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 Copyright © 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied Neither the authors, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information First published: September 2010 Production Reference: 1060910 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK ISBN 978-1-849681-68-1 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Sandeep Babu (sandyjb@gmail.com) Credits Authors Heidi Buelow Editorial Team Leader Aanchal Kumar Manoj Das Manas Deb Prasen Palvankar Meera Srinivasan Acquisition Editor James Lumdsen Technical Editors Alfred John Aanchal Kumar Manasi Poonthottam Indexer Hemangini Bari Rekha Nair Proofreader Aaron Nash Graphics Geetanjali Sawant Production Coordinator Shantanu Zagade Cover Work Shantanu Zagade 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 unification 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 industryleading 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 significant 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 benefits via increased efficiency, 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 difficult for business users to use A key goal of Oracle's BPM Suite 11g offering is to eliminate such barriers to successful BPM 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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... Zagade Cover Work Shantanu Zagade 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... offering At the time of the BEA acquisition, ALBPM was an industryleading BPM product – the BPM Suite 11g release preserves and enhances the best of ALBPM features such as ease of modeling, simulation,