Business Process Automation & Orchestration

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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 Integration Node 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

Hornbill Provides three types of integration connectors for use inside a Business Process Hornbill iBridge, Microsoft Orchestrator and HP Operations Orchestration each of 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 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

Hornbill provides a Integration Connector with Microsoft Orchestrator this allows you to plugin an existing Runbook from with your Orchestrator instance from our Integration 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.

Integration Call

Setting up a new Integration Call node within a Business Process is as follows:

1. Within the Business Process designer an Integration Call Node can be placed on the canvas.

2. You can then select one of your Integration Connectors , if you have not set any up Hornbill Integration Bridge will always be available.

3. Clicking the ellipsis on Method allows you to browse the content catalogue for the given Integration Connector and then to select a method to use within your Business Process.

4. Once a method has been selected you will need to select a Credential from the list these are controlled via KeySafe , the list is filtered based on the Authentication Type required by the Integration method. If the list is empty the type of credential is shown by hovering the mouse over the i against the credential.

Request Parameters marked with the red Mandatory marker must be populated and you will be able to see any Response Parameters that will be exposed to the Business Process on completion of this method.