Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle(R) Business Process Analysis Suite

"Oracle today announced the immediate availability of Oracle® Business Process Analysis Suite which provides business users the ability to model, publish, simulate and optimize end-to-end business processes that span the enterprise to increase operational efficiencies and improve business productivity. Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, makes it possible for business or IT managers to model and automate multi-step processes and simulate and identify organizational, structural and technical problems in workflows before they occur -- enabling better control over an organization's business processes.

Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite consists of the following four components:

     *    Business Process Architect -- A standards-based tool for process

           modeling that supports standards-based notations and templates

           including Business Process Modeling Notation;

     *    Business Process Repository Server -- A server component for sharing

           the process repository across multiple users in a collaborative

           environment;

     *    Business Process Simulator -- A tool for simulating the process

           models based on a set of discrete events to do "what if" analysis;

           and 

     *    Business Process Publisher -- Publishes process models to a large

           audience outside of the core team designing the process models.

For more information about the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, please visit:

http://www.oracle.com/goto/bpm ."