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Do you want to learn more about Oracle SOA Suite and BPM Suite? Do you need to get quick product details for your project? Make sure you visit the Oracle Learning Library - for free online trainings on-demand. You can search by product e.g. Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle (more...)

If you have never experienced during process design with BPMN that the final process model became twice, if not three times more complex than you thought it would be, than you haven't been doing process design for real. You might for example have experienced how, what initially looked like a (more...)

I am happy to announce that our new BPM 11g Performance Tuning whitepaper is now available on OTN. To access the whitepaper please click here. This white paper captures real world best practices from actual performance tuning exercises across many real BPM implementations. It is referred as a ‘best practices’ (more...)

PS6 is a Major Update which includes:

• Complete process model to execute from Composer
• Simplified end user experience in Workspace
• Adaptive Case Management
• Instance Revisioning

The new version of BPM Suite PS6 is available at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required). You can find the latest (more...)

In order to do business, companies need to buy and develop many applications. These applications help companies perform various functions. Usually, employees may need to access multiple applications to perform an end-to-end function or what we call a business process.

Take, for example, Order Management. In order to take and (more...)

This new PA release includes Previews for Employee Onboarding (EOB) and of Business Account Opening (BAO), as well as customer-driven updates to all existing PAs. Also, a new Installer now supports the installation process.

PA previews showcase functionality that Oracle BPM customers and prospects can explore, thus matching their (more...)

From time to time, you may experience some kind of issue in your BPM environment. Issues could be caused by a wide variety of reasons – changes to the environment, the pattern of load on the environment, product defects, bad process design, insufficient resources allocated to the environment, network instability (more...)

"Very excited about Adaptive Case Management in BPM PS6. This will make ADF interfaces implementation for BPM tasks and processes more natural and business oriented. I believe this will help to increase BPM PS6 adaption across different projects." Andrejus Baranovskis, Red Samurai Consulting

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Now that we understand what Case Management is and the anatomy of an Oracle BPM 11g PS6 Case Management project, we can look at the simplified lifecycle of a project at runtime.... how the stakeholder interacts, what happens when a Case Activity is triggered, what happens when it ends etc....

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• BPM is not about technology
• BPM is not about architecture
• BPM is not about creating diagrams
• BPM is about improving processes, and there are multiple ways to approach BPM

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In Oracle BPM 11g PS6, BPM Studio (JDeveloper) is the design-time environment for Case Management. This blog entry will describe the make-up of a Case Management project in BPM Studio, stepping through all the terms and properties associated but will stop short of giving recommendations or best-practices, which will follow (more...)

With the release of PS6 on 1st April 2013, Case Management made its appearance. In this series of blogs I intend to....

• introduce the concept of case management
• explain the anatomy of a case management project in BPM 11g
• explain the lifecycle of a typical case management project at runtime
• (more...)

Just released today, the long awaited  version 11.1.1.7 of Oracle Business Process Management

Get it from OTN

I will post some articles here soon explaining how to use some of the new features like:

• Case Management


• Web Forms


• Enhanced Composer
  

This blog is the 3rd in a serie of 3 blogposts. All regarding the different approaches we tested during our project where we had very content rich (a lot of documents) Oracle BPM processes.

• Using attachment documents with Oracle BPM Human Tasks
  
• Using a Content Server documents with Oracle BPM (more...)

• Webcast on.demand: Learn How Oracle Business Process Management Can Extend Your Applications
  

SOA & BPM Partner Community

For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit  www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need (more...)

Activiti is a great open source workflow + BPM platform, which you can use in your own java application (embedded) or test it in the provided Rest or Web demo applications. Activiti also provides  an Eclipse designer plugin which you can use to create your own BPMN 2.0 definitions and (more...)

• BPM: Transforming Customer Experience: The Convergence of Social, Mobile and Business Process Management
  
• BPM: Cooking Up Successful Business Process Management: A Tactical Approach
  
• BPM Solution Brief: Increasing Operational Efficiency: BPM in Utilities
  

SOA & BPM Partner Community

For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA (more...)

Today I’d like to explain how to share instances of Oracle's Pre-built Virtual Machine for SOA Suite and BPM Suite across different computers in your network.

Three requirements I had to address:

1. Call of external services like GeoNames (http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/) from within the BPM Suite VM
2. Connection to multiple BPM Suite VMs from Host (e.g. JDeveloper and Browser)
3. Connection to multiple BPM Suite VMs from different developer computers in the network
4. Share data between VMs and developer computers via FTP

The default options already support connections between host and client. However the target here was to (more...)

In the Oracle SOA Suite for calls to synchronous services the maximum time a composite should wait for a service to respond, can be set using the SyncMaxWaitTime (which has a default of 45 seconds). For services deployed on the same engine, this also works for the BPM Suite.

However, (more...)

Forrester on Dynamic Case Management Q1 2011

What Oracle and some other BPM and ECM vendors call Adaptive Case Management – ACM – is called Dynamic case management by Forrester and others. The notion of a case and the need for these systems emerge from requirements elicited by existing Business (more...)