Oracles BPM product portfolio, which now includes IDS Scheers ARIS Platform, is designed to support a customers entire business process lifecycle, ranging from modelling and simulation to deployment and optimisation across heterogeneous IT systems.

The agreement includes plans for Oracle to offer the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, which is powered by IDS Scheers ARIS Platform. Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite is designed to complement Oracles existing standards-based BPM products, including Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPEL Process Manager, and to be deployed with Oracle and non-Oracle applications to provide business analysts and architects with business process modelling, simulation and publishing capabilities.

Additionally, Oracle says that its Business Process Analysis Suite and BPEL Process Manager have been optimised to work with Oracles packaged applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracles PeopleSoft Enterprise and Siebel applications, and will be used to model and execute business processes for Oracle Fusion Applications.
 
According to the companies, standards-based, BPM technologies allow organisations to build, adapt and optimise business processes to help increase their competitive advantage, meet regulatory compliance requirements and improve operational efficiencies.

Oracle and IDS Scheer say that their complementary technologies will help customers to better understand, document and rapidly modify these processes to meet changing business needs and IT requirements. Specifically, these capabilities aim to enable closed-loop process automation and optimisation via shared metadata and unified repository, so that changes made at the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) layer will be reflected back at the process design and modelling layer and vice versa.