Activiti is an open-source workflow engine written in Java that can execute business processes described in BPMN 2.0.

[6] In March 2010, Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez, two key developers for jBPM left Red Hat and started Activiti as employees of Alfresco.

[10] The departing developers forked the Activiti code to start a new project called Flowable.

In February 2017, a new commercial version of Activiti was released and rebranded as Alfresco Process Services.

[5] In May 2017, Activiti released version 6.0.0[2] with new support for ad hoc sub processes and a new application user interface.