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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

The people do matter – not the machines


A typical driver to automate processes is the striving for higher efficiency. We have heard such statements again and again in our history—coined and impressively put into practice in industrial manufacturing by Henry Ford. That was a golden time for production workers. But today, people sit in front of their screens getting irritated when they are forced to go through the identical-looking task lists and screen sequences, which feels like wearing a straitjacket.

They make it difficult, or even impossible, to work in a way that is innovative and suited to the situation. Increasing efficiency is no longer achieved by simply automating routine tasks (that is already mapped in today's standard ERP software). It is rather a question of providing today's knowledge workers with an optimal workplace that allows them to make the best possible decisions for the company. This means that people have to be the focus of business process management initiatives again...