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Approaching Digital Transformation the Right Way: Business Process Automation in the Cloud by Mala Ramakrishnan

February 24, 2016 Leave a comment

At today’s speed of business, the need to bridge the gap between new ideas and their execution is increasing. The cloud has provided bridges for apps and data. And now, as Oracle’s Mala Ramakrishnan tells IDN, the cloud is delivering the latest bridge – a new business process automation platform to let companies cope with frequent, even ad hoc, changes – and drive faster innovation

Businesses today are operating in a world of disrupt or be disrupted.

Today, businesses face many challenges arising from digital transformation. Often, the push to tackle these challenges – and the opportunities they present – puts a heavy load on IT staff and budgets.

Omnipresent smart devices have transformed the world. The customer is king. Users have come to expect immediate responsiveness and a superior customer experience, and every human interaction is expected to be mobile-enabled.

Everyone has an email address and a social profile, and the average person entering the workforce is very tech savvy. Business users rely heavily on spreadsheets, documents, and email to perform a significant amount of work, a lot of which are very repetitive processes that lack visibility and audit trails.

On top of all this, the cloud has lowered the barrier to entry for adopting new technologies that can accelerate how companies keep up with this rapid pace of change.

With these new dynamics, the nature of business process applications has become more fluid. Business applications are more ad hoc, frequently changing, and involve a lot more customization by IT. Digital disruption has brought about small-scale frequent change process applications that add to the IT backlog. It overwhelms IT, taking them away from their core tasks and frustrates the business user who would like to see immediate results, but is dependent on the backlog.

Traditionally, IT has been heavily optimized to develop and manage long-running durable applications with evolutionary change. Read the complete article here.

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Real-World Realities and Implications of Business Process Management in the Cloud

February 23, 2016 Leave a comment

BPM offers innumerable benefits. Yet it is not without its own unique set of challenges—challenges that can result in failed projects. Promises in cloud technology offer a new set of reasons to believe in the power of BPM to change processes and businesses for the better though. In just a few years, the cloud has firmly established itself as a sustainable option for many aspects of IT previously managed solely in-house and on premise. Now all sorts of applications and solutions can be housed in and managed from the cloud, making the idea of managing processes there viable too.
Top of Mind Challenges
While the cloud’s promise of ease of use is enticing, there are a number of challenges that will need to be addressed. One key cloud challenge pertains to the “mess of many.” Having an HR system on premise and another complimentary system in the cloud could double process problems. In some scenarios, it may be better to pick on premise or the cloud rather than both. While in other scenarios, the most viable option may be a hybrid approach. Determining when and how to leverage existing investments, while taking advantage of the cloud, will require a strong organizational cloud strategy.
With an increased level of deployment of technology without IT involvement in the cloud, there will be a renewed focus on governance. Cloud systems are also more vulnerable to third-party intrusion, so security is a key area for evaluation. Finally, the cloud also requires easier ways to collaborate with people and systems across the globe while also requiring clearly-defined service provider service level agreements.

Top Benefits of Cloud-Based BPM

Cloud economics and easy provisioning let business try technologies with little investment
Reduces time to prepare BPM systems from months to days, reducing expenses significantly
Enables intra- and inter-organizational process collaboration with a “borderless” environment that supports teams, partners and processes scattered across the globe
Centralizes standards, architecture and assets that can be leveraged across the organization.

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Process Cloud Service free sales overview on-demand

February 22, 2016 Leave a comment

Process Cloud Service Sales Person sales training is available at OPN Competence Center.

Process Cloud Service – Market, Trends and Business Drivers

In this session we are going to talk about the market trends and business drivers that are guiding the development of Oracle Process Cloud Service.

Process Cloud Service – Product Overview

During this module we shall describe how the PCS fits into Oracle’s strategy, identify key product components and articulate the value proposition for the product. We shall continue with describing how the product addresses customer problems and opportunities and the basic product history and road map for future development.

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Process Cloud Marketing update by Mala Ramakrishnan

February 21, 2016 Leave a comment

Are you ready for the Oracle Process Cloud Service Launch Webcast?

Expert panel, customer success, product demos and more: Register Today

What’s New?

· [Event |Webcast] Aug 26 Oracle Process Cloud Service Launch Webcast (link)

· [Video] Preview of Oracle Launch Webcast (link)

· [Byline |IDN] Approaching Digital Transformation the Right Way: Process Automation in the Cloud (link)

· [Website ] Sales Training: PCS Guided Learning Path (link)

· [PR] Oracle Extends World’s Most Comprehensive Enterprise Cloud Portfolio (link)

· [Video] Customer Testimonial: Pharmvite on digital transformation with Process Cloud (link)

· [Video] Introducing Oracle Process Cloud Service (link)

How to Learn More on Oracle Process Cloud Service?

· [BPM-CON Webcast] Rapid Process Automation on the Cloud (link)

· [Solution Brief] A New Approach to Digital Transformation (link)

· [Datasheet] Productive Work Management in the Cloud (link)

· [Infographic] Empowering the Business to Deliver at Market Speed (link)

· [eBook] Rapidly Design, Automate and Manage Processes on the Cloud (link)

· [Video] Technical dive into Process Cloud Service (link)

· [Video] Introducing Oracle Process Cloud Service (link)

Testimonials: PCS Customers and Partners in Action

· [Video] Preview of Oracle Launch Webcast (link)

· [Video] Pharmvite on digital transformation with Process Cloud (link)

· [Video] Land O’Lakes Extends SaaS with Oracle Process Cloud Service (link)

· [Video] Flextronics Speeds up BPM with Oracle Process Cloud Service (link)

· [Video] Avio Empowers Business with Oracle Process Cloud Service (link)

· [Video] eProseed Digitizes with Oracle Process Cloud Service (link)

· [Video] Sofbang Extends SOA with with Oracle Process Cloud Service (link)

· [Video] Hitachi Manages Contracts with Oracle Process Cloud Service (link)

Events:

· [Event |Webcast] Aug 26 Oracle Process Cloud Service Launch Webcast (link)

· [Event |Webcast] Jun 22 Larry Ellison Unveils New Oracle Cloud Platform Services (link)

· [Event |Webcast] Jun 19 Oracle Public Cloud: Platform as a Service (link)

· BPM Events: Click here

Publications

· [Byline] IDN: Approaching Digital Transformation the Right Way: Process Automation in the Cloud (link)

· [PR] Oracle Extends World’s Most Comprehensive Enterprise Cloud Portfolio (link)

· [Byline] Ovum: Oracle brings Process to the Cloud (link)

· [Byline] Forbes: What IT Pros Must Do To Survive, Thrive Amid Rapid Change (link)

· [Blogs] blogs.oracle.com/bpm (link)

Sales Enablement Assets

· [PCS Demos Now Available] Three new PCS demos are now available on https://demo.oracle.com. Request access to our middleware demo systems here. For support with GSE demo systems please visit our wiki here. (SOA Community membership required)

o End-to-End Application Flow

o Sales Quote Demo

o Travel Request Application

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7 Important Points In Preparing For The Internet of Things by John Soat

February 20, 2016 Leave a comment

The Internet of Things sounds more like J.J. Abrams’ next sci-fi thriller than a major inflection point in business technology. Which makes the fact that IoT is about to invade the business landscape on a massive scale somewhat ironic—and wholly appropriate.

Enterprises have been tossed by some momentous technology waves in the last few years, such as big data, the cloud, mobility, and social networking. Yet the Internet of Things—connected, data-generating devices embedded in everyday objects—is more than just another wave.

“IoT means that all of the physical infrastructure, the whole world around us, is going to be connected to the internet,” says Oracle Vice President of Product Management Peter Utzschneider, who’s been evangelizing IoT for several years. “IoT is like those other profound technology changes we’ve already experienced, only on steroids—it’s that big,” he says.

Business executives and technology managers need to comprehend the implications and open their minds to the possibilities of IoT for their organization, Utzschneider advises, and prepare accordingly. To that end, he offers seven important points in considering the Internet of Things.

1. Take the long view.

“People need to be prepared that this is a long-term proposition,” says Utzschneider. “They have to understand that IoT means fundamental change for business,” he adds.

The Internet of Things is in its early days, and most implementations are still relatively simplistic—but that’s changing fast, as IoT technology, from end-point devices to data integration and analytics platforms, increase in number and improve in capability. Read the complete article here.

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The Internet of Things: Managing the Complexity

February 19, 2016 Leave a comment

The Internet of Things will transform business, are you planning to extract business value from IoT data? Let Oracle help you manage the complexities, from devices to applications, big data to analytics, security and scalability, all in the cloud. Watch the video here.

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Automating the Build & Deployment of Oracle BPM and SOA Projects by Matt Wright

February 18, 2016 Leave a comment

As each industry becomes more tightly integrated into the digital economy, each organisation is becoming a technology company (often by stealth). In this world, the speed at which organisations can reliably deliver software solutions is becoming a key market differentiation.

Companies that incorporate DevOps practices get more done, according to the Puppet Labs 2015 State of DevOps survey;

High-performing IT organizations experience 60 times fewer failures and recover from failure 168 times faster than their lower-performing peers. They also deploy 30 times more frequently with 200 times shorter lead times.

One of the core tenants of DevOps is to automate everything. In this article we examine how we can automate the Build & Deployment of Oracle BPM and SOA solutions.

Automating the Software Deployment Pipeline

During the lifetime of a project, code will be built and promoted to various staging environments such as Development, System Integration and Test (SIT), User Acceptance and Test (UAT), Pre-Prod, and Production.

The overall goal of the deployment pipeline is to detect any changes that will lead to problems in production. At each stage in the deployment pipeline, different levels of testing will be applied. Early stage tests are targetted at being quick and simple to run, but should capture the majority of the problems, so providing fast feedback and allowing for quick cycle times.

Later stages in the delivery pipeline provide more comprehensive testing, some of which may be manual, or take longer to set-up and run; with each successive stage provides increasing confidence in the overall build quality.

Automating the deployment pipeline is the key requirement to enable continuous delivery. This process involves automating the building of the software, the deployment of each build into each staging environment, and the automation of tests conducted in each environment.

We also need to automate platform provisioning, to ensure that each build is deployed to, and tests carried out against, correctly configured and reproducible environments. Read the complete article here.

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