Europe's digital sovereignty has long been more than just a political buzzword. Public administrations are increasingly faced with the challenge of reducing their dependence on proprietary cloud and software providers, while at the same time meeting high requirements for data protection, control over critical infrastructure, and long-term investment security.
Open Source is increasingly coming into focus as a strategic alternative. With the inclusion of CIB seven into the openCode portal, this aspiration is now being put into practice.
Open source as the key to Europe's digital sovereignty
The European Commission is currently pursuing the goal of systematically strengthening open source within the EU. The focus is on measurable benefits such as:
- Less dependence on individual manufacturers (vendor lock-in)
- Improved security and visibility
- Better control over critical digital infrastructures
- Sustainable use of public IT investments
Open source is thus increasingly becoming the basis for sovereign, resilient, and sustainable digital administration.
openCode.de - The central open source platform for public administration
With openCode, the public administration in Germany provides a joint platform for open source software. The aim is to jointly develop software solutions, reuse them, and make them available transparently.
openCode promotes:
- Cooperation between authorities
- Reuse of proven solutions
- Independence from proprietary providers
- Technical, organizational, and legal control over software used
CIB seven now on openCode: Open source BPM for administration
With the registration of CIB seven on openCode, public administrations now have access to a future-proof open source BPM platform.
CIB seven is our powerful process engine for modeling, executing, and monitoring business processes. It is based on the proven architecture of Camunda 7 and positions itself as its long-term open-source alternative.
Background: Support for Camunda 7 Community Edition has been discontinued. For many administrations, this represents a critical gap, as stable and proven process platforms are often used for many years. CIB seven reliably closes this gap.
Why CIB seven is the ideal solution for public administrations
CIB seven guarantees the further development and maintenance of Camunda 7 technology beyond 2025, without cloud constraints and without architectural changes.
Your advantages at a glance:
- Investment protection: Existing Camunda 7 applications continue to run unchanged (drop-in replacement)
- Data protection & on-premises: Operation in your own data center or in a sovereign cloud – no SaaS requirement
- Legal certainty: Published under the Apache 2.0 license
- Digital sovereignty: Full control over software, data, and operating model
Functional scope of CIB seven
CIB seven offers the full range of functions of a modern BPM platform:
- Process Engine: BPMN 2.0 workflows and DMN 1.3 decision tables.
- Web applications:
- Cockpit: Monitoring, error analysis, and administration of ongoing processes.
- Tasklist: User interface for administrators.
- Admin: Gestão de utilizadores, funções e direitos.
- Seamless integration: Native support for Java, Spring Boot, Jakarta EE, and Quarkus.
- REST API: Complete API coverage for integration into existing specialized procedures.
- Extensibility: Flexible plugin architecture.
- Compatibility: 100% compatible with Camunda Platform 7.
