Oracle Announces Oracle Business Process analysis suite 11g

Oracle has released its Business Process Analysis Suite 11g as part of its Fusion Middleware product stack.

The new release of BPA 11g will give Inatech customers enhanced capabilities around developing and deploying efficient business processes on top of the underlying Service Oriented Architecture platform. This means that users will be able to achieve better internal communications and cut IT costs through greater efficiency.

Doug Toop, UK Oracle and Open Source Technology Practice Lead for Inatech, said:

“Oracle BPA Suite 11g is the latest addition to the 11g Suite of products, and complements the latest Fusion Middleware components released earlier this year. BPA Suite 11g will deliver enhanced business process modelling capabilities to our customers through it’s many new features and tight integration with the Fusion Middleware stack.”

Amlan Bebnath, Oracle Senior Vice President, Product Development, said: "Offering unmatched integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle BPA Suite 11g brings together EA, BPA and BPM solutions on a common platform for better alignment of strategy, analysis and execution. Now business and IT users have the right set of tools designed for their individual needs.

“Business users design process models with Oracle BPA Suite 11g and IT uses the same process models for execution with Oracle SOA Suite. With this latest release, our customers can reduce the gap between IT and business and will experience firsthand the power and benefits of leveraging the leading IDS Scheer ARIS Design platform along with the industry's #1 middleware platform, Oracle Fusion Middleware."

Based on the IDS Scheer ARIS Design Platform, Oracle BPA Suite 11g delivers more complete integration with Oracle SOA Suite.

The new offering from Oracle provides comprehensive process modeling capabilities for methodology-driven process design and a common process model in a unified environment, enabling both business and IT users to utilize the best tools for their respective requirements. The latest release also improves Process Lifecycle Management by simplifying process change management and delivers greater business visibility through improved process visibility and reporting.

Business analysts and architects (business and process), can now capture end-to-end business processes using standard notations including BPMN, EPC, and Value Chain Diagrams. Oracle BPA Suite includes rich reporting capabilities along with the ability to capture context around supporting systems, products, services, organizations, strategy, risks, and objectives to help enterprises plan and optimize their process improvement initiatives.

Collaboration is another strong component in Oracle BPA Suite use. The product fosters collaboration among business analysts and their line of business stakeholders with Process Publisher, a web based component that enables sharing of processes and related data between business users and analysts. The collaboration between business analysts and developers on shared processes is further enhanced by the round-trip integration between Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle BPEL Process Manager, components of Oracle SOA Suite.

Other features of Oracle BPA Suite include: round-trip integration with Oracle SOA 11g platform; service discovery and identification; and new version and change management.