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| AquaLogic Interaction Process' New Features BEA Systems, Inc. has announced added capabilities to AquaLogic Interaction Process designed to help companies increase business value in a service-oriented architecture environment. Many portal products today support workflow; few, however, are taking steps toward holistic, collaborative business process orchestration. Developed to create business processes and workflows readily exposed to broad user audiences, through a portal environment, the new release of BEA AquaLogic Interaction Process is designed to add innovative collaboration technology that can coordinate human-focused activities, collaboration between users, and systems integration within the context of enterprise business processes. As a result, customers using the product, such as Mercy Health Services and Provider Healthnet Services can be better able to respond to changing business environments and increase operational efficiencies. As a core product within the BEA AquaLogic User Interaction product line, AquaLogic Interaction Process is designed to speed the modeling, deployment and monitoring of business processes that are collaborative by nature. Business analysts can design processes spanning multiple roles and systems using an intuitive graphical, drag-and-drop tool. They can also test and tune processes in real-world simulations and deploy them within a composite application. Through the product's extensibility features, developers can integrate a multitude of services from their service network, including .NET and Java objects, SQL databases and messaging systems. In version 1.5, AquaLogic Interaction Process is tightly integrated with AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration, and can allow users to share and manage documents and project information, engage in online discussions and coordinate through notifications and synchronized calendars, all within the context of enterprise business processes. Through this integration, companies can deploy business processes that involve multiple process participants across internal or external boundaries who need to collaborate on documents during the process lifecycle. In addition to collaboration integration, new pre-built portlets can allow process participants to track their task lists; quickly initiate processes; navigate and search processes; and manage notifications and alerts on activities a process may require. Additionally, AquaLogic Interaction Process 1.5 can leverage the security framework and developer tools provided by AquaLogic Interaction, helping to eliminate the need to maintain process-specific users and groups and providing advanced integration features across the entire AquaLogic User Interaction product line. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |