SOA & BPM training course

Introduction

What you will learn 
Lesson Review 
Why BPM and SOA?
Topology of a SOA/BPM reference architecture
BPM Vendors overview
Positioning of vendor tools

BPM Overview

SOA and BPMS
When to choose a BPMS 
IT and business must work hand in hand
Matching the right technology to your problem 
Adopting a development model 
Overview of a BPM system

Architecture of a BPM System

EAI and B2B aspects
Topology and scalability
Design tools
Deployment tools
Monitoring and management
The process engine
Process definition repository
Transaction manager
Connector framework

Understanding Basic Concepts and Architecture

Overview of open standards 
How BPM fits inside the SOA architecture
Overview of the BPMN Standard 
Getting more agile through BPM 
basic concepts of a Process Manager 
Process Manager Implementation Options 
Installing a Process Manager 
Example: BizTalk 2006 vs Oracle SOA Suite

Modeling a process with BPMN

The added value of BPMN
Composability and basic services
Promoting an incremental and iterative approach 
Why should Use cases drive the project? 
Declaration of message properties 
Use of correlation sets 
Develop a complex parallel execution of activities
Designing concurrency 
BPMN implemented by vendors
Microsoft SOA and XLANG
Oracle SOA Suite and BPEL

A Simple Business Process

Introduction to using a Process Designer 
Orchestrating services: SOA through BPM
Exchangeability of processes amongst vendors
Creating a Business Process 
Adding Activities 
Calling services in a loosely coupled fashion
Using location transparency
Deploying the Process

Fault Handling and Exception Management

Defining business events 
Configuring service timeouts 
Handling service faults 
Catching service exceptions 
Compensation Management

Administering Processes using Process Monitoring Describing the Consoles

Exploring the Administration Console 
Managing a Domain 
Viewing a PM Administration Server 
Platform Administration 
Interfacing with BAM (business activity monitoring)
What about BAS? (business activity services)
Adding a Notification to a Process 
Selecting a Notification Channel

Connectivity support in a BPMS

Adapters for a standards-based environment 
Selecting an adapter service 
Configuring a File adapter 
Supported and bundled adapters 
The adapter framework 
OEM adapters 
Example: adapter in BizTalk
Example: adapter in Oracle

EDA and Business Intelligence

The fusion of SOA and BI 
Combining events and services
Using ETL processes 
SOA challenges to ETL
Pulling SOA data (Request/Reply)
Potential overlap between SOA and BI 
Getting trend and historic data
Services being "owner" of their data
Complex event processing (CEP)
ad-hoc database queries

BPM as enabler of SOA: Key components

The active players: application frontends 
Focus on business value: basic services 
The value of an ESB 
Using a registry and repository 
Increased agility for the business

The BPM/SOA Board

Distributing technology white papers
Controlling & measuring improvement processes
Managing the repository
Setup of a quality gateway
The 4 pillars of success

Governance and Business strategy

The personal perspective 
Innovation, growth and flexibility
Convincing the CEO,CIO, and Business units
The past: data/functions vs objects & services
Core business logic vs process control logic
Design implications for Architects
Alignment of Business and IT

Choosing the right approach

Start at the beginning: the business
Definition of business competencies
Identifying differentiators and overhead
From requirements to components
When does a component become a service?
The future of BPM and SOA
Reaching vendor independence
Roadmap to enterprise renovation
Continuous improvements