Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL: From Business Process Modeling to Orchestration and Service Oriented Architecture (Paperback)

~ Kapil Pant (Author), Matjaz Juric (Contributor)
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Modeling business processes for SOA and developing end-to-end IT support has become one of the top IT priorities. The SOA approach is based on services and on processes. Processes are focused on composition of services and in that sense services become process activities.

Experience has shown that the implementation and optimization of processes are the most important factors in the success of SOA projects. SOA is so valuable to businesses because it enables process optimization. In order to optimize processes, we need to know which processes are relevant and we have to understand them - something that cannot be done without business process modeling. There is a major problem with this approach - a semantic gap between the process model and the applications.

This book will show you how to fill this gap. It describes a pragmatic approach to business process modeling using the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and the automatic mapping of BPMN to the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), which is the de-facto standard for executing business processes in SOA. The book will also cover related technologies like Business Rules Management and Business Activity Monitoring which play a pivotal role in achieving closed loop Business Process Management.

What you will learn from this book?

• Modeling business processes in an SOA-compliant way
• A detailed understanding of BPMN standard for business process modeling and analysis
• Automatically translating BPMN into BPEL
• Executing business processes on SOA platforms
• Overcome the semantic gap between process models and their execution, and follow the closed-loop business process management life cycle
• Understand technologies complementary to BPM and SOA such as Business Rules Management and Business Activity monitoring
  

Approach

The book provides a well-balanced mixture of theoretical discussion and real-world examples. It explains the concepts and approaches, and describes methodology and notation. It demonstrates these concepts on real-world examples and provides a step-by-step example tutorial that guides readers from business process modeling in BPMN through transformation into BPEL to execution on the SOA process server. It also discusses some key concepts using practical examples and business scenarios around Business Rules Management and Business Activity Monitoring with BPM and SOA.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for CIOs, executives, SOA project managers, business process analysts, BPM and SOA architects, who are responsible for improving the efficiency of business processes through IT, or for designing SOA. It provides a high-level coverage of business process modeling, but it also gives practical development examples on how to move from model to execution. We expect the readers to be familiar with the basics of SOA.

About the Author

Kapil Pant is an accomplished BPM consultant and Public speaker with extensive experience in Products and Professional Services consulting. He currently manages Wipro Technologies’ BPM/SOA practice in Europe, and leads consulting engagements including Business Process Improvement workshops, BPMS and SOA Tools Study & Recommendations, and BPM Architecture, Implementation & Governance. Over the years, Kapil has been extensively involved in conducting successful workshops on Process Improvement, Requirements Analysis, BPM/SOA and Enterprise Architecture for clients in Telecom, Banking, Securities and Insurance industry verticals. He has also worked closely with leading System Integrators such as Wipro, Tata Consulting, HCL and Satyam to conduct technology enablement programs for client projects across industry verticals. As a recognized Public Speaker, Kapil is known for his well-researched programs delivered in his high-energy, enthusiastic, and down-to-earth style. He has presented keynote speeches, workshops, seminars and over 40 road-shows across the Asia Pacific, Europe and the USA. He was also nominated by the Government of India to lead seminars as a part of a 25-member working committee for E-Governance Enterprise Architecture and Standards Taxonomy. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Applications, a Bachelors Degree in Business Studies, and a TOGAF Certification. Kapil presently lives in Hampshire, UK with his wife and enjoys blogging in his free time. Matjaz B. Juric holds a Ph.D. in computer and information science. He is Associate Professor at the University of Maribor. In addition to this book, he has coauthored Professional J2EE EAI, Professional EJB, J2EE Design Patterns Applied, and the .NET Serialization Handbook, published by Wrox Press. He has published chapters in More Java Gems (Cambridge University Press) and in Technology Supporting Business Solutions (Nova Science Publishers). He has also published in journals and magazines, such as Java Developer's Journal, Java Report, Java World, Web Services Journal, eai Journal, theserverside.com, OTN, ACM journals, and presented at conferences such as OOPSLA, Java Development, XML Europe, OOW, SCI, and others. He is a reviewer, program committee member, and conference organizer. Matjaz has been involved in several large-scale object technology projects. In cooperation with IBM Java Technology Centre, he worked on performance analysis and optimization of RMI-IIOP, an integral part of the Java platform. Matjaz is author of courses and consultant for the BPEL and SOA consulting company BPELmentor.com. For more information, please visit http://www.bpelmentor.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847191460
• ISBN-13: 978-1847191465
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #84,973 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars "Bussines Driven approach" in practice with Oracle products, May 21, 2009

By	Ing IVAN BUDZEL - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A brief background on my credentials - I'm with Interway , a company that provides software products to companies to help with their SOA needs (among other things).

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL (http://interway.sk/en/technologies/service-oriented-architecture-soa/resource-center/business-process-driven-soa-using-bpmn-bpel.html) is about BPMN and BPEL in business processes. While BPMN (Business process modeling notation) is graphical language to describe business processes dedicated to business analysts, BPEL (Business process execution Language) is used for IT implementation of business processes.

Author of book Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL" - Matjaz B. Juric a Kapil Pant has a lot of experiences with business processes and technologies related to service oriented architecture (SOA).

Book is not primarily assigned to IT specialists, even it describes IT implementation process too and it doesn't go deep into technical details. The mission is to demonstrate to the business managers and analysts main characteristic of SOA, that SOA has to be "Bussines-Driven". Such a goal of service orientation can be achieved by easy transferring the business model created by BPMN into implementation by BPEL. Showing the importance of BPMN in service computing is the focus of this book. Business processes are in center sight of book which are essential for each company.

BPMN and BPEL are ways and means to help for creating effective business processes. Book involves whole lifecycle of business process starting from analysis and design to implementation, testing and management. For each part of lifecycle there are described SOA components (BPEL, services, ESB, business rules, BAM) which help to improve business process.
Authors choose Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite (BPA) as a modeling tool to model processes using BPMN. BPA tool helps to reach optimal analysis, results and predictions of processes using simulation. Oracle BPA Suite in collaboration with other Oracle products like SOA Suite, BPEL Process Manager and BAM can easy bridge analysis of processes with their implementation.

There are few pages showing ways of process modeling using BPMN in Oracle Business Process Architect. Properties settings of BPMN components like sub-processes, events and cycles and instances are described in more detailed. Authors write in detail about settings parameters of simulation and results evaluation.
Transition from BPMN model created by business analysts to BPEL process is not possible without filling up important technical information. Thanks to good integration Oracle BPA Suite with Oracle SOA Suite we can use extensions to add this information directly into BPMN model.

Authors describe properties of most important extensions like Automated Activity (it can be invoking of partner's services or receiving information supplied by partner's services), Human Workflow Activity (tasks performed by humans), Notification Activity (sending messages by email, fax, telephone or SMS) a Business Rules Activity (rules).

At the end there is example to demonstrate whole life cycle of business process. Implementation BPMN model starts from his design and simulation, then it leads to deploy as BPEL and to monitor by BAM (Business Activity Monitoring). There is described possibility of synchronization changes in BPEL process with BPMN model using blueprint of process which stays in the middle between BPEL development environment (JDeveloper) and BPA.

You can't expect instructions for solution of particular problems although there are some patterns and rules for process modeling.
Authors explain why BPMN and SOA is the best solution for business processes and straightaway describe what is it BPMN and SOA. Chapters are supplemented by adequate comprehensible screenshots and diagrams.

The result idea of this book is that "role of IT technologies should be more complex than just executing automation of business tasks, it should be Business-Driven".