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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By : Vivek Acharya
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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By: Vivek Acharya

Overview of this book

Oracle Business Process Management Suite is a complete set of tools for creating, executing, and optimizing business processes.Oracle BPM Suite 11g offers the flexibility that business demands, hand-in-hand with the power IT requires. The result is an agile platform that brings together your existing applications, enabling you to react quickly to new business requirements.With this cookbook we will develop rich, interactive business processes using the Oracle Business Process Management suite.With Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook, a common process model based on BPMN is presented to the specific role assigned to readers in each chapter. Explore Oracle BPM 11g with Modelling, Implementation, Simulation, Deployment, Exception Management, BPM and SOA in Concert, Advanced Rules and Human tasks, End User Interaction and Run-time.Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook will help readers learn BPM 11g through a Real World Sample Process.This book is divided into four sections: the first section, Modeling, lays the foundation and demonstrates how to implement the Modeling of Business processes for a Use Case of a Fictitious Organization which needs BPM to be implemented at their site (with data objects and information handling). In the second section, Implementation, we learn about Process Implementation, Human Interaction, Business Rules, and much more. In the third section, Measuring, we learn about Post Process Development, Performance Analysis and Simulation Models. In the last section, Deployment, Migration and Run-Time, we learn deployment and migration, and Post Deployment Run-Time.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Oracle BPM—Application Development Lifecycle

Modeling a fictitious organization


Our fictitious organization "FusionNX", located at http://www.fusionnx.net/, has a number of business processes. Let's take into consideration FusionNX's Sales Quote business process to implement the modeling phase.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Define the Business Process and the tasks inside it:

    • Define SalesToContract as a process that you will model for the Sales Quote process of FusionNX

    • Create SalesToContract as the main process

    • Define Enter Quote, Business Analysis, Approvals, and Contract Finalization as different tasks inside it.

  2. 2. Define who the participants are and what role they will play in process development and at runtime:

    • Define users who will participate in different tasks/work in the process, such as Sales Representatives, Approvers, and so on, in the SalesToContract process, which you will model for the Sales Quote process of FusionNX.

  3. 3. Define what data will be associated with the process:

    • Define quote data, as per Quote.xsd, for the SalesToContract process, which you will model for the Sales Quote process of FusionNX.

  4. 4. Define the outcome of the process as a whole and outcomes of the different tasks:

    • Enlist outcomes of all the tasks that you have rejected or approved as possible outcomes of the Approvals task; also enlist all other tasks for the SalesToContract process which you will model for Sales Quote Process of FusionNX.

How it works...

As per the Use Case listed in the preceding text, the Process Analyst will determine the business requirement and will come up with with the Process Flow, user persona, data meant for the process, and outcome of the process. The resulting conclusion is an understanding of the business requirement specific to FusionNX's Sales Quote business process.

The following information is required by Process Analyst to design the Business Process Model:

  • Process Flow

  • Process participants: Users ,Groups, and organizational roles

  • Data: Business data, and input and output of each process step, and process as a whole

  • Outcomes: Possible Outputs from human workflow, process steps, and the process as a whole.