Building great-looking, usable apps

Are you a business analyst or developer looking for an efficient and effective way to build in a better user experience as you tailor an application? These experts, who are from the Oracle Applications User Experience team or have been trained by them, offer tips on keeping your applications usable, so that your users can be more productive.

  • Ultan O’Broin, Director, Oracle Applications User Experience, talks about making great-looking applications with a productive user experience in an interview for the Oracle’s Latin America OTN Tour.
  • Lonneke Dikmans, Fusion UX Advocate, writes about building in user experience in her article in O Tech Magazine,  “Stop Generating your User Interface! Start designing IT!”.
  • Sten Vesterli, Fusion UX Advocate, writes about ADF in his post, “ADF Architecture Made Simple: Small, Medium, Large.”

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Validated Integrations – certified integrations build by Oracle partners

  • Oracle Validated Integration establishes credibility with Oracle customers by providing them with confidence that the integration of a partner’s solution with Oracle Applications is designed in a reliable, standardized way, has been tested as functionally and technically sound, and operates and performs as documented. Check out the new Oracle Validated Integration program brochure here.
  • Hundreds of partners have invested in Oracle Validated Integration to accelerate sales opportunities and attract new customers by leveraging exclusive Oracle Validated Integration go-to-market benefits.

Development Partner Initiative

  • If you are working with a partner that has developed a solution that extends or enhances Oracle Applications (or Fusion Middleware products), Oracle Validated Integration can provide a proven framework and important marketing benefits to ensure a successful partnership.
  • For more information on how Oracle Validated Integration can help support your partner objectives, please  contact David Beschta, Worldwide Alliances & Channels

Browse over 300 partner solutions with Oracle Validated Integration here.

Partner Solutions on O.com More than 300 current Oracle Validated Integrations!
Oracle Validated Integration on OPN Send your partners here for more information.

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Oracle Open World 2013 Case Management Smiers & Kitson

There are a lot of informal end-to-end processes in organizations. These end-to-end processes are usually supported by scattered applications, email, spreadsheets and a lot of goodwill of the personnel involved. When compliance, regulations and/or customer demands are imposed on an organization, these end-to-end processes do not have the ability to comply with new demands due to lack of support from the current application landscape. In the financial, public and utilities market organizations are re-landscaping their existing application portfolio due to these higher compliance, regulations and customer demands. This often is not a huge transformation program, with a roadmap spanning over years.

Case management can help cross the bridge from the current landscape towards a landscape aimed at delivering these higher demands.  Oracle delivered Case management as part of their stack starting this year. This presentation deals with standardization of case design and how Oracle can support re-platforming in a gradual way.

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Oracle BPM 11g: Adaptive Case Management Quick Start Series

This series of videos introduces Adaptive Case Management in Oracle BPM 11g.

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ACM Articles by Mark Foster from the A-Team

Mark Foster from the A-team published a series of ACM articles:

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BPM and SOA are going mobile by Guido Schmutz & Torsten Winterberg

An Architecture Perspective presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2013.

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BPM Auditing Demystified by Mark Foster

I have heard from a couple of customers recently asking about BPM audit table growth, specifically BPM_AUDIT_QUERY. It led me to investigate the impact of the various audit levels in SOA/BPM on these table and to propose options to them.

It is important to note up-front that BPM is a human-centric workflow application and therefore should be expected to audit often and in detail the reality is that business users probably will want to know who did what and when, and also who did not do what when they were supposed to. BPM auditing is very rich and can provide this kind of information and more. The “downside” of this is that audit tables can grow at a faster rate than expected, and BPM_AUDIT_QUERY is normally the most prominent of these.

Clearly there are well documented strategies for archiving/purging and partitioning which can control/limit the impact of table growth but there may also be simple changes to the BPM audit settings which can prove beneficial in certain business situations.

Audit Settings

There are essentially three places where the auditing of BPM applications can be controlled Read the full article here.

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BPM PS6 (11.1.1.7) Demo

To get access to the demo environment please contact Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)!

Global Sales Engineering (GSE, formerly DSS) is happy to announce the availability of BPM (Business Process Management) 11.1.1.7 Solutions.

This demo includes 3 scenarios that highlight the most popular features of BPM 11.1.1.7.

Highlights

  • Business Led Process Composition
  • User Interface Design using Oracle Web Forms
  • Step through the Business Process using Player

Call to Action

  • Check out this 2-minute video overview of BPM 11.1.1.7 Solutions
  • Review the demo Release Notes and Scripts on the GSE Demo Store
  • Start your demo now using Demo Title "BPM 11.1.1.7 Solutions"
    • Instant tech demo (aka "Canned Demo") directly from the GSE Home Page
    • Deal Server environment via GSE Home Page > Reservations > Registrations > Technology Customizable (drop down) > SOA and Process Management
  • Additional demo information is available here.

For questions please contact sunitha.patel@oracle.com or anand.prasad@oracle.com or contact GSE Support.

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BPM Suite 11.1.1.7 with Adaptive Case Management (ACM) User Interface available for download

imageLate present from Oracle to start in 2014. A new version of BPM Suite 11.1.1..7 with the Adaptive Case Management User Interfaces is available for download. To access the software please login to www.support.oracle.com and search for Patch 17767877: CASE UI IN WORKSPACE

The software is controlled availability. For partners with ACM opportunities we can make the software available. Please contact us via twitter www.twitter.com @soacommunty or raise a support request.

Send us your feedback at www.twitter.com @soacommunty #acm

Following steps are necessary to get it running:

  • Install patch p17014142_111170 via OPatch (for Oracle_SOA1 and oracle_common)
  • Install patch p17767877_111171 via OPatch (for Oracle_SOA1, oracle_common and JDev)
  • Install patch p14526899_1036 via Smart Update Utility
  • Install patch p14791221_1036 via Smart Update Utility

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Sample: BPM Organizational Chart

The organization structure and user properties (for parametric roles) can be loaded/updated via APIs. APIs will give you an idea of how initial population could work from an external format.

Synchronization/updates would be more complex.

Document for APIs is here.

IBPMOrganizationService Provides APIs to access Organization Unit, Business Calendar, Busienss Holiday, Extended user Properties People query and BPM-Application Roles. This interface defines following methods:

  • Search Organizational entities
  • CRUD APIs for Organization Unit
  • CRUD APIs for Calendar Rules
  • CRUD APIs for Holiday Rules
  • Extended User Property APIs
  • People query execution APIh
  • AppRole Management APIs (Create/Delete/Grant etc)
  • CRUD APIs for Orgnizational entities association
  • Import and Export of Organizational entities
  • CRUDS APIs for LPG

Sample: BPM Organizational Chart – Example.

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