Oracle puts together some great labs for Oracle OpenWorld, often of software that's not even GA yet. I got to spend an hour today with a preview release of Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) 11g.
It's impressive stuff -- they've built the UI in JDeveloper, but if you were familiar with prior releases of the former BEA product ALBPM you'll find a lot that's familiar in the designer:
However, under the hood they've moved all of this BPM technology totally over to the FMW 11g technologies such as SOA Composites and ADF Task Flows. The result is an impressive combination of Oracle's latest SOA technologies with the business process modeling. For example all human tasks are now managed by the BPM Worklist app that's part of the SOA Suite:
Another impressive feature is Process Composer, which is a lightweight web-based modeler to modify processes for less technical users:
It also has some slick simulation functionality which looks a lot like what BPA Suite has:
Finally we also got a look at the Enterprise Manager 11g features:
This allows you to track an instance through all of the SOA components and monitor against SLAs.
All of this should be out "early next year".
October 11, 2009
Oracle BPM 11g Sneak Peek
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If you can do modelling and simulation in the new BPM composer, what happens to BPA Suite then?
BPA Suite isn't going away. There is some overlap though. BPA is more suited to heavy-duty process analysis and modeling. There's a lot of depth there that BPM Suite won't have. I think BPM will fit into a nice sweet spot though of providing some nice modeling and analysis features while still building a runnable process in BPMN.
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