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NETGRIF is a technology company developing platform for process driven applications based on Petriflow language that helps businesses of any size to digitize its processes.

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Netgrif is coming up with an innovative application development solution based on process management. We have spent years of academic research on modelling and process management. In May 2017, at the initiative of Prof. Gabriel Juhás, PhD. we founded NETGRIF. Our goal is to provide solutions based on the NETGRIF Application Engine platform that combine the benefits of automation processes with custom application development. The development uses Rapid System Prototyping and therefore the first version of the application can be created during one meeting with the customer.

Petriflow is a graphical/ textual application language based on Petri nets. NETGRIF utilizes several decades of experience of Prof. Gabriel Juhás from research of Petri nets and Business Process Management and experience of Milan Šamaj from delivery of complex enterprise solutions. The development of NETGRIF products is led by Juraj Mažári and Milan Mladoniczky, former doctoral students of Prof. Juhás.

Gabriel Juhás

CEO

Milan Šamaj

CBDO

Milan Mladoniczky

CIO

Juraj Mažári

CTO

Petriflow was originally created in 2008 to teach students business process management and process driven application development. Several releases of Petriflow modeler and Petriflow engine implemented by founders of NETGRIF enabled hundreds of students to apply theory of Petri nets, workflow processes, and case management in agile development of different use cases inspired by real world systems. We were fascinated by the speed of the learning curve of the students and by the overall time during which they were able to build applications by deploying the Petriflow processes. After we have shown some of our PoC applications implemented in Petriflow modeler and deployed in Petriflow engine to people from industry, the positive feedback motivated us to implement the first commercial version of Petriflow modeler and Petriflow engine and to found NETGRIF company.

2022
Netgrif Application Engine Community Edition
We had released NAE Community Edition on GitHub.
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2022
2021
Academic and technology cooperations
We are building partnerships with technology vendors that are part of our tech stack. Our tools are used for educational purposes in universities in Slovakia and Germany.
2021
2021
We had released the sixth version consisting of functionality such as support for enterprise-grade identity management, microservices, Kubernetes, filter as an application object, frontend actions, and many others.
2021
2020
Netgrif Application Engine SaaS
We launched cloud version of NAE running in container virtualization
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2020
2020
Academic version of Petriflow builder that includes Form Builder was derived from NAB
2020
2020
Partners
Our partners started to deliver applications running on NAE
2020
2020
Netgrif Application Builder
We launched NAB with form builder to support developers designing Petriflow applications for NAE
2020
2018
We have organized the 39th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, the 18th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design, International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering and Workshop on Process-Driven Application Development
2018
2017
The first version of Netgrif Application Engine (NAE) and the establishment of the company
NETGRIF was founded, first enterprise version of NAE was launched and first process driven applications running on NAE were deployed by our customers​
2017
2017
The definition and documentation of Petriflow and new academic version of Petriflow engine derived from NAE was launched
2017
2015
Modeler
We have implemented the first online web-based modeller for Petriflow language
2015
2008
Petriflow
We have created the first version of Petriflow language and led the implementation of Petriflow modeller and Petriflow engine, academic tools for creating and deploying Petriflow processes
2008
2005
Our research continued at Slovak University of Technology with a focus on deadlock analysis of workflow processes with multiple instances and shared resources
2005
2003
We have implemented VIPTOOL, an academic tool for validation of business processes based on Petri nets under the lead of Prof. Jörg Desel at Catholic University of Eichstätt Ingolstadt
2003
1999
We started to work on synchronization of task between process instances at University of Karlsruhe today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as a part of Priority Program Integration of Software Specification Techniques for Applications in Engineering of German Research Council, the research continued at Catholic University of Eichstätt Ingolstadt under the lead of Prof. Jörg Desel
1999
1999
Our research continued at the Project Petri net technology of German Research Council at Technical University of Berlin under the lead of Prof. Hartmut Ehrig
1999
1997
Our research that led to Petriflow continued by investigating the representation of Petri net behaviour at Aarhus University in Denmark in 1997 under the supervision of Prof. Mogens Nielsen
1997
1993
The history behind Petriflow language started by the research of Prof. Juhás in area of Petri nets
1993