Oracle BPM 12c: Essentials Ed 1

Suggested Prerequisite

• Familiarity with BPM modeling concepts

Audience

• Business Analysts
• Developer

Course Topics

1. The BPM Life Cycle and the Oracle BPM Suite

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

2. Creating Business Architecture Projects

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

3 .Modeling a Process Using Oracle Business Process Composer

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

4. Documenting BPM Projects

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

5. Collaborating on BPM Projects

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

6. Creating and Using Data Objects

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

7. Implementing User Tasks

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

8. Implementing Business Rule Tasks

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

9. Implementing Service Tasks

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

10. Playing the Process

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

11. Deploying the Process

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

12. Participating in a Running Process

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

13. Using Additional BPMN Flow Objects

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

14. Communicating Between Processes

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

15. Handling Exceptions

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

16. Monitoring the Process

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

17. Creating Real-Time Dashboards Using BAM

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

18. Surfacing KPIs in Business Architecture Reports

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