The U.S. city of Las Vegas, Nevada has worked with Innowave Technology LLC in introducing Oracle BPEL Process Manager to integrate various applications and business processes. The city had previously installed the Oracle E-Business Suite to improve financial and human resources management. The BPEL Process Manager was recently used to streamline business processes at the city’s Water Pollution Control Facility.

A major project included upgrading a computerized application that monitors all the plant’s equipment and city sewers. Computers and software at the monitoring sites — and the networks they run on — also were upgraded.

In addition, the water-testing lab and the section in charge of preventive maintenance and work orders needed new software.

The final piece of the project was integrating those systems and databases, Dues said. “Not only did we need to make sure that all those applications could talk to each other and share information, but they also had to integrate back to the city’s Oracle E-Business suite.”

Automated approach
To achieve that goal, city officials focused on SOA and Oracle’s Fusion Middleware. SOA is designed to make it easy to integrate systems via a common architecture.

In many cases, organizations use Oracle’s Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) to automate workflows, so besides the technology shift, there’s also a cultural impact, said Peter Doolan, Oracle Corp.’s vice president of sales consulting for the public sector.

Read the complete article by Doug Beizer in Washington Technology.