Rainer von Ammon
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:08:08 +0000

Christoph Emmersberger and Florian Springer have finished their*thesis which was written onsite at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA, USA:
Event-Driven Business Process Management taking the Example of Deutsche Post AG:* An evaluation of the Approach of Oracle and the SOPERA Open Source SOA Framework
The topic of this*thesis was the prototypical integration of the Oracle products

• ·Oracle BPEL (Business Process Management),
• ·Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring), and
• ·Oracle CEP (Complex Event Processing),

within the SOPERA system environment, with the focus on CEP which will be released with Oracle’s Fusion Middleware 11g, announced for end of 2008.
For evaluating the capabilities of the components, a business process regarding to shipment, investigation and claim was modelled and implemented.
Different approaches*were discussed, evaluated and implemented as prototypes.
The focus of the implementation*was to*use events for the purpose of monitoring a business process.



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