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New Closed-Loop Process Engineering Revolutionizes Collaboration Between IT and Business
Oracle has integrated the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite with the Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite to enable a whole new level of collaboration between business and IT, significantly enhancing its Oracle Business Process Management solution.
The
latest release of Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, is tightly integrated with Oracle SOA Suite components supporting standards such as Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). The result is an agile business process application platform that allows businesses to integrate their tools for process analysis, execution, and monitoring into unique closed-loop engineering that responds quickly to changing business requirements and boosts productivity.
Overcoming Historical Differences
New business processes have traditionally been modeled at the business level, and then turned over to IT for implementation, testing, and refinement. But the tools and methodologies used by business and IT were disconnected, which led to a long iterative process wherein the process models were the lowest common denominator that the two parties could agree on. And in the end, many areas were still open to interpretation by IT. This historical disconnect stifled collaboration and increased testing, quality assurance cycles, and time to change. Oracle has now eliminated this gap.
“All the major phases of the business process lifecycle—modeling, execution, and process performance analysis—are now integrated based on common metadata, called the Oracle Process Blueprint,” says Thomas Gronbach, principal product director, Oracle. “Now business and IT can truly collaborate on the latest, most up-to-date information.”
The Oracle Process Blueprint
The Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite allows business analysts to design their process models using business-friendly design tools that create process flows based on the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) standard. The same BPMN business models are directly mapped into BPEL constructs via the Oracle Process Blueprint. The BPEL syntax is then ready to be executed by the Oracle SOA Suite. This bidirectional mapping keeps the conceptual business model and the technical implementation model always synchronized.
The full business process lifecycle is completed by feeding process metrics gathered by Oracle’s business activity monitoring solution at process runtime back into the simulation engine, which is part of the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite. “Now you can feed your process analysis data back into your modeling and simulation engine,” says Gronbach. “You’re able to build business simulations using real-world data that you retrieved in the analysis phase. Now you can make adjustments in the simulation and see how your new process will perform in the real world,” he says. “This means dramatic savings in time and money because you don’t have to test processes in the real world.”
The latest release of Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite marks a major step forward in Oracle’s delivery of a comprehensive business process management (BPM) offering. “This integration between Oracle BPA [Business Process Analysis] Suite and Oracle SOA Suite is the most comprehensive integration between BPM modeling and execution environment available anywhere,” says Gronbach.
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