Getting Started with Oracle
BPM Suite 11gR1
A Hands-On Tutorial
Learn from the experts – teach yourself Oracle BPM
Suite 11g with an accelerated and hands-on learning
path brought to you by Oracle BPM Suite Product
Management team members
Heidi Buelow
Manoj Das
Manas Deb
Prasen Palvankar
Meera Srinivasan
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1
A Hands-On Tutorial
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Foreword
Oracle released the BPM Suite 11gR1 product in April, 2010. This is part of the
11gR1 release cycle for the Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) family of products
that started in the summer of 2009. This release marks the unication of features
of the Aqua Logic BPM (ALBPM) product that Oracle obtained as part of its BEA
acquisition in 2008, and that BEA had in turn acquired from Fuego, with Oracle
BPEL PM, SOA Suite, and the FMW framework. As with all FMW products, BPM
Suite 11gR1 follows the guiding principles behind the FMW products: complete,
integrated, open, and best-of-breed in its Business Process Management Suite
(BPMS) offering. At the time of the BEA acquisition, ALBPM was an industry-
leading BPM product – the BPM Suite 11g release preserves and enhances the
best of ALBPM features such as ease of modeling, simulation, and basic process
analytics. It also adds a signicant set of capabilities that leverage other synergistic
products from the FMW family, such as strong support for backend integration,
event handling, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0
style collaboration, extended process analytics and actionable insights, and superior
performance, scalability and system reliability.
With BPM adoption, organizations aim to generate high-value business benets via
increased efciency, visibility, and agility. However, often such initiatives fail to
produce satisfactory results due to a variety of reasons—certain limitations in their
chosen BPMS tool set account for some of these reasons. For example, many BPM
products specialize in addressing either human, document, system, or decision-centric
projects, or cater to either small departmental projects with simpler GUI but limited
capabilities, or large enterprise deployments that have complex and fragmented
IDEs and execution engines. Also, traditionally BPM tools with enhanced features
for developers have been difcult for business users to use. A key goal of Oracle's
BPM Suite 11g offering is to eliminate such barriers to successful BPM adoption by
providing a comprehensive and unied BPM product that addresses all avours of
BPM projects, provides the best tools for every persona engaged in the BPM lifecycle,
and evolves seamlessly from simple projects to more complete scenarios.
