Oracle BPM 12c: Essentials Ed 1

Topics

• The BPM Life Cycle and the Oracle BPM Suite
• Creating Business Architecture Projects
• Modeling a Process Using Oracle Business Process Composer
• Documenting BPM Projects
• Collaborating on BPM Projects
• Creating and Using Data Objects
• Implementing User Tasks
• Implementing Business Rule Tasks
• Implementing Service Tasks
• Playing the Process
• Deploying the Process
• Participating in a Running Process
• Using Additional BPMN Flow Objects
• Communicating Between Processes
• Handling Exceptions
• Monitoring the Process
• Creating Real-Time Dashboards Using BAM
• Surfacing KPIs in Business Architecture Reports

• About Business Process Management
• Explaining the BPM Life Cycle
• About the Oracle BPM Suite
• Discussing Case Study

Creating Business Architecture Projects

• Discussing Business Architecture
• Describing Business Process Analysis
• Explaining Goals, Objectives, and Strategies
• About Enterprise Maps and Value Chain Models
• Discussing Metrics and Measures: Key Performance Indicators
• About Process Criticality Reports and Impact Analysis Reports
• Getting Started with Oracle Business Process Composer
• Generating and Displaying Reports

Modeling a Process Using Oracle Business Process Composer

• Creating a BPM Project
• Modeling a BPM Process
• Saving and Publishing a BPM Project

Documenting BPM Projects

• Discussing End-user and Internal Documentation
• Using the Graphical View
• Using the Narrative View
• Running Process Reports

Collaborating on BPM Projects

• Collaborating Among Business Process Composer Users
• Collaborating Between Business Process Composer Users and BPM Studio Users
• Importing and Exporting Projects and Process Models

Creating and Using Data Objects

• How Information Is Handled
• Discussing Basic Versus Complex Data Objects
• Explaining Arguments
• Describing Data Object Scope, Lifespan, and Access
• Creating Business Objects and Data Objects
• Configuring Branching for Exclusive Gateways
• Validating the Project

Implementing User Tasks

• Discussing Human Interaction in a Business Process
• Explaining Patterns in Human Workflow
• Implementing User Tasks
• Creating Web Forms
• Discussing Form-First Workflow Versus Data-First Workflow
• Mapping Data

Implementing Business Rule Tasks

• What are Business Rules
• Describing Anatomy of a Business Rule
• About Global Variables
• Explaing Value Sets
• Discussing Three Types of Rule Sets
• Creating Business Rules
• Mapping Data Between the Process and the Business rule
• Discussing Best Practices: Enabling Business Users to Customize Rules

Implementing Service Tasks

• About Service Component Architecture
• Explaining Exposed Services, Components, and External References
• Implementing Service Tasks
• Creating a Service or Reference
• Binding a Service Task to the Service or Reference
• Mapping Data

Playing the Process

• What Is Process Player
• Describing Steps for Using Process Player
• Mapping Users and Groups to Process Roles
• Explaining Process Player User Interface
• Playing the Process

Deploying the Process

• Deploying a Project from Business Process Composer
• Deploying a Project from BPM Studio

Participating in a Running Process

• Launching and Logging In to Oracle Business Process Workspace
• Discussing Business Process Workspace Interface
• Describing Tasks
• Discussing Case Management
• Discussing Process Tracking
• Explaining Standard Dashboards, Custom Dashboards, and Process Monitoring
• Customizing Business Process Workspace
• Participating in a Running Process

Using Additional BPMN Flow Objects

• Discussing Non-Interactive Tasks
• Discussing Interactive Tasks
• Explaining Gateways
• Discussing Events

Communicating Between Processes

• What is Synchronous Communication
• What is Asynchronous Communication
• Explaining Peer Process Communication
• Describing Types of Subprocesses

Handling Exceptions

• Designing Beyond the "Happy Path"
• Handling Errors: Options and Tradeoffs
• Discussing Business Exceptions Versus System Exceptions
• Creating a Business Exception
• Specifying the Errors to Catch and Thrown
• Mapping Error Data
• About Policy-Driven Exception Handling

Monitoring the Process

• Discussing End-to-End Process Analytics
• About Built-in Metrics
• Overivew of Process Monitor
• Explaining Standard BPM Dashboards
• About Custom Metrics: Counters, Measures, and Dimensions
• Creating and Using Custom Metrics
• Discussing Business Process Workspace: Three Types of Dashboards

Creating Real-Time Dashboards Using BAM

• Describing Out-of-the-Box BAM Dashboards
• About Oracle BAM Composer
• OEP Integration: Continuous Query Language
• Building a Simple BAM Dashboard

Surfacing KPIs in Business Architecture Reports

• Linking from an Enterprise Map to a BPM Process
• Rolling KPIs Up from a BPM Process Model to a Business Architecture Report
• Generating and Displaying a Process Criticality Report