IDS Scheer adds Oracle to business modelling partner list

Siemens and Microsoft are among others also working with this specialist organisation for its BPM software and expertise in the name of enabling greater collaboration between business and IT. Oracle’s BPM software suite, which now includes IDS Scheer’s ARIS product, will be able to support users’ BPM initiatives all the way from modelling and simulation to optimisation. Oracle’s so-called Business Process Analysis Suite powered by ARIS adds substantially to its existing standards-based BPM products, including Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Process Manager. And while these are optimised to work with Oracle’s own E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise and Siebel applications, they will also be offered for BPM work on non-Oracle IT systems. BPM technologies help users to build, adapt and optimise their business processes to strip out waste, meet regulatory compliance requirements and/or improve operational efficiencies. IDS Scheer technologies have a long standing reputation for helping here – enabling users to understand, document and modify their processes quickly. Now these capabilities will enable rapid closed-loop process automation and optimisation via shared metadata and unified repository – with changes made at the BPEL layer reflected automatically back at the process design and modelling layer and vice versa. “It is ideal for organisations looking to leverage business process management technologies to team with a single vendor that has already invested in integrating components that comprise business process management suites,” observes analyst Gartner’s vice president Jim Sinur. “The integration of such products will maximise return on investment through reuse, while minimising administrative costs and errors that typically result from inconsistencies across technologies. Deep integration happens at the repository level, but near real time model exchanges are the next best level. We recommend that our clients carefully inspect the levels of integration when deciding on a BPMS.”