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What is Oracle BPM Suite?
The Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.
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The Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.
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The Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.
IBM Business Automation Workflow, Bizagi Digital Business Platform, and Pega Platform are common alternatives for Oracle BPM Suite.
Reviewers rate Business rules engine highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Oracle BPM Suite are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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January 16, 2019
Oracle BPM is old
We have used Oracle BPM Suite to automate business processes across the organization, one of them being the creation and approvals of various business documents using long running tasks (with HumanTask). We moved to BPM from Outlook flow for approvals and the difference was tremendous. Having one place to see all processes and their statuses, adding reminders for overdue tasks, escalation, and delegation was really making a difference at that time.
- Modeling business processes - it is providing an interface where users can drag and drop many kinds of shapes to build a business process.
- HumanTask - I consider this as being the key strength of Oracle BPM. It allows you to create approval flows in different ways and it manages the long-running processes (while waiting for people to interact with the flow).
- The user-interface for user tasks - it is one place where you can see all tasks and their progress. Admins can see and interact with other people's tasks.
- Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
- To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
- The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
- As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
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- When we moved to Oracle BPM many years ago, it was a huge uplift for our business processes because we didn't have any tool to model flows except Outlook and Excel.
- We established and streamlined the manufacturing workflows that were needed with the growth of the business.
- We discovered after a while that the ROI was not great since along with the cost of the tools, we had to account the cost of development from the software team too. It took a lot of time to deliver our first automations due to the big learning curve needed for Oracle BPM.
The competition for Oracle BPM Suite is far ahead. With a more modern user-interface, very well thought out usability, integration with virtually everything, any new tool for business processes will be better. The biggest difference is, in my opinion, being able to target the tool to non-technical people (like business analysts, project managers) and be successful. Those are the reasons we actually chose Boomi for our business processes automation and systems integration.
November 13, 2017
Oracle BPM Suite - Boon or Bane?
We've implemented BPM solution for a very large client who uses multiple Oracle Cloud and On-premise applications including but not limited to Cloud HCM, Cloud Finance, Cloud procurement, Cloud Sales and Planning & Budgeting. Because of BPM Suite's extreme complexity and non-user friendliness, it is currently being used only as a pilot for HCM. The purpose of using BPM Suite is to identify the redundant and inefficient processes and streamline it for better overall efficiency.
- Capacity to integrate well into a whole lot of apps and databases
- The studio is quite helpful to configure the business processes especially if it's a standard flow. The drag and drop, although quite buggy, is good.
- Extremely complicated to work with. The WYSIWYG is of no help either since it very buggy and poorly designed. If you are a business or functional user, you will have a hard time using the application.
- The Oracle's "Using" and "Implementing" guides are nearly useless with no examples and case studies and there is no documentation available to learn or understand the process.
- Very few skilled developers are available in market who really understand how to implement Oracle BPM suite.
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- You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
- Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
- For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
IBM's Rational RequistePro was considered as an alternative but due to the client's good experience with existing Oracle services, BPM Suite was finally decided upon.
October 31, 2017
The whole process, highly increased
We use Oracle BPM Suite in the preparation of documentation related to our projects. The BPMN notation opens up a channel of common understanding between our engineers and the engineers of our clients. Quite apart from the Oracle BPM capabilities for diagramming business flows, the tool allows the use of real-time analytics to impress our clients.
- Business flows under the BPMN 2 notation.
- Real-time Analytics
- Import flows from Oracle databases
- Internal documentation
- The price may be higher than other similar tools
- Lack of support to import from non-Oracle databases
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- Documenting a flow to a client allows communicating the intention of a development and thereby minimizing changes that could delay the calendar.
- Simulating macro processes allows you to visualize at an early stage the figures of a project in order to better manage resources.
- Bizagi and IBM Rational RequisitePro
The presentation of the diagrams that the tool can generate is ostentatious and very striking. If you are going to work with Oracle database, the tool allows you great integration capabilities. Bizagi is a very good alternative, although in simulation and in final results Oracle has the advantage.
September 24, 2015
Oracle BPM 11g: Model Complex Processes With Drag-And-Drop Simplicity
Oracle BPM is being used to evaluate expediting the existing processes of describing and programming modifications and enhancements to our Oracle system by modeling the processes instead. Currently only the Human Resources Information Systems department is using Oracle BPM, both because it's being evaluated and because only a few people have received training and know how to use it. However, if the pilot is successful, BPM is expected to be more widely used in the future.
- Oracle BPM is particularly strong at drawing and modeling business processes with drag-and-drop tools
- It's a very complex piece of software and documentation is poor. Examples and explanations appear to be non-existent.
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- We've been able to successfully model and implement a process to automate the flow of documents and signatures required to justify the movements of positions, a process that had become increasingly complex, requiring ten signatures in a specific order depending on various conditions. The solution will save us at least one full-time employee and a still unknown but significant amount of time, as well as drastically reducing the potential for error.
Oracle BPM is the first and only product of its kind that we have used. I am, unfortunately, not able to compare it to any similar product.
November 18, 2014
Oracle BPM 11g for Automation, Efficiency and Visibility
My team and I at Mythics, Inc. provide consulting and implementation support for the Oracle BPM Suite to many customers in the Federal, State & Local, Higher Ed., and Commercial sectors. Typically the implementation starts at a smaller scale within a particular department within the organization, and after some initial success it quickly spreads across the organization. Usually the Oracle BPM implementation is the result of a business process modernization or automaton effort and is almost always accompanied by SOA. The SOA could be pre-existing or coupled with the BPM implementation. The biggest challenges Oracle BPM addresses are redundant, manual, inefficient and disconnected business processes. Implemented properly Oracle BPM provides a platform for efficiently automating and managing end-to-end business processes.
- The web-based Process Composer and BPM Studio IDE is very user friendly (for both tech and business users) and gives you a nice WYSIWYG interface for modeling and building business processes.
- There are many adapters that provide easy integration with many third-party applications, databases, files, email, social and other integration points.
- Process Accelerators are available for many commonly used business processes to provide a "jump start" for organizations with a common need - they are releasing new accelerators regularly.
- Many of the commonly used basic and advanced work flow and process activities are easily configured through the Composer or Studio and advanced features can be easily developed by users with expertise in XML and Java.
- There is not a very clean or efficient way to upgrade from BPM 10g to BPM 11g since they are built on very different platforms - while this is only an issue if you have made significant investments of time and resources in BPM 10g, but still something that can be improved upon as many organizations want to take advantage of the new features and capabilities of Oracle BPM 11g, but do not want to take on the task of migrating their existing BPM 10g as it is overly complex and time consuming.
- While the tools are moving ever closer to being "Business User" friendly, they are still more geared towards technical staff - savvy business users that have good understanding of BPMN and basic understanding of XML can proficiently utilize BPM 11g, but for the vast majority of busines users, the tool is still too complicated.
- One example of an Oracle BPM implementation that we supported for a Federal Government customer resulted in the automation of a manual paper-based process which took on average 4 days to complete; after implementing SOA and BPM to automate the process the completion time decreased to < 6 hours and avoided duplication or effort that was taking place at each step of the process.
All are fairly similar in capabilities, but the Oracle BPM Suite has good support for BPMN 2.0, integrates well with open standards and has an excellent design/development platform when compared to the other BPM vendors. The Oracle BPM Suite integrates well with the complimentary Oracle Fusion Middleware products that typically accompany a BPM implementation, making it a part of an overall well integrated solution set. Oracle BPM also has very good monitoring, reporting and analytics support built-in.