Orchestrate long-running business processes — in one BPMN workflow

Long-running processes in let you pause, persist, and resume workflows that span hours, days, or weeks — with full visibility and reliable execution.

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Long Running Processes

Why integration platforms & business orchestration suffer

Most integration platforms and orchestration tools were designed for short-running, technical flows. When processes stretch across time, people, and systems, customers hit the same three walls.

Processes fall apart when time is involved

Most platforms assume workflows finish in one run. When they don’t, logic has to be split, paused externally, or rebuilt elsewhere.

No single view of the business process

Fragmented workflows destroy end-to-end visibility. Monitoring shows technical steps, not business progress.

Manual state handling creates risk and cost

State management is pushed onto the customer, increasing complexity, maintenance effort, and failure risk over time.

The Solution: A new way to run workflows across time

Long-running processes are built into the Frends execution engine. Instead of breaking flows apart or restarting them, Frends persists the process state at defined points and continues later — reliably.

Key capabilities

Built-in long-running process execution

Native support for workflows that run across hours, days, or weeks — without splitting them into multiple processes.

Stateful and durable orchestration

Paused processes are persisted into the Agent database and can be resumed reliably when conditions are met.

Resumable by schedule, signal — and even manually

Processes can resume on schedule, via another process sending a signal, and can also be resumed manually from the UI (including with modified context).

What this means for your business

With Frends long-running processes, enterprises can:

end-to-end process visibility

Long-running processes provide a single, continuous view of an entire business workflow — from start to finish.

Instead of tracking progress across multiple disconnected processes, each business case is represented by one process instance. Teams can clearly see where a process is waiting, what it’s waiting for, and what data has flowed through it so far.

This improves operational transparency, simplifies troubleshooting, and makes it easier to explain process status to business stakeholders.

Easier maintenance and change management

With long-running processes, the entire workflow is modeled in a single BPMN process instead of being split across multiple integrations.

This makes changes easier to understand, implement, and test. Updates can be made in one place without coordinating changes across several processes or external components.

As a result, teams can evolve business workflows faster while reducing the risk of unintended side effects.

Fewer moving parts and failure points

Native long-running process support eliminates the need for external schedulers, custom databases, and glue code to keep workflows alive.

By handling waiting, persistence, and resumption inside the orchestration engine, Frends reduces architectural complexity. There are fewer integrations to maintain, fewer handoffs between systems, and fewer places where failures can occur.

The result is a more reliable automation landscape with lower operational overhead.

Stronger audibility and compliance support

Long-running processes automatically maintain a complete history of the entire workflow lifecycle.

Because each business case is handled as a single process instance, all actions, decisions, waits, and data changes are recorded in context. This creates a clear and consistent audit trail without requiring manual logging or external tracking systems.

For regulated environments, this makes compliance reporting simpler and more reliable, while reducing the effort required to investigate issues or respond to audits.

Reduce risk in time-dependent workflows

Time-dependent workflows often fail due to unreliable retries, manual restarts, or missed deadlines.

Frends handles waiting, timing, and resumption natively, ensuring processes pause and continue in a controlled and predictable way. SLA-based reminders, escalations, and delayed actions are enforced as part of the workflow itself.

This reduces the risk of stalled processes, missed SLAs, and inconsistent execution over long durations.

end-to-end process visibility Easier maintenance and change management Fewer moving parts and failure points Stronger audibility and compliance support Reduce risk in time-dependent workflows

Webinar: Discover how Long-Running Processes can help your business

Explore how long-running processes work with the launch of Frends 6.2. This session covers state persistence, event- and time-based resumption, and BPMN-based orchestration in practice.
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See Frends Long-Running Processes in action

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Use cases

Human-in-the-loop approvals

Pause workflows while waiting for decisions, enforce SLAs, and resume automatically.

Case and ticket lifecycles

Manage long-lived cases with multiple updates, escalations, and waiting periods in one process.

Order & supply chain processes

Orchestrate multi-day order-to-cash or delivery flows with full end-to-end visibility.

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