Getting started with Oracle BPM Suite11gR1 - A hands-On Tutorial

Just completed reading Book "Getting started with Oracle BPM Suite11gR1 - A hands-On Tutorial "

Excellent Book. Precise and to the point. Highly recommended for business process architects and process developers to get basic understanding of using Oracle BPM Suite and create models. Articulates the concepts of BPM, BPEL and BPMN very well.

Book explaines how to install BPM Suite 11gR1 and create modeling using BPMN 2.0 with process organization model, process composer, human task pattern etc. I like the chapter about administering the BPM environment as the content includes actual screen shots for reference.

Excellent job by authers! I would like to get more details about how to attach external businss rules engines with BPM Suite as the current rule engine do not have a web interface to edit the rules.

Also I am really interested to know about the the future road map of BPMN products. How about the ARIS tool (Business process architect and process) ? Some of the SOA products from Oracle offer similer functionalities. Service bus, SOA Suite (BPEL Engine, Mediator and routing), BPM Suite (Modeling)...

Product map and functinalities are getting crowded :)  

IT Process and Monitoing Tools

ITIL: Information Technology Infrastrastructure Library. People, process, technology

SPICE - Software Process Improvement Capability Determination.

Monitoring tools from CA:
CEM - End to end monitoing(customer Experience) - covers router,firewall and loadbalancer
Introscope - Availability, performance,failed transactions,portals,errors
Powerpacks - Plugin in to the introscope.

Wily Introscope Architecture: (Infact this is the architecture for all monitoring tools from all vendors :) 

Work station/command console - Enterprise Manager(Database that store all information collected from Agents) - Agents (deployed in JVMs)

Can add cluster - Use EM Collectors for Enterprise Manager(EM) MOM.

Probe builder (instrumentation) - .pbd file inserts probes in to Java classes.
Use realms.xml to modify the roles for LDAP.

Performance Basics:

Throughput - Number of requests completed during a period of time. Responses per interval
Response - Average amount of time in milliseconds it takes to complete a request during a period of time. ms
Load - Number of requests at the end of time interval that have not yet completed.
Stalls - Invokations that have not yet completed withing default (30sec) time.

Cloud

Which vendor provide the following to create a private cloud infrastructure ?

1. Server, storage and network virtualization
2. Resource automation and orchestration(coordinated delivery)

The key sucessfactor is to limit the tools and implement automations from begin to end of infrastructure life cycle.

What are the resources ?

1. Server
2. Storage
3. Network.

Treat all the IT resources as a single pool. Use it as needed, add additional resources as needed, remove resources when not needed.