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Oracle unveils Business Process Management Suite 11g
Oracle has unveiled Business Process Management Suite 11g, which includes a native implementation of BPMN 2.0 and supports all types of processes with a new unified process foundation, user-centric design approach and social BPM capabilities.
According to Oracle, the new unified process foundation simplifies process development, deployment, monitoring and execution. It includes components such as unified process engine that executes BPEL and BPMN 2.0 processes, human workflow and rules; universal content management for document-centric processes; and management and monitoring of business processes to extend problem management beyond the process boundary.
The company said that the new offering is integrated with Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus.
The user-centric design approach in Business Process Management Suite 11g simplifies the process management lifecycle with tools that address user role requirements. Key components include, BPM Studio for role-based modeling and design, process composer for web-based process modeling, and deployment; and process analysis and reporting.
Finally, the social BPM capabilities in the new offering enables collaboration among users by incorporating social computing and Enterprise 2.0 technologies, including wikis and blogs.
Oracle said that the new offering includes features such as, customised team spaces for business and IT through all phases of the business process management lifecycle; business process guides that provide a milestone-centered view of processes that simplifies understanding and communication of process flow; and unstructured process support that helps users address unanticipated process changes by adding and delegating to additional process participants.
David Shaffer, vice president for product management at Oracle Fusion Middleware, said: “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.”
via CBR
Oracle’s Fusion suite of business applications will go on sale in 2010, chief executive Larry Ellison confirmed in his final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today.
The Fusion suite will tie together the most important product portfolios Oracle has acquired in recent years, and make them available via the cloud or on premise.
The products will be given updates, and new applications are on the way, Ellison explained at the customer and partner event.
“The Fusion applications will contain replacement applications, and then brand new applications that you might want to add to products such as the Oracle E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft, ” he said.
Ellison added that Fusion will co-exist with Oracle’s current applications, so customers would not feel pressured to upgrade.
“We will make it easy for Fusion applications to be easily integrated with applications such as E-Business suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel, and continue to make large investments in our existing applications,” he said.
“We know that not all customers will replace their current applications with Fusion, and that most are likely to augment.
“We’re a pretty big software company, so we can afford to build the next generation of applications as well as maintain the old ones. So, as a customer, you can move if you want to, when you want to.”
Ellison explained that the first version of Fusion will not contain the same functionality as software such as E-Business suite, but that more will be added over time.
Applications ready for 2010 include: financial management, human capital management, sales and marketing, supply chain management, project portfolio management and procurement. A business intelligence (BI) add-on will also be available, although Ellison said that BI is to be at the heart of all Fusion applications.
“The user interface is BI driven. In fact you can’t use the interface without BI,” he said.
Ellison also said that, when providing Fusion applications via the cloud, the company will monitor the service levels it commits to with customers.
“We have built this monitoring into enterprise support to prove that we will deliver the service levels we have committed to,” he concluded.
