Enhanced Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite now available

The updated version – which follows 20 months after the original Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite – supports BPMN and BPEL standards and hence the claim of greater productivity, operational efficiencies and innovation, with business and IT users. Oracle says it’s based on an underlying common model format, dubbed the Process Blueprint, and that users will find bi-directional synching capabilities, so that business analysts and developers can collaborate using tools appropriate to their own trades. For example, business users can create and change business models in the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, while IT users view and modify these in parallel, using Oracle SOA (services orientated architecture) Suite. Similarly, IT users can make changes that are visible to business users as proposals for improvements for incorporation into the model. And that’s how it works throughout the lifecycle of the process – with Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite and Oracle SOA Suite supporting the Process Blueprint format. Advanced wafer probe card manufacturer FormFactor, which adopted the approach, says it was able to re-engineer its business processes and significantly change the way its company operates. “Oracle’s Business Process Management provides FormFactor with a unified and standards-based foundation that enabled us to turn business requirements into successful business applications,” says Nilay Banker, senior director of Business Process Management at FormFactor. “Through the use of the integrated Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite and Oracle SOA Suite, we have changed the way we approach business process improvement and business technology solution development. The approach will deliver optimised processes that span multiple departments, with hundreds of dependencies and a multitude of back office applications.”