Modern, stable, and open

CadenzaFlow is built to handle real-world complexity—BPMN, DMN, APIs, and observability, all designed for today’s workflows and tomorrow’s scale.

Introduction

CadenzaFlow — born as a modern, stable fork of battle-tested Camunda 7 — and extending it at no compromise for Enterprise use, is a workflow and decision automation platform that has powered mission-critical enterprise systems for over a decade. With its proven maturity, rich ecosystem, and enterprise-grade reliability, CadenzaFlow continues to stand out as a platform of choice for organizations that value operational control, governance, and transparency in their automation journey as well as scalability and security.

Unlike newer approaches and alternative non-BPMN workflow engines that may prioritize unchecked horizontal scalability, CadenzaFlow provides enterprises with scalable performance underpinned by control, traceability, and transactional integrity — qualities that global enterprises, telcos, and financial institutions depend on.
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Platform Overview

Freedom to orchestrate your way

CadenzaFlow is the modern, stable fork of Camunda 7—built to preserve true open source while delivering enterprise-grade reliability.

Freedom to orchestrate your way
Open, external, and future-ready.

Open, external, and future-ready.

Designed for real-world complexity, CadenzaFlow keeps workflow logic external and BPMN/DMN-compliant, never locked inside application code.

Transparent and extensible.

Run production workloads with the Community Edition, or scale with Enterprise features for long-term support, SLA guarantees, and advanced operational manageability.

Transparent and extensible.
Your processes, your control.

Your processes, your control.

From simple workflows to mission-critical business orchestration, CadenzaFlow gives you APIs, SDKs, and full observability—so you can build and govern the processes your business needs, without compromise.

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Why Enterprises Trust CadenzaFlow

Shared and Scalable Relational Database

At the heart of CadenzaFlow is its reliance on a shared relational database, ensuring strong consistency, reliability, and auditability across distributed environments. This design allows enterprises to preserve full transactional guarantees, eliminating the risks of data loss or “uncontrollable power” that can arise in stateless, event-only architectures.

Freedom to orchestrate your way
Open, external, and future-ready.

Flexible Cluster Deployment

CadenzaFlow can be deployed in clustered configurations, allowing enterprises to scale and tailor nodes to their operational needs:
- WebApp Nodes: Multiple nodes running Cockpit, Tasklist, and Admin can be deployed behind a load balancer for resilience and user scalability.
- Job Executor Nodes: Dedicated nodes that focus purely on executing background jobs for high-throughput processing.
- REST API + Job Executor Nodes: Combined nodes that expose APIs while simultaneously processing workloads for maximum throughput and efficiency.

This node specialization model enables both scale and reliability while keeping full control over operational topology.

Mature REST API for Full Operational Control

One of Camunda 7's most significant strengths is its comprehensive REST API, which allows fine-grained operational control unmatched in newer platforms:

- Suspend/resume process instances
- Manage tasks at an individual, granular level
- Control runtime state with precision across the engine: single skip, retry, jump to another step, and more

These capabilities — absent in many newer generation non-compliant workflow engines and even in new Camunda 8 “horizontally scalable” engines — give enterprises the confidence to operate at scale without losing control.

Transparent and extensible.

What's Next: Roadmap Highlights

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Truly Pluggable Capability Connectors

Coming soon: Kafka, REST API, Salesforce and many more connectors designed around the external task pattern. Unlike engines that run connectors inside the core engine, CadenzaFlow supports enterprise operational sovereignty by keeping connectors decoupled and running external to the workflow engine, ensuring maximum flexibility and safety.

02

AI Engine Connectors

Planned AI-powered connectors will enable workflows to interact with AI models (including LLMs), bringing AI-assisted orchestration to enhance automation and decision-making — without compromising enterprise control.

03

Scalability and Power at Control

- Scalable Event Bus: Event-driven external task dispatching; CadenzaFlow will offload dispatching of external tasks through horizontally scalable open event buses (Kafka, NATS, or others to be decided) instead of proprietary and unscalable topics that also drain CPU cycles from the workflow engine.

- Next-generation SQL DBs: Support for modern, distributed, but still relational-at-heart SQL engines to achieve massive throughput while preserving the transactional consistency and operational management APIs that enterprises rely on for operations

CadenzaFlow remains a trusted, enterprise-grade platform that balances performance with control, scalability, traceability, and innovation with maturity.

For organizations that cannot afford operational surprises, CadenzaFlow is not just a legacy, risky platform, but a modern foundation that continues to evolve. Providing truly open-source freedom to be used also in production, with upcoming innovations in pluggable connectors, AI-assisted orchestration, and controllable scalability, enterprises can rely on CadenzaFlow to deliver the automation power they need — without sacrificing governance, sovereignty, or peace of mind.

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