Oracle Delivers Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g

Delivers Industry’s Most Complete and Unified Business Process Management Solution

News Facts

• To help customers lower costs, adapt to change and
  simplify business process management, Oracle today announced Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g.
• A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Business Process Management
  Suite 11g is the industry’s most complete, open and integrated Business Process
  Management (BPM) solution.
• Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g supports all
  types of processes with a new unified process foundation, user-centric design
  and social BPM capabilities.
• Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g includes a
  native implementation of BPMN 2.0.

New Capabilities Reduce Complexity and Enhance Collaboration

• Unified process foundation of Oracle Business Process Management
  Suite 11g simplifies process development, deployment, monitoring and
  execution. New components include:
  • Unified process engine:
    executes BPEL and BPMN 2.0 processes, human workflow and rules, and is
    integrated with Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
    and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus.
  • Oracle Universal Content Management: for document-centric processes.
  • End-to-end management: unifies the management and monitoring of
    business processes to extend problem management beyond the process
    boundary.
• Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g delivers a user-centric
  design approach, simplifying the process management lifecycle with
  tools that address user role requirements and enable both IT and
  business process participants. Key components include:
  • BPM
    Studio: for role-based modeling and design.
  • Process Composer: for web-based process modeling and deployment.
  • Process analysis and reporting: for business visibility, process
    status and operational reporting.
  • A single “What-you-see-is-what-you-execute” process model: supports
    the entire BPM lifecycle and eliminates synchronization problems between
    process design, simulation, execution and monitoring.
• The social BPM capabilities of Oracle Business Process Management
  Suite 11g enable collaboration among users by incorporating social
  computing and Enterprise 2.0 technologies, including wikis and blogs.
  Key features include:
  • Process Spaces: deliver customized team
    spaces for business and IT through all phases of the business process
    management lifecycle.
  • Business Process Guides: provide a milestone-centered view of
    processes that simplifies understanding and communication of process
    flow.
  • Unstructured Process Support: helps users address unanticipated
    process changes by dynamically adding and delegating to additional
    process participants.

Supporting Quotes

• “Today, critical business processes span disparate
  systems across the enterprise, making it difficult to model, monitor or manage
  them,” said David Shaffer, vice president, product management, Oracle Fusion
  Middleware. “Built on a unified process foundation, Oracle Business Process
  Management Suite 11g enables organizations to engage both business and IT users
  more easily in the management of core business processes and simplify the
  complete business process lifecycle. Now, businesses can innovate more easily
  and improve the processes that are critical to their organizations.”
• “Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g is a major
  milestone which provides the unification of both BPMN and BPEL-based processes
  in a single runtime environment,” said Mike Rokitka, Enterprise Software
  Architect, Benderson Development Co. “It provides a rich collaborative
  environment, as well as effective tools for managing and monitoring deployed
  business processes. The degree of integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware is
  quite impressive."
• “Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g is a big
  step forward for business process management,” said Mark Peterson, Senior BPM
  Architect, SSG. “The unified process foundation that unifies BPEL with BPMN 2.0
  removes complexity and enables managing all types of processes efficiently
  without compromise.”
• “Business process management suites (BPMSs) are the
  leading technology to support business process management (BPM) projects and
  programs. A BPMS supports the entire process improvement life cycle — from
  process discovery, definition and design to implementation, monitoring and
  analysis, and through ongoing optimization. Its model-driven approach enables
  business and IT professionals to work together more collaboratively throughout
  the life cycle than was possible in past solution development approaches,” said
  Jim Sinur, Vice President, Business of IT Research Division, Gartner. “Today,
  integrated BPM suites that support the latest standards like BPMN 2.0 and modern
  collaboration technologies provide the solid value to companies who want to
  align their business and IT objectives.”