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BPM Process Patterns using BPMN by Dan Atwood

December 30, 2014 Leave a comment

Business analysts and developers new to BPM sometimes struggle with the art of discovering, modeling, understanding and explaining business processes. BPM Process patterns provide a time proven and simple technique to shorten the learning curve and improve productivity and quality of the processes designed. The patterns described here were created using Oracle BPM’s BPMN process modeling tool.

Process patterns are example fragments of processes that show how to connect activities together to solve various and common workflow problems. Like words that are combined to form sentences, these patterns are combined to form complete processes and illustrate some of the best thoughts on modeling business processes today. Professor Wil van der Aalst’s Workflow Patterns article written in 2002 noted that processes have common and reusable patterns. These process patterns are broken down into these six categories that gradually grow in complexity:

Procedural Patterns
Advanced Branching and Synchronization Patterns
Structural Patterns
Multiple Instance Patterns
State Based Patterns
Cancellation Patterns

Procedural Patterns

Sequence Pattern

This is the most common and obvious of all the patterns. When business analysts begin to model the way things work today ("As-Is" process) usually much of the process looks like activities strung together in a series. Instances (individual items of work flowing through the process) step through the activities one by one. Read the complete article here.

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BPM Integration Days February 26th & 27th 2015 in Munich Germany

December 29, 2014 Leave a comment

Am 26. bis 27. Februar 2015 präsentiert das Business Technology Magazin die BPM & Integration Days 2015 in München.
Vier der bekanntesten deutschsprachigen BPM-Profis – Torsten Winterberg, Danilo Schmiedel und Dr. Marcus Winteroll zeigen Ihnen in diesem Trainingsevent Schritt für Schritt wie Sie prozessorientierte IT-Lösungen optimal entwickeln und aktuelle Standards effizient einsetzen.

Das erwartet Sie!
Im Laufe der beiden Trainingstage wird der komplette Lebenszyklus eines Projekts zur Geschäftsprozessautomatisierung beispielhaft vermittelt werden. Beginnend mit der Anforderungsaufnahme, wird im weiteren Verlauf aufgezeigt, welche Lösungsanteile am besten mit der BPMN 2.0 umgesetzt werden können und in welchen Fällen Ansätze aus dem Adaptive Case Management zum Einsatz kommen.
Klar definierte Abläufe werden mithilfe der BPMN 2.0 (Business Process Model and Notation) zur Ausführung gebracht, flexible zu gestaltende Geschäftsprozesse mittels der CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation). Abgerundet wird das Training durch eine Vorstellung der DMN (Decision Model and Notation), um die Struktur von Entscheidungen zu analysieren, die im Laufe der Geschäftsprozesse zu treffen sind. Nachdem alle nötigen Grundlagen gelegt sind, erklären die Trainer mithilfe verschiedener BPM-Plattformen wie camunda sowie Oracle BPM Suite, wie alle erstellten Modelle in lauffähige, prozessbasierte Software gegossen werden.
An wen richtet sich das Training?
Das Trainingsevent richtet sich an alle, die in prozessbasierten IT-Projekten an Lösungsstrukturen arbeiten, also vorrangig an Softwarearchitekten, Entwickler und Modellierer, aber auch an Systemanalytiker, die mit ihren Entwicklern besser kommunizieren wollen. Das Training ist zudem für Projektmanager geeignet, da sie so Gründe und Methoden für Strukturentscheidungen kennen lernen und somit ihre Teams optimal aufstellen können.

Alle Details finden Sie auf www.bpm-integration-days.de. Haben Sie Fragen oder Wünsche an uns? Senden Sie uns bitte eine E-Mail an info@entwickler-akademie.de oder rufen Sie uns an unter +49 (0)30 2148066-50.
Wir wünschen Ihnen ein besinnliches Weihnachtsfest und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!

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BPM 12.1.3 Process Documentation Sample available on java.net

December 29, 2014 Leave a comment

Two weeks ago I blogged about the new features and improvements to process documentation in Oracle BPM 12.1.3. A sample is now available on java.net for download. This sample includes:

A lab document explaining how to use the import feature in Oracle BPM Composer and Studio to convert Visio, XPDL, BPMN 2.0, Oracle Workflow, and Tutor documents into BPM processes. A sample Visio file is included in the download so you can see how the feature works.
The same lab document leads you through adding process documentation via the business properties.
You are also guided through using the narrative view to edit your sample process.
Then the lab prompts you to create process reports to bring all of your process documentation together in one HTML or PDF document.

The sample also includes a lab solution so you can import the project with all of the process documentation already added.

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OpenWorld 2014 Middleware Summery

December 28, 2014 Leave a comment

In case you did not attend OpenWorld 2014, make sure you watch the keynotes on-demand.

At our at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we published Thomas Kurian Fusion Middleware keynote slides: OFM general session Thomas Kurian OOW 2014.pptx

Middleware General Session

Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development, Oracle

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Cloud Services for the Modern Enterprise

Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development, Oracle

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Chairman’s Keynote

Larry Ellison, Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Oracle

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Thanks to all partners for attending Oracle Open World 2014 & making the conference a huge success . Thanks to all Oracle employees & specially product management & development for the exciting new solutions! Thanks to the 80+ attendees you join our Fusion Middleware Partner Community Reception Tuesday evening. Was great that see the community excited & meet Clemens a good old friend. We are looking for your Oracle Open World 2014 feedback, what did you like best? What are the best products? Send us your feedback at Twitter @soacommunity #soacommunity. At our Facebook page we posted some impressions – make sure you send us yours!

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Additional new content SOA & BPM Partner Community

December 26, 2014 Leave a comment

· SOA Suite for Healthcare Integration – Blog | Resource Kit

· Mobile Integration using Oracle Service Bus – Blog

· Siram S.p.a. Achieves Commercial Efficiency and Business Process Agility Siram, an Italy-based energy services management company, is leveraging the Oracle AppAdvantage program’s pace-layered architecture—powered by Oracle Fusion Middleware—to streamline and automate interdepartmental efficiencies. For further details, watch the full webcast featuring Siram

· Big Data Integration: Big Data Reservoir—A New Way to Think About Your Information Architectures Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 10:00 a.m. PT

Learn the best practices for using big data reservoirs to unlock the value in your enterprise big data.

· Oracle Service Oriented Architecture Blog: A Brave New Integration World—The Value Proposition of Oracle SOA Suite 12c

· Drive Real-Time Business with Oracle Business Process Management 12c Demand for fast, interactive information access has skyrocketed, driving even more urgency for ever-faster business responsiveness. Find out how the latest release of Oracle Business Process Management brings together cross-departmental applications to create end-to-end, efficient, social business processes that support modern enterprises.Read More

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Integrating With Fusion Application Using Services (SoapUi – SSL) By Jani Rautiainen

December 25, 2014 Leave a comment

Fusion Applications provides web services that allow external systems to integrate with Fusion Applications. There are two types of services: ADF services and composite services. ADF services are created for a logical business object and provide functionality to access and manipulate these objects. The composite services are mostly process oriented and provide an orchestration of multiple steps.
Information about the web services provided by Fusion Applications is hosted in Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER). The information provided by OER can be used to understand the functionality provided by the service and how the service can be called.
This series of articles describes how one can invoke SOAP web services provided by Fusion Applications using various technologies. In previous article we covered how to invoke a Fusion Application web service secured with simple username token using SoapUI. In this article we will cover a call to service secured with SSL policy.

Prerequisites

SoapUi

The reader is expected to have SoapUI installed.

Fusion Applications Web Service Policy

This example covers a call to a web service that support user name tokens and SSL. The example was tested with a service using "oracle/wss_username_token_over_ssl_service_policy" commonly available for Oracle SaaS environments.

Implementing Web Service Call

Generally the steps to call a SSL and non-SSL services are the same. The SSL services are however commonly configured to validate a timestamp though. So calls to SSL services commonly require the "wsu:Timestamp" element and the value used must be within tolerance. If the timestamp is not provided or the value is not within the tolerance you would see error such as:

      <env:Fault xmlns:ns0="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd">

         <faultcode>ns0:InvalidSecurityToken</faultcode>

         <faultstring>InvalidSecurityToken : The security token is not valid.</faultstring>

         <faultactor/>

      </env:Fault>

Read the complete article here.

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Happy Holiday & a great start in 2015 from the SOA & BPM Partner Community!

December 24, 2014 Leave a comment

Whish you all a Happy Holiday with your families and a great start in 2015!

In the last weeks I had the privilege to test some of our upcoming PaaS middleware solutions by myself. One of the results a fully executable process you can see above. It is amazing how fast, easy, nice and rich process applications, a non technical person like myself, can build. Hope to see you all at the OFM Partner Community Forum 2015 – and read the Community newsletters! And you will get the large presents at our Community Forum!

Jürgen Kress

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New Features and Changes in BPM 12c by David Winters

December 23, 2014 Leave a comment

clip_image002 At the Oracle BPM 12c summer camp in Lisbon, I had a chance to deep-dive into world of Oracle BPM suite 12c which went GA at the end of June. In this blog, I will discuss which I believe are the most notable changes in the BPM 12c product, some of which also impact SOA suite 12c since the BPM suite shares some components with the SOA suite including the human workflow and business rules engine among others as we can see from the diagram below. Furthermore, both the BPEL and BPMN service engines share fundamentally the same codebase. Read the complete article here.