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Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite provides the means for detailed process analysis. It provides an integrated and comprehensive toolset, powered by the industry leading ARIS Platform to model, simulate and publish your business processes. Oracle BPA supports Enterprise Architecture, process improvement and change management initiatives and provides for alignment of Business Process Modeling (BPM) and SOA initiatives. In addition, the suite is integrated with Oracle SOA Suite, BPEL Process Manager and BAM to provide closed loop BPM capability.
Oracle BPA Suite consists of 4 main components:
Oracle Business Process Architect - Enables company wide modeling and design of business processes, IT systems, landscapes and organization structures. This solution supports over 50 standard process methodologies and key notation standards. This solution is intended for process engineers, IT, and/or Functional Analysts with business process modeling requirements.
Oracle Business Process Simulation - Allows modelers to analyze processes by running simulations based on different scenarios. Simulations can be used to do timing, cost analysis and find process bottlenecks. This tool is generally used by a subset of users who are focused on process reengineering.
Oracle Business Process Publisher - Offers role-based and target group-oriented access to process content. This tool allows for processes to be organized and published as models onto a portal. It includes high performance report generation and on-demand publication facilities.
Oracle Business Process Repository Server - Used for multi-user scenario for collaborative development of process models with a shared repository. It also provides a centralized process management store with role based access and versioning, check-in/check-out, load balancing capabilities.
Oracle SOA Suite enables a services and events architecture built on a modular inter-operable infrastructure that leverages existing applications and other IT assets. By shifting development from coding to component assembly it simplifies implementation, increases development productivity and shortens time to deployment. The SOA suite improves enterprise agility by continuous blending of business insight and adaptable business processes. The SOA Suite is comprehensive in its breadth of functionality and lowers customers' TCO by providing standards based well-integrated and unified architecture, governance, and experience.
Oracle SOA Suite is a standards-based best of breed suite that enables you to build Service-Oriented Application and deploy them to your choice of middleware platform. It consists of:
An Integrated Service Environment (ISE) to develop services
A multi-protocol Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to integrate applications
A services registry for discovering and managing the lifecycle of services
A BPEL-based orchestration engine to tie services into business processes
A business rules engine to enable business policies to be captured and automated
A Web services management and security solution to enforce authentication and authorization policies on services and to monitor services and processes for compliance to SLAs
A Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solution to gain real-time visibility into business entities and their interactions, and enables services to be optimized
An Enterprise Portal for employees, customers and partners to access content, access relevance performance metrics, collaborate and take actions via interaction with business processes.
Oracle SOA Suite is a standards-based best-of-breed technology suite that consists of the following:
Oracle JDeveloper
Oracle BPEL Process Manager
Oracle Business Rules
Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Oracle Web Services Management (OWSM)
Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 (10.1.3)
Oracle SOA Suite can help you achieve greater organizational flexibility better than any other solution in the market. It can reduce your costs and middleware complexity better than any other solution. Finally, it can help you to achieve the best total value of opportunity.
Oracle BPA Suite in conjunction with Oracle SOA Suite offers a comprehensive closed-loop BPM lifecycle for continuous business process improvement. The Oracle BPM Solution comprises Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle SOA Suite.
The Oracle BPM solution comprises the following:
Model: Oracle Business Process Architect is the modeling component. This tool can be used to model processes, business data, IT systems and organizational structures. It supports over 50 model types including Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) and Event Process Chain Model (EPC).
Simulate: Oracle Business Process Simulation is the simulation component. It allows modelers to analyze processes by running simulations based on different scenarios. Simulations can be used to do timing, cost analysis and to find process and resource bottlenecks. This tool is used for process reengineering.
Publish: Oracle Business Process Publisher is used for publishing Business Process Models and offers role-based and target group-oriented access to process content. This tool allows for processes to be organized and published as models onto a portal. It includes high performance report generation and on-demand publication facilities.
Implement: Oracle JDeveloper is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing executable BPEL based processes. It is used to develop services and orchestrate services into composite applications and business processes. Secure: Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) to secure and manage authentication, authorization, and encryption policies on services that is separate from your service logic.
Deploy & execute: Oracle BPEL Process Manager to monitor services and disparate events and provide real-time visibility into the state of the enterprise, business processes, people, and systems. It is used for composing both automated and human tasks. Oracle Business Rules for dynamic decisions at runtime that can be managed by business users or business analysts.
Manage: Oracle Application Server Control for managing services, processes and systems.
Monitor: Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to monitor services and disparate events and provide real-time visibility into the state of the enterprise, business processes, people, and systems.
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Note: Currently, Oracle BPM Solution is sold as Oracle BPA Suite 10.1.3.x in conjunction with Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.x. |
Here are the key concepts and terms used in Business Process Management:
Business Process Model: This represents the abstract business process and contains the business definition. Business processes are set of related activities and tasks that fulfill a finite set of business requirements. The Business Process Model is essentially independent of the technical architecture required to support the business. It may include processes and activities but these are generally for documentation purposes.
Executable Process: Implementation details are added to the abstract business process by IT and the Business Model is converted to a physical executable process. This executable process can be deployed and monitored.
Process Blueprint: This model is the intersection of common metadata between the Business Process Model and executable process. Only those artifacts that are of interest to both business and IT are included in the Process Blueprint. The Process Blueprint uses the business level as requirements and articulates a conceptual but technical means of achieving those requirements. The design is still abstract enabling an implementation by various technologies.
