Adaptive Case Management Series by Mark Foster

June 20, 2013 Leave a comment

Thanks to Mark Foster from the A-Team. He published a series of Adaptive Case Management articles:

Case Management Part 1: An Introduction by Mark Foster
With the release of PS6 on 1st April, Case Management made its appearance. In this series of blogs Mark intend to

  • introduce the concept of case management
  • explain the anatomy of a case management project in BPM 11g
  • explain the lifecycle of a typical case management project at runtime
  • give pointers as to best practices in the design of a case management project

Case Management Part 1: An Introduction [Read More]

Case Management Part 2: Anatomy of a Project by Mark Foster

In Oracle BPM 11g PS6, BPM Studio (JDeveloper) is the design-time environment for Case Management. This blog entry will describe the make-up of a Case Management project in BPM Studio, stepping through all the terms and properties associated but will stop short of giving recommendations or best-practices, which will follow in a later blog entry.

BPM Studio: Case Management Project Read More.

Case Management Part 3: Runtime Lifecycle of a Project by Mark Foster

Now we understand what Case Management is and the anatomy of an Oracle BPM 11g PS6 Case Management project, we can look at the simplified lifecycle of a project at runtime, how the stakeholder interacts, what happens when a Case Activity is triggered, what happens when it ends etc.

Case Management Runtime Lifecycle Read More.

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SOA Suite Tuning Guide for SPARC

June 19, 2013 Leave a comment

If you run your SOA Suite on SPARC make sure you read the SOA Suite Tuning Guide for SPARC. The guide contains details about:

  • Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Test Overview
  • Oracle Service Bus Microbenchmark Test Overview
  • Test Configuration
  • Hardware Configuration
  • Software Configuration
  • Partitioning Using Oracle VM Server for SPARC
  • Generalized Performance Data
  • Performance Tuning Methods
  • BPEL Infrastructure Tuning Parameters
  • Oracle Service Bus Performance Tuning
  • Conclusion
  • Links and Further Resources

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Mastering Oracle BPM Suite 11g Webcast Series

June 18, 2013 Leave a comment

This seven part series is for architects, developers, and anyone who is interested in better understanding the use, deployment, and best practices for managing processes with Oracle BPM Suite 11g. By joining this series of seven Webcasts you will get information on use, deployment, and best practices.

BPM-related topics will include:

  • Planning
  • Mastering Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
  • Rule usage
  • Monitoring
  • Development with APIs
  • Deployment

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Register here for the on-demand Webcast Series.

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BPM mobile worklist demo for iOS

June 17, 2013 2 Comments

Thanks to Manoj you can find a first demo of a BPM mobile worklist at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required):

Additional Andrejus Baranovskis our ADF Guru build a Oracle BPM 11g Mobile Worklist with ADF Mobile.

Let us know when you test the demo – we are looking forward to get your feedback!

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Read about the Cloud and the Oracle user experience

June 15, 2013 Leave a comment

Consumers have already seen the benefit of a cloud approach with tailored, consumer-driven experiences. Find out what that means for Oracle’s enterprise applications on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog.

Do you want to hear more about the Oracle Cloud and other UX innovations? UX architect Misha Vaughan writes about what Oracle Apps UX is sharing with the team’s Sales Ambassador (SAMBA) representatives in this post on VoX.

Spot the Oracle user experience design pattern Visit this post by Ultan O’Broin, Director of User Experience, to go design-pattern spotting in the Oracle Fusion Mobile Expenses app. O’Broin also takes a different angle on design patterns and talks with Oracle partner Innowave Technologies about how they used design patterns in this post on the Usable Apps blog.

Watch this interview with Oracle’s Apps UX VP ACE Director Debra Lilley interviews Apps UX Vice President Jeremy Ashley about the new, simplified UI for Oracle Fusion Applications in this video, courtesy of the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG).

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An introduction to Oracle Case Management by Leon Smiers

June 14, 2013 Leave a comment

Oracle makes a habit of adding important functionality to minor patch sets. In the recent 11G Release 2 Patch set 6 of Fusion middleware, Oracle has added a milestone in the BPM stack, the Case management functionality. Discussions around this topic had already been going for a while, but finally the first part of it is included in the Fusion Middleware stack.

In this blog I will elaborate its importance and what is contains Since this an important functional addition we will publish more detailed blogs around this topic in the near future.

What functionality is needed for Case Management?
Organizations increasingly need to deal with unstructured processes that Business Process Management Suites are not designed to cope with. Case Management is a way to govern and control these unstructured processes, but Case Management solutions can be challenging to develop.

Developing Case Management around a BPM solution preferably in conjunction with an Enterprise Content Management System solves many of these problems.

What is a case?
A case is a collection of activities that support a specific business objective. Each case has a lifecycle. During that lifecycle there will be a range of activities and requirements; information and content may need to be gathered in a wide range of formats (such as documents, email, minutes, interviews, photos and other data). Throughout there will be process related tasks and actions, human decisions and interventions. At any time in the lifecycle we should be able to have a holistic view of the case, create reports and review audit trails. A case will be subject to organizational policy or procedure, which determines the appropriate outcomes. Read the full article here.

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New case management functionalities in Oracle BPM Suite 11.1.1.7 by Danilo Schmiedel

June 13, 2013 Leave a comment

Today I would like to highlight a nice feature of the newest Oracle BPM Suite Release. I am very happy that Oracle enriched the Suite with certain Case Management functionalities that fit into the existing Service Component Architecture (SCA). In the past month I already had the chance to play a bit with the beta software. With this post I would like to share some of my experiences.

Why Case Management?
Business Process Management becomes more and more important. With BPM Suite processes can be modeled, implemented, simulated and executed in a multi-user environment. There are also a lot of different reports available to monitor processes during runtime. We see in our projects, that this kind of automation is especially valuable for processes which are based on routine work. Some examples are “Hiring”, “Order-to-Cash”, “Order Management”, “Travel Request Management” and so on.

However – we also notice quite a high amount of processes, which are too complex and too flexible to model them in BPMN. We call it knowledge-intensive work. Of course if you have a lot of time you might be able to model almost everything but is it a benefit to have processes which are not readable anymore? How fast is your time-to-market? How easy is it to implement process changes? How can you support the job of the knowledge worker? Some typical domains with a high amount of knowledge-intensive work are Insurances, Banks, Healthcare, Civil Services and Government Agencies.

Let me try to explain the need of case management with our RYLC example. RYLC stands for “Rent your legacy car” and it was introduced in a series of articles as an overall solution example. The main target of RYLC was to explain concepts like service categories, loose coupling, canonical data model, service security and much more (see SOA Spezial magazine for details). The graphic below shows the complete End-to-End RYLC process in BPMN notation from receiving the request, selection of the car, checkout of the vehicle, returning it, creation of the invoice and cash clearance. I highlighted the checkin-part of the process, which covers the return of the car. It is based on an asynchronous message exchange pattern – the process execution stops until the checkin is completed or canceled. In this stage several things can happen.

BPMN Example – Rent your legacy car (RYLC)

The happy path of the process would be that everything goes well and the customer returns the car at the date that has been agreed during the reservation. The extension of the rental period can trigger other actions which are necessary to satisfy the customer. In worst-case the customer might have an accident or somebody steals the car. Read the full article here.

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Podcast Show: The State of SOA By Bob Rhubart

June 12, 2013 Leave a comment

Service Oriented Architecture may not get the attention it used to get, but it is still alive and kicking – and more important than ever.

The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast program features a panel discussion on the State of Service Oriented Architecture. The panel for this conversation consists of four gentlemen who collectively represent exactly half of the team of experts behind Industrial SOA, a new series of articles available on OTN.

The Conversation

  • Listen to Part 1: The panel discusses why SOA is more important than ever.
  • Listen to Part 2: The panel discuss SOA in the context of business/IT alignment challenges and shares insight on the differences in SOA approaches between Europe and the US.
  • Listen to Part 3: (May 8) The panel explains the concept of Industrialized SOA and discusses what it means for Cloud computing, Mobile, Big Data, and other trends.

Jürgen KressHajo NormannClemens Utschig-UtschigTorsten WinterbergDanilo SchmiedelGuido SchmutzBernd TropsBerthold Maier

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Cloud Computing Book Concepts, Technology & Architecture published by Thomas Erl & Ricardo Puttini

June 11, 2013 1 Comment

imageDuring my holiday I read this book, here is my quote “Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture is an excellent resource for IT professionals and managers who want to learn and understand cloud computing, and who need to select or build cloud systems and solutions. It lays the foundation for cloud concepts, models, technologies and mechanisms. As the book is vendor-neutral, it will remain valid for many years. We will recommend this book to Oracle customers, partners and users for their journey towards cloud computing. This book has the potential to become the basis for a cloud computing manifesto, comparable to what was accomplished with the SOA manifesto." Jürgen Kress

Clouds are distributed technology platforms that leverage sophisticated technology innovations to provide highly scalable and resilient environments that can be remotely utilized by organizations in a multitude of powerful ways. To successfully build upon, integrate with, or even create a cloud environment requires an understanding of its common inner mechanics, architectural layers, and models, as well as an understanding of the business and economic factors that result from the adoption and real-world usage of cloud-based services.

In Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, Thomas Erl, one of the world’s top-selling IT authors, teams up with cloud computing experts and researchers to break down proven and mature cloud computing technologies and practices into a series of well-defined concepts, models, technology mechanisms, and technology architectures, all from an industry-centric and vendor-neutral point of view. In doing so, the book establishes concrete, academic coverage with a focus on structure, clarity, and well-defined building blocks for mainstream cloud computing platforms and solutions.

Subsequent to technology-centric coverage, the book proceeds to establish business-centric models and metrics that allow for the financial assessment of cloud-based IT resources, and their comparison to those hosted on traditional IT enterprise premises. Also provided are templates and formulas for calculating SLA-related quality-of-service values and numerous explorations of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS delivery models.

With over 260 figures, 29 architectural models, and 20 mechanisms, this indispensable guide provides a comprehensive education of cloud computing essentials that will never leave your side.

The book is available at Service Tech Books or at Amazon. Looking for additional SOA books or You published a book feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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SOA Advisory Webcasts: SOA Evaluation & Planning – SOA Diagnostics – SOA Domain setup – Extending SOA Domain

June 10, 2013 Leave a comment

Our global dedicated SOA Support team will run several SOA webcasts, make sure you attend them:

Missed a Webcast on-demand versions are available Oracle Fusion Middleware Advisor Webcast Schedule and Archived Recordings [ID 1456204.1].

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