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Jira is an incredibly popular project management and issue tracking tool and is very flexible and adaptable to project workflows and can be further enhanced with the extensive application ecosystem that surrounds the product.  In a recent project, we used Maestro AI to supercharge a Jira workflow to offload external participant feedback loops to Maestro and let Maestro AI determine which feedback loop to use.

Maestro and ECA Integration

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.

Agentic AI with Maestro

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. 

In the dynamic world of academia, managing academic visitor applications efficiently is crucial. The University of Oxford Mathematical Institute has embraced the power of Drupal  and the Maestro module to streamline and enhance their academic visitor application process. Let's delve into the seamless workflow that facilitates this crucial task.

The General Design

Initiation: Academics or their assistants initiate the process by filling in a comprehensive multi-page webform tailored to their needs.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of our workflow engine, Maestro. In this release, we have not only addressed a few minor bugs but also introduced several significant enhancements. These enhancements empower you to automate complex business processes that extend beyond your Drupal environment, opening up a world of possibilities.

In our blog post about Innovating Healthcare with Drupal, we talked about using Drupal to deliver an application that improves the healthcare experience for palliative care patients.  Our application was a resounding success.  The global COVID-19 pandemic hits and th

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

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) needed to automate an internal document approval process where any given launch of the workflow could:

Gartner recently released an interesting tech note discussing how automated business processes and online integration and transformation of business workflow should be a focus for businesses. By 2022, 50% of digital business technology platform projects will connect events to business outcomes using event-driven intelligent business process management suite (iBPMS)-oriented frameworks - here is a link to the Gartner article.

As Drupal module maintainers, we at Nextide need to be constantly updating our modules to add new features or patch issues.  Whether your module is available for download or is a custom module for a client site, you can't expect users to uninstall and reinstall it to pick up new features.  If you have data or configuration changes, update hooks are mandatory to learn.  This post will show how we created a new content entity in a Drupal update hook.