPA solution ensures ongoing support for essential automation capabilities, so users can modernize and build bots confidently. By bridging legacy systems with AI through process orchestration, businesses can unlock valuable data that would otherwise remain trapped, allowing them to fully operationalize AI across all people, systems (even legacy), and devices. With a composable architecture that provides full visibility and control, Camunda RPA enables organizations to unlock efficiency, reduce complexity, and streamline manual tasks.

Check out our RPA getting started guide.

And so much more

Beyond the agentic process orchestration, AI-powered process orchestration and task automation features we’ve described above, we’ve also released so much more including Process Landscape Visualization,  Camunda 8 SaaS Editions Available on AWS and the Camunda SAP Integration, and many other exciting features. Read about them in the 8.7 release blog post.

Learn more from our team

Want to dig deeper into how we can help you jumpstart your journey to operationalizing AI? Or see these exciting features in action via demo?  Watch the replay of our “Camunda 8.7: Agentic Orchestration for the Enterprise” webinar and get insights and a closer look.

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Adapt Faster with Camunda: Embrace Ever-Changing Business Requirements with AI-Infused End-to-End Orchestration https://camunda.com/blog/2024/05/adapt-faster-changing-requirements-ai-infused-end-to-end-orchestration/ Thu, 16 May 2024 11:15:00 +0000 https://camunda.com/?p=106918 Get better results faster; learn more about the AI-enabled and productivity boosting features that will help you adapt at the speed your business demands.

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Businesses are under intense pressure today; they are resource constrained and challenged to do more with less. To remain competitive and deliver the value their customers expect, they often look to automation technology. However, the hard truth is that few automation platforms can orchestrate a process end-to-end, which often results in fragmented task-based or point automations loosely joined together; resulting in compounding technical debt.

These fragmented task automations and systems can eliminate business visibility into your end-to-end process. Not having this visibility across the entire process can lead to reduced collaboration and higher development time and costs, with teams focused on compensating for the lack of visibility and integration; ultimately slowing your ability to adapt to changes. And, all the while, pressures from frequent regulatory changes and business demands continue to compound; reducing your ability to adapt at the speed your business demands.

Startups have an advantage in their lack of technical debt and ability to adapt and move fast. But, they aren’t the only ones who can adjust and move quickly.

With Camunda, enterprise organizations can drive lasting value, transformative efficiencies, and unparalleled visibility through end-to-end process orchestration. According to our new “The Total Economic Impact™ of Camunda for Enterprises” (TEI) study, conducted by Forrester Consulting, Camunda customers experience a reported savings of $15 million in process quality improvements and over 20,000 hours of development time. By enabling teams to efficiently and quickly design, execute, and improve processes from end-to-end, we help you realize sustained long-term enterprise business value and be poised to turn market conditions or tech advances like AI into your advantage.

And, it’s through end-to-end process orchestration, that organizations can more effectively leverage the potential of AI. With the ability to access and learn from the entirety of the structure and flow of the end-to-to end process and data that flows through it, organizations will achieve faster process development and iteration, including self-optimization, and fewer human errors via smarter decisioning; keeping you ahead of your competition and today’s mounting pressures.

We’re excited to share details around recently released features that will enable your organization to adapt even faster to changing market conditions and regulations, and confidently harness and capitalize on the power of AI.

Unlock faster and more efficient end-to-end process modeling with AI

Meet Camunda Copilot

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Camunda Copilot with the vision of enabling faster, more efficient, end-to-end process modeling. Copilot will simplify complex modeling tasks and is designed to cater to both low-code and pro-code developers without compromising on functionality.

The introduction of Copilot will enhance our overall modeling and process orchestration capabilities and optimize the user experience. And, because Copilot is adaptable to various levels of complexity and user expertise, it will foster collaboration across different stakeholders and ensure a unified approach to process development. You’ll get better results faster, enabling you to stay agile and quickly respond to market changes.

Transform descriptions into efficient BPMN tasks with Copilot Modeler suggestions

The AI-driven Modeler suggestions feature is the first of many features we’ll launch as part of Camunda Copilot with the goal of helping you increase speed, agility and efficiency across your organization. Modeler suggestions offer intuitive, actionable advice for transforming descriptions into efficient BPMN tasks. Simply enter a description such as ‘Send a message’ and you’ll immediately receive a practical suggestion for model refinement, such as to implement it through a Slack Connector.

Modeler suggestions expedite onboarding for those new to BPMN as well as expert modelers with more efficient design and successful implementation of process models that are optimized for readability and performance, helping you tackle your most complex processes faster.

Build forms faster with AI-assisted Form Builder

Accelerate the build and deployment of user task forms when business processes require human work. With the AI-assisted Form Builder, you simply describe your use case and a starter form will be generated automatically. Customize and extend the form as needed with drag-and-drop form controls, conditional formatting, fine-grained field validation, and more.

Incorporate GenAI into your processes with AI Connectors

Leverage the power of generative AI in your critical business processes with our suite of AI Connectors, including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Hugging Face. Camunda enables you to orchestrate AI services and machine learning models as part of your business processes so you can intelligently route tasks to teams, generate targeted communications, and more. Pro-code and low-code developers can use Camunda Modeler to easily enhance their business processes without extensive AI expertise or development resources. 

Plus, BPMN enables you to orchestrate end-to-end processes that combine generative AI work with tasks that are executed by other systems or even by teams of people, so decisions can be reviewed and validated; keeping you and your business safe.

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Put safeguards in place and review and validate decisions made by AI in your processes.

Enable AI-powered process optimization with ML-ready dataset

When you combine the power of machine learning algorithms and your organization’s process execution data, you can uncover valuable insights and trends that will help you streamline operations, reduce costs, and elevate customer experience.  

Camunda Optimize’s machine learning-ready data set export feature provides pre-organized and pre-processed data, ready for analysis, drastically reducing the average time spent on data cleanup and preparation. Business analysts and data scientists can effortlessly train new models or enhance existing ones, uncover patterns and trends, and predict and optimize future process instances’ outcomes to ensure your business is poised to take advantage of opportunities for efficiency.

Intelligent routing of customer inquiries with an AI-enabled blueprint

Jump-start your journey to AI-enabled processes with the Intelligent Routing blueprint, now available in Camunda Marketplace. This blueprint illustrates how you can use the OpenAI Connector to analyze a customer inquiry, route it to the correct team, and provide feedback to the AI so it can improve task routing in the future. Camunda SaaS users can install the blueprint directly from Camunda Marketplace, while Self-Managed users can download it for installation in their own setup.

Camunda Marketplace is a trusted source of blueprints and Connectors that help you get started quickly and orchestrate processes across a variety of technologies. We welcome contributions to Marketplace; to learn more, visit our guide. To let us know what Connectors you’re interested in, visit the Idea Portal.

AI-powered search capability across our docs, blogs, and forum

Accelerate your search for Camunda technical answers through streamlined access to all of our knowledge resources (docs, blogs, and forum) in a single place, through Camunda Docs AI.

With this new capability, search functionality across our docs, blogs, and forum is powered by a large language model (LLM) that learns from its sources to equip an LLM chatbot to answer technical questions quickly and efficiently, saving you time in searching across multiple sources. The Ask AI agent is available from our docs and forum; give it a try and let us know your feedback via comment on this blog.

Flexibly leverage the latest process improvements or address process definition issues

Migrate running process instances to a new version of a process model and quickly adapt to changing business requirements through process improvements and bug fixes with Camunda Operate. Add functionality that your users have requested, comply with new regulatory requirements, and keep up with the competition, all without interrupting processes that are in flight. You can migrate a process instance that is active or that is stuck on an incident, ensuring that migration is invisible to end users.

Simplify the conversion of existing REST Postman and REST-based OPEN API collections

Accelerate development and convert a Postman or OpenAI specification to a Camunda Connector with a few clicks. After you define an API in Postman or OpenAI, use the converter to create a reusable Connector that anyone can drag-and-drop into their BPMN process model. As you modify and maintain the API, you can easily update the Connector without rewriting the code.

As part of the multilayer coding experience for Camunda Connectors, the converter saves professional software developers valuable time that they would otherwise spend developing, testing, and maintaining Connectors for the APIs they define in Postman or OpenAI. It also helps pro-code developers ensure that low-code developers and business technologists can take advantage of APIs in the processes they design, without requiring them to understand the API specification at a deep level.

Build complex workflows faster and more collaboratively with the updated context pad

Accelerate the creation of BPMN diagrams with the new Modeler context pad. The context pad makes it easier to append BPMN elements, connect elements, and adjust element properties by providing hover-over text and guidance on common actions that can be performed. Our goal is to provide a more intuitive and accessible experience for those who are new to BPMN and those who are seasoned process modelers.

Undo or cancel previously executed tasks using compensation events

As business needs change and evolve, so should your process model. Easily maintain end-to-end orchestration for even the most complex scenarios with BPMN compensation events that provide the flexibility to undo or cancel previously executed tasks. Compensation events can reverse the effects of activities in case of errors, exceptions, or cancellations, ensuring consistency, reliability, and compliance in complex business scenarios. Learn more about the power of compensation events, how they implement Saga Patterns, and how to start incorporating them into your processes in this compensation events demo.

And so much more

Beyond the AI-enabled and productivity boosting features we’ve described above, we’ve also released so many more including a Process KPI Wizard, Camunda Console Self-Managed, Zeebe user tasks, and an HTML viewer component in forms. Read about them in our 8.5 release blog post! If you have any feedback or thoughts, please feel free to contact us or let us know on our forum.

If you don’t have an account, you can try out the latest version today with a free trial.

Learn more from our team

Want to dig deeper into how we can help you confidently harness the power of AI and adapt faster? Catch the recording of our live webinar for insights and a closer look at the features we’ve covered here in this blog.

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