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Introduction Oracle announced its new BPM 11.1.1.7 produkt. I found it interested that also (Adaptive) Case Management was added and i was curious what the difference is between the Oracle and Cordys approach w.r.t. Case Management. In this Blog item i will discuss some of the the differences and resemblance. Adapative Case Management Both Cordys and Oracle agree on the fact that there are processes that are not defined ahead and a knowledge worker can define the path as the case progresses. So that's good news. Also both in Oracle and Cordys the case management and normal BPMN processes can be mixed. Case Modelling  Oracle Users can define a Case and associate it with a set of Case Activities. In addition to Case activities, the Case definition consists of case data, case documents, case rules, case events, case milestones, case stakeholders, and case outcomes. The progression of a case is indicated via case milestones. A case milestone signifies completion ...

Like to pose some  misunderstandings about BPM. Maybe some BPM tool vendors will disagree and also some BPM consultancy firms, but then again this is my own humble opinion. Feel free to react, add your own, discuss. Lets begin with a delicate one. BPM makes my organisation flexible A lot of people will say that BPM makes your organization flexible. It can be the case but then there must hold a couple of pre-conditions: You must know where you want flexibility In this case you have to know the future and you do not know it. You must have a good IT SOA architecture This is needed to be flexible to define your processes. Using Services will enable reuse and consistency throughout the architecture It is only design time flexibility The statement that the business can change the process on the fly is mostly false. I have not seen it yet and is probably only a couple of configurations that can be changed so that parameters within the process are changed. This way you can steer...