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BPM, SOA, and Oracle ADF
Combined: Patterns Learned
from Oracle Fusion
Applications
Guanglei Bao
Oracle University Principal Instructor
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Program Agenda
 Why BPM for Building applications ?
 Fusion Apps BPM Adoption Patterns
 Summary
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 Why BPM for Building applications ?
Agenda
 Fusion Apps BPM Adoption Patterns
 Summary
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Goals of Next Generation Applications
Distinguishing Features
Business Driven
Next generation
applications
Process Centric
Visibility
Agility
User Centric
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Impediments to Next Generation Apps
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1.
Business intent is “lost-in-translation” due to business-IT gap
2.
Change is hard but shows up immediately and never ends
3.
Variations in needs and requirements between geographies and
departments
4.
User adoption is harder than anticipated
5.
Lack of business visibility into status of transactions
6.
Difficult to relate investment to business benefits delivered
7.
No methodology to continually improve
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The Result
When business conditions evolve faster than the company’s ability to
change and respond…
Performance
Business
Requirements
Business
Execution
Gap
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3
IT Platform
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1
1
ERP Deployment
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CRM Deployment
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Internet Explosion
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Industry Consolidation
Time
1995
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…business performance suffers
The Ideal Foundation for Next Gen Apps
Multi-channel,
Collaborative,
Rich User Interface
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Actionable
Intelligence
Common
Information
End to End
Business Process
Management
Custom
CRM
SCM
ADF-BC
HCM
Application and Database Grid Foundation
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Service Oriented
Architecture
Platform Services on
Demand
What is Business Process Management?
 An explicit approach to modeling,
automating, measuring and
optimizing business processes
across organizational divisions,
systems and applications
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Oracle BPM: Business IT Collaboration
IT
Business
BPM Studio
Process Composer
Model & Analyze
Process
Owners
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Process Implementation
Single
Process
Model
End Users
Process Analytics
Process Spaces
Monitor & Optimize
Collaborative work management
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One BPM Product for All Process Flavors
Systems
People
Documents
Decisions
Events
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 Why BPM for Building applications ?
Agenda
 Fusion Apps BPM Adoption Patterns
 BPM and ADF Services
 Summary
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Fusion Apps Use Case Patterns
Sales &
Marketing
Customer
Experience
Human Capital
Mgmt.
Model driven agile
development
Talent
Management
Guided Process
Interactions
Contextual & Personalized
User Interfaces
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Financial
Management
Procurement,
Sourcing,
Inventory
Project
Management
Customize and
Extend
Approval Flows
Governance,
Risk,
Compliance
Model Driven Agile
Development
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The Problem & Solution
Fragmented view to Shared Understanding
• Business friendly
tool to model
processes
• Share models and
collaborate
• Manage snapshots
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Process Composer
Enable Business users to model, implement & deploy
• BPMN 2.0 based
modeling
• Imports existing
process from
Visio etc.
• Generate
process
documentation
• Make
Implementation
choices
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BPM Studio
• Unified, wizarddriven IT developer
tool
• Shared model
between Business
and IT
• Empower business
analyst with catalog
of implementation
artifacts
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Customize & Extend
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Customizing Applications
BPM Project Templates & Variants for handling process variations
• Best practice
processes
• Business Catalog with
Services, Tasks &
Rules
• Customization
Constraints
• Generate Variants
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Extending Applications
Define Workflows for handling Business Events
Event generated when
Customer created/changed
in Fusion Opportunity
Event launches
BPM workflow
Search and tie pre-built business process flows or create one on the
fly using BPM Composer for handling Application Events
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Fine tune using Business Rules
 Rules driven
process logic
 Rules driven
validations
 Rules driven
approval flows and
task routing
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Guided Interactions
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Guided Process Walkthrough
BPM Activity Guides for Simplified process interactions
• Milestone based view
of the business
process
• Hide complexity
• Hide internal details
from partners,
customers
• Monitor progress of
milestones
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Screen Flows
BPM User Interfaces Page flow
• Guided step through
multiple pages of
information and enter
data
• Tied to a single task in
a process
• Embed data from
external applications
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Contextual & Personalized
End User Interfaces
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The Challenge – Meeting Different User’s Needs
Requires a tailored and personalized user interface
Customers &
Partners
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Business User
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CXO
IT
Fusion Applications & Oracle ADF
ADF is the Web UI Technology for Fusion Applications
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Oracle BPM & ADF
Two peas in a pod
Oracle BPM Task User Interfaces
are Oracle ADF Task Flows
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Oracle BPM Work Management
Panels are Oracle ADF Task Flows
BPM Task User Interfaces
•
Rich visualization
•
Access to Task
data
•
Embed external
data
• Screen Flows
• Comments,
Attachments
(Content
Management
Integration)
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BPM Workspace
Wizard driven easy customization and personalization
•
Change Skin,
Branding, Label
•
Hide/show Panels
• Create Task Views
• Customize default
Task Inbox
• Customize Process
Instances Table
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BPM and ADF BC Services
• BPM can get data using ADF-BC services
• Human Tasks can work with ADF-BC services
• Business Rules support ADF-BC facts
• BPM and ADF can interact via EDN events
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ADF-BC Driven Approval Routing
Tasks can be routed and assigned based on ADF-BC objects
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Business Rules and ADF-BC
ADF-BC Facts and Decision Point API
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Approval Flows
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Approval Flows
Powerful and flexible Approval Routing
• Complex multi-level
approvals
• Rules-based Assignment
• Approval Groups based
Routing
• Search based on
Supervisory, Job Level or
Position Hierarchies
defined within
Applications
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Oracle Fusion Procurement Future Approvers
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Summary
 Facilitates Business-driven design through business friendly
tools
 Provides the ability to customize and extend applications easily
via Templates
 Facilitates building an agile application using Rules and Rule
based task routing
 Supports User-centric design through ADF and ADF mobile
support
 Intelligent Business Operations and end to end visibility
through Process Analytics
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