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Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 - A Hands-On Tutorial

By : Heidi Buelow, Manoj Das, Manas Deb, Prasen Palvankar, Meera Srinivasan
Book Image

Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 - A Hands-On Tutorial

By: Heidi Buelow, Manoj Das, Manas Deb, Prasen Palvankar, Meera Srinivasan

Overview of this book

<p>Accelerate your learning path to Oracle BPM Suite 11g with this easy-to-use and comprehensive hands-on tutorial.</p> <p>Business Process Management is broadly recognized as a top business priority. While BPM is more than technology, effective process management requires a good BPM suite of tools and technologies. The market for such BPM Suites has been historically very fragmented. This market is in the process of being transformed, driven by two forces: standardization, primarily in the form of BPMN 2.0, and consolidation. Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 is a harbinger of this transformation. With its native support for BPMN 2.0 and a unified and comprehensive set of capabilities, it is poised to accelerate the change.</p> <p>This book provides an excellent exposure to Oracle BPM 11gR1 and walks you through the development of a business process application based on a real-life scenario. The solution is built in an iterative fashion, with each chapter introducing a new feature until you have learned them all. This fully illustrated step-by-step tutorial is based on proven training content that has been highly praised by hundreds of business process professionals in product training courses given as part of the BPM Suite 11g rollout. While this book is specific to Oracle BPM Suite, some material being based on standards such as BPMN 2.0 are generally applicable.</p>
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Preface
20
Concluding Remarks

BPM administration


A BPM administrator's task is to manage the non-technical, business process-focused activities such as:

  • Organization definitions

  • Task administration

Managing organization definitions

One of the most common administrative tasks is managing the organization-related information such as Roles and Organizational Units.

Managing roles

You have already seen how process roles are defined while modeling the Sales Quote process. You created a swim lane for each role that was responsible for performing the appropriate user tasks that are modelled in that lane. You then associated a set of users with these roles. This was all done during the modeling process. But role assignments are not static—they can and do change when users' responsibilities change or when they leave the organization. You also have new users that may need to be associated to a particular role after the process is deployed. It would be an unnecessary overhead if you had to redeploy the process just to update such role...