Database Reference
In-Depth Information
• Oracle BPM Suite (Oracle Business Process Management Suite)
• Oracle BPA Suite (Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite)
Oracle BPA Suite is for enterprise-wide modeling. BPM Suite is for the execution of
BPMN. Architects and business analysts can use BPA Suite for modeling enterprise-
wide architectures and processes. One can model an entire organization's strategy
and business process using BPA Suite.
Both BPM Suite and BPA support BPMN modeling and notations. Apart from BPMN,
BPA Suite supports modeling models such as UML and
EPC
(
Event-driven Pro-
cess Chain
notation). EPC is one of the available modeling languages that describe
business processes and workflows. BPM Suite supports only BPMN.
A comparison of BPA, BPM, and SOA Suite for reference is as follows:
As shown in the following diagram, the execution engine for models created by using
the BPA Suite is either BPM Suite or SOA Suite. You can use BPA suite as a simula-
tion engine for processes. However, we must use Oracle BPM Suite for execution in
run time environment. As seen in the screenshot, we are making use of the following
components:
