Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 -- Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgement -- Preface -- What this book covers -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Business Process Management -- BPM-context and historical perspective -- Evolution of BPM tools and standards -- Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) -- SOA and BPM -- Notational standards in BPM-BPEL and BPMN -- The promise of BPM - key benefits -- Summary -- 2. Getting Started with BPM -- Areas of focus for successful BPM adoption -- Starting with the right business process -- Creating a process-based application -- Roles in BPM projects -- Summary -- 3. Product Architecture -- Guiding principles -- Design environment -- User-centric design tools -- Composite BPM project -- Runtime architecture -- Unified SCA server -- Workflow architecture -- Process analytics -- Deployment topology -- Security -- User authentication and authorization -- Policy-driven security -- Management -- End-to-end monitoring -- Policy-driven exception handling -- Deployment -- Test-to-production -- Summary -- 4. Functional Overview -- Business-friendly modeling -- BPM Studio -- BPMN 2.0 -- Business Rules -- User interface (task forms) -- SCA Composite -- Process Composer -- Modeling Space -- Process analysis -- Productive work management -- Process Spaces (Social BPM) -- Process Workspace -- Process instance space -- Work organization and management -- Views -- Personal and group rules -- Dashboard-driven filtering -- Built for change -- Summary -- 5. The Tutorial Project: Sales Quote Processing -- Structure of the tutorial -- Sales Quote tutorial scenario -- Tutorial files -- Summary -- 6. Product Installation -- Checking your installation.

What you will need and where to get it -- What to install -- Memory and disk space requirements -- Downloading files -- Checking your browser -- Checking your JDK -- Installation -- Installing the database -- Installing WebLogic server -- Installing database schema using RCU -- Configuring schema -- Installing BPM -- Installing SOA PS1 -- Installing SOA PS2 with BPM 11gR1 -- Creating domain -- Installing JDeveloper -- Installing and starting JDeveloper -- Updating JDeveloper with latest SOA -- Updating JDeveloper with latest BPM -- Additional actions -- Setting memory limits -- Starting and stopping -- Starting servers -- Console URLS -- Stopping servers -- WebLogic server console settings -- EM settings for development -- Configuration -- Seed demo users -- Installing WebCenter -- Preparing for installing UCM -- Installing Web Tier -- Installing WebCenter RCU, Server, and UCM -- RCU -- Installing WebCenter server -- Configuring WebCenter -- Configuring UCM -- Configuring security for UCM -- Setting up password for embedded LDAP -- Configuring LDAP provider in UCM -- Configuring discussions security -- Configuring connections -- Testing WebCenter installation -- Installing Process Spaces -- Verifying and configuring Process Spaces -- Testing your installation -- Uninstalling -- Summary -- 7. Process Modeling using BPMN 2.0 -- BPMN 2.0 concepts -- A quick introduction to BPMN -- Sales Quote Process Flow -- Creating a BPM Application -- Tutorial: Creating SalesQuote project and modeling RequestQuote process -- Summary -- 8. Process Organization Model -- Concepts -- Role -- Organization unit -- Calendar and holiday rules -- Organizational Artifacts Mapping, Application Roles, and Approval Groups -- Application roles -- Approval groups -- Tutorial: Defining organizational model for SalesQuote -- Adding a role -- Adding members to the role.

Adding an organization unit -- Creating holiday rules -- Creating calendar rules -- Creating and mapping organization artifacts inside BPM Workspace -- Summary -- 9. Simulation and Analysis of the Business Process -- Simulation concepts -- Simulation steps -- Tutorial: Simulating SalesQuote -- Creating the Process Simulation Model -- Creating the project simulation definition -- Running the simulation -- Analyzing the simulation results -- Improving the process -- Summary of revisions: -- Creating the to-be Sales Quote process -- Modifying the Simulation Model for Sales Quote process -- Modifying the Project Simulation Definition -- Re-running the simulation -- Summary -- 10. Implementation of the Business Process -- Concepts -- BPM Projects and BPM Project Templates -- Business Catalog -- Business Object -- Data Objects -- Tutorial: Making SalesQuote executable and testing it -- Creation of Business Objects for Sales Quote process -- Creating Data Objects for Sales Quote process -- Implementing Interactive Tasks -- Defining the Task service -- Generating a form for the Human Task implementation -- Task data mapping -- Mapping swim lane roles to LDAP roles -- Configuration of the Service Task -- Bind File Adapter service to Save Quote step -- Passing data to service -- Data association configuration for conditional flows -- Configuration of Script Tasks -- Deploying the process -- Summary -- 11. Using Process Composer -- Signing on to Process Composer -- Tutorial: Making changes to SalesQuote from Process Composer -- Setting up an MDS connection -- Creating and publishing BPM project template in BPM Studio to MDS -- Creating a BPM project from a template inside Process Composer -- Process Composer Administration -- Role mapping -- Managing projects -- Summary -- 12. Using Process Spaces and Workspace Application -- End user roles and concepts.

Workspace application -- Process Spaces -- Organizing, finding, and performing work -- Organizing the work -- Finding the work -- Performing work -- Managing vacations, and delegating and re-assigning work -- Managing vacations -- Delegating and re-assigning work -- Managing and tracking processes -- Summary -- 13. Process Analytics and Business Activity Monitoring -- Concepts and architecture -- Default process analytics and dashboards -- Business indicators and measurement marks -- Custom dashboards -- Tutorial: Using standard and custom dashboards for the Request Quote process -- Adding process analytics specifications to a BPMN process -- Adding business indicators -- Assigning data to business indicators -- Adding a measurement mark -- Adding a counter -- Running instances to create sample data -- Creating dashboards -- Integration with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring -- Tutorial: Using BAM reports for Request Quote process -- Setting up for monitoring with Oracle BAM -- Configuring the BAM adapter -- Configuring the BPMN engine for BAM integration -- Importing BAM monitor express -- Configuring the BPM project for BAM monitoring -- Creating a process-specific BAM data object -- Creating BAM dashboards -- Viewing BAM dashboards -- Creating an alert for a High Discount Sales Quote -- Summary -- 14. Using Business Rules -- Introducing Oracle Business Rules -- Using business rules from BPM -- Business rules concepts -- Using IF-THEN rules -- Using decision tables -- Using aggregates -- Tutorial: Adding determine approvals to the Request Quote process -- Creating and using new business rules -- Defining rules -- Defining bucketsets to use in the decision table -- Creating a new decision table -- Specifying actions for the decision table -- Using conflict detection -- Changing branch test for Business Practices Review required -- Testing.

Summary -- 15. Using Human Task Patterns and Other Concepts -- Introducing Human Task -- Using Human Tasks from BPM -- Human Task participant patterns -- Human Task completion outcome -- Using Management Chain -- Using parallel approvals -- Using Approval Groups -- Using Notifications -- Using escalations and expirations -- Tutorial: Using pattern-based, rule-driven approval routing in the Request Quote process -- Adding a data assignment -- Deploying the application -- Running -- Creating the approval group -- Hierarchy of users -- Instantiating a new process -- Other scenarios -- Summary -- 16. User Interface Development for Human Tasks -- Introducing ADF -- Key components in ADF -- The ADF Controller -- Task flow components -- Unbounded task flow -- Bounded task flow -- ADF Business Components (ADFBC) -- Tutorial: Building the ADF task forms -- Task forms for entering a quote -- Setup -- Creating a new UI project -- Creating ADF business components -- Creating JDBC data source -- Updating the application module configuration -- Creating task flow form -- Using a bounded task flow -- Creating a form for entering the quote header data -- Creating a form for adding products to the quote -- Registering Managed Beans -- Building the form -- Creating a form for requesting a discount -- Creating a form for adding terms and conditions to the quote -- Creating a submit form -- Task form for reviewing the quote -- Creating a task flow for the Business Practices Review task -- Creating the UI for quote approval -- Hints to help you with the challenge exercise -- Deploying the UI -- Summary -- References -- 17. Events and Exception Handling -- Start and End Events -- Start Events -- None Start Event -- Message Start Event -- Implementation of Message Start Event -- Signal Start Event -- Configuration of Signal Start Event -- Timer Start Event.

Configuration of Timer Start Event.