Business process driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

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Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL; Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Reviewer; Preface; What This Book Covers; Conventions; Reader Feedback; Customer Support; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. SOA and Business Processes; Why Care about Business Processes?; Examples of Business Processes; How Business Processes Emerge; How Business Processes and IT Relate; IT Flexibility; Heterogeneous Architecture; Traditional Software Lifecycles; Why Do We Need SOA?; Why Should We Believe This?; SOA Approach to Business Processes

Major Improvements in the SOA ApproachFocus on Content, Not Technology; Management Support; SOA Competency Centre; SOA Inception; SOA Forces; Value of SOA for IT Departments; Changes in the Development Approach; Reduced Complexity; Technical Introduction to SOA; BPMN; BPEL; Features; Services; Service Interfaces; Messages; Synchronicity; Loose Coupling; Quality of Service; Other Important Parts of SOA; Enterprise Service Bus; Registry and Repository; Rules Engines; Business Activity Monitoring; User Interactions; User Interaction in BPEL; BPEL4People; How SOA, BPMN, and BPEL Fit Together

AgilityResilience; Alignment Between Business and IT; New Business Models; How the Puzzles Fit Together; SOA Vendors; Summary; 2. Modeling Business Processes for SOA; Business Process Management; IT and BPM; SOA and BPM; Business Process Lifecycle; BPM and SOA-A Perfect Fit for the Lifecycle; Business Process Modeling; Modeling Method and Notation; ARIS; Modeling Notation; BPMN; Process Design; Results of Process Modeling; Process Map; Roles and Relations Structure; As-is Process Model; Process Environment Diagram; Top-level Process Model; Detailed Process Maps; Exception Handling Diagram

Publishing and Communicating Process ModelsProcess Simulation; Tools for Simulating Processes; Modeling Principles; Common Problems in Process Modeling; Process Implementation; Classic Software Development; Standardized ERP Solutions; Service Oriented Architecture; Process Implementation Phase with BPEL; Process Execution and Control; SOA for the Process Execution and Control Phase; Business Activity Monitoring; Process Optimization; The To-be Process Model; Key Performance Indicators; Typical Problems in Process Optimization; Summary; 3. BPMN for Business Process Modeling

The Need for Standards in Business Process ModelingBusiness Process Classification and BPMN; Strategic or Operational; Process Type; Process Scope; Business Process Diagrams-Core Elements; Business Process Diagrams-A Deeper Analysis of the Key Elements of BPMN; Events; Activities; Sub-Process; Task; Gateways; Sequence Flow; Message Flow; Association; Pool; Lanes; Data Object; Group; Text Annotation; Introduction to Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite; Developing an Example Process Using BPMN and the Selected Tool; Summary; 4. BPMN-Advance Constructs

Business Process Modeling General Guidelines

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