Oracle has unveiled Business Process Management Suite 11g, which includes a native implementation of BPMN 2.0 and supports all types of processes with a new unified process foundation, user-centric design approach and social BPM capabilities.
According to Oracle, the new unified process foundation simplifies process development, deployment, monitoring and execution. It includes components such as unified process engine that executes BPEL and BPMN 2.0 processes, human workflow and rules; universal content management for document-centric processes; and management and monitoring of business processes to extend problem management beyond the process boundary.
The company said that the new offering is integrated with Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus.
The user-centric design approach in Business Process Management Suite 11g simplifies the process management lifecycle with tools that address user role requirements. Key components include, BPM Studio for role-based modeling and design, process composer for web-based process modeling, and deployment; and process analysis and reporting.
Finally, the social BPM capabilities in the new offering enables collaboration among users by incorporating social computing and Enterprise 2.0 technologies, including wikis and blogs.
Oracle said that the new offering includes features such as, customised team spaces for business and IT through all phases of the business process management lifecycle; business process guides that provide a milestone-centered view of processes that simplifies understanding and communication of process flow; and unstructured process support that helps users address unanticipated process changes by adding and delegating to additional process participants.
David Shaffer, vice president for product management at Oracle Fusion Middleware, said: "Built on a unified process foundation, Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g enables organisations to engage both business and IT users more easily in the management of core business processes and simplify the complete business process lifecycle. Now, businesses can innovate more easily and improve the processes that are critical to their organisations."
