Oracle BPM Suite Business Process Management Suite

Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g

Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g is a component of a solution portfolio Oracle Fusion Middleware combining management tools business processes with tools for the organization of effective collective work within a single platform.

A large number of the diverse systems distributed on all enterprise that complicates modeling and monitoring of processes and management of them is involved in modern crucial business processes. The new version of a packet of Oracle Business Process Management Suite is based on the universal engine of process management which allows to attract both IT specialists, and business users to the solution of this task.

The unified engine of process management (unified process engine) has support of industry standards Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0. The tool BPM Studio intended for modeling and design of processes on the basis of roles of users is included in the package. The component Process Composter allows to manage modeling and deployment of business processes on the Internet. Besides, in a product possibilities of the analysis of processes and drawing up exhaustive reports are expanded.

The tool kit offers the innovation design of the platform which meets specific needs of end users and administrators. The solution will allow to estimate such modern form of the organization of joint activity as the Wiki resources and blogs. Tools for setup of collective working spaces (team spaces) with convenient opportunities of adding in workflow of new participants will also be at disposal of users.

Closer compatibility of Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g with such products of Oracle as SOA Suite, Business Activity Monitoring and Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus is provided.

In April, 2013 the Oracle company released expansions and improvements for a software platform of business process management of Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g. Updating of the web focused Business Process Composer application for creation and setup of business processes, support of the concept of Adaptive Case Management and expansion of set of ready-made solutions of business process management Oracle Process Accelerators are announced.

The updated Business Process Composer offers the improved simulars and enhanced capabilities of simulation of business processes, functions of development of web forms and a new software module of Process Player. Using the last business analysts will be able to test business processes, imitating work of end users.

Support of methodology of Adaptive Case Management will help with management of unstructured processes. The Adaptive Case Management procedures integrated with the product Oracle Real-Time Decisions will allow to make more exact decisions in unusual situations.

The packet of Oracle Process Accelerators is complemented with the optimized solutions for business process management of consideration of the credit request, opening of the bank account to the legal entity, considerations of the applications from citizens and the organizations about the occurred incident and adaptation of new employees.

2014: Oracle BPM Suite 12c

On July 4, 2014 the Oracle corporation submitted the new version of Oracle BPM Suite 12c — the most complete, the unified and socially oriented industrial platform for business process management providing planning and management for all architecture of business.

The new version will allow the organizations to adapt quickly to promptly changing requirements of business, to accelerate obtaining economic effect of deployment of new processes and to provide better customer service.

As a part of Oracle BPM Suite 12c the improved Business Activity Monitoring and Business Architecture Modeling functions, expanded support of the Adaptive Case Management and Oracle Process Accelerators components.

A system gives the improved opportunities of the analysis of processes in Business Activity Monitoring and results in real time, giving to users the chance of fast acceptance of business solutions and operational adaptation to changeable trends and other factors.

The updated Business Architecture Modeling component allows users easier to achieve the corporate goals and to model different processes for obtaining the expected results.

The Adaptive Case Management functions are more closely integrated with the product Oracle WebCenter for processing of important documents and files, management of unstructured processes and providing ampler opportunities to business analysts and end users.

Updates of Oracle Process Accelerators will help users of Oracle BPM Suite 12c to implement quicker solutions on the basis of ready and checked the practician.

The Oracle BPM Suite 12c distribution kit is available on the website of vendor. The beginning of sales is planned for July, 2014.

The improved business process management

The new version of Oracle BPM Suite 12c is intended for fast obtaining economic effect at implementation new or upgrades of the operating business processes in corporate and cloud environments.

Key features of solution components:

• Business Activity Monitoring and Reporting — the Business Activity Monitoring component is closely integrated with tools Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Coherence. Business Activity Monitoring offers powerful tools of the analysis, dashboards, ready to use, for processes, timing analysis, the analysis of trends on the basis of key performance indicators (KPI) and a set of other opportunities to help the organizations to provide monitoring of process performance, tasks and employees in real time. Thanks to these improvements and also the built-in engine for processing of advanced queries, the organizations can react to deviations of KPI indicators and agreement breach about the service levels (SLA), to reveal new trends and risks and to beforehand exclude possible problems.

• Business Architecture Modeling — modeling of processes in Oracle BPM Suite 12c can begin at the strategic level. Using the Business Process Composer component, users can describe and catalog the business processes completely, including such crucial elements as the purposes, tasks and strategy and to connect them with chains of formation of cost and business processes which implement them. As a result such measurements as key performance indicators, it is possible to connect with the purposes and tasks in business architecture for fast report generation and introduction of amendments and also ensuring the maximum return of investments.

Adaptive Case Management — the Oracle BPM Suite 12c platform is more closely integrated with the product Oracle WebCenter to provide the improved, more flexible solutions for management of situations. Adaptive Case Management helps the organizations to manage unstructured processes and gives ampler opportunities to business analysts and end users. Besides, integration of Adaptive Case Management into Oracle R Enterprise helps users to make reasoned decisions in unusual situations.

Oracle Process Accelerators — is offered by ready processes on the basis of best practices, helping clients to simplify and accelerate obtaining economic effect of implementation of BPM initiatives. The solutions Oracle Process Accelerators available to horizontal and vertical processes are easy-to-customize and intended for reuse.