SpiffArena on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

SpiffArena is the web application built around the SpiffWorkflow engine, and it turns a diagram into a running system. Analysts and subject matter experts draw a process in the browser using standard BPMN notation, express the decisions inside it as DMN decision tables, and save it straight into a version controlled process model repository. The same diagram is then what actually executes: SpiffArena starts process instances from it, drives them through their tasks, gathers input through generated forms, evaluates the decision tables, runs script steps, and records the whole history of every instance.

Because the model is the implementation, the gap between the process a team agreed and the process the software runs simply does not open up. An administrator interface shows every process group, every model and every instance in flight, with the state of each task, the data carried through the process and the option to intervene where a human decision is needed. Process models live in a git repository, so change to a business process is reviewable and revertable in exactly the way code is.

SpiffArena suits approval chains, onboarding and offboarding, request and fulfilment workflows, compliance and review processes, and any long running procedure that today lives in a mix of email, spreadsheets and habit.

Common uses

• Model approval, onboarding and request workflows in BPMN and run them as executable processes
• Give analysts a browser based editor for business rules using DMN decision tables
• Track every process instance, its tasks and its data from one administrator interface

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.