Preface

Enterprise Organizations are increasingly adopting Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) to increase their organizational efficiency and excellence. As per industry analyst reports, such as those from Gartner and Forrester, BPM has been at the top of the senior management focus list for the last four to five years, and BPM spending has been at a multi-billion dollar level. BPM's ability to streamline the business process and integrate with business partners has been a key focus area both from an IT and business point of view. BPM's out-of-the-box capabilities with respect to human workflow, notifications, simulations, integration with various applications through adapters and document management systems had been a key factor both from a Solution Architecture and Development view of a Business process.

BPM is built on Oracle's SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Suite infrastructure. BPM Suite 11g provides enhanced support for application integration services, business events, Web 2.0, E2.0, and high scalability. BPM has sufficient easy-to-use features to make it also suitable for small to complex enterprise projects.

This book covers various aspects of BPM from a financial services point of view, and looks at how BPM can help in various organizational roles such as Process Administrator, Process Analyst, Process Owner, and Process Participants. Each of the recipes cover a how-to-do activity. We start with setting up the development environment to integrate with a business partner and end at a complete enterprise portal, which helps in achieving an organization's goals and customer satisfaction.