Oracle Business Process Management ?

Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g simplifies achieving process management success with a business driven approach. It provides a unified process platform that brings together cross departmental applications to create end-to-end, efficient, and social business processes.

Driving Results with Business Driven BPM

Business processes are at the heart of the enterprise and are the basis for what differentiates companies. Improving business processes remain a high business priority as the impact of greater efficiency, business visibility, and agility helps companies not only survive but thrive in a dynamic business environment. Leading companies manage business processes using Oracle BPM Suite 11g to ensure operational excellence, reduce risk, increase margins and improve the customer experience.

Oracle Business Process Management Suite Overview

Business Process Management Suite 11g simplifies achieving process management success with a complete solution for all types of processes by providing a unified process foundation. It helps manage the complete process lifecycle starting from modeling and optimization, to automation, execution and monitoring across organizational divisions, and applications.

Business Driven: Modeling-To-Execution in Process Composer

Oracle BPM Suite provides full control to business managers from design to execution. Web based Process composer lets business users define and optimize processes in collaboration with IT. Process simulation helps identify and eliminate bottlenecks to optimize process designs. Business users can create rules to enforce business policy, define UI forms, discover business services, and design business data for complete implementation. Process Player allows users to evaluate end user experience before processes are released for prime time. Integrated Social collaboration helps in process discovery and innovation throughout the lifecycle. Process Composer’s user-centric design simplifies the process management by ensuring “what you design is what you execute” (WYDIWYE). This eliminates synchronization issues between business and IT.

Task and Case Management

Oracle BPM Suite provides capabilities for efficient and intelligent task and routing. End users can access their tasks via Process Spaces, email or mobile devices. Adaptive Case Management helps knowledge workers to manage unstructured processes. They can add documents, or additional tasks to process at run time, providing more flexible and collaborative work management. Activity guides help lower the user training times by providing policy guidance for task completion. Audit trail capabilities let you monitor the task status and other parameters like ownership, at any point in time.

Business Process Improvement

To achieve greater responsiveness business requires visibility and agility for timely decisions and change management. Oracle BPM

suite provides dashboards with predesigned analytics to monitor the performance of processes. Users can define metrics and service level

agreements that are critical for the business. If any metrics is out of bounds, alerts notify the managers for quick actions. Process analytics also provide insights for future improvements in process design. Managing change now transitions from liability to strategic advantage.

Unified, Enterprise Class Process Foundation

Oracle BPM Suite 11g includes a unified process foundation that removes the complexity from process development, integration, deployment,monitoring, and execution. Oracle BPM makes it easy to integrate legacy applications with processes using

webservices and other integration mechanisms. High performance, scalability, and availability are ensured by enterprise class process engine. Any type of processes - human, system, rulesbased, event-driven, document or case management - can be managed with an equal ease. Oracle WebCenter is pre-integrated for content management and portal; restricted use license is included.

Process Accelerators

Built on Oracle BPM Suite, Process Accelerators are pre-built, best practices processes that are customizable and extensible to fit specific customer requirements. Process Accelerators addresses horizontal and industry-specific process requirements for common patterns.

Oracle Service Oriented Architecture is a MiddleWare Architecture which is deviced to integrate different stand alone applications which needs to communicate with each others.

It can integrate any Business System with minimal development effort. It also help to monitor and manage the enterprise Integration platform in more systamatic and controlled manner.

Above diagram is just a overall Oracle SOA Overview. Today we will discuss about this diagram to help you to understand what actually SOA is.

Oracle Service Bus is a product which is part of Fusion Middleware stack. This is mainly a Service Bus which helps to integrate different vendor systems. In diagram you can see Microsoft, IBM , Oracle , SAP , Siebel and PeopleSoft all are integrate through OSB.

OSB is vendor nutrul , protocol indepenedent. In very simple way we can say OSB is a universal bus where every separate vendor technology can be plugged in easily and once you plug it , immidiately it will start acting with other products.

BPEL : Business Process Execution Language. This is heart of SOA. This is one language which is required to build the webservice in SOA Architecture. The main beauty of BPEL is it is used for Orchestrating the SOA Architecture.

BPMN: Business Process management and Notation is mainly used to design Enterpridse SOA architecture, to design complex approval process workflows and to design service simulation framework.

Business Rules : It will help to define the Business Rules for SOA Architecture with redeployment of Source Code or component. This can be done by business users directly by accessing the browser based Business Rules interface.

Mediator : It will help to integrate the different components inside SOA Architecture and route the messages between them.

Human Workflow : This is used to design the Human workflows for the business processes consists of complex approvals flows.

BAM: Business Activity Monitoring Tool to trap the real time Business Transactions.

B2B : Business to Business product to manage partners network communication in Integration Platform.

Oracle SOA(Service oriented architecture)/ Fusion topics we are writng currently..............

1.What is SOA and how it is helping s/w industry
2. Oracle SOA product stack
3. What is BPM
4. Real time example of BPM project
5. What is AIA
6. Oracle application utility framework.

MDM Topics we are writing currently......

1. What is Oracle MDM and how it is helping business
2. Weapons of MDM / product stack of MDM
3. MDM with AIA
4. MDM business rules...how it affects the business.
5. Oracle EBusiness Suits(Oracle eBS) with MDM
6. Oracle ebusiness suits(Oracle eBS) business events.
7. Table structure in MDM

About Oracle MDM Product Hub (PIM/PDH)

Oracle Product Hub is used to keep all master item data in centralized manner. This is called Product Hub or Product information management.
Main jobs in PIM are store data in PIM, Approve the item information at different level/role and Publish the approved items.
Data conversion is required for storing data in PIM. Also user can import/export items using excel. Excel needs some configuration during import.../export. Also excel version matters with the PIM application. Oracle provided different APIs for data conversion.
Once items are inserted into the oracle application, Items are went through some approval processes. This approval process is done at different user level
using a standard oracle workflow called NIR(new Item Request).Different roles are defined for approval. After final approval items are published as a batch
to other downstream systems. Different web services are used to get the batch id for the items. Once items are published batch ids are put into a BPEL queue.
Web services process the batch ids from this queue.Simple item webservers is call getitemdetails and complex item/BOM web service call getstructuredetails.
Using integrated SOA gateway this web service need to be configured in PIM or other methods can be followed to invoke the web services.
Change Order workflow is followed with the approval process once attribute data is updated. Approval is required at the item revision level as well.
Publishing item simply means to check the item attribute data by different user from different levels and approve the item with the attribute data.
After Items are published, these items are reached to other downstream system via Fusion. One important downstream systems is Data warehousing where items
comes from PIM and item transaction related information comes from other systems.

Oracle MDM , SOA , Fusion Middleware

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