About the Authors

Mark Nelson is a Consulting Solution Architect in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Architect's Team (known within the Oracle community as "the A-Team") in Oracle Development. Mark spends a significant part of his time working with Oracle BPM Suite users around the world. His other main area of technical interest currently is Continuous Integration and its application to Oracle Fusion Middleware. Mark is one of the question authors for the Oracle SOA Certification Exam. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Tanya Williams is a Principal Solution Consultant in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales Consulting team in Australia. Tanya has experience helping organizations understand Oracle's products, map the product capabilities to their business needs, develop demonstrations and proofs of concept, and giving advice and guidance on adoption of Oracle products. Tanya spends much of her time working with Oracle BPM Suite and how to use Oracle BPM Suite, SOA Suite and Service Bus to integrate with Oracle applications like E-Business Suite. Tanya has presented and run hands-on labs at Oracle OpenWorld. Tanya lives in Sydney, Australia.

Tanya and Mark contribute to the popular "RedStack" blog at http://redstack.wordpress.com, and have both presented at a number of Oracle OpenWorld and various regional Oracle User Group events.

Mark and Tanya would like to thank many people for their support in making this book a reality:



Stephanie, Meeta, Theresa, and all of the team at Packt Publishing for their help and support throughout this project.



Robert, Bhagat, and Prasen for their time, dedication, attention 
to detail, and detailed suggestions and comments.



Our respective management and colleagues for their support of 
this project.



All of the BPM development and product management team 
for their great work designing, building, and supporting Oracle 
BPM Suite.



And you, our readers, thank you.