Price of BPA Suite to Individual Developer

Hello,
I am a new JDeveloper user and would like to work on adding BPMN and BPEL to my personal skill set. I was just getting ready to install the BPA Suite when I noticed that there is a 90 time limit on the developer version. I was wondering if anyone could give me a "ballpark estimate" as to the price of the BPA Suite if I want to just use it on a single box for my own personal use.
Thanks,
Bob Scott

Hi,
most of it can be done with the actual demo version. You can:
- design you processes (I would recommend the diagram types Value Chain Diagram and EPC + Functional Allocation Diagrams)
- to link them together on a horizontal level use the "Process Interface" Object within the EPC
- to link them together on a vertical level use the assignment functionality
- to express stakeholders first create an organizational chart diagram as library and then reuse the objects of this library within the dynamic models (Value Chain, EPC and FAD)
Regarding the review, the demo does not provide the publishing component yet. So it is not possible to create a web like export out of your model.
Two possible workarounds
a) Install the BPA suite for everyone who should review the output. Then you can use the build in "review function" of the BPA. This is a nice feature to give feedback on diagrams
b) Create printed output. Due to the fact that the BPA is only delivered with standard reports the look and feel is mostly not usable for management purposes. So you might have the need to develop your own report (possible with the demo version but you need BPA scripting know how)
Dirk
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I need to understand the concept of the tool and any structure that exists for integration.
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Hi,
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- design you processes (I would recommend the diagram types Value Chain Diagram and EPC + Functional Allocation Diagrams)
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Dirk
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DirkStaehler

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Hi,
Hi,
HR reporting field is so vast i'm sending u all relevant table names u can check in these tables:
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DD02L SAP tables
DD03L Table Fields
DD03T DD: Texts for fields (language dependent)
DD04L Data elements
DD04T R/3 DD: Data element texts
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T001 Company Codes
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T012 House banks
T012K House bank accounts
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T500L Personnel Country Grouping
T500P Personnel Areas
T500T Personnel Country Groupings
T501 Employee Group
T501T Employee Group Names
T502T Marital Status Designators
T503 Employee Groups / Subgroups
T503K Employee subgroup
T503T Employee Subgroup Names
T504A Benefits - Default Values (NA)
T504B Benefit Option Texts (North America)
T504C Benefit Type (NA)
T504D Benefit Credit Group Amount
T504E Benefit Amount
T504F Benefit Costs
T508A Work Schedule Rules
T508T Texts for Employee Subgroup Groupings for Work Schedules
T510 Pay Scale Groups
T510A Pay Scale Types
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T510H Payroll Constants with Regard to Time Unit
T510I Standard Working Hours
T510J Constant Valuations
T510L Levels
T510M Valuation of pay scale groups acc. to hiring date
T510N Pay Scales for Annual Salaries (NA)
T510S Time Wage Type Selection Rule
T510U Pay Scale Groups
T510Y Special Rules for Wage Type Generation
T511 Wage Types
T512R Cumulation Wage Types in Forms
T512S Texts for Cumulation Wage Types in Forms
T512T Wage Type Texts
T512W Wage Type Valuation
T512Z Permissibility of Wage Types per Infotype
T513 Jobs
T514S Table Name Texts
T514T Field Name Texts
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T51D3 Reduction Rules
T51D4 Cumulation Rules
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T52C1 Payroll Schemas
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T52C3 Texts for Personnel Calculation Schemas
T52C5 Personnel Calculation Rules
T52CC Schema Directory
T52CD Schema Directory
T52CE Directory of Personnel Calculation Rules
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T52D2 Valid Values for Processing Classes
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T52D4 Permitted Values for Evaluation Classes
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T52D6 Wage Type Group Texts
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T530E Reasons for Changes
T530F Reasons for Changes
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T531S Deadline Type Texts
T533 Leave Types
T533T Leave Type Texts
T539A Default Wage Types for Basic Pay
T539J Base Wage Type Valuation
T539R Events for Standard Wage Maintenance
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T548 Date Types
T548S Date Conversion
T548T Date Types
T548Y Date Types
T549A Payroll Areas
T549B Company Features
T549C Decision Trees for Features (Customers)
T549D Feature Directory
T549L Date modifiers
T549M Monthly Assignment: Payroll Period
T549N Period Modifiers
T549O Text for date modifier
T549P Valid Time Units for Payroll Accounting
T549Q Payroll Periods
T549R Period Parameters
T549S Payroll date types
T549T Payroll Areas
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T549N Period Modifiers
T549O Text for date modifier
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T549R Period Parameters
T549S Payroll date types
T549T Payroll Areas
T554S Absence and Attendance Types
T554T Absence and Attendance Texts
T554V Defaults for Absence Types
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T555A Time Types
T555B Time Type Designations
T559A Working Weeks
T559B Name of Working Week
T572F Event Texts
T572G Allowed Values for Events
T572H Event Value Texts
T582A Infotypes
T582B Infotypes Which Are Created Automatically
T582S Infotype Texts
T582V Assignment of Infotypes to Views
T582W Assigns Infotype View to Primary Infotype
T582Z Control Table for PA Time Management
T584A Checking Procedures - Infotype Assignment
T588A Transaction Codes
T588B Infotype Menus
T588C Infotype Menus/Info Groups
T588D Infogroups for Events
T588J Screen Header Definition
T588M Infotype Screen Control
T588N Screen Modification for Account Assignment Block
T588O Screen Modification for Assignment Data
T588Q Screen types for fast entry
T588R Selection Reports for Fast Data Entry
T588S Screen Types for Fast Entry
T588T Menu and Infogroup Designations
T588V Business object type
T588W Event types for infotype operations
T588X Cust. composite definition of event types for IT operations
T588Z Dynamic Events
T591A Subtype Characteristics
T591B Time Constraints for Wage Types
T591S Subtype Texts
T596F HR Subroutines
T596G Cumulation wage types
T596H _Cumulation wage type texts
T596I Calculation rule for cumulation wage types
T596U Conversion Table
T599B Report Classes
T599C Report Classes
T599D Report Categories
T599F Report Classes - Select Options
T777A Building Addresses
T777T Infotypes
T777Z Infotype Time Constraints
T778T Infotypes
T778U Subtypes
Error Messages tables
T100 Messages
T100A Message IDs for T100
T100C Control of messages by the user
T100O Assignment of message to object
T100S Configurable system messages
T100T Table T100A text
T100V Assignment of messages to tables/views
T100W Assign Messages to Workflow
T100X Error Messages: Supplements
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Edited by: Abhishek Ojha on Feb 20, 2008 2:48 PM

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Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-10-16 07:58:21 -0700 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
Modifying ant build.xml to allow for a local.properties for individual developer build config. Also moving ja_JP locale to the other.locales target (this is called during build machine packaging and isn't needed by dev by default).
QE: No
Doc: No
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flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/airframework/build.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/build.xml
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BPA Suite 11g Installation halts at Step 10

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