Mark Nelson - Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics

Mark Nelson is a Consulting Solution Architect in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Architect's Team (known within the Oracle community as "the A-Team") in Oracle Development. Mark spends a significant part of his time working with Oracle BPM Suite users around the world. His other main area of technical interest currently is Continuous Integration and its application to Oracle Fusion Middleware. Mark is one of the question authors for the Oracle SOA Certification Exam. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Tanya Williams is a Principal Solution Consultant in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales Consulting team in Australia. Tanya has experience helping organizations understand Oracle's products, map the product capabilities to their business needs, develop demonstrations and proofs of concept, and giving advice and guidance on adoption of Oracle products. Tanya spends much of her time working with Oracle BPM Suite and how to use Oracle BPM Suite, SOA Suite and Service Bus to integrate with Oracle applications like E-Business Suite. Tanya has presented and run hands-on labs at Oracle OpenWorld. Tanya lives in Sydney, Australia.

Tanya and Mark contribute to the popular "RedStack" blog at http://redstack.wordpress.com, and have both presented at a number of Oracle OpenWorld and various regional Oracle User Group events.

Mark and Tanya would like to thank many people for their support in making this book a reality:

Stephanie, Meeta, Theresa, and all of the team at Packt Publishing for their help and support throughout this project.

Robert, Bhagat, and Prasen for their time, dedication, attention to detail, and detailed suggestions and comments.

Our respective management and colleagues for their support of this project.

All of the BPM development and product management team for their great work designing, building, and supporting Oracle BPM Suite.

And you, our readers, thank you.

Bhagat Nainani is currently Vice President of Product Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware and is responsible for product development and strategy for Business Process Management, Event Processing, and User Productivity Kit products. Over the past 18 years, he has held various technical leadership roles in database transaction processing, messaging, and middleware product groups at Oracle. He has extensive experience with SOA, process management, distributed systems, and EAI technologies. He has also contributed to many industry standards and holds patents in distributed systems.

Bhagat holds a BS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi (India), a MS in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley.

Prasen Palvankar has over 25 years of experience in information technology and is currently working as a Director of Product Management at Oracle. He is responsible for outbound SOA Suite and BPM Suite product-related activities such as providing strategic support and architectural and design consultation to Oracle's SOA Suite and BPM Suite current and prospective customers. His responsibilities also include field and partner enablement, and creating and rolling out advanced deep-dive training workshops. Prasen joined Oracle in 1998 and worked as a Technical Director in the Advanced Technology Solutions group in Oracle Consulting delivering large-scale integration projects before taking on his current role as Product Management Director in 2005. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Prasen has co-authored books Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 A Hands-On Tutorial Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 A Hands-On Tutorial

Robert Patrick is a VP in Oracle's Fusion Middleware Development organization, responsible for a team of Solution Architects (known as the A-team) covering core middleware and integration technologies-related engagements. Robert has 19 years experience in the design and development of distributed systems, and he specializes in designing and troubleshooting large, high performance, mission-critical systems built with various middleware technologies. Prior to joining Oracle, Robert spent years working for BEA Systems (most recently as their Deputy CTO) where he spent most of his time advising Fortune 1000 companies how to best apply middleware technology to solve their business problems. He has written papers, magazine articles, and was one of the co-authors of Professional Oracle WebLogicServer (Wrox, 2009) and Mastering BEAWebLogic Server (Wiley, 2003) as well as sp at various industry conferences.

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