Thanks for the thoughtful reply, this is very useful.
The concept of having business users able to review (or even, holy grail, edit/author) workflows was one of the potentially appealing aspects of the BPMN products; did you get a signal on whether there were any benefits? "the initial hurdle of BPMN" sounds like maybe this isn't as good as it seems on the face of it?
Also, how do you go about testing long-lived workflows? Do any of these orchestrators have tools/environments that help with system-testing (or even just doing isolated simutions on) your flows? I've not found anything off-the-shelf for this yet.
The concept of having business users able to review (or even, holy grail, edit/author) workflows was one of the potentially appealing aspects of the BPMN products; did you get a signal on whether there were any benefits? "the initial hurdle of BPMN" sounds like maybe this isn't as good as it seems on the face of it?
Also, how do you go about testing long-lived workflows? Do any of these orchestrators have tools/environments that help with system-testing (or even just doing isolated simutions on) your flows? I've not found anything off-the-shelf for this yet.