Oracle Integration Cloud Process Coverage of BPMN 2.0_Standard

How the Oracle Integration Cloud Process module supports the OMG BPM2.0 Standard.

This document provides an overview of how Oracle integration Cloud release 20.1.1 supports the BPMN2.0 standard, as defined by the OMG. It is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of the solution.

This white paper presents in what capacity Oracle Integration Cloud’s Process module supports the OMG BPMN 2.0 Process modeling and execution standard, an accepted standard in the industry of Workflow and Business Process management, further referred as "the OMG document". This white paper is correct as of January 2020, knowing that technology evolves, some elements described here may become erroneous in the future. The OMG document is over 500 pages long, and we have made a synthesis of the key concepts, as they are summarized in Table 7.1 and table 7.2 of the OMG document. These tables define a collection of elements that are summarized here below. It should be noted that arithmetic provides only a short-sighted perspective. Just counting the number of items supported will only give a superficial view of how well Oracle Integration Cloud’s Process module supports the OMG standard. Going a level deeper, one will need to take into account the relative weight of each element, in order to ponder how efficient the tool can be. Within that frame of thought, it can safely be said that an extremely vast majority of business cases can be thoroughly implemented using this solution, as several hundreds, if not thousands, of customers have already done. Get the document here (community membership required).

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OIC: How to Find Human Task by Correlation and How to Abort a Parallel Task by Jan Kettenis

This article explains how you can find an instance of a Human Task of process instance in the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) without knowing its task number, and how you can use that for example to withdraw a parallel task. You can use the same mechanism for other use cases as well, like to get a specific task instance for a specific process instance in a custom Workspace, etc.

When a Human Task is scheduled in a process there is no out-of-the-box way for the process instance to “know” its task number, because scheduling a task concerns an asynchronous call (so you don’t get an immediate response with the task number). So, although the task number is visible in the process flow trace (as shown below), the process instance itself does not know it.

The sample process below has two parallel tasks. The outcome of Parallel Task 2 is either CONTINUE or DONE. When DONE, Parallel Task 1 must be withdrawn. I will use this as a use case to illustrate how setting some “correlation id” on a task can be used to achieve that.

For those of you who remember the on-premise BPM Suite may be aware of the Update Task activity you could use to do just that, but such an activity does not exist in OIC. Instead you will have to use the PUT operation of the /ic/api/process/v1/tasks/{id} API. But as you can see this requires an id, which is the task number that you don’t have. To get that you can use the GET operation on /ic/api/process/v1/tasks first. However, there can be many instances of the same process, implying many instances of the Parallel Task 1, so how to find that one you are looking for? Read the complete article here.

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Task Actions in Email Notification in Oracle Process Cloud Service by Ankur Jain

The video will describe how to send task action in email notifications in Oracle Process Cloud. Along with this, you would see how the remainder will be sent if the action has not been taken. Watch the video here.

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Boost Your WebForm Productivity with our New Expression Builder Features by Nicolas Damonte

We’re introducing several new Oracle Integration improvements we hope will markedly boost your web form expression productivity.

These enhancements are an example of our ongoing efforts to address your feedback!

Expression Editor Redesign

We’ve redesigned the form expression editor to make it easier to build and keep track of event logic. The expression editor content is now cleaner, more compact, and easier to understand. Many of the changes were made in response to feedback from customers and the User Assistance team. For example, function variables are now aligned, and expression summaries are now clearly differentiated from input fields. Read the complete article here.

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Hands-on Digital Modernization by Chris Peytier

This hands-on, instructor-led workshop supplements live presentations and demos in order to give you a concrete experience of using some of our solutions. No expertise or previous experience is required.

This lab will show you how to create a process application, use the Process
WebForm tool to modify GUI forms as well as understand the basics of a process
flow. It will also allow you to bind your process to an integration in order to
realize the power of having both Integration and Process in the same solution

The objectives of this lab are to:

1. Make you more familiar with the basic components of a process application.

2. Study and understand the features of WebForm, the GUI tool built-in the
Process component.

3. Understand the basics of BPMN.

4. Understand the concept of QuickStart

5. Learn how to leverage an integration. Get the free training material here.

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Machine Learning in Digital Process Automation — Part III by Ralf Mueller

A lot has happened since the publishing of Part II of this article series. Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) has advanced and on the process side we’re working on a truly multi-tenant, OCI native offering. As part of this, we’re re-architecting parts of the Machine Learning capabilities for Digital Process Automation and we will talk about this in a later article. In this article though, we’d like to demonstrate how ADW and Oracle REST Data Services can be used today for the consumption of Machine Learning models in Business Processes or any other component that supports RESTful Services.

Use Case

For this article we’re considering a Rental Car Use Case. We pick this use case for various reasons:

· Renting a car is well understood by many people, almost all of us went through some great or miserable experience while renting a car.

· We have a great formal description of the case in the form of EU Rent, which was originally developed as a challenge for Business Rules implementations.

· Quite incidentally, there are two public data sets available that we could use for Machine Learning
– A Car Evaluation data set for the prediction of the car safety. This can be used to build classification models for the prediction of the safety of a car.
– A Car Mileage per Gallon (MPG) data set for the prediction of the mileage per gallon of a car. This data set can be used to build regression models. Reda the complete article here. Read the complete article here.

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Boost Your WebForm Productivity with our New Expression Builder Features by Nicolas Damonte, and Kalyn Chang

We’re introducing several new Oracle Integration improvements we hope will markedly boost your web form expression productivity.

These enhancements are an example of our ongoing efforts to address your feedback!

Expression Editor Redesign

We’ve redesigned the form expression editor to make it easier to build and keep track of event logic. The expression editor content is now cleaner, more compact, and easier to understand. Many of the changes were made in response to feedback from customers and the User Assistance team. For example, function variables are now aligned, and expression summaries are now clearly differentiated from input fields.

To see the new expression editor in action simply follow these steps:

1. Open a Form.

2. Add an Input Text control to the Form canvas.

3. Click on the Input Text.

4. Add any event from the General Properties panel. Read the complete article here.

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