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Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c

By : Matjaz B Juric, Danilo Schmiedel, Mark Simpson, Torsten Winterberg, Sven Bernhardt, Kapil Pant
Book Image

Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c

By: Matjaz B Juric, Danilo Schmiedel, Mark Simpson, Torsten Winterberg, Sven Bernhardt, Kapil Pant

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Mobile solutions and BPM


Mobile solutions are a major driving force behind process automation solutions. In this environment, there are no new technical options for mobile use. But a wide variety of options open up merely by enabling processes to receive input from people on the move, resulting in much faster throughput times. The advantages range from obviating the need to take notes on paper to simply being able to approve something while sitting through the coming attractions at a movie theater (this text does not discuss the influence of this technology on the private lives of these persons). The possibilities are very wide ranging, especially since the mobile devices' new sensors can be used—geolocation, card-based information, cameras, barcode scanners, or movement profiles, all of which improve process support. With regard to BPM, here understood as process automation, the following options arise concerning the use of mobile end devices:

  • Start processes: There is no need to postpone...