Oracle BPM Suite

Score8.5 out of 10

146 Reviews and Ratings

What is Oracle BPM Suite?

The Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.

Categories & Use Cases

Business Process Management (BPM)

Business rules engine
Business rules engine allows non developers to change business logic in a model
Category average: 8
Process designer
Web-based tool for creating and customizing web process models
Category average: 8.5
SOA support
Support for reusable services to be built into process design
Category average: 7.5

Custom reports
Users can create custom reports.
Category average: 7.9
Social collaboration tools
Social tools for discussion threads, wikis, enabling decision making
Category average: 8.4
Form builder
Integrated form design tool
Category average: 8.8

Cristian Bodnarasec View profile

Senior Software Development Manager in Information Technology at eSilicon (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

Modeling business processes - it is providing an interface where users can drag and drop many kinds of shapes to build a business process.
HumanTask - I consider this as being the key strength of Oracle BPM. It allows you to create approval flows in different ways and it manages the long-running processes (while waiting for people to interact with the flow).
The user-interface for user tasks - it is one place where you can see all tasks and their progress. Admins can see and interact with other people's tasks.

Cons

Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.

Return on Investment

When we moved to Oracle BPM many years ago, it was a huge uplift for our business processes because we didn't have any tool to model flows except Outlook and Excel.
We established and streamlined the manufacturing workflows that were needed with the growth of the business.
We discovered after a while that the ROI was not great since along with the cost of the tools, we had to account the cost of development from the software team too. It took a lot of time to deliver our first automations due to the big learning curve needed for Oracle BPM.

Alternatives Considered

Dell Boomi

Other Software Used

NetSuite CRM+, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle BPM Suite is part of [the] Oracle Middleware Suite. We have [an] extensive license with Oracle. We use Oracle BPM as a front end technology. BPM is set up to cater to our business processes. We have multiple BPM workflows running as a part of our sales ecosystem. Oracle BPM [Suite] is a[n] advance[d] technology from Oracle. Development is not easy. Development requires knowledge of Multiple Oracle Technologies. UI is not easy with Oracle BPM.

Pros

Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.

Cons

Oracle BPM has a difficult UI to work with.
Oracle BPM have limited scope of using REST API based operation
SOA Workflows are difficult to understand

Return on Investment

Oracle BPM has been successfully utilized to automate several manual processes.
Oracle BPM is well integrated with WebLogic. Easy to work with BPM and Weblogic.
Simple Process forms can be easily created. Responsive UI is difficult to manage.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle WebLogic Application Server and Oracle Database

Other Software Used

Bonita Platform, Oracle Database

Miguel Angel Merino Vega View profile

Analista de Sistemas in Information Technology at Consultor independiente de software (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

Business flows under the BPMN 2 notation.
Real-time Analytics
Import flows from Oracle databases

Cons

Internal documentation
The price may be higher than other similar tools
Lack of support to import from non-Oracle databases

Return on Investment

Documenting a flow to a client allows communicating the intention of a development and thereby minimizing changes that could delay the calendar.
Simulating macro processes allows you to visualize at an early stage the figures of a project in order to better manage resources.

Alternatives Considered

Bizagi and IBM Rational RequisitePro

Other Software Used

Bizagi Digital Business Platform, IBM Rational RequisitePro

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

It can easily integrate with other Oracle products and even 3rd party software via adapters
It scales quite well and can handle the biggest enterprise level solutions we throw at it
The ability to use previous requirements as templates is invaluable

Cons

Again, it takes a decent amount of IT knowledge to realize the full potential of the Oracle BPM Suite
It can tend to feel sluggish unless you slightly exceed the minimum system requirements
There are so many features that it can be difficult to know which ones to use and which ones not to use in a given situation

Return on Investment

It has allowed us to pinpoint bottlenecks within our organization, thereby enabling us to streamline and improve the overall business process.
Allows us to rapidly prototype processes for the end user who can visually evaluate and approve them.
We had to invest a little more into upgrading our existing hardware than was initially projected, but the performance benefits outweighed the overage.

Alternatives Considered

camunda BPM, K2, BMC Release Process Management and Bonita BPM

Other Software Used

GrabCAD Workbench, dbForge Studio for Oracle, AITalent LMS

Galen Mosier View profile

Business Analyst in Human Resources at Dallas Independent School District (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

Oracle BPM is particularly strong at drawing and modeling business processes with drag-and-drop tools

Cons

It's a very complex piece of software and documentation is poor. Examples and explanations appear to be non-existent.

Return on Investment

We've been able to successfully model and implement a process to automate the flow of documents and signatures required to justify the movements of positions, a process that had become increasingly complex, requiring ten signatures in a specific order depending on various conditions. The solution will save us at least one full-time employee and a still unknown but significant amount of time, as well as drastically reducing the potential for error.

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Business rules engine

Process designer

SOA support

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Custom reports

Social collaboration tools

Form builder

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