Orkes provides a battle-tested workflow orchestration platform built on open-source technology for managing complex processes. It enables the reliable coordination of microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and human tasks within durable workflows. The platform offers built-in reliability, observability, and control to move agentic workflows from proof-of-concept to production scale.
Funding
$29.3M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Building and maintaining distributed systems based on microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures is complex, requiring significant development effort and specialized expertise. Existing solutions often lack the necessary scalability, resilience, and observability, leading to increased operational costs and slower development cycles.
Solution
Orkes provides a workflow orchestration platform designed to simplify the development, management, and scaling of distributed applications. The platform enables developers to visually design and orchestrate workflows that integrate microservices, APIs, AI models, and human tasks. By providing durable execution, flexible integrations, and comprehensive observability, Orkes reduces the complexity of distributed systems, allowing organizations to accelerate development cycles, improve application reliability, and optimize resource utilization. The platform offers both a cloud-based and customer-hosted solution, providing flexibility and control over deployment environments.
Target Audience
Orkes targets software development teams, architects, and IT professionals in industries such as finance, healthcare, media and entertainment, and logistics who are building and managing complex distributed applications.
Features
- Visual workflow creation UI for designing and editing workflows with a built-in code editor
- Support for human tasks, enabling the integration of human interactions into automated workflows
- Wait tasks for adding durability to workflows by pausing execution for specified durations
- Versioning capabilities for safe testing of changes through canary deployments and A/B testing
- Task retry mechanism for automatically handling task failures based on configurable parameters
- Role-based access control for secure sharing of workflows, tasks, and secrets across teams
- Audit logs and change data capture for tracking modifications to workflows and application state
- Secure storage of API keys and tokens with custom access requirements
- Built-in AI tasks and a feature-rich AI prompt builder for streamlining AI-driven workflows
- Integration with various third-party services, databases, and APIs through open-source SDKs