When Maestro first hit the Drupal scene, it was 2011, Drupal 7 was the main release and the Rules module was the primary mechanism you'd use to react to events happening in your Drupal system. Maestro integrated easily with Rules to allow site builders to fire off Maestro workflows when events happened in Drupal. Fast forward to 2025, and the ECA module is rapidly gaining traction.
AI is disrupting the business world where many look to AI as a way to replace personnel. We at Nextide look at AI combined with our Maestro Workflow Engine as a way to increase people's productivity by replacing the mundane or repetitive tasks that humans do, retaining employees and allowing them to focus on important business tasks. As AI offerings mature, offloading routine and time consuming tasks to AI to perform will become the norm.
Innovation within Canadian healthcare continues to provide better care experiences for those using the system. As the population ages and strains our facilities to care for those nearing their end-of-life, hospitals are looking at technological solutions to ease the burden on emergency rooms and give people access to accurate and timely healthcare. Nextide partnered with uCarenet, a Toronto-based e-health company, to create an innovative health and wellness application to monitor the condition of palliative care patients for a major Canadi
In my last post “Untapped Areas for Business Improvements” I attempted to point out the various areas where the potential exists for significant returns for your business through intelligent work automation. As well, time was given to examine some of the more obvious impediments as to why so little is done in this area.
Many organization still struggle with the strain of manual processes that touch critical areas of the business. And these manual processes could be costlier that you think. It’s not just profit that may be slipping away but employee moral, innovation, competitiveness and so much more. This article will outline the reasons and approaches for business process improvements.
The Maestro Engine is the mechanism responsible for executing a workflow template by assigning tasks to actors, executing tasks for the engine and providing all of the other logic and glue functionality to run a workflow. The maestro module is the core module in the Maestro ecosystem and is the module that houses the template, variable, assignment, queue and process schema. The maestro module also provides the Maestro API for which developers can interact with the engine to do things such as setting/getting process variables, start processes, move the queue along among many
Templates and tasks make up the basic building blocks of a Maestro workflow. Maestro requires a workflow template to be created by an administrator. When called upon to do so, Maestro will put the template into "production" and will follow the logic in the template until completion. The definitions of in-production and template are important as they are the defining points for important jargon in Maestro. Simply put, templates are the workflow patterns that define logic, flow and variables. Processes are templates that are being executed which then have process
We've put together a Maestro overview video introducing you to Maestro for Drupal 8. Maestro is a workflow engine that allows you to create and automate a sequence of tasks representing any business process. Our business workflow engine has existed in various forms since 2003 and through many years of refinements, it was released for Drupal 7 in 2010.
If it can be flow-charted, then it can be automated
