Process Modeling

• Introduction
• Modeling business processes with BPM
• Simulating the BPM Application development lifecycle
• Modeling a fictitious organization
• Creating Business Process Flow
• Creating and defining projects
• Defining Role and Organization Units
• Organizing processes using swimlanes
• Adding user interaction to Process Flow
• Controlling Process Flow—Defining exclusive gateways
• Controlling Process Flow—Implementing Exclusive Gateways
• Controlling Process Flow—Parallel gateways
• Controlling Process Flow—Sequence Flows
• Communicating with external processes and services
• Changing the value of Data objects in your process
• Creating Business objects in a Business Catalog
• Adding documentation to the Flow Element
• Creating MDS for BPM
• Publishing a BPM Project in BPM Studio to MDS

Process Implementation

• Introduction
• Defining an Interactive task
• Generating a Task Form for an Interactive task
• Creating a common Interactive task
• Generating a common Task Form
• Assigning the same Human Task to different Interactive tasks
• Creating Data associations
• Implementing Service Tasks
• Configuring a Data association for conditional flow

Process Deployment and Testing

• Introduction
• Connecting to the Application Server running SOA Suite
• Building and Compiling a BPM Project
• Deploying the Project
• Testing Process: Triggering the process
• Debugging the process

Business Rules in the BPM Process

• Introduction
• Extending Human Tasks
• Adding a Business object
• Creating a dictionary
• Defining Globals and Bucketsets
• Defining the Rule: Decision Table
• Adding gateways and Human Tasks
• Defining the Rule: IF/THEN
• Testing the rules

Human Workflow in BPM Process

• Introduction
• Creating Human Task Service Components
• Creating task definition and the task payload
• Defining assignments—stage and single participant
• Defining assignments—sequential stage and serial participant
• Defining assignments—management chain participant
• Defining Assignments—parallel participant type
• Testing the process

Process Simulation

• Introduction
• Defining simulation models
• Defining simulation definition
• Running a simulation
• Analyzing simulation results
• Reengineering the BPM Process to improve performance

Exception Management

• Introduction
• Handling Business Exception in a subprocess
• Handling a system exception—Fault Management Framework
• Handling the timeout exception—Timer event
• Faulting the process

BPM and SOA in Concert

• Introduction
• Invoking asynchronous service using message events
• Invoking synchronous service using service task
• Calling a BPM process
• Initiating BPM from JMS
• Exposing BPMN process as a service

End User Interaction

• Introduction
• Interacting through BPM Workspace
• Working on the Process Instance
• Interacting through Process Spaces

Communicating with SOA Suite

• Introduction
• Invoking a SCA composite synchronously from an OSB service
• Invoking a SCA composite asynchronously from an OSB service
• Invoking an OSB service from SCA composite synchronously
• Invoking an OSB service from SCA composite asynchronously