Camunda Process Automation Platform

Camunda is an open-source process automation platform that enables organizations to design, automate, and monitor business processes and decision logic. Founded in 2008 by Jakob Freund and Bernd Ruecker and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Camunda has raised over $280 million in funding and serves thousands of enterprise customers including Allianz, Lufthansa, and Universal Music. Key features: BPMN 2.0 process modeling with a visual diagram editor for designing executable process flows including gateways (exclusive, parallel, inclusive), events (start, end, intermediate, boundary), tasks (user, service, script, business rule), and subprocesses. DMN decision tables and decision requirements graphs for modeling business rules in a tabular format, executable by the built-in DMN engine. External task workers pattern where process orchestration delegates work to external services via REST or gRPC, enabling microservice-based process automation. Zeebe workflow engine (released 2018, now Camunda Platform 8) built for cloud-native, horizontally scalable orchestration, using a consensus protocol (Raft) for distributed consensus, handling thousands of process instances per second. Operate dashboard for monitoring running process instances, inspecting variables, and resolving incidents with detailed flow node instance data. Tasklist for human task management with custom forms and claim/release workflows. Optimize for process analytics including bottleneck analysis, throughput dashboards, and process variant analysis. Modeler (desktop and web) for BPMN, DMN, and Form modeling with validation and simulation. Connectors framework for integrating with REST APIs, Kafka, AWS, Google Workspaces, and RabbitMQ. Camunda Platform 7 (embedded Java engine) and Platform 8 (SaaS/self-managed Kubernetes). Open source (Zeebe under custom license) and commercial editions.