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Camunda BPM at Sparta Systems
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries
- Pharmaceuticals
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Manufacturing System Automation
- Process Control & Optimization
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- Training
The Challenge
Sparta Systems, a provider of enterprise quality management solutions (EQMS), was looking for a technology to manage workflows for its next-generation cloud-based products. The company wanted to offer a role with its software that enables business or compliance analysts to create and deploy business processes. While this could have been built internally, Sparta preferred to leverage third-party technology to take advantage of new features and functions without dedicating development resources to the effort. The company evaluated several BPM products, using criteria such as open source/OEM friendly license, wide community adoption, open standards and native support for BPMN 2.0, designer/modeler tooling availability, exposed APIs, embeddability within their application or consumable as a service, database support, scalability and performance, and process versioning.
About The Customer
Sparta Systems has been delivering enterprise quality management solutions (EQMS) for over 20 years, helping customers bring products to market safely and efficiently. The solutions provide control and transparency throughout an enterprise and its critical supplier network by focusing on optimizing quality, ensuring compliance, reducing risk, and lowering cost. Headquartered in New Jersey, Sparta Systems' software solutions are designed based on best practices and configured to meet industry-specific process requirements of verticals such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Discrete Manufacturing, and Consumer Products. With over 750,000 users on its flagship EQMS product TrackWise, the de facto quality management standard for Life Sciences, Sparta Systems established the Quality Business Network foundation, which enables all ecosystem stakeholders to connect and collaborate on quality issues anywhere, anytime to improve operational efficiencies and overall business results.
The Solution
Sparta Systems chose Camunda BPM as it met all of their criteria and was easily embeddable within their existing Java application. Camunda proved to be a great partner throughout the process, providing consultation during the evaluation phase, understanding Sparta's use cases, collaborating to get to a successful implementation, and allowing Sparta to influence their roadmap. Using Camunda’s technology and other subject matter experts, Sparta was able to encapsulate the process execution to a single layer within their platform code base. This allowed Sparta to focus on developing features that added business value related to quality management, while leveraging the years of investment the Camunda community had already invested in the BPMN technology. Sparta also worked closely with the Camunda development team on extending their web-based modeler, resulting in a Sparta contribution to the open source project in the form of a customized BPMN 2.0 modeler that would focus on specific modeling necessities for Sparta’s clients.
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