Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Handbook (Oracle Press) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

This book has been my #1 resource and has open on my desk since I received it. It covers all aspects of Oracle BPM affecting all of the roles who might interact with it (analysts, modelers, designers, implementers, business strategists and decision makers...) In doing so, it provides very satisfying and indepth explanations of the core concepts of OBPM and, at the same time, for those interested in learning the specifics for performing technical tasks, it goes into great detail including best practices.I particularly appreciate the wealth of information on ADF as it is used with BPM. Previous to this book, it was hard to find information that applied ADF directly to BPM. One had to go to ADF documentation and read between the lines and draw inferences for BPM application. The book also explains how other types of user interfaces can be used with the process (custom non-ADF UIs) and how the ADF interface can be customized.I found great value in a lengthy section dealing with events and subprocesses, and conversations between subprocesses and peer processes. This book also offers suggestions to improve and simplify the development environment.This is a *must have* for anyone using Oracle BPM 11g PS4FP or PS5.

This book is a valuable contribution to the BPM knowledge base as well as providing an excellent reference for the Oracle BPM Suite of products.It reflects the current focus on BPM as a business capability rather than a "technology".The section on BPMN 2.0 is very practical and useful.

I tried reading this book a number of times, each time to be deterred by the non-informative marketing lingo employed by the authors: "BPM Suite 11G allows pervasive use of business rules for decision making, the dynamic binding of process activities that can capture process variances due to differences in process parameters like geography and product, and for human task assignment and routing".On top of that the examples are non-existent or trivial: the "SayHello" process using "HelloTypes"Definitely not the book that I was looking for to help me learn BPM suite 11g

Why do I like this book? Let me give some examples:¡ It is up to date with the latest version PS4 Feature Pack¡ The authors add their personal insights and tips - this is more useful than the official documentation on OTN¡ Chapter 2 contains a section on the evolution of BPM standards that shows the origins of BPMN¡ Chapter 5 describes BPMN 2.0 and modelling. I especially like the reference to the workflow patterns homepage: [...] and how they can be implemented in BPM 11g. Out of 40 patterns, only 1 was not supported at the time of writing the book(pattern 38). This shows how mature BPMN is while also focusing on Business Users.¡ Chapter 6 describes is a very good introduction to use of Business Rules - from basics to how you can test rules and initiate tests from XML file. This gives you a headstart to Rules development. This is also relevant for SOA Suite users.¡ Chapter 7 is more useful for understanding Advanced Human tasks than reading documentation on OTN. There is a lot of flexibility in these tasks, and one has a choice whether to model this in Human task setup, on ADF Flows or in the BPMN Process. I think Activity Guide is a brilliant concept that should deserve some more pages.¡ ADF is vital, and that is why chapter 8 is available for free - it is a "must read"You can read more on BPM on our blog: [...]

Still the 'bible' for Oracle BPM.

This book is both for Architect and Developers. It not only provides a good overview of BPM but also helps you to go deep into BPM (if you are new to BPM).itFor developers there is a rich information on advance ADF and Human Task.For architects it provides enought information about Process modeling, methodology and its implementations.Chapter 11 deals with the BPM project lifecycle, gives you insight into BPM project challenges.Over all a very good book.

There is a need for developers to know technology beyond of what they use in their day-to-day jobs. Oracle Application Development Framework has become core in Oracle Fusion application development and is used across product lines. This however often leads to integration requirements that require developers to understand both ends, for example BPM and Oracle ADF. So if you are an ADF developer and SOA is the next big wave in your company, then starting with this book is a great thing to do.If you are not yet an ADF developer, but a SOA developer who wants to learn and master Oracle BPM Suite, then this book too is for you. Though you may not need the introduction to BPM in the beginning, you'll enjoy the refresh on this topic.This book is an all thumb up and should not be missing in any serious application developers library

Spend your money on something else. This book is extremely bad. You can simply go to Oracles web site and find the same information. Even if the book was free I would not recommend it.