Oracle BPM Suite 11g Launched

Oracle announced the Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g. A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g is an 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. The suite 11g includes a native implementation of BPMN 2.0.

New components of Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g 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.
• 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 synchronisation 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 customised 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.

“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 organisations 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 organisations.”