Many organizations are looking for ways to implement Business Process Management (or BPM). There are several tools available that offer BPM functionality. But integrating these tools into the existing IT landscape is hard. These tools never offer the exact functionality as needed by the organization. Is it possible to extend the functionality with custom code? And how do you prevent massive vendor lock-in and tight coupling between the tool and the rest of the systems in the IT landscape?

In this session, I will share the experiences I have gained from implementing BPM with Camunda in several real world projects. I will show you which integration patterns work well, which architectural principles help to prevent lock-in and coupling and how I've expanded the functionality of Camunda with custom code.