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Introduction

Hornbill provides a powerful Business Process workflow tool allowing Business Users to create / update and manage their business processes, with the introduction of the Cloud Automation the power of this tool has been increased to now position Business Process Orchestration as part of the Hornbill offering.

Hornbill iBridge

Hornbill Provides its own out of the box integrations with various cloud providers as part of our Integration Bridge service (iBridge), The Hornbill iBridge allows you to integrate Automated tasks within a Business Process without the need to install or configure any on premise software or make any firewall changes.

All Hornbill iBridge automations are provided with simple to use input and outputs that can easily be mapped into an existing Business Process with a completely code less design.
Hornbill iBridge Provides over 400 integrations across 16 different vendors out of the box.

Business Process Integration Connectors

In addition to Hornbills iBridge, Hornbill Provides integration connectors for use inside a Business Process with Microsoft Orchestrator and or HP Operations Orchestration.

These can be configured in the Admin Tool via System -> Settings -> BPM Integrations.

HP Operations Orchestration

Hornbill provides an Integration Connector with HP Operations Orchestration this allows you to plugin an existing flow from with your 'HPOO instance from our Cloud Automation Node allowing for your Business Process to run Orchestration flows within your network. Any number of HPOO Connectors are currently supported so if you multiple HP OO Servers you need to connect to these can all be added just make sure to give each one an identifiable title so that they are easily selected from the Integration Node.

Microsoft Orchestrator

Hornbill provides a Integration Connector with Microsoft Orchestrator this allows you to plugin an existing Runbook from with your Orchestrator instance from our Cloud Automation Node allowing for your Business Process to run Orchestration flows within your network. Any number of Orchestrator Connectors are currently supported so if you multiple Microsoft Orchestrator Servers you need to connect to these can all be added just make sure to give each one an identifiable title so that they are easily selected from the Integration Node.

Invoking Business Process Orchestration

Using Hornbill's Business Process Designer you can easily invoke iBridge automations, as well as any of your defined Orchestration flows from HP Operations Orchestration, or your Runbooks from Microsoft Orchestrator. To facilitate this Hornbill provides an Cloud Automation node in the Business process designer.

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-== Business Process Orchestration ==
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-Currently Hornbill provides a powerful [[Business_Process_Designer | Business Process]] workflow tool allowing Business Users to create / update and manage their business processes, with the introduction of the [[#Integration Call| Integration Node]] the power of this tool has been increased to now position '''Business Process Orchestration''' as part of the Hornbill offering.
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-== Business Process Automation ==
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-=== Business Process Integration Connectors ===
+==Introduction==
-Hornbill Provides three types of integration connectors for use inside a Business Process [[#Hornbill iBridge|'''Hornbill iBridge''' ]], [[#Microsoft Orchestrator|'''Microsoft Orchestrator''']] and [[#HP Operations Orchestration|'''HP Operations Orchestration''']] each of these can be configured in the [[Administration | Admin Tool]] via '''System -> Settings -> BPM Integrations'''.
+Hornbill provides a powerful [[Business_Process_Designer | Business Process]] workflow tool allowing Business Users to create / update and manage their business processes, with the introduction of the [[Cloud Automation]] the power of this tool has been increased to now position '''Business Process Orchestration''' as part of the Hornbill offering.
-[[File:Hornbill-BPM-Integration-Connectors.png|900px|center]]
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-==== Hornbill iBridge ====
+== Related Articles ==
-Hornbill Provides its own out of the box integrations with various cloud providers as part of our Integration Bridge service (iBridge), The Hornbill iBridge allows you to integrate Automated tasks within a [[Business_Process_Designer | Business Process]] without the need to install or configure any on premise software or make any firewall changes. No additional configuration is required for the Hornbill iBridge out of the box you will have access to our catalog of various integrations detailed [[#Integration Services|here]], new integrations can be requested on the [[https://forums.hornbill.com|Hornbill Forum]] and if accepted will be made available as part of our [[Continuous_Delivery|Continuous Delivery]] model. All Hornbill iBridge automations are provided with simple to use input and outputs that can easily be mapped into an existing Business Process with a completely code less design.
+:* [[Hornbill iBridge]]
+:* [[IT Operations Management|Hornbill ITOM]]
+:* [[Auto Tasks]]
+:* [[HP Operations Orchestration]]
+:* [[Microsoft Orchestrator]]
+:* [[Business_Process_Designer|Business Process Designer]]
+:* [[Cloud Automation]]
+|}
-===== Integration Services =====
+==[[Hornbill iBridge]]==
+Hornbill Provides its own out of the box integrations with various cloud providers as part of our '''Integration Bridge service (iBridge)''', The Hornbill iBridge allows you to integrate Automated tasks within a Business Process without the need to install or configure any on premise software or make any firewall changes.
+* All Hornbill iBridge automations are provided with simple to use input and outputs that can easily be mapped into an existing Business Process with a completely code less design.
+* Hornbill iBridge Provides over 400 integrations across 16 different vendors out of the box.
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+==Business Process Integration Connectors ==
-The following Cloud Services are supported within the Hornbill iBridge:
+[[File:Hornbill-BPM-Integration-Connectors.png|500px|right]]
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+In addition to Hornbills iBridge, Hornbill Provides integration connectors for use inside a Business Process with '''Microsoft Orchestrator''' and or '''HP Operations Orchestration'''.
-* Amazon AWS
+* These can be configured in the [[Administration | Admin Tool]] via '''System -> Settings -> BPM Integrations'''.
-* Atlassian Jira Cloud
-* BMC Remedyforce
-* Cloudflare
-* Facebook
-* Freshbooks
-* Freshdesk
-* Freshservice
-* GitHub
-* Google Apps
-* Google Translate
-* Hornbill
-* IFTTT
-* Jive
-* Pipedrive
-* SalesForce
-* Scoro
-* ServiceNow
-* Slack
-* Twitter
-* Yammer
-* ZenDesk
-</div>
-</div>
-===== Secure Credential Storage =====
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-All Hornbill iBridge integrations will require some form of Authentication, Hornbill provides a secure credential storage [[Hornbill KeySafe | KeySafe]] which securely stores login credentials for all of the Hornbill iBridge Services.
+==== [[HP Operations Orchestration]] ====
-==== HP Operations Orchestration ====
+Hornbill provides an Integration Connector with [https://saas.hpe.com/en-us/software/operations-orchestration-it-process-automation HP Operations Orchestration] this allows you to plugin an existing flow from with your '''HPOO'' instance from our [[Cloud Automation]] Node allowing for your Business Process to run Orchestration flows within your network. Any number of HPOO Connectors are currently supported so if you multiple HP OO Servers you need to connect to these can all be added just make sure to give each one an identifiable title so that they are easily selected from the Integration Node.
-Hornbill provides a Integration Connector with [https://saas.hpe.com/en-us/software/operations-orchestration-it-process-automation| HP Operations Orchestration] this allows you to plugin an existing flow from with you '''HPOO'' instance from our [[#Integration Call| Integration Node]] allowing for your Business Process to run Orchestration flows within your network. Any number of HPOO Connectors are currently supported so if you multiple HP OO Servers you need to connect to these can all be added just make sure to give each one an identifiable title so that they are easily selected from the Integration Node.
+==== [[Microsoft Orchestrator]] ====
-When creating a new [[#Business Process Integration Connectors| Integration Connector]] if you chose the type '''HP Open Orchestrator''' you will get the following:
+Hornbill provides a Integration Connector with [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh237242(v=sc.12).aspx Microsoft Orchestrator] this allows you to plugin an existing Runbook from with your '''Orchestrator''' instance from our [[Cloud Automation]] Node allowing for your Business Process to run Orchestration flows within your network. Any number of Orchestrator Connectors are currently supported so if you multiple Microsoft Orchestrator Servers you need to connect to these can all be added just make sure to give each one an identifiable title so that they are easily selected from the Integration Node.
-[[File:HP-OO-Create-Connector.png|900px|center|text-right]]
-* HTTP Endpoint - API Endpoint for HPP which contains a publicly accessible domain name i.e hp.mydomain.com, the port must be 8443 as we send all connectors through this port followed by /oo/rest/v2
+==Invoking Business Process Orchestration==
-*Username - HPOO Basic Authentication Username
-*Password - HPOO Basic Authentication Password
-* SSL Verify Host / Peer - Occationaly when testing a machine that only has a self signed certificate these need to be unchecked.
-Once created a '''Test Connection''' button will appear allowing you to test the connection details before using them inside an [[#Integration Call| Integration Node]].
+Using Hornbill's Business Process Designer you can easily invoke iBridge automations, as well as any of your defined Orchestration flows from '''HP Operations Orchestration''', or your Runbooks from '''Microsoft Orchestrator'''.
+To facilitate this Hornbill provides an '''[[Cloud Automation]]''' node in the Business process designer.
-==== Microsoft Orchestrator ====
-=== Integration Call ===
+[[Category:Integration]]