In combination, Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle SOA Suite, bring together all the expected components of an end-to-end enterprise BPM offering - discovery, modelling, measurement, and management. A recent Technology Audit by Butler Group reviewed the products and the key findings are:

Butler Group Summary

The Oracle BPM offering is built on the foundations of the Oracle SOA Suite; it also includes BPEL, BAM, and extensive rules engine services. The company's open service delivery approach enables most third-party packaged applications beyond the Oracle application portfolio to link with the Oracle offering by integrating with legacy applications and ISV solutions.

KEY FINDINGS
	Hot pluggable solution that is open standards-based and support BPMN, BPEL and BPEL4People		Oracle's Process Modeller supports BPMN and its Process Execution Engine implements the BPEL standard
	Oracle provides a high performance, highly scaleable BPM and SOA Solution		Extensive integration facilities are available for connecting back-office legacy systems
	Portal approach is used to bring together BPM facilities and services for all users		Supports MSFT Windows; Linux; Sun Solaris; Unix; and IBM AIX platforms
	IDS Sheer's ARIS analyst toolset is OEM'd as Oracle BPA Suite		Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle SOA Suite combine to provide Oracle BPM

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Product strength

Product Weakness

Point of information

Fundamentally, Oracle BPM provides a top-down approach for companies that are working to deploy BPM, and its open services approach is complemented by the company's already successful SOA strategy. At the heart of the solution are Oracle's strong back-end integration capabilities, which Butler Group believes combines well with the company's extensive modelling, human-and-systems integration, and process collaboration features. It is in fact, an approach that allows Oracle to deliver a full and extended BPM tools platform, one that also adds in content management, BI, and security services.

For more information:

• Read Butler Group's Oracle BPM Technology Audit (pdf)
  
  
• Read more information on Oracle's BPA Suite
  
  
• Read more information on Oracle's SOA Suite

Griffiths Waite's SOA Maturity Survey last year found the key contributor to SOA stalling and failing is organisations not defining a SOA strategy and starting with the wrong type of SOA projects.

To assist organisations with starting SOA Griffiths Waite have devised a workshop that will ensure your SOA program is on the path to success. The aim of this workshop is to describe and contribute to your SOA Strategy, defining an initial execution plan through identifying candidate SOA projects, classifying these projects and selecting where and how to start.

After this workshop, you will have a better understanding of how SOA can be executed in your organisation, with an initial roadmap of how to make the first steps with a well selected and defined 1st project. The workshop will take you to a position to start building the business case for SOA focused around real projects meeting business benefits.

For more information:

• Read SOA Project Readiness and Selection Workshop
  

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