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Sure, systems like Activiti or Camunda come to mind.

• throwaway290 11mo ago
  my question is does anyone (here on HN is implied) really do this? in production for some serious purpose?
  • gunnarmorling 11mo ago
    Camunda (not affiliated btw.) crossed 100M ARR last year. So yes, this apparently is being used. Whether these users hang out here on HN or not, that I don't know.
  • tauchunfall 11mo ago
    I worked on a product that used BPMN where users could define processes. The company I worked for used Java for decades already. Clients of the product were banks. The people I worked with were not specifically HN audience. Rather in the Java bubble in Germany-Austria-Switzerland which is also surprisingly a small world. If BPMN is not really needed, then I would also not use it nowadays. It increases complexity, and who knows if it makes project communication better at all. Update: On the Camunda website there are 60 case-studies of customers/clients using BPMN, https://camunda.com/case-studies/ https://camunda.com/case-studies/. One of them has the teaser: "The 10th largest US Bank created an omnichannel onboarding platform that handles 12m process instances per year across 100 workflows". Now I have something to read for this Sunday evening.
    • throwaway290 11mo ago
      Thanks. I guess I'm in my bubble...