This topic introduces the new and changed features of Oracle Business Process Composer for Business Process Management 12c (12.1.3) and provides pointers to additional information.
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For Oracle Business Process Composer Release 12c Release 1 (12.1.3) this guide has been updated to include the following new and changed features:
Support for the navigating to Business Process Management (BPM) processes through Business Architecture (BA) projects. See Working with Value Chain Models.
Support for monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within BA projects. See Working with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Support for generating process criticality reports, which are based on the Value Chain Models within a BA project. See Working with Business Architecture Reports.
Support for strategy maps, which help to define the corporate objectives and goals of an organization and create a strategy for achieving them. See Introduction to Strategy Models.
Support for a narrative view of business processes, which provides a way of creating business processes by entering text rather than dragging graphical icons onto a palette. See Introduction to the Narrative View.
Support for documenting the properties of business processes through a new Business properties tab located in the lower pane of the process editor page. See Understanding Process-Level Documentation.
Support for generating many different reports that lists each process in your project and shows detailed information about each process. See Generating Process Reports for Your Project.
For Oracle Business Process Composer 12c Release 1 (12.1.3), this guide has been updated in the following ways:
Oracle Business Process Composer processes documentation from the project-level, process-level, and activity-level. A new chapter describes each feature in detail. See Documenting BPM Projects .
Oracle Business Process Composer 12c Release 1 (12.1.3) does not support project templates so in this version of the guide, all references to project templates have been removed.
The Oracle Business Process Composer UI has been significantly changed so procedures on how to perform various actions and tasks have also been changed.