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Whether you're just exploring or actually getting started with using IBM® business process management software, you've come to the right place. This page, part of the developerWorks BPM zone, provides an overview of the IBM BPM family of products and points you to a wealth of resources to help you learn more about the specific areas of interest to you and your business.
What is BPM?
Business process management is all about collaborating between business and IT to build better processes to increase business agility and improve customer satisfaction. With IBM BPM solutions, you can optimize business performance by documenting, deploying and continuously improving end-to-end business processes.
To get started with BPM, you need to focus on delivering business value. Take an incremental approach that allows you to quickly prove value with a single project, build competency and skills, and extend across the enterprise. One particularly effective approach to BPM adoption is the Center of Excellence (COE) approach.
Business process
management roadmap
IBM BPM has four focus areas: business monitor, process automation, decision management, and process discovery and design, includes the following key products:
- IBM Business Process Manager is a comprehensive BPM platform that gives you visibility and insight to manage your business processes. It scales smoothly and easily from an initial project to a full enterprise-wide program. Read articles and tutorials on IBM Business Process Manager for both business and technical users.
- IBM Business Process Manager Industry Packs are a set of prebuilt assets to help accelerate delivery of standards-based industry solutions for banking, healthcare, and telecommunications with BPM.
- IBM Business Monitor provides end-to-end business process and activity monitoring along with dashboards representing insight that can be used in process optimization. Read articles about IBM Business Monitor for both business and technical users.
- IBM Case Manager unites information, process, and people to provide a 360-degree view of case information and achieve optimized outcomes.
- Blueworks Live is a cloud-based BPM tool that enables collaboration and process automation. Read articles about Blueworks Live.
- WebSphere Business Events helps businesses detect, evaluate, and respond to the impact of business events based on the discovery of actionable event patterns. Read articles about WebSphere Business Events.
- WebSphere Business Modeler offers process modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities to help business users understand, document, and deploy business processes. Read articles about WebSphere Business Modeler.
For resources on IBM business process management for both business and IT users, see the developerWorks Business process management zone.
The quarterly IBM BPM Journal is another great source for BPM articles and columns.
Business rules management systems
IBM business rules management systems (BRMS) are a key component of BPM. They provide easy, safe, reliable control over automated decisions used by business systems. IBM BRMS includes the following products:
- WebSphere Operational Decision Management consists of
two component sets, which form a comprehensive platform for
managing and executing business rules and business events:
- WebSphere Decision Center provides an integrated repository and management components for line-of-business subject matter experts to directly participate in the governance of business rule and business event-based decision logic.
- WebSphere Decision Server provides the runtime components to automate decision logic, enabling the detection of actionable business situations and the response of precise decisions based on the specific context of an interaction.
- WebSphere ILOG Rules for .NET BRMS provides functionality to build and deploy rule-based applications for .NET and SOA-based environments.
- WebSphere ILOG Business Rules for z/OS facilitates the ability to move from manually coding rules to service-based rule execution as part of a progressive application modernization strategy.
Improve your skills
- Training from WebSphere Education includes BPM classroom courses, online education, and self-study materials.
- Find out more about how to get BPM professional certification from WebSphere Education.
How can I learn more about BPM?
Bookmark and visit the developerWorks BPM site to learn more about the IBM Business Process Management platform and tools, whether you're a just beginning your BPM journey or are already an expert. This site is updated every week with the latest BPM-related events, product announcements, articles, tutorials, trial downloads, and more.
Additional information
IBM Redbooks
IBM Redbooks typically provide positioning and value
guidance, installation and implementation experiences,
typical solution scenarios, and step-by-step "how-to"
guidelines. They often include sample code and other
support materials that are also available as downloads
from this site.
IBM Press
IBM Press books address the wide range of WebSphere
products and services, architectures, and business
solutions. With books designed to help users prepare for
WebSphere certifications, master the implementation and
support of a diverse range of WebSphere products and
solutions, and educate business leaders.
