Oracle’s Devesh Sharma has corrected my speculation yesterday that the ARIS deal is mostly focused on the dogfight between Oracle Fusion Apps and SAP/NetWeaver. That’s one motivation, for sure, but Oracle plans to impact the mainstream BPMS market with the integration of ARIS and Fusion middleware (including BPEL Process Manager and Designer) in an offering intended to bridge the gap between business and IT. A key innovation, he says, is a unique integration concept based on metadata shared between ARIS (BPMN/EPC) and the SOA Suite (BPEL, workflow, rules, and BAM). Keeping the business view (model) and executable process in sync is a familiar topic of BPMS Watch, and Oracle claims they’ve found a neat solution. I hope to find out more later this month.
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Bruce Silver has been posting about some interesting developments regarding Oracle. A while ago I was having a conversation with a potential customer and he asked me how ALBPM compared to Oracle’s BPM solution. I answered, much too flippantly, “Well….
[...] Recall that they did an OEM deal two months ago with IDS Scheer for the ARIS Process Design Platform, the leader in business process analysis tools according to Gartner’s quadrant. At the time I speculated this had more to do with keeping up with SAP in the enterprise apps battle than engaging in the BPMS marketplace, but that’s apparently not entirely true. Yes, the Oracle Apps team is one very important customer for the “Oracle BPM Solution” — 1000 demanding beta users, with Larry’s ear to boot! – but not the only one. Armed with the new Oracle BPA Suite (i.e., ARIS), Oracle is also going after corporate customers in the mainstream BPMS market, Oracle ISVs looking to do something similar to the company’s own Fusion Apps, and system integrators looking to create their own repositories of models representing best practices and solution templates. [...]