This chapter introduces you to Stardust from a pragmatic point of view. You will learn how to model a simple business process and deploy it for improved automation and management. Our example will focus on a process modeled for a customer call center in a fictitious company called ACME.
In our example ACME is an independent software vendor and needs to set up a support management process. In the customer call center, agents will put all incoming support incidents on record. The engineering staff will be responsible for analysis of the recorded calls and for providing a solution to each of them.
Using this tutorial for hands-on learning requires a prior installation of Stardust on your system. Installation issues are covered in the Stardust Installation Guide.
Familiarity with basic concepts of workflow modeling is recommended, though not required, for understanding this chapter. A more theoretical introduction to workflow modeling with Stardust is provided in the Modeling Guide.
After you have finished reading this chapter you will be able to: