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As you probably know Oracle has several software products and suites. Coming from BEA, I am still learning everything there is available around here. On my product area Oracle BPM Suite, there are five main components: Oracle BPM, BPEL PM, BAM, Rules, and Web Center (restricted license for Process Portals). This is a very rich set of software tools with a wealth of capabilities able to cover the

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It has been over a year since our last release of AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.0, back in July 2007. Today we have announced a new version, now called Oracle BPM 10gR3 (OBPM) part of the Oracle BPM Suite 10gR3. The new version has several new features and capabilities for End Users, Business Analysts, Developers, and IT professionals. On my last blog post from last month you can check 10 good reasons

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There are several new features coming up in Oracle BPM 10gR3 (OBPM). Below is a summary of highlights for Business Analysts, Developers, and IT Administrators: Improved BPMN support - OBPM delivers improved BPMN support, providing more compliant constructs and modeling style. Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon Integration - A Microsoft Office Ribbon plug-in is provided that enables processes

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I would like to take a moment and extend a big congratulations to Will Lyons, Robyn Chan, and the whole Oracle WebLogic Server team for shipping their latest version. Way to go guys! Congratulations! This is a very important release with several improvements. The release is available online for download now, together with the full documentation. Please visit the product page for more complete

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If you are planning to attend Oracle OpenWorld this year we have several interesting BPM related sessions for you in the program. Besides seeing the latest product releases and cool demos, you can also spend some time talking to our team. Below are some of the sessions covering BPM: Session ID Title Abstract S298955 Cutting-Edge BPM: In-Depth

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Check out our new Oracle BPM WorkSpace, previously AquaLogic BPM WorkSpace. Some things to notice here are: New Oracle branding applied to the whole product. We continue to provide RSS feed capability for process instances. Less icons, more text labels to improve navigation and usability. New Application and Task panels available. Improved rules editor to help make

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  In the past few months we have been working hard to put the final touches on our next release. But first, I need to make sure the naming transition is clear. Here is a short summary. Last year, around August time frame we released BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite version 6.0. At that point the main line engineering team started to work on the next version code name GATURRO. The initial thinking with

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In the past month or so we have been going through the Oracle transition over here. As you can imagine there have been several changes in just about everything, like email, calendar, phones, and many new things to learn. In parallel, we are trying to stay focus and get our releases shipped on-time and with a bunch of cool features. My new emails address is: alex period toussaint at oracle period

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Since the release of AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 (ALSB) we have been getting questions about AquaLogic BPM Suite (ALBPM) support for it. As you may have seen in the past 18 months we went from having a manual process to integrate process services and the bus, to a fully automated point-and-click approach to consume and publish services between the two products. We have also implemented a custom

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Just last week someone asked me for a screen shot demonstrating how BPM information from ALBPM WorkSpace 6.1 can be exposed via RSS inside Microsoft Outlook 2007. I thought I had already posted this before... However, when I went back to my blogs I noticed that I had talked about the support, but I did not provide an example. Well, no need to wait any longer, check it out below: On the

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A couple of days ago I posted a pre-release snapshot of AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 working with WebLogic Portal 10.2. In the past 48 hours a got a hand full of emails asking me about the AquaLogic User Interaction (ALUI) integration - also known as AquaLogic BPM Suite Collaboration Edition. Well, ALBPM CE is also coming along pretty well! I thought I would go ahead and share with you another

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I got a lot of people asking me about AquaLogic BPM Suite (ALBPM) support for WebLogic Portal (WLP), especially after the recent WLP 10.2 release. So the short answer is "yes", there is and will be support. The long answer is that we are changing the approach of the integration in 6.1 and making it simpler to get it done. We are planning to remove several of the manual steps and have a smooth

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In AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 we are improving our support for BPMN. Below is a pre-release snapshot showing a process represented with the updated BPMN constructs. You should notice the improved editor showing the BPMN functional groups, on the right side, such as: Activities, Gateways, Events, Flow, Globals, and Artifacts. The Business Analyst profile has been revisited as well to maximize

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We are getting very close to our second major engineering milestone, M2, and some of the cool new features are starting to become visible and usable. It is time to review each feature, make sure things are working well as planned, and polish any rough edges before the product goes out of the door. If this is the first time you are reading about AquaLogic BPM Suite (ALBPM), we are currently

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Hi, In the past few months our engineering team has been working on installing and running the AquaLogic BPM Suite inside WebLogic Server 9.2 Virtual Edition 1.1, or simply WLS VE. The main goal of the exercise was to prove that our BPM engine could function properly in this new environment and address any required changes. Below you can see our VMWare ESX server configuration in the labs:

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Hi, If you need a reason to be in the US in May, or you are already here, read on... We are going to host our BEA Participate 2008 event in Chicago this year - I must say it is one of my favorite cities in the planet. If you had a chance to come last year, you know this will be a great event. You will have the opportunity to connect with several people from BEA and more importantly several

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Hi, If you had a chance to come to our user conference, BEA World, you probably got a good idea of what is coming in the next release of AquaLogic BPM Suite - code name GATURRO. For those of you that did not have a chance to attend I hope to start sharing some of the new features here in this blog. I plan to post some updates from time to time until the product is released. So let's get started

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It has been a few weeks since BEA World China in Shanghai, but I just got around to download the pictures to my laptop... Sorry for the delay. Below is the main auditorium we had available for the Keynote. This was the day before during the light and sound checks. The event brought in over 7000 people from all types of industries. Sarah has a nice description in her blog of the general feeling

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Hi there, The product team is very happy to announce that AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.0 MP2 is now available for download! For the latest platform support information and documentation please be sure to visit our e-docs site. Now changing gears a bit, moving the focus to Asia. For those of you in Shanghai, or close proximity, be sure to come by to BEA World next week.

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If you are using AquaLogic BPM suite version 5.7, you may want to take a look at the latest maintenance pack - ALBPM 5.7 MP3 is now available for download. You may also consider learning a bit about ALBPM 6.0 as well. :-) Cheers, --alex Technorati tags: BPM Business Process Management SOA BEA Java WS Web Services

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Hi, There has been several emails about ALBPM and ALSB lately. I would like to share with you some resources that showcase the two products working together. ALBPM 6.0 & ALSB 2.6: This is a good overview article showcasing how ALBPM 6.0 can easily integrate with ALSB. It gives you a complete walkthrough of the new capabilities and some screen shots as well. ALBPM 6.0 Documentation: ALBPM

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Hi, AquaLogic BPM Suite provides several ways to support ad-hoc interactions inside and outside of a process, especially interactions that can not be easily mapped to a business process flow. I am talking about the activities that happen at the very edge of process space in the collaboration space. Below is a graphical representation of this notion. Jesper Joergensen, one of my colleagues

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Hi, Here is a quick look into the new debugging environment in ALBPM 6.0. The flow itself is for the most part similar to 5.7, with a few Eclipse related nuances. Check it out. After a business user has defined a business process, developers can start integrating services using Studio. Much like a typical IDE you can make use of break points and other debugging features. Just right click on

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Hi, AquaLogic BPM 6.0 MP1 (Maintenance Pack 1) is out with several improvements - specially around the integration with Eclipse. You will find the Studio environment to be more responsive, lighter to download, more stable, and reliable. Documentation was augmented with more topics and content. Customers looking for more 64 bit support should be happy with our latest matrix of supported

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The conference is taking place in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, US. In October, it goes to Barcelona, Spain. In December, it takes a 180 turn and goes to Shanghai, China. Come talk to us and see the new products!     Below is the AquaLogic BPM Suite booth with demos and information about the product. We will also be showing the new ALBPM Suite 6.0 MP1, for folks interested in the

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In AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.0 we are continuing to support Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and have updated our implementation to the latest version of the spec. Typically at this point the first question we get is: What is new in BPEL 2.0? The contributors at Wikipedia have posted a nice summary for you. If you got extra time you may consider reading the complete spec. To see our BPEL

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The ALBPM User Group meeting, during BEA World 2007, will take place Monday, September 10th, 1pm - 5pm. For more information visit the BEA World site. This is a great opportunity to talk about the product, meet the team, and share your comments. Cheers, --alex

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You can download the latest BPMS report from Bruce Silver on AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.0 from the BPM Institute web site. Just sign up for a free membership and get access to the report.

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In ALBPM 6.0 the task of configuring an ALBPM Engine for WebLogic has been greatly simplified. One of the new features in ALBPM 6.0 is the new Configuration Wizard for WebLogic 9 and 10. In the past if you configured ALBPM with WLS you had to deal with JMS topic configurations, downloading and configuring JDBC drivers, as well as several other highly manual steps. This is no longer the case.

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The new BPM Resource Center is now available. Here is a brief intro: "Business Process Management (BPM) is a strategy and toolset for bringing process excellence - and the myriad of downstream benefits - to the masses. BPM helps organizations ensure that business processes are optimally defined, managed, executed and monitored. Read on to discover how BPM can help you solve your toughest business

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Hi there! Here are ten reasons why you should take a look at ALBPM 6.0: 1. Support for XPDL 2.0 and BPEL 2.0. Web Services capabilities now include support for WS-Security, Document-Literal style and WS-I compliance. 2. Brand new ALBPM WorkSpace built with JSF and a beautiful new interface.   3. New Business Rules capabilities include a new graphical editor and the ability to change

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RSS is becoming more pervasive on the web. It provides an easy way to distribute information, feeds, that can be easily read and aggregated via client programs, readers, that support RSS format. For PUMA, our next major release of AquaLogic BPM Suite (ALBPM), the use of RSS will provide a great opportunity to expand how business users can get access to their business processes information. You

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In May we will be making a stop in Atlanta to attend and present during the BEA Participate conference. Several folks from the AquaLogic BPM Suite (ALBPM) group will be there. This will be a great opportunity to meet, to talk about the product, and to learn more about new releases. The conference will cover both AquaLogic User Interaction (ALUI) and ALBPM. A complete agenda is available with

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The BPM team in Argentina is busy working hard on the next major release of AquaLogic BPM Suite. One of the main areas of work is moving the AquaLogic BPM Studio to Eclipse. Below is a screen shot of the new AquaLogic BPM Studio already running on Eclipse 3.2.2.  We welcome your comments and questions. Cheers, --alex

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I would like to share with you that AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7 MP2 is now available for download! Cheers, --alex

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I have come across several SOA projects taking advantage of the synergies between AquaLogic BPM Suite (ALBPM) and AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB). The integration between the two products is available today and has been available for sometime now. ALBPM can provide orchestration capabilities to business services exposed in the bus and also benefit from its extensive set of features. For our next

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The latest draft for BPEL 2.0 got posted last week, WS-BPEL 2.0 Public Review 2 Draft. --alex

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I am pleased to announce that AquaLogic BPM 5.7 SP1 is now available for download. The release notes are available on e-docs. Cheers, --alex

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I worked with Portal technologies for the past four years, below are some articles related to the WebLogic Portal (WLP) product from BEA Systems, Inc. They are focused on some portal related standards such as JSR 168, Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), as well as adding Open Source technologies like Lucene search into the product: Using Web Services with WebLogic Portal 8.1 Developing

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