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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Master Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11gWritten by Oracle business process management experts, Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Handbook is a balanced combination of essential BPM concepts, best practices, and a detailed treatment of all the powerful features and functionalities of Oracle BPM Suite 11g. The book explains how to plan, develop, and deploy process-based business applications and enable enterprise-wide continuous process improvement. Implement successful BPM projects with help from this Oracle Press guide. Understand the architecture and functionalities of Oracle BPM Suite 11g Master BPMN 2.0 for business process modeling and implementation Address agility, business control, and transparency requirements with Oracle Business Rules 11g Develop rich interfaces with Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) Work with the human task component of Oracle BPM 11g Plan a BPM initiative using the Oracle roadmap approach Apply the Oracle process engineering method to identify, select, define, and refine appropriate processes Implement a business process application using proven technical design and project delivery strategies

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Extend and Customize Oracle E-Business Suite Transform your Oracle E-Business Suite infrastructure to suit enterprise requirements using the comprehensive development methods in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle E-Business Suite Development & Extensibility Handbook lays out each tool alongside reusable code and step-by-step examples. Learn how to create multiorg objects, integrate Java and PL/SQL, design custom user interfaces, and use Oracle Application Framework and Oracle Workflow. This detailed volume also explains how to work with Oracle XML Gateway, publish dynamic business intelligence reports, and tune your configuration. Manage an efficient development platform with Oracle Application Object Library Develop concurrent programs, customized forms, and personalized graphical user interfaces Securely share data between organizations Distribute business communiques through Oracle Reports and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Develop Java extensions with Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Framework Capture and graphically map business processes using Oracle Workflow Exchange data between applications via Oracle XML Gateway Change the appearance of applications using Custom Look and Feel Integrate Oracle E-Business Suite with service-oriented architecture using Oracle Applications Adapter On Demand

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. The only book to cover and compare Oracle's online analytic processing products With the acquisition of Hyperion Systems in 2007, Oracle finds itself owning the two most capable OLAP products on the market--Essbase and the OLAP Option to the Oracle Database. Written by the most knowledgeable experts on both Essbase and Oracle OLAP, this Oracle Press guide explains how these products are similar and how they differ. Oracle Essbase & Oracle OLAP will help you architect the Oracle OLAP product that is most appropriate for your application, and build, tune, and maintain OLAP solutions.

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