Oracle(R) Business Process Management 10g Release 3 Now Available

Unified Release Delivers Enhancements Based on Technology from Oracle and BEA
Systems
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

News Facts
-- Addressing the requirements of business analysts and IT, Oracle today
unveiled Oracle(R) Business Process Management 10g Release 3 (Oracle
BPM 10g R3) (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/bpm/bpm-suite.html), a
component of Oracle Fusion Middleware
(http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html).
-- The new release allows business and IT users to collaboratively
automate and optimize business processes enabling improved efficiency
and agility.
-- Oracle BPM 10g R3 features a new user interface, new modeling
capabilities, new business rules and the ability to import models from
third party tools.
-- Available as part of the Oracle Business Process Management Suite
(http://www.oracle.com/technologies/bpm/bpm-suite.html),
Oracle Business Process Management 10g Release 3 is the latest in a
series of offerings that integrates technology from Oracle and BEA
Systems and illustrates Oracle's rapid progress in unifying
industry-leading software from the two companies.

New Release Benefits End Users, Business Analysts and IT Professionals
-- Individuals using Oracle BPM 10g R3 will benefit from the following:
-- Re-designed user-interface that studies have shown enhances
business process interaction and collaboration. New features
include WorkSpace Layouts and customizable widget organization as
well as dashboards that can be generated on-the-fly by knowledge
workers
-- Improved integration with Microsoft Office and Really Simple
Syndication (RSS)

-- Business Analysts will benefit from enhancements in the software
including:
-- Intuitive modeling with enhanced support of BPMN
-- Integration with Oracle BPA Suite (http://tinyurl.com/2tv3sr) and
XPDL 1.0/2.0 support
-- Improved complex rule definition and documentation linked to
dynamic routing on business processes
-- BPM Project inheritance to promote service and process reusability

-- For IT professionals, Oracle BPM 10g R3 delivers:
-- Support for Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3 and Sybase ASE 15.0
-- Out of the box certified interoperability with Oracle BPEL Process
Manager, Oracle Service Bus and Oracle WebCenter Suite
-- Ability to create and edit process forms from any location with a
WYSIWYG forms editor
-- Ability to aggregate multiple BPM instances with federated access
to BPM deployments to unify administration experience
-- Enhanced performance and security
-- New process level debugging in BPM Studio complementing the
existing activity level debugging

Supporting Quote
-- "While Business Process Management requirements are typically driven
by business analysts, IT experts and operational personnel are
impacted by the technology decisions business analysts make," said
Amlan Debnath, senior vice president, Server Technologies, Oracle.
"Oracle's BPM software addresses the needs of both audiences by
uniquely enabling collaboration between business analysts and IT
personnel."

Supporting Resources
-- Information about Oracle BPM
(http://www.oracle.com/technologies/bpm/index.html)
-- Oracle BPM Webcast (http://tinyurl.com/6px9cp)
-- Oracle BPM Blog (http://blogs.oracle.com/alextoussaint/)
-- Industry Analyst reports about Oracle
(http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/index.html)
-- Download Oracle Software
(http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html)

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