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process participants to interact with running business applications managed by Oracle BPM run time.
1.3.3.1 Oracle Business Process Management Workspace Process Workspace
Process Workspace enable process participants to interact with the applications you create using Oracle BPM. The Process Workspace user interface provides tabs for each
of the following:
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Tasks : This page enables process participants to view and work with their
assigned tasks.
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Process Tracking : This page enables process participants to view running process
instances.
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Standard Dashboards : This page provides out-of-the-box dashboards for
monitoring process performance, task performance, and workload.
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Custom Dashboards : This page enables process participants to define and use
custom dashboards based on the measurement data generated by process instances.
Process Workspace also enables business administrators to configure and maintain organizations and roles. See the Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management for more information.
1.3.3.2 Oracle Business Process Management Process Spaces Process Spaces
Process Spaces is a collaborative workspace built on top of Oracle WebCenterSpaces and enables more productive BPM by increasing collaboration.
See the Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Process Management for more information.
1.3.4 Other Oracle BPM Suite Components
The following sections describe other components of the Oracle BPM Suite.
1.3.4.1 Process Analytics
Business Process Analytics enables process participants to monitor the performance of running process-based applications. It measures the key performance indicators
defined in a BPM project and stores them in a database. Process participants and analysts can view the metrics stored in the process analytics databases using Process
Workspace dashboards or Oracle BAM.
1.3.4.2 Guided Business Processes
Guided Business Processes enable process analysts and developers to group the interactive activities in your BPM process into a set of milestones that are meaningful
to the process participants. They outline the steps the process participants must complete, hiding the complexity of the business process.
See Introduction to Guided Business Processes in Oracle Fusion Middleware Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle Business Process Management
1.4 Oracle Business Process Analysis BPA Suite
The Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite is a separate Oracle product suite based on the Aris platform from IDS Scheer. It provides comprehensive modeling, analysis, and
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simulation capabilities for enterprise wide business processes. It also supports capturing business architecture artifacts such as strategic objectives, goals, higher level
KPIs, risks and controls, and conceptual models such as value chain diagrams.
Additionally, the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite supports the following:
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Alignment of business processes with a business strategy.
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Service discovery and linking to business processes. Drives service requirements for the Oracle SOA Suite.
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Loading and creating simulation scenarios which enable you to determine optimal resource allocation. Simulation enables you to perform throughput analysis,
activity based costing, and resource utilization. Additionally, you can create simulation analysis reports for easy analysis of simulation results.
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Comprehensive version management including check-in, check-out, and change management capabilities.
The business architecture defined by the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite is the formal link between strategic objectives and the actual business applications created
using Oracle BPM. The Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite supports modeling of business architecture artifacts such as strategy maps, goals, objectives, risk and
controls and linking them to business processes.
This provides the ability to prioritize efforts, justify decisions, and trace activities of the business process improvement initiatives to strategic goals of the business, hence
improving business and IT alignment. It provides tremendous value because it offers a clear understanding of which BPM projects to undertake, which processes are
currently most strategic to the company, and which services are most aligned with the business strategy.
The Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite complements the functionality of the Oracle BPM Suite by adding orthogonal dimensions to the modeling phases including
organization goals. See the Oracle BPA Quick Start Guide for more information.
Processes created in the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite can be imported into the Oracle BPM Suite. Using Oracle BPM Studio, you can integrate your business
process with other Oracle technologies including adapters, business rules, and human tasks.
See the Oracle Fusion Middleware Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle Business Process Management for more information on using business processes created in
Oracle Business Process Analysis within Oracle BPM Studio.
1.5 Introduction to the Application Development Life Cycle
