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Bruce Silver Associates Industry Trend Reports Independent Expertise in BPM February 2013
BPMS Watch www.brsilver.com Bruce Silver 1216 New York Drive, Altadena CA 91001 USA Tel: +1 831.685.8803 E-mail: [email protected]
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For years, the challenge for BPM Suite vendors has been how to match BPMôs ñbusiness-
drivenò promise to the technical complexity of automating core business processes. At one
time, business-driven meant process analysts working with the business to create process
and use case models as ñbusiness requirementsò that would handed off to developers for
implementation. For todayôs BPM market, business-driven demands more. It means
empowerment of process analysts and business users themselves to directly participate in the
implementation. That requires a new generation of tools, not just for process authoring but
for management at runtime, tools designed for business users. Of course, programmers and
traditional IDEs continue to play a vital role in BPM. But implementation would be faster,
less costly, and a better match to user expectations if process analysts and end users could do
some of that implementation themselves, including design of process flows, task forms, data
models, and decision logic, or optimize process performance through simulation analysis.
The latest release of Oracle BPM Suite 11g version 11.1.1.7 embraces this challenge. A
centerpiece of the new version is enhancement of the Business Process Composer, a
browser-based tool for process analysts and business users that bridges the divide between
modeling and executable design. Process Composer in the new release adds features for
team collaboration and versioning, form design, simulation analysis and process playback,
definition of business objects, and decision modeling.
Another key element is case management, in which tasks are determined dynamically based
on case context, using events, rules and process logic defined in Composer in combination
with ad-hoc user actions at runtime. A case is now a first-class component in Oracle BPM
11g, with its own model of case activities, events, stakeholders, and permissions separate
from those embedded in a BPM process, as well as its own Process Space for the case
folder..
This report examines Oracle BPM Suite 11g 11.1.1.7, explains its position and
differentiation in the BPMS landscape, and takes a closer look at the new capabilities of the
latest version. Weôll focus on its new features that empower business users, both at design
time and runtime, and just touch on the developer-oriented tooling and runtime stack that
have made Oracle BPMôs world-class reputation in the past.
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Oracle BPM Suite 11g, part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, combines business-driven design
and rich human-centric BPM with Oracleôs well-known strengths in robust integration
middleware. When BPM 11g was first launched in 2010, it was the first BPM Suite to take
advantage of BPMN 2.0 as an executable process design standard, while rivals like IBM and
SAP still had a split personality ï BPMN for human-centric processes and BPEL for
integration-centric. That gap has diminished somewhat today, but Oracleôs ñunified and
completeò message still remains a differentiator in another aspect, as a single platform
supporting both conventional BPM and case management. Oracle maintains that you
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shouldnôt have to buy two different platforms to do structured and unstructured processesé
and I basically agree.
The new release retains the original BPM 11g architecture (Figure 1), which combines two
formerly distinct BPM offerings ï one based on BPMN (deriving from Fuego via BEA) and
the other on BPEL (deriving from Collaxa) ï in a powerful unified design and runtime
platform. Today, BPEL is mostly confined to the Oracle SOA Suite, the Fusion Middleware
component providing the underlying integration middleware, while the end-to-end BPM is
BPMN-based.
BPM 11g provides two alternative authoring environments: BPM Studio, a desktop IDE
based on JDeveloper and oriented to Java programmers, and Process Composer, a browser-
based environment oriented to process analysts and business users. Process Composer has
been enhanced to handle several aspects of implementation design formerly requiring
Studio, including definition of business objects, decision models, and task forms.