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A word from the editor:
The Spring 2013 edition of the BPM Journal is full of in-depth information on BPM and ODM. You can get an expert perspective on business modeling and process decomposition to improve your business operations, and step through an invoice processing example that illustrates how IBM BPM Standard can choreograph complex activities in a real-world solution. If your interest is decision management, you'll learn about the ODM golden topology and a new Rule Governance design pattern that can help you improve your ODM governance. Finally, this edition has some useful information on migrating process instances in IBM BPM V8, as well as maintaining continuous availability during WebSphere Process Server updates.
We hope you find lots of useful information 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
Get more value out of your business process by adopting a holistic perspective of business modeling
by Carlo Marcoli
This article
presents a multi-dimensional approach to
developing of an organic business process
architecture. It covers the scoping of a modeling
initiative as well as techniques for business
decomposition and process definition. It goes
beyond the basic concepts of hierarchical process
decomposition and shows how analyzing processes in
terms of a key set of business dimensions
including ownership, value and information
improves process standardisation and lowers the
level of complexity across business operations. It
is aimed at business leaders, architects and
analysts engaged in BPMS initiatives.
In this issue
Implementing advanced rule governance in IBM Operational Decision Management
by Nigel Crowther
This article
introduces a rule-based Rule Governance
design pattern. The design pattern can be
applied to all versions of IBM Operational
Decision Management to improve the agility
and strength of Decision Center governance.
You can build your own implementation based
on this pattern, or you can contact the
author for details on obtaining the IBM Rule
Governance Asset.
Installing and configuring an IBM Operational Decision Management golden topology
by Pierre Feillet, James Withers,
and Jose De Freitas
Learn how
to choose and configure deployment topologies
for IBM Operational Decision Management (IBM
ODM) in distributed environments. This
article explains the essential concepts
needed to understand highly available and
scalable WebSphere Application Server Network
Deployment environments, then introduces the
IBM ODM server components and explains the
characteristics or constraints of those
components that affect deployment
decisions
Case study: Invoice processing with IBM Business Process Manager, Part 1: The business context and process model
by Scott Glen
This two-part
article provides a case study of a real-world
IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.1 invoice
processing solution, using web services and
Java integration to automate a process
spanning multiple vendors and operational
systems. Part 1 describes the business
problem and the process and associated data
structures used in the solution.
Case study: Invoice processing with IBM Business Process Manager, Part 2: System integration
by Scott Glen
Part 2
focuses on the Java and web service
integration, and user interface and image
manipulation techniques involved in the
solution.
Approaching continuous availability in WebSphere Process Server V7
by Jacob Stoeffler and Eric
Herness
This article provides
background, insights, and a pragmatic set of
techniques for installing application updates
and product fix packs in WebSphere Process
Server V7.0 environments where continuous
availability is desired.
Migrating process instances in IBM Business Process Manager V8
by Ernese Norelus, Prashant Atgur,
Leonard Blunt, and Harish
Durgaiah
When upgrading process
applications which have long-running
processes, the impact and how to manage old
versions of the process that are already
started. This article looks at the migration
options available in IBM Business Process
Manager V8, and specifically focuses on the
in-flight migration option. It also describes
what to do when a running process is migrated
and steps are left dangling or
"orphaned."
BPM TV
Check out these educational and entertaining videos by IBM Business Process Manager Product Manager and former services 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
Operational Decision Management for Dummies
This book is written for readers who have varying levels of familiarity with ODM. It doesn't focus on any particular vendor’s offering; instead, it talks about the features of ODM as a model for managing operational decision-making. The focus of this book is on automated decisions that can be executed in real time in conjunction with your business applications and processes. (PDF)
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.
IBM Business Process Manager
Process and profit unite, IBM Business Process Manager helps companies boost productivity
