The Automation Manager product from Red Hat consists of two versions:

• Red Hat Process Automation Manager uses jBPM and has its own admin site to manage the processes.
• Red Hat Decision Manager uses Drools and intended to be used in middleware layer only

Without digging into the differences of these versions, its architecture consists of:

Where:

• Business/Decision Manager: a site where we can configure users/projects/tasks/…
• Kie Server: the execution server where our processes will run
• Smart Router: allows to group a number of Kie Servers

Also, this product allows to be configured for:

• Persistence: using any kind of Database (mysql, Oracle, Postgresql, …)
• High Availability
• Message Broker