Force dehydration in Oracle Business Process Management by Jan van Zoggel

November 27, 2013 Leave a comment

Oracle BPM Catch Timer EventOracle Business Process Management uses transactions to control the steps throughout it’s processes. In the Oracle BPEL processes you are able to use a checkpoint to explicit force a dehydration during your process.

Oracle BPMN doesn’t have a specific activity to perform the same. However you can force a dehydration by using a timer catch event in your process. Setting the timer to 2 seconds is sufficient.

(I think this might actually be 1 second, but the manual claims that the duration should be more than 1 second so we use 2 seconds to be sure).

Oracle Business Process Management Catch Timer Event
Overview of where transactions occur in Oracle BPM/BPEL (source: Oracle performance tuning guide): Read the full article here.

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Oracle Business Process Management 11g books

November 25, 2013 Leave a comment

Here is the list of books you certainly want to be familiar with:

1. Getting Started with Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g

It can be purchased from Amazon.

This is the first Oracle Business Process Management 11g book that got published and it provides comprehensive coverage from modeling to implementation to work management and monitoring. It is written by Oracle Business Process Management Product Management team and built around an iterative tutorial, using a real-life scenario to illustrate all the key features. It is a handy book to refer to build your first Business Process Management application using the Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g.

2. Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Handbook

It can be purchased from Amazon.
Written by Oracle Business Process Management experts, this book covers best practices, in-depth look at usage of BPMN constructs, exception management, event handling, business rules and a detailed look in to all the powerful features and functionality of the Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g. Additionally, this book lays out the Business Process Management Methodology and best practices that lead to a successful project and how to scale to enterprise wide Business Process Management adoption.

3. Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics

Written by Oracle consultants who have deep expertise in Oracle Business Process Management, this book covers advanced topics such as inter-process communication, working with collections and handling of exceptions in practice that are not addressed by the official Oracle Business Process Management 11g documentation.

Looking for additional Business Process Management books or if you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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Business Process Management (BPM) 11g PS6 Awareness Webcast December 2, 2013

November 23, 2013 Leave a comment

  @ 15:00 CET, (UTC/GMT +1 Hour) 90 Minutes Register Now!

  • Oracle Business Process Management Suite (Oracle BPM Suite) 11g PS6 is the industry’s most social, unified and complete Business Process Management (BPM) solution. By providing business users with greater control over the business processes from modeling to execution, the new capabilities help enhance the user experience and organizational efficiency.
    This eSeminar will cover significant new BPM 11g PS6 features such as such as Adaptive Case Management, Process Accelerators Business User and Process Composer for design, simulation, and execution. Register Now!

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Debugging Oracle Business Process Management and Events (Oracle EDN) by Jan van Zoggel

November 22, 2013 Leave a comment

We are using Oracle EDN events to communicate between Oracle Business Process Management instances and from the Oracle ADF tasks to Oracle Business Process Management. We use the correlation configuration to make sure the events arrive at the correct instances.

We had our share of problems with events during our project and it often took us some time to debug it. Since documentation is scattered across blogs, support sites and some manuals to configure the whole setup. The documentation about debugging your problems is very thin.

1. Check EM logging (duh)
All event steps are logged and the Enterprise Manager ECID (Execution Context ID) can help you detect what is going wrong.
2. Use Oracle Enterprise Manager’s ability to check the Business Events:
right click soa-infra and voila: Business Events! It shows an overview of registered events, amounts, subscriptions and is also the place for recovery of your events,
3. Check your Oracle Business Process Management project project_properties.wsdl file Read the full article here

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Case Management In-Depth: Cases & Case Activities Part 2 – Case Rules by Mark Foster

November 21, 2013 Leave a comment

In the previous blog entry we started to look at case artefacts, specifically case activities and how we should design these at the correct level of granularity.

In this entry we’ll look at case rules, the “glue” that connects case artefacts together at the level of the case.

Case Artefacts & Case Rules

As of PS6, the design-time for Case Management inside Business Process Management Studio has no “holistic” view of the case and its artefacts, however this is planned for a future release. In the absence of this I’ve been trying to understand how it would be possible to visualize everything that makes up a case and how these things are interrelated.

A Mind Mapping Approach

My colleagues Prasen Palvankar & Ravi Rangaswamy came up with a neat use of mind-mapping to show the case & its relationships.

… I find this great for understanding the questions that need to be asked in the design of a case from within Business Process Management Studio…”who are the stakeholders”, “what are the case activities”, “which documents can be attached to the case” etc. but from this I could still not immediately grasp what my case looked like and the relationship between the artefacts. Read the full article here.

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Adaptive Case Management (ACM) Webcast with Bruce Silver on-demand

November 20, 2013 Leave a comment

Thank you for attending Oracle’s live webcast “An Analyst’s Take on Business-Driven Business Process Management for Case Management” featuring leading Business Process Management Industry Analyst Bruce Silver.

To view the webcast on-demand click here.

Where do you stand in reaching Business Process Management maturity? And how do you compare with your competitors? It used to be difficult to find out, but not anymore.
Take this quick and easy online Business Process Management maturity assessment to receive your complimentary, customized report that breaks down your Business Process Management maturity in domains such as business strategy, architecture, and governance. Click here to take your Oracle Business Process Management Assessment today.

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BPM Process Accelerators learn how to use them successful

November 19, 2013 1 Comment

Want to learn more about Business Process Management Process Accelerators a great solution to demo Business Process Management and jumpstart your Business Process Management project – attend the online on-demand trainings:

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Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience Seminar December 5, 2013 Oracle Office Manchester

November 18, 2013 Leave a comment

You are invited to attend: “Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience Seminar”

This is a one-day seminar about Oracle’s user experience investment in Fusion Applications. clip_image002[4]

The Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience Seminar for OPN members provides knowledge about the Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience through discussion, demonstration, and “hands-on” activities. Learn how simplicity, mobility, and extensibility are driving the applications user experience strategy at Oracle. See how easy it is to create simple, powerful user experiences with the ability to tailor Oracle applications in the cloud. Discuss mobile trends, gamification, new ways to visualize information, consumer-like experiences, and how to create applications that require a light touch and zero training. Attendees will be prepared to achieve Oracle Fusion Applications UX Specialist status.

Time

Topic

Presenter/ Leader

8:00-9:00 a.m.

Breakfast and networking

Ultan O’Broin, Misha Vaughan

9:00-9:45 a.m.

Apps UX Overview and Fusion Main Messages

Misha Vaughan

9:45-10:30 a.m.

How to demo the Fusion User Experience: From Desktop UI to the Simplified UI

Ultan O’Broin

10:30-10:45 a.m.

Break

  

10:45-11:15 a.m.

Pitch-Back: Two volunteers selected to pitch back to the group on the morning’s content

Ultan O’Broin, Misha Vaughan

11:15-12:00 p.m.

Roadmap: What’s Next in Fusion Applications UX: Release 7 and more

Killian Evers

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Lunch and lab tour video

Ultan O’Broin

1:30-2:45 p.m.

Tailoring Fusion Apps UX (for the Business Analyst): Composers for Desktop and Simplified UI

Killian Evers

2:45-3:00 p.m.

Break

  

3:00-4:15 p.m.

Tailoring Fusion Apps UX (for the developer): Design Principles to Desktop & Mobile Design Patterns

Ultan O’Broin

4:15-4:45 p.m.

Tailoring Questions: What does this all mean?

Killian Evers, Ultan O’Broin

4:45-5:00 p.m.

Wrap-Up

Ultan O’Broin, Misha Vaughan

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Killian Evers

Killian Evers, Senior Director, User Experience Architecture, focuses on customization and extensibility features for Oracle Fusion Applications. Previously, she worked as a product manager for the EBS Core Components, EBS Security, Territory Manager, Order Capture, Sales and Marketing product families. She is adept at understanding and defining functional and technical architectures for the application suite. Killian has a master’s degree in International Politics with a concentration in computer science/modeling and statistics.

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Ultan O’Broin, Director, Oracle Applications User Experience, has worked in Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion Applications development in the U.S. and EMEA since 1996. He is a passionate evangelist for applications user experience, communicating usability methods and best-practices to the Oracle application development community and to customers and partners worldwide. Special interests are user experience design patterns, developer productivity, and the impact of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) on the enterprise. Follow Ultan’s blog at: https://blogs.oracle.com/usableapps/ or on Twitter: @ultan or @usableapps.

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Misha Vaughan, Host

Misha Vaughan, Director, Communications & Outreach team in the Oracle Applications User Experience group, spearheads outreach to customers, thought-leaders in the Oracle sales organization, the Oracle Partner ecosystem, and Oracle key influencers and bloggers. Misha leads outreach and education initiatives for the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) program, which includes the Fusion User Experience Advocates program and the Applications User Experience Sales Ambassador (SAMBA) Program. In the past, she led a next-generation user interface technology team, as well as a cross-acquisition (PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Oracle) user experience team that defined all of the user research methodologies for Oracle Fusion Applications. Follow her at https://blogs.oracle.com/vox or on Twitter: @mishavaughan.

Details at our registration page

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BAM Adapter Batching Deep Dive by Pete Want

November 18, 2013 Leave a comment

In the real business scenario of integrating SOA/AIA applications with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), one common requirement is that such integration should not impact the operations of business systems running on SOA/AIA in terms of high availability and performance. To achieve this goal, one option is to use BAM Adapter or BAM Sensor Actions with Batching enabled. This article explains how batching works in Oracle BAM Adapter.

Why You Need Batching?

When talking about batching, the first impression you may have is that you put a set of data into a package or a batch, and send it across for processing as a whole. In the BAM Adapter context, batching not only allows a group of XML payloads to be sent to the BAM Server side, but also changes the behavior of a synchronous invocation to BAM Server API to Async.
In mission critical applications, the preferred approach to integrate Oracle BAM with live data feed is using the Fire and Forget Message Exchange Pattern (MEP). Fire and Forget MEP has two major benefits compared to synchronous integration pattern:

  • High Performance – Threads invoking BAM Adapter APIs are not blocked by down stream operations. Thus the slow execution of down stream code should not impact the performance of the core business system.
  • High Availability – The failures including application failure such as errors due to invalid payload, and system failures such as system outage due to maintenance, will not impact the normal operations of the main system. For example, in the Order to Cash (O2C) flow of AIA Communication PIPs, data integration between AIA and BAM should be in an asynchronous manner, thus, failures and outage of BAM will not impact AIA operations.

When Oracle BAM Adapter or BAM Sensor Actions is used, you should always enable batching to leverage the Fire and Forget MEP. In the next section, you will see how BAM Adapter works with batching enabled.

How Batching Works?

Oracle BAM Adapter is a JCA compliant adapter that primarily converts Oracle BAM operations (Insert, Upsert, Update, and Delete) into the standard Web Services Interface described by WSDL.

By default, BAM Adapter operates in a synchronous manner as shown in the following diagram.
Read the full article here.

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