Oracle BPM 11g Essentials - Self-Study Course

This course offers a quick overview of Business Process Management (BPM) and the Oracle BPM product. Learners will be able to communicate about BPM and Oracle BPM and possibly evaluate the product for use in their organizations, but they will not have any hands-on practice with Oracle BPM products.

After the introduction, the course provides some background on Business Process Management and the phases in a typical BPM life cycle. It presents the Oracle BPM Suite of products, explaining how they support every part of the BPM life cycle. Then, learners see how Business Analysts can use Oracle Business Process Composer or Oracle BPM Studio to model a process, and how to use Oracle BPM Studio to simulate a process in order to optimize it. The course describes how Developers, working with the same model, implement the process by creating the business logic and integrating each element of the process with services and back-end systems. Learners get a glimpse of how end users interact with running processes, and they see how data from a running process can be monitored through dashboards in Business Process Workspace. Lastly, they see how Oracle BAM presents real-time data and provides automatic alerts and actions, allowing those responsible for the processes to continuously monitor performance, alert important parties when there are problems, and take immediate action to resolve issues.

Learn To:

• Describe the Oracle BPM methodology and the tools that support each phase of the BPM life cycle
• Describe how to create process models using Oracle Business Process Composer and BPM Studio
• Explain the role simulations play in optimizing a process
• List and describe the tasks involved in implementing a BPM process
• Describe how end users participate in a business process
• Explain how Oracle BAM can help you monitor the performance of deployed processes and raise alerts on abnormal business conditions

Audience

• System Administrator
• Architect
• Business Analysts
• Developer
• Process Developer
• Project Manager
• Administrator

Course Topics Business Process Management

• What Is a Business Process?
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• BPM Maturity Levels
• The BPM Life Cycle

The Oracle BPM Suite

• Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Goals
• Oracle SOA Suite
• Oracle BPM: Layered over SOA Suite
• BPMN vs. BPEL
• Oracle BPM Tools
• Oracle BPA Suite vs. Oracle BPM Studio
• Oracle BPM Use Cases (Sample Workflows)

Modeling and Simulating a Business Process

• BPMN Concepts
• Modeling with Business Process Composer
• Modeling with BPM Studio
• Simulating Business Processes

Implementing and Deploying a Business Process

• What Is Implementation?
• What Are Business Rule Tasks, and How Are They Implemented?
• What Are User Tasks, and How Are They Implemented?
• What Are Service Tasks, and How Are They Implemented?
• Implementing Gateways
• Enhancing the Process Model
• Mapping Roles
• Deploying and Testing

Executing a Business Process

• How End Users Participate in a Business Process
• Using Oracle Business Process Workspace

Monitoring and Analyzing a Business Process

• Two Types of Administrators
• Administration Tools
• Why Monitor?
• Built-In and Custom Metrics
• Monitoring Using Oracle Business Process Workspace
• Monitoring Using Oracle BAM

Course Objectives

• Describe the Oracle BPM methodology and the tools that support each phase of the BPM life cycle
• Describe basic BPMN modeling concepts (activities, gateways, events, swimlanes, and roles)
• Describe how to create process models using Oracle Business Process Composer and Oracle BPM Studio
• Describe how Business Analysts, Developers, and others can collaborate on BPM projects using the same tool
• Explain the role simulations play in optimizing a process
• List and describe the tasks involved in implementing a BPM process
• Describe how end users participate in a business process
• List the process metrics Oracle BPM tracks by default, and describe the types of user-defined metrics that can be tracked
• Use Business Process Workspace to display monitoring data
• Explain how Oracle BAM can help you monitor the performance of deployed processes, measuring KPIs, raising alerts and performing automatic actions to resolve issues
• Describe how a business process is modeled, simulated, implemented, executed, managed, and monitored using Oracle BPM 11g