Oraclehas announced the general
availability of its enhanced Oracle Business Process Analysis
Suite, featuring closed-loop support to improve collaboration
between business analysts and IT.
The updated version supports the latest
BPMN and
BPEL standards and
more closely aligns business and IT users, leading to greater
productivity, operational efficiencies and innovation, said
Oracle.
The Process Blueprint feature offers customers closed-loop
engineering and bi-directional synching capabilities, enabling
business analysts and developers to closely collaborate throughout
the entire BPM (business process management) lifecycle, using the
best tools for their specific needs.
Business users can create and change business models in the
Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite while IT users can view and
modify these processes in parallel using the Oracle
SOA Suite.
Similarly, IT users can make changes that are made visible to
business users as proposals for improvements that can be
incorporated into the model.
Throughout the lifecycle of the process, both Oracle Business
Process Analysis Suite and Oracle SOA Suite support the common
Process Blueprint format with no code generation required -
resulting in an agile application platform that responds quickly to
changing business requirements, Oracle said.
"Process modelling projects tend to be time-consuming no matter
what, but that can be reduced if there is less back-and-forth
between the IT and business teams," said Colin Teubner, a Forrester
Analyst in a recent report.
"With one team and frequent check-ins between members, mistakes
in process models can be worked out early and quickly - not after
implementation when the process mistakes are already causing pain,"
he said.