Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPM Topics - a must have

I am very honored to review the new book from Mark Nelson and Tanya Williams, Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPM Topics, Packt Publishing, 2012. The book is due to be release the 25th October 2012.


The nature of BPM to be cross company, division and with multiple process stake holders brings a new set of dimensions to the definition, design and implementation of BPM. Mark and Tanya set out to address these hurdles, amongst others, in their book.

The book will give you a solid foundation to use Oracle BPM 11g Suite to its fullest capability, to short circuit your understanding of sub-processes, instance correlation, exception, error handling and inter-process communication. With the addition of working with arrays, you will be well equipped to achieve the most advanced BPMN techniques within your Oracle BPM 11g Suite environment within in a couple of days.

The authors explain the concepts and advanced techniques with detailed explanations, diagrams and hands-on exercises to confirm the techniques. The techniques are also enriched with best practice and “gotchas”.

I wish I had the valuable knowledge contained in the book earlier in my career, as it would have saved me a lot of time, reading through technical forums, product documentation and debugging BPMN models, trying to understand correlation and process communication. It also cleared a couple of misconceptions I had.

I would suggest the book to anybody embarking on an Oracle BPM implementation and anybody who wants to enrich their current understanding of BPM with the Advance Topics covered in Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics.

The book is available at Packt Publishing