It is often useful to simultaneously spawn multiple work item instances in a process based on the contents of individual items in an array. One example of how this might be useful is when you need to send many people notifications simultaneously and you want each individual to receive their own work item instance to acknowledge.

With the endless possibilities of BPM 11g topics to write about I found myself a little overwhelmed with the number of topics to discuss, the amount of depth involved concerning some topics, and whether or not the topic has a desirable level of enjoyment or usefulness to a reader.  Normally, I would not put too much concern in picking a topic.  If there is a BPM topic that is important and should be discussed I have always felt that it should be discussed.  However, last week I presented on an extremely important problem we face on project engagements, a resolution to the pro

In SOA Suite 11g, Enterprise Manager provides a wide variety of monitoring and management functions to an administrator.  At most customers I have worked at this level of control is not given to all users, especially in QA/UAT or Production environments.  Fortunately, Enterprise Manager provides functionality to provide different levels of access to different users and groups.  At a current customer we need to provide a group of users and developers access to view service status and health, composite instances, and audit trails.

The BPMN 2.0 Standard defines several absolute and relative timers that can be effectively integrated into process models to not only control relative timing within a sequences of activities, but can also be used to control time allocated for sub-processes and activities, by incorporating interrupting or non-interrupting boundary event timers.  This blog presents examples of how BPMN 2.0 timers in the Oracle BPM 11g Suite can standalone in a sequence flow or can be used in conjunction with Event Based Gateways and/or sub-processes.