Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 A Hands-On Tutorial

Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1A Hands-On Tutorial. Learn from the experts – teach yourself Oracle BPM Suite 11g with an accelerated and hands-on learning path brought to you by Oracle BPM Suite Product Management team membersHeidi Buelow Manoj Das Manas Deb Prasen Palvankar Meera Srinivasan
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Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 A Hands-On TutorialGetting Started with OracleBPM Suite 11gR1A Hands-On TutorialLearn from the experts – teach yourself Oracle BPMSuite 11g with an accelerated and hands-on learningpath brought to you by Oracle BPM Suite ProductManagement team membersHeidi BuelowManoj DasManas DebPrasen PalvankarMeera SrinivasanBIRMINGHAM - MUMBAIGetting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1A Hands-On TutorialCopyright © 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliatesAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrievalsystem, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior writtenpermission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded incritical articles or reviews.Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracyof the information presented. However, the information contained in this book issold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors, nor PacktPublishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damagescaused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of thecompanies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals.However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.First published: September 2010Production Reference: 1060910Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.32 Lincoln RoadOltonBirmingham, B27 6PA, UK.ISBN 978-1-849681-68-1www.packtpub.comCover Image by Sandeep Babu (sandyjb@gmail.com) CreditsAuthors Editorial Team Leader Heidi Buelow Aanchal Kumar Manoj Das Proofreader Manas Deb Aaron Nash Prasen Palvankar Meera Srinivasan Graphics Geetanjali SawantAcquisition Editor James Lumdsen Production Coordinator Shantanu ZagadeTechnical Editors Alfred John Cover Work Aanchal Kumar Shantanu Zagade Manasi PoonthottamIndexer Hemangini Bari Rekha Nair ForewordOracle released the BPM Suite 11gR1 product in April, 2010. This is part of the11gR1 release cycle for the Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) family of productsthat started in the summer of 2009. This release marks the unification of featuresof the Aqua Logic BPM (ALBPM) product that Oracle obtained as part of its BEAacquisition in 2008, and that BEA had in turn acquired from Fuego, with OracleBPEL PM, SOA Suite, and the FMW framework. As with all FMW products, BPMSuite 11gR1 follows the guiding principles behind the FMW products: complete,integrated, open, and best-of-breed in its Business Process Management Suite(BPMS) offering. At the time of the BEA acquisition, ALBPM was an industry-leading BPM product – the BPM Suite 11g release preserves and enhances thebest of ALBPM features such as ease of modeling, simulation, and basic processanalytics. It also adds a significant set of capabilities that leverage other synergisticproducts from the FMW family, such as strong support for backend integration,event handling, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0style collaboration, extended process analytics and actionable insights, and superiorperformance, scalability and system reliability.With BPM adoption, organizations aim to generate high-value business benefits viaincreased efficiency, visibility, and agility. However, often such initiatives fail toproduce satisfactory results due to a variety of reasons—certain limitations in theirchosen BPMS tool set account for some of these reasons. For example, many BPMproducts specialize in addressing either human, document, system, or decision-centricprojects, or cater to either small departmental projects with simpler GUI but limitedcapabilities, or large enterprise deployments that have complex and fragmentedIDEs and execution engines. Also, traditionally BPM tools with enhanced featuresfor developers have been difficult for business users to use. A key goal of OraclesBPM Suite 11g offering is to eliminate such barriers to successful BPM adoption byproviding a comprehensive and unified BPM product that addresses all flavours ofBPM projects, provides the best tools for every persona engaged in the BPM lifecycle,and evolves seamlessly from simple projects to more complete scenarios.Typical BPM solutions involve the modeling of complex human interactions,business rules, and connections to a variety of IT systems. Such solutions also needto incorporate security policies, exception handling, and the handling of businessevents. These applications are commonly ...