Oracle Unified Method free on-demand training

May 10, 2015 Leave a comment

clip_image002Oracle’s Global Methods team has designed a series of self-service, self-paced training courses in support of the Oracle® Unified Method (OUM).

The OUM Training Program helps to ensure that individuals in consulting sales, delivery, and management roles have the level of delivery and estimating knowledge required for them to competently perform their job. The Training Levels include:

· Level 1 – Oracle Unified Method Overview and Awareness

· Level 2 – Envision Focus Area Overview

· Level 2 – Manage Focus Area Overview

· Level 2 – Implement Focus Area Overview

· Level 2 – Use Case Overview

· Level 4D – Application Implementation Delivery Readiness

· Level 4D – Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management Delivery Readiness

· Level 4D – Enterprise Architecture Delivery Readiness

· Level 4D – Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Delivery Readiness

· Level 4D – Software Upgrade Delivery Readiness

· Level 4D – Utilities Global Business Unit (UGBU) Delivery Readiness Course

Watch the training videos here.

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My private corner – The Hare of the Dog

May 9, 2015 Leave a comment

 

As 2015 will bring many new challenges and opportunities – all up in the clouds. In this short section “my private corner” we will inform you about personal notes. We start with a booked published by Niall – a superb middleware trainer most of you know, and had a lot fun with during his workshops

The Hare of the Dog

clip_image002This book, volume one of three, chronicles the tale of a search, not just any search, but a search for suitable work for unsuitable men. Men, who, through no fault of their own, life had simply left behind, and consigned to the scrapheap of humanity. There they lay, living out their miserable days, until the divine intervened. From that day on, they were still men, however, not just any old men, but the men of Grace & Danger Ltd. God bless them all for showing us the way. God bless you too, for buying this book. This book deals with a universal theme, namely, the intrinsic value of each and every one of us. No one is useless; we are all connected, all on the one road. Where will this road take us? Nobody knows. This book may give you some hints, but, essentially, it is something, each and every one of us needs to work out, for themselves. Enjoy, laugh and maybe think! Get the book here on Amazon

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Running Oracle BPM 12c on AWS by Jorge Quilcate

May 8, 2015 Leave a comment

 

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In this post, I will show how to create an AWS EC2 Instance with an Oracle BPM 12c Quickstart Domain created. And I will use previous post for related tasks.

Lets see how to achieve this and make this process reusable. These are the steps:

· Create an AWS EC2 instance (with Vagrant)

· Connect to an NFS instance to get the installer (with Chef)

· Install Oracle BPM 12c Quickstart and create a Domain (with Chef)

GitHub repository: Here

Create an AWS EC2 instance

I’ve created a Red Hat instance using Vagrant. This instance should be connected to my NFS instance that has all the Oracle’s installers (to create an NFS instance on AWS EC2: go here).

This is the NFS instance: Read the complete article here.

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BPM Workspace Login with libOVD and LDAP, Part 2: Login by Siming Mu

May 7, 2015 Leave a comment

 

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In Part 1, we looked at the initialization of libOVD at server startup. Now let’s examine what happens inside libOVD when you actually click on the login button in BPM Workspace. Again, we are looking at BPM 11g PS5 BP7 with Patch 17315336.

The Workspace login is a two step process. The first step is checking the username and password against the LDAP. This step is performed in WLS security layer rather than the JPS layer. This means even if you turn on tracing in libOVD, you won’t see any trace log message related to this step.

The second step starts after the user credentials are successfully verified. In this step, the Workspace first constructs a Workflow context object, which triggers a user lookup query against the LDAP, and then it makes a request to the BPM server which invokes the follow method:

oracle.bpel.services.workflow.common.provider.WorkflowWSProvider.processMessage

Read the complete article here.

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BPM 12c Migration – A Deep Dive into a Simple 10g Process Migration by Aaron Dolan

May 6, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Since Oracle BPM 12c was released this summer, many of our legacy BPM 10g customers have begun to ask what to expect from the migration path.  As my colleague Suyash Khot discussed in his article Oracle BPM 12c Migration – A Hand of Friendship to Oracle BPM 10g, Oracle has luckily given us a migration utility to kick-start the process of moving code from Oracle BPM 10g to Oracle BPM 12c.  While this utility is incredibly valuable and indeed very easy to use, it is well worth discussing the advantages and challenges this conversion presents us with.

This is the first in a series of articles where I’ll explore how various 10g coding patterns are translated into 12c and how we might overcome some of the issues this presents us with.  While in many cases the conversion is clean and maintenance-free, in other cases there is work to be done and issues to be on the lookout for.

In preparation for this article, I created a very simple, happy path Order Entry process in Oracle BPM 10g: Read the complete article here.

 

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PaaS (ICS, PCS, MSC) Cloud preview event for customers May 26h Netherlands

May 5, 2015 Leave a comment

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On May 26, AMIS organises a Preview session about Oracle PaaS Cloud Services. We will start the event at 17.00 hrs with an overview of Oracle PaaS Services. We will tell you more about how they are connected and what you can use them for. In addition, you will get a sneak preview of three Oracle PaaS Services: Integration Cloud Service, Process Cloud Service and Mobile Cloud Services. We will end the event with networking and drinks at around 21.00 hrs.

Presenters during this Cloud Preview session are Lucas Jellema, Oracle ACE Director and CTO at AMIS, Robert van Mölken, Oracle ACE Associate and Sr. SOA Specialist at AMIS, Luc Gorissen, Solution Architect at AMIS and Steven Davelaar, Cloud Solution Architect at the Oracle A-team.

For details please visit the Amis registration page here

You are an Oracle partner and would like to host a similar event for your customers? Become a member in our SOA & BPM Partner Community (www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa) and make use of our marketing campaign kits here.

 

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Adaptive Case Management 12c and ADF Human Tasks by Andrejus Baranovskis

May 5, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002I’m diving into the new topic – Adaptive Case Management 12c and ADF integration. Today will be the first post in the category and there are more posts planned for the future. I strongly believe that ACM (Adaptive Case Management) makes a great extension for standard BPM. Mainly because it allows to define a loose process, without strict order steps. Process steps can be executed in different order, depending on the situation requirements, at given time. I will be explaining how to implement ADF Human Task for ACM activity and will share several tips, how to make it run in BPM Workspace application.
This is how sample application (HotelBookingProcessing_v1.zip) is constructed, there are two Human Tasks (AddHotelBooking and ValidateHoteBooking) and HotelBookingProcessing Case control:

HotelBookinfProcessing case is defined with Hotel Booking Details data type (this type is based on XSD schema and is defined as Business Component variable – don’t mix up with ADF Business Components) – you can think about it as about main data structure type for the case, this can be transferred into every case activity: Read the complete article here.

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Top 10 Things You Should Know About BPM 11g/12c by Mark Foster

May 4, 2015 1 Comment

 

clip_image001With the help of my A-Team colleagues (Sushil Shukla, Siming Mu, John Featherly, Pete Farkas), and based on collective experiences visiting numerous BPM customers worldwide, I have put together my “Top 10″ list of things everyone should know when embarking on a BPM project.

You might agree, you might disagree, most of all, feel free to comment.

1. Auditing

BPM provides the business with extremely detailed visibility of runtime instances through its powerful auditing capabilities.

HOWEVER…

This comes at a cost: detailed auditing requires frequent inserts into the SOAINFRA database increasing the likelihood of contention and causing significant database growth. As volume increases it is almost always the case that the consequences of Auditing produce the first bottleneck.

BUT…

Auditing can be tuned down where appropriate and purge scripts can remediate database growth

SEE…

Auditing Demystified

2. Payload Size

It can often be simpler at the time of BPM process design to have one large payload schema that includes all elements for every possible interaction within the lifetime of an instance, and pass this everywhere within the instance, including to human tasks and their UIs.

HOWEVER…

The cost of this, both at runtime and in terms of the number and size of database rows, can be large. The whole payload must be written to SOAINFRA database at dehydration points within the lifetime of a process instance & in-between these dehydration points, data objects associated with this payload are held in memory.

BUT…

Appropriate design of the payload schema (flatter & simpler) can reduce the size considerably. The optimal solution would be to pass only key-values in the payload and retrieve detail values as-and-when needed inside the process, however this can lead to over-complicating the process design with technical services. A sensible balance is always the best approach.

SEE…

XML_DOCUMENT Table Growth

3. Partitioning / Purging

BPM audits heavily, this can be extremely useful for business insight

HOWEVER…

The SOAINFRA database growth can be larger than expected

BUT…

Partitioning & purging are critical to limiting database growth. Test purging thoroughly as part of a normal stress/load test cycle. Determine whether “loop purge” outside of the online window is sufficient, if not consider also using “parallel purge” during quiet periods during the online day. Partitioning is a good option in most cases, in 11g SOAINFRA must be partitioned post-installation but in 12c it is an installation option.

SEE…

SOA 11g Database Growth Management Strategy Paper

SOA Partitioning

4. Negative Testing

SOA Suite provides a comprehensive fault policy framework & BPM has inbuilt fault-handling constructs, allowing the vast majority of technical and business exceptions to be handled gracefully.

HOWEVER…

Failure to properly negative test potential exceptions, individually & in bulk, can lead to inadequate operational guidelines & faults occurring in production which can be hard to recover.

BUT… Read the complete article here

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The first BPMN process by Maverick

May 3, 2015 Leave a comment

 

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I know I’m a bit late on this article, but my presence in the Middle East had more (positive) impact than I anticipated, so I got tied up at work.

Anyway, let’s finally start to use Oracle’s BPM Composer to model our “Request a parking space” process.

As the Akino Fishing Co is a series focused on the Business User, we’ll try to keep our articles as Zero-Code as possible.

Finally… Hands-on!

We’ll start by logging on to BPM Composer

Oracle BPM Composer Login Screen

After logging in we are taken into the Process Spaces screen. Here, we’ll create a Space for our BPM Initiative. A Space is an container were you group and keep your Business Architecture (BA) and BPMN projects.

You can create as much spaces as you want, to organize your Business Architecture and BPMN projects the way you think it’s best. However, a project that belongs to a given space can’t be “seen” in other spaces, so take that into account. For the purpose of our article, we’ll be using just one space for all processes.

Hello there!

I know I’m a bit late on this article, but my presence in the Middle East had more (positive) impact than I anticipated, so I got tied up at work.

Anyway, let’s finally start to use Oracle’s BPM Composer to model our “Request a parking space” process.

As the Akino Fishing Co is a series focused on the Business User, we’ll try to keep our articles as Zero-Code as possible.

Finally… Hands-on!

We’ll start by logging on to BPM Composer

Oracle BPM Composer Login Screen

After logging in we are taken into the Process Spaces screen. Here, we’ll create a Space for our BPM Initiative. A Space is an container were you group and keep your Business Architecture (BA) and BPMN projects.

You can create as much spaces as you want, to organize your Business Architecture and BPMN projects the way you think it’s best. However, a project that belongs to a given space can’t be “seen” in other spaces, so take that into account. For the purpose of our article, we’ll be using just one space for all processes. Read the complete article here.

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BPM 12c Gateways (Part 3 of 5): Parallel Gateway by Antonis Antoniou

May 2, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The parallel gateway enables you to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, allowing your process to follow several unconditional paths in parallel. When your process token reaches a parallel gateway activity, the parallel gateway will create a token for each outgoing parallel sequence flow. Your process will wait until all tokens have arrived at the parallel gateway merge activity before resuming with the rest of the activities.
You should be very careful with the parallel gateway activity because if one of the tokens that have been created by the parallel gateway doesn’t arrive at the parallel gateway merge activity, then your process will freeze.
So let’s see how you can use the parallel gateway in a process. Let’s assume that you are implementing an order process and that at some point in your process you want to request for quotations from two different suppliers. Once you have received both quotations your process should resume (ideally pick the lowest quotation but I will not be implementing this part).
I created a BPM application with a default BPM project (named both application and project "ParallelGatewayDemo") having an empty composite. Read the complete article here.

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