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Rubik's Cubes and life on the edge! What do these have to do with BPM and SOA? Regular columnists Scott Simmons and Claus Jensen will answer these questions and more in this edition of the IBM BPM Journal. You'll also find out how to determine the best strategy for managing reference data in a BRMS, how to use dynamic domains for easy, accurate rule authoring in IBM ODM, how to enable BPM widgets to run in a WebSphere Portal environment, how to integrate WebSphere eXtreme Scale and IBM BPM for improved performance and high availability, and lots more.
We hope you find what you're looking for in this issue of the BPM Journal. If you have any questions or suggestions for future topics, please contact the editor, Christine (Chris) Rothemich. We'd love to hear from you!
Top story
Strategies for managing reference data in a business rules application using IBM Operational Decision Manager
by Jerome Boyer and Zhuo (Joe)
Fu
This article covers common
strategies for reference data management in rule
authoring and rule execution when using IBM
Operational Decision Manager. It describes the
advantages and disadvantages to each approach to
help you determine the best approach to use for
your business rule application.
BPM Voices
Evaluating BPM applications: BPM design reviews and Rubik's Cubes
by Scott Simmons"I can hear you what you're saying loud and clear -- BPM reviews and Rubik's Cubes? What's next, PacMan and Facebook? You're undoubtedly asking, 'Scott, what is the relationship between BPM design reviews and Rubik's Cubes?' Well, let me first provide some background..."
Insight at the edge
by Claus Jensen"In the world of mobile, cloud and APIs, how do you assert control at the edge of the enterprise, the boundary between the unpredictable external environment and the internal managed systems? And, perhaps even more importantly, how do you gain insight into customer behavior and preferences so that you can advance the customer relationship with every action you take?..."
In this issue
Integrating IBM Business Process Manager with WebSphere eXtreme Scale for high availability and security
by Andrew Howes and Phillip
Norton
WebSphere eXtreme Scale
enables the caching of large amounts of data
to help improve performance when using
services. This article describes how to
integrate eXtreme Scale into IBM BPM
mediation flows, so that eXtreme Scale can
benefit from the high availability and
security infrastructure provided by WebSphere
Application Server which underpins BPM, and
IBM BPM can improve performance.
Configuring IBM Business Process Management Human Task Management widgets for use in WebSphere Portal
by Andreas Schuetz and Elke
Painke
The Human Task Management
widgets in IBM Business Process Manager V7.5
are designed to run in a Business Space
environment, but they can also be run in IBM
WebSphere Portal V7. This article describes
how to install, configure, and customize
these widgets in a Portal environment. This
enables you to build a unified environment of
portlets and widgets within a single web
portal page, so that you can run BPM
processes and tasks in your portal pages.
Using dynamic domains for flexible rule authoring in WebSphere Operational Decision Management
by Rajesh Rao and Catherine
Rivi
Ensuring rule accuracy is an
important part of rule development in
WebSphere Operational Decision Management
V7.5. This article demonstrates how a dynamic
domain populated from a Microsoft Excel file
can be used to reduce inaccuracies when
authoring rules. Using domains also
eliminates dependencies on IT support for
code changes because business users can
extend the set of values in the domain by
simple edits to the spreadsheet in the
Decision Center. Further, because adding a
domain value does not result in changes to
service contracts, redeployment of rule
services is not necessary
How to secure a hosted transparent decision service in IBM Operational Decision Management
by Tamer Nassar, Murali
Vridhachalam, and Zhi Yong Mao
This article explores one of the techniques
you can use to secure a hosted transparent
decision service in IBM Operational Decision
Manager. Authentication and authorization are
often required in a production environment.
In this article, you'll learn how to
configure a hosted transparent decision
service to connect to LDAP for
authentication, as well as define additional
code to validate whether the calling user ID
is authorized to invoke the rule project.
Implementing a negotiation process in IBM Business Process Manager using web services
by Jawahar Husain and Gowdhaman
Jayaseelan
This article
describes using the undercover agent (UCA),
handlers and web services in IBM Business
Process Manager to implement a negotiation
process with an external system. The BPM
process will expose a web service that will
be invoked by another system. The negotiation
occurs until an approval or rejection
occurs.
BPM TV
Check out these educational and entertaining videos by IBM Software Services for WebSphere integration architect Brian Petrini.
Brian talks about the difference between BPM and SOA, and why they're best combined for a robust integration solution. He also talks about the difference between a business process and a service, and what scenarios lend themselves to using IBM BPM Advanced vs. IBM BPM Standard.
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The BPM Compendium: Everything you ever wanted to know about BPM
Brian describes the IBM BPM Compendium of Public Knowledge, a useful resource for anyone designing and building solutions using IBM Business Process Manager V7.5, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, and related products. It contains categorized links to publicly available content available for BPM.
Other recently published content of interest
Business Process Management with IBM Business Process Manager
BPM solutions enable an enterprise to choreograph processes and the process steps across disparate applications, people, and systems. In addition to reduced cost through continued process improvement and automation, BPM provides the foundation for converged and agile business and IT responsiveness. The benefits of implementing BPM solutions using IBM Business Process Manager are presented in this IBM Redbooks Solution Guide.
IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management V8.0 Performance Tuning Guide
WebSphere Operational Decision Management (WODM) V8.0. is a family of products used by IT and Business users to create and manage business decision logic used throughout their organization. This book offers advice on all aspects of performance, including hardware, architecture, authoring, quality of service, monitoring and tuning. The advice is based upon preferred practices and experience gained from real customer situations.
Building an Application with Decisions, Processes, and Insight: An IBM Redbooks Solution Guide
In today's fast-paced business climate, companies must make quick decisions to win new business, maintain existing relationships, and build on the trust and goodwill earned over time. However, because of the complexity of existing business logic, adjusting or improving applications takes careful planning and time to implement any needed changes effectively. An integrated sense-and-respond solution provides awareness through events, direction through decisions, actions through processes, and insight through analysis. As described in this IBM Redbooks Solution Guide, this simplified solution demonstrates how you can structure advanced applications around business process management concepts and methodologies to provide decision-making capabilities that are based on real-time data analysis.
Creating a BPM Center of Excellence (COE)
This IBM Redpaper seeks to eliminate the uncertainty organizations face in this next generation of BPM--maturing beyond the success of BPM projects. The goals and concepts of dozens of mature BPM organizations have been consolidated and categorized to provide you with clear mandates, with hope that this clarity will provide purpose, and that this purpose will drive excellence.
Business process optimization series
This series explores commonly held concepts behind business performance and agility, and illustrates at a practical level how to extend these into new and innovative ways of measuring, achieving and sustaining business performance through business agility. The business process optimization (BPO) method described provides a means of combining various technological innovations in the context of a business-centric view that affords increased agility to achieve business outcomes.
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