Process Cloud Service (PCS) is available

May 27, 2015 Leave a comment

Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) is availabile

PCS partner quotes

Our SOA & BPM Partner Community is very eximagecited about Process Cloud Service:

  • “Reduce completely and go faster into a Digital Business with PCS” Jorge Quilcate, Sysco
  • “Modern UI combined with stability delivers on premise performance in the cloud” Andrejus Baranovskis, Red Samurai
  • “Finally your business departments have a tool they will like for process modeling” Hajo Normann, Accenture
  • “Oracle Process cloud, a game changer in process implementations, provides our customers benefits from fast agile process delivery on top of existing on-premise applications.” Leon Smiers, Capgemini
  • “With Oracle PCS, time-to-market can be significantly reduced – we highly recommend it.” José Rodrigues, Link Consulting

PCS demo system: We are in process to make the PaaS Services available via GSE. Please make sure that you first request your GSE access here. BPM Specialized Partners and member of the SOA & BPM Partner Community can access PCS demo accounts with myself.

PCS presentation, eBook, datasheet & marketing kit At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we posted

PCS Partners: Looking for a BPM Specialized Partner which can support you with your PCS implementation? Visit the solutions catalog here, and search for your local BPM Specialized partner have trained & certified consultants and implemented successful BPM customer projects. Across EMEA more than 390 companies are Specialized in BPM! Find local Specialized partners by product www.oracle.com/specialized & Learn more about PCS here

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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 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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BPM Suite 12c what is New

May 1, 2015 Leave a comment

 

Make sure you read our White Paper: What’s New in Oracle BPM 12c – PDF. 12.1.3 Bundled Patch 1 (BP1), is planned for BPM Suite 12c in Q1 2015. In the case you are working on a BPM 12c project please make sure that you reach out to myself to get Oracle support.

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Screenflows with BPM and ADF 12c by Marcel Maas

March 29, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002BPM 12c came with a slew of features that were scrapped when Oracle truly integrated the acquired BEA’s BPM implementation. One of those features is “screenflows”. I guess some of you, if not all of you have ever come across the situation where you needed to retrieve some information from a user using a human task, then do some logic and immediately provide the same user with a new screen for processing this data without having to go back to the tasklist.

In 11g there was no (out-of-the-box) way to do so, other than using the human workflow api or simply doing a service call from the existing task flow and not really going back to the process. Well now you can! And we are going to demonstrate it in this post. Now this feature is easily configured. We first need to make sure the server is configured correctly. Because this feature uses JMS messaging to function we need to a new topic as well as a new connection factory.

In WLS console in BpmModule create a new topic:

Name: UIBrokerTopic
JNDI Name: jms/bpm/UIBrokerTopic
Type: Topic (or Distributed unified Topic if clustered)

Read the complete article here.

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Now Under Development in AVIO’s Skunkworks Labs: Customized Workspace for Oracle BPM by Mark Peterson

March 27, 2015 Leave a comment

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Using best in class UI technologies, AVIO is developing a custom workspace that will manage your work the way you want. It starts with a initial layout that is similar to Oracle’s BPM workspace, but it can use a layout that is best for you. It works in most browsers and media types; cell phones, tablets or PCs.

AVIO’s workspace uses open source technologies, Angular JS (angularjs.org) and Bootstrap CSS (getbootstrap.com). Angular JS provides best in class MVC architecture to render the UI fast and rich in features. Bootstrap CSS is used for a "Design for Mobile First" approach. Where Angular is rapidly becoming the technology of choice for the front-end, Bootstrap will give your designs the responsiveness it needs for cell phones, tablets or PCs.  As opposed to Oracle’s workspace, Angular enables your workspace to be customized from its own and AVIO’s pre-built libraries. These libraries leverage AVIO’s REST services for BPM CRUD operations with the server. Bootstrap CSS can layer on top of any open source tools to give your UIs the "wow" factor you want. These cool features will include modal menus, dynamic widgets and pages, and Kanban style task boards for an intuitive user experience.

Before we look at the workspace on a mobile device, take a close look at the top and left menu bar on a full-size display. The top menu bar contains a search box to filter the list or locate a particular work item. It also contains tabs for applications (to start new tasks), dashboards  (for grapical representation of your work) and a settings tab; for configuring your workspace. The menu on the left contains a list of views to group your work by task or case; initiated or administrative; tasks due within some time-frame; or by some metadata like region, department, or status.

The main panel (on the right) contains a work list represented by cards. These cards can be customized to contain important text and date fields,  images, links and other meta-data to identify them. These cards can represent different work items like a task or a case. With cards, there’s no need to switch between task and case view when using Oracle’s Adaptive Case Management (ACM) features. If mixing them together in a single list is not desired, it is easy to create views with only one or the other.

To get a feel for how this works, we will look at the UI rendered in a hand-held device as seen below. Notice that the left menu bar has been hidden and the top menu collapsed to an expandable menu icon. The work item list of cards makes it easier to design responsive layouts over a static table with rows. Different card types may need different meta-data, images and fields. Likewise the details behind the cards can adapt according to the card type. This provides more uniformity for handling tasks and cases for an intuitive and friendly look and feel.

One reason cards are used as opposed to a static table is the way the concept handles different work item types. The other reason is to allow Kanban style drag and drop.  Each card type can contain its own set of text fields, dates, images and links according to the card type. It can be dragged around (in Kanban style), sorted moved from view to view, or whatever the case may be. Cards provide more flexibility over tables. However if a table suits the need better, that is possible too. It’s easier to turn off features than add them back in later on. Read the complete article here.

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BPM Suite 12c: Getting started with BPM Studio (JDeveloper) and Process Composer using Process Asset Manager (PAM) by Lucas Jellema

March 26, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002We see a clear trend with Oracle BPM Suite that the Process Composer – the browser based modeling IDE – is getting richer in functionality. Before too long, virtually all modeling/design and many implementation activities will be supported by Process Composer. With the upcoming Process Cloud Service where the process is created in its entirety through browser based tooling, this is of course necessary.

It will be a common practice to work on business processes both in Process Composer and in BPM Studio (JDeveloper). Exchanging the process definition between these two environments is essential for smooth collaboration. In this article, I provide some pointers to get going with Process Composer in BPM Suite 12c (12.1.3) and the interaction with BPM Studio – based on the Process Asset Manager (PAM) as well as ‘plain’ export/import.

Getting started with BPM Process Composer

Process Composer is available at http://host:port/bpm/composer.

On the home page, there are several areas that you can step into: business architecture and BPM processes are the main ones. To create a new BPM project, click on the plus icon in the BPM Project title area. Provide the name and description of the project and select an existing or new space. Read the complete article here.

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BPM Suite 12c Modeling Patterns book from Vivek Acharya

March 25, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001Thanks to Vivek Acharya for his new BPM Suite 12c Modeling Patterns book:

  • Work with multi-instance patterns and advanced flow control patterns so you understand the BPM Process Flow
  • Handle exceptions and develop strategies around fault management in BPM with human interactions, task modeling patterns using Oracle BPM, the fault framework and human workflow
  • Develop a highly efficient Case Management Solution with the help of well explained code samples

Additional BPM Books from PACKT:

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Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 – A Hands-On Tutorial

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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer’s cookbook

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Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics

For additional books please visit our BPM Books wiki here.

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Akino Fishing Company now has a team of consultants helping to setup the BPM

March 24, 2015 Leave a comment

 

The Analyst Method

clip_image002At Red Mavericks we like to exercise our creativity, do things out of the ordinary, but sometimes, we need to do things with a certain consistency, with a certain methodology. For instance, to pickup information from a plain English description into structured information we follow a certain method. Now, again, there are other ways to do it, but we like to do it like this.

We go through a series of steps:

  1. Identify the verbs in the process description
  2. Identify the nouns in the process description
  3. Identify decision words (if, then, else, while, when, until, or, and, not)
  4. Identify time associating words (after, before, during, at start, in the end, prior)
  5. Build a table with your findings, identifying for each finding their type(1, 2, 3, or 4) and try to answer the 3W1H (What, Who, When and How)

it may not seem like it at the moment, but 80% of what you need to know to model your process is right here. Now eliminate any repitions that mean the same. For instance, in the description you have “…The requester is presented with a message stating “We’re sorry but currently there aren’t any parking spaces available in the requested period. Would you care to leave us your contacts and we’ll try to arrange a parking space for you?”, together with 2 fields: e-mail and mobile number. If the requester chooses to submit the contact information…“. In this case keep only e.mail and mobile number, as the contact information already refers to these two fields.

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10 Minutes

You should end up with a list similar to this one, give or take a few:

  1. Verbs – filling form, submitting form, check available spaces, returns message, submitting contact information, create a task, generate e-mail or SMS,
  2. Nouns – Request, Requester, Form, Name, Company Name, Period Date, Period Start Time, Period End Time, External Entity, Employee, Parking Space, Message, E-mail, Mobile Number, System, Task, Concierge
  3. Decisions – if there are any parking spaces, if the requester is NOT an Akino Fishing Co. employee, if the system returns that the requester can take parking space X, if the system returns that there are no spaces available, if the requester chooses to submit the contact information, “if they can, they’ll mark the task as OK”, “if they can’t, they’ll mark the task as NOT OK”, if the system doesn’t return anything
  4. Time Associations –  Read the complete article here.

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Dynamic ADF Form Solution for Oracle BPM Process by Andrejus Baranovskis

February 25, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002I was working recently on integrating ADF 11.1.2.4 and BPM 11.1.1.7 environments. This worked pretty well, all configuration was done based on my previous blog post for similar topic, only previous ADF and BPM versions – BPM 11g R1 Worklist Integration (Hacking Experiment) Into Non-SOA ADF 11g R2 Domain. Goal of this post is to describe dynamic ADF form approach associated with BPM process human task.
BPM payload contains additional element called voInstanceName. This element is supposed to contain ADF VO instance name, this instance will be used later to render dynamic ADF UI for the currently selected task:

Sample application – adfbpm11gr4.zip, is based on two separate applications. One implements simple BPM process with payload including ADF VO instance name and another implements standalone dynamic ADF application with BPM API.
There are two human tasks in BPM process. Each of these human tasks accepts a payload element with ADF VO instance name. This allows to control ADF UI from BPM process, by providing ADF VO instance name to be used in ADF. The first human task is set to work with EmployeesView1 instance: Read the complete article here.

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