Tools
In as much as EA is about simplifying, streamlining and consolidating business processes, pre-built business processes can be very useful to lower the barriers to adoption of BPM-thinking. That is to say, having the architecture and Business/IT allignment where the question asked is NOT “gosh, should we automate these new processes or reengineer some of these old manual-intensive processes?” Hence, a shamless, but worthwhile plug for BPM Process Accelerators (or PA’s for short) that were just recently announced. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bpm/learnmore/processaccelerators-1609559.html
The first two are out with others on their way:
Travel Request Management (TRM) User Guide UPK (PDF)
Document Routing & Approval (DRA) User Guide UPK (PDF)
