New Release of Oracle Business Process Management 10g Release 3

According to this article in SOA World Oracle has unveiled Oracle Business Process Management 10g Release 3, which will allow business and IT users to collaboratively automate and optimize business processes enabling improved efficiency and agility.

Here are some of the new features the release will offer: new user interface, new modeling capabilities, new business rules and the ability to import models from third-party tools. This release is part of a series that integrates technology from Oracle and BEA systems.

How to start your process management

In a recent article at TV Technology, they talk about approaching business process one step at a time. Business process management is all about aligning your business goals with technology. When the technology changes, its important to see that your processes shift, too. With this software integration of your business to technology, it’s important to see that you’re continually improving and developing your business processes. It’s also important to realize that your technology falls in line with the way your business and people work.

Some of the greatest results that come out of aligning technology with current processes are the agility that comes into your organization and how communication is increased as a result of the formalized processes.

The article also gives a great starting point to adapt process management, document your current processes (colons are used for lists, so you just need a comma instead. Once you’ve done this, you can see which process would benefit the most from turning it into a business process.