ACM Articles by Ajay Khanna

Ajay Khanna, Senior Principal Product Marketing Director published a nice blog series about Adaptive Case Management:

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BPM 11g PS6 Hands-on Workshop by PTS September 17-19 2013: Oracle Kista, Sweden

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is the #1 application infrastructure foundation. It enables enterprises to create and run agile and intelligent business applications and maximize IT efficiency by exploiting modern hardware and software architectures. Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) Suite 11g integrates BPMN 2.0-based modeling, simulation, optimization, execution, management and monitoring of business processes into a complete lifecycle that supports rapid change. Oracle BPM Suite is built on the industry’s leading SOA infrastructure of Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

This FREE hands-on workshop covers the life cycle of a business process from analysis, modeling, simulation, process customization and monitoring using Oracle BPM Suite 11g. The process modeled in the workshop includes integrating with web services, creating complex human workflows with user interfaces for task forms and incorporating rule engine-based decision services.

After taking this course on Oracle BPM Suite 11g, you can go onto build industry-focused solutions, customer-facing demos, proof-of-concepts (POCs), pilot implementations and reference architectures. You will also be able to extend your current SOA implementations with BPMN based business processes. If you are a J2EE, SOA, BPM developer or consultant – you cannot afford to miss this workshop!

September 17-19 2013: Oracle Kista, Sweden.

For details please visit the registration page.

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Instance Patching Demo for BPM 11.1.1.7 by Mark Nelson

BPM 11.1.1.7 has a new ‘instance patching and migration’ feature that allows you to apply changes to running instances of processes (without changing the revision of the process) and/or to migrate running instances between revisions of a process.

There is a short viewlet demonstration posted here, but there is unfortunately no sound.

 

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Customized BPM 11g PS6 Workspace Application by Andrejus Baranovskis

I am quite often using customized BPM 11g workspace application integrated into ADF 11g custom application. You can download it for BPM 11g PS5 from my previous blog: Tips & Tricks How to Run Oracle BPM 11g PS5 Workspace from Custom ADF 11g Application.

Standard BPM 11g workspace ADF task flow is customized with MDS – ADF 11g PS5 Application with Customized BPM Worklist Task Flow (MDS Seeded Customization). I would like to present today updated workspace application to BPM 11g PS6. The reason to migrate customized BPM workspace to PS6 was because I am often using it during ADF/BPM integration trainings. Also I will be posting future posts in ADF/BPM integration area based on upgraded PS6 sample application.

Here you can download new sample tested with BPM 11g PS6 – adfbpmapp_ps6.zip. ADF 11g PS6 comes with new look&feel – new ADF skin Skyros. New ADF skin and updated UI layout gives new look for BPM 11g workspace ADF task flow. Workspace ADF task flow shipped with BPM 11g PS6 release is lighter, works faster and looks better. Do you see Register button next to task list? This is custom button added through MDS customization: Read the full article here.

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Introduction to Web Forms – Basic Tutorial by Mona Rakibe

imageIf you are new to Oracle Web Forms (part of Oracle BPM Suite) and would like a quick overview and hand-on then please try out this Sample.

These step-by-step instructions guide you through common tasks for Form creation and provide background concepts and information to help you understand what you are accomplishing in the steps.

By the end of this exercise you will be able to

  1. Create new Web Form
  2. Design the Web Form (Add elements, set properties and style)
  3. Change the Web Form Layout(Add panels and repeat)
  4. Adding Dynamic Behavior to the Web form using form rules(validations, show/hide and invoke REST service

Sample(Steps and Solution) For details please visit BPM Technology Corner blog.

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SOA Community Newsletter July 2013

Dear SOA partner community members

Do you know how to position and sell Fusion Middleware SOA & BPM? What are the FY14 sales plays, including customer examples, discovery questions, competitive information and objective handling. You can find its answer at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) where we uploaded the latest presentations for Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales Strategy FY14, SOA sales plays and BPM sales plays. Please use this information in the spirit of our partnership. We have also uploaded the Fusion Middleware Customer Reference Booklet and Applications Customers Using Oracle Fusion Middleware references with hundreds of successful customer examples in our workspace, a great source to get new ideas for your customer!

What does Cloud Computing mean for your service business? The answer is more services! Learn in a demo how you can re-use a SOA integration platform to integrate SaaS solutions. Also the latest Oracle SalesForce, Microsoft and NetSuite announcements are all about middleware!

If you missed the SOA Blackbelt training, thanks to Lonnekes blog posts for the excellent summery about the training. Make sure you do NOT miss the OFM Summer Camps III. Specially we recommend to register for the B2B & Adapters training!

As part of the Industrial SOA series we published two new articles SOA Maturity Alongside Contract Standardization & Enterprise Service Bus. Two new books have been published by the community Advanced OSB in 21 days and Getting Started with Oracle Event Processing 11g (see our publications wiki!). Thanks to Michel Schildmeijer who published an article series about Oracle Service Bus 11g. API Management is one of the hottest topics within SOA, our product management team just published a new datasheets API Management Datasheet & Enterprise Repository for API Management.

Within BPM unstructured processes used to be a big challenge, due to the potential high number of process flows. Adaptive case management can address this to create ad-hoc processes without to model each variety. With PS6 the ACM backend functionality is available, want to try it, check out the Case Management Samples Released. Read also the ACM Articles by Ajay Khanna & The Oracle Case Management API.

What to position BPM in certain industries – increasing Efficiency and Responsiveness BPM in the Public Sector & BPM in Financial Services.

Thanks to the additional BPM arcticles Customized BPM 11g PS6 Workspace Application & Detect, Analyze, Act – Fast! & Functional Testing Business Processes In Oracle BPM Suite 11g
Want to learn BPM Suite hands-on – attend the BPM 11g PS6  Hands-on Workshop by PTS September 17-19 2013: Oracle Kista, Sweden. If you can not come to Sweden or to the Summer Camps you can learn online on-demand Business Process Management (BPM) 11g PS6 Awareness Course.

Best regards Jürgen Kress

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Functional Testing Business Processes in Oracle BPM Suite 11g by Arun Pareek

imageOver the last couple of projects, I have been trying to establish a set of methodologies around initiation, development, deployment and management of business processes using Oracle BPM Suite 11g. In a series of posts, I will be taking about a lot of problem areas that can be effectively tackled in order to deliver a highly successful BPM project using this technology. The areas I intend to cover are around design and modelling best practices, team development, delivery methodologies, testing, troubleshooting, automation, performance tuning and operational management to name a few. However in terms of priority and the nature of pain experienced in each of these aforementioned areas, I am of the opinion that a great chunk is attributed to testing and maintaining code quality. Business processes are in constant need to be truly dynamic more than ever so that planned as well as ad-hoc changes can be promoted seamlessly. Also with Oracle BPM Suite 11g promising greater involvement of business users in terms of making deployable changes to the processes, ensuring that functionality and quality of the build/changes is maintained is very crucial. In the previous blog post, I had elaborated on unit testing strategies for business processes and methods of achieving them from the Oracle BPM Suite 11g studio. Proper unit testing is important in terms of validating that the core logical outcomes of a business processes are executed as expected. Read the full article here.

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Additional new content SOA & BPM Partner Community

· Article Series: Industrial SOA Written collaboratively by eight acknowledged SOA experts, this article series explores the steps necessary to service oriented architecture to the next level: industrialized SOA. The first two articles in this 14-part series are now available on OTN. Read the articles.

· On the Integrity of Data An introduction to the basics of data integrity enforcement in a variety of environments by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema. Read the article.

· Creating a Cloud Roadmap The latest addition to the IT Strategies from Oracle library, this Oracle Practitioner Guide describes a robust process for creating a roadmap for adoption of Cloud Computing within an enterprise. Read the white paper.

· Cookbook: Middleware as a Service Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Step-by-step instructions for provisioning an Oracle WebLogic domain using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Read the white paper.

· Podcast: The State of SOA SOA is alive and kicking and more important than ever. A panel comprised of four of the experts behind the Industrial SOA article series explains why. Listen to the podcast.

· Oracle Service Bus PS6 (11.1.1.7) available for downloadHighlights of this new release include a new config tool to package resources, T2P plugin; WS-Security with MTOM and SwA; SFTP specify Cipher Suite, Hash, Key; OWSM Policy for RESTful services, and more. Read the article.

· Cloud Integrations with Oracle SOA Suite This Oracle Learning Library video demonstration shows you how to connect with the RightNow CX Cloud Service using Oracle SOA Suite. Watch the video.

· Oracle Fusion Middleware Tech Talk: Business Process Management Amit Zavery, vice president of product management for Oracle Fusion Middleware, discusses the importance of business process management and how Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite is benefitting customers across all industries

· Oracle SOA Suite Team Blog: Latest Release – Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.7

· Oracle Magazine, May 2013: Integrate and Mobilize – SOA Bridges the Past and PresentInterested in more content from Oracle Magazine? Get your free subscription today.

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Empower Knowledge Workers to Manage Unstructured Processes–Webcast with Bruce Silver and Ajay Khanna on August 7th 2013

More and more business users are taking the driver’s seat in business process management (BPM) initiatives. To ensure flexibility, productivity, and success, their BPM suites must make it easy to design, manage, improve, and control business processes—even unstructured ones.
In this webcast, leading industry analyst Bruce Silver will discuss what the term business-driven means and how case management and support for unstructured processes help organizations better serve their customers.

Join this webcast and learn about:

  • Oracle Business Process Management Suite and how it enables business managers and analysts to easily design and manage process
  • The capabilities that make Oracle’s BPM solution more business-driven, flexible, and agile
  • The addition of adaptive case management and how it now enables users to manage unstructured processes, covering all possible process usage patterns and scenarios

Register now.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013  10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET

Presented by:

Bruce Silver

Bruce Silver

BPM Industry Analyst and Author

Ajay Khanna

Ajay Khanna

Director, Product Marketing, Oracle

Join us for this webcast and live Q&A.

Webcast. Business-Driven BPM for Case Management. The Foundation for Innovation. Oracle Fusion Middleware

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Business Process Management (BPM) Resource Kit

Business processes are increasingly becoming more and more complex – full of deep interactions across systems and dependent on collaborative activities between business users and IT. To manage them successfully companies now need a sound BPM strategy and the right set of tools. Oracle provides leading BPM solutions for process excellence, which can facilitate modeling, management, execution, automation and measurement of end-to-end business processes – all through a single unified platform.

Find out what kinds of processes are best solved using BPM tools and learn how you can optimize them for your competitive advantage. This BPM resource kit offers insight and expertise that will help your organization drive up efficiency and agility, as well as improve compliance and quality of service while lowering your costs.
The Oracle BPM resource kit includes:

  • White papers, data sheets, analyst reports, Industry Solution Briefs and customer success stories
  • Webcasts, podcasts and other interactive resources
  • Software downloads from Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
  • Additional information from Oracle.com and OTN

Click here to access the resource kit.

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