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| Get more value out of your business process by adopting a holistic
perspective on business modeling
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.
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22 May 2013 |
| Implementing advanced rule governance in IBM Operational Decision
Management
This article introduces an IBM ODM governance framework for advanced governance
solutions. It proposes a flexible alternative to the usual rule governance
implementation based on configurable Java business logic, as illustrated
by the rule governance product sample. We show that using rules rather
than Java to govern the change process improves the power and agility of
advanced governance within ODM.
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22 May 2013 |
| Installing and configuring an IBM Operational Decision Management golden
topology
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.
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22 May 2013 |
| Approaching continuous availability in WebSphere Process Server V7
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.
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22 May 2013 |
| Integrating a business process application in IBM Business Process Manager
V7.5.1 and V8 with an external system using the REST API
This article discusses integrating activities
with an external system using the REST API. IBM Business Process
Manager V7.5.1 and V8 support all the functionality provided by the
unsupported REST API available with WebSphere Lombardi Edition
V7.2.
Also available in:
Chinese
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01 May 2013 |
| Developing a transactional Advanced Integration Service with IBM
Business Process Manager, Part 4: Execution cases
In the final article in this series, you'll learn how to
execute and test different transactional scenarios with the components
designed and developed in the previous parts of this series, and will
learn about the
ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) characteristics of
the implemented solution.
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03 Apr 2013 |
| Designing and implementing a custom inbox and My Team Performance task list
with IBM Business Process Manager V8
This article describes an approach to create a custom inbox and My Team
Performance task list in IBM Business Process Manager V8. You can use the
implementation described in this article to perform additional inbox and task
list customizations.
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27 Mar 2013 |
| Developing a transactional Advanced Integration Service with IBM
Business Process Manager, Part 3: Implementing the Advanced Integration Service
Leveraging the capabilities of the Advanced Integration Services (AIS)
in IBM Business Process Manager V8 Advanced, this series describes how to
implement a distributed ACID transactional scenario in IBM Business Process
Manager that includes two databases on different machines. The scenario shows
the automatic rollback capabilities offered by the SCA-based management in an
AIS. Part 3 describes how to implement the AIS for the transaction.
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27 Mar 2013 |
| Integrating WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere MQ with IBM Integration Designer using a Service Integration Bus and MQ Link
This article describes an integration scenario involving WebSphere Message Broker V7, WebSphere MQ V7, and IBM Integration Designer V7.5.1, using an SIBus engine and MQ Link
to integrate different IBM products and different communication protocols.
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13 Mar 2013 |
| Using WebSphere Adapters with IBM Business Process Manager to communicate
with external systems
In this article, you'll learn how IBM Business Process Manager
uses WebSphere Adapters to connect to external systems, and how data flows
between external systems and the human tasks of IBM BPM. Using these
capabilities, you'll see how you can integrate your BPM applications with existing
systems.
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06 Mar 2013 |
| Developing a transactional Advanced Integration Service with IBM
Business Process Manager, Part 1: Introduction and setting up the databases
Leveraging the capabilities of the Advanced Integration
Services (AIS) in IBM Business Process Manager V8 Advanced, this series
describes how to implement a distributed ACID transactional scenario in IBM
Business Process Manager that includes two databases on different machines.
The scenario shows the automatic rollback capabilities offered by the
SCA-based management in an AIS.
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06 Mar 2013 |
| Case study: Invoice processing with IBM Business Process
Manager, Part 1: The business context and process model
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.
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28 Feb 2013 |
| BPM Voices: Insight at the edge
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?
Resolving such questions is dependent on "insight at the edge" - the idea
that by applying service-oriented principles to interactions between external
systems of engagement and internal systems of record, you not only protect
against undesired external influences, but can tap into the stream of
consciousness that already flows through the business.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Feb 2013 |
| Implementing a negotiation process in IBM Business Process Manager using
web services
Learn how to use 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 continues until an approval or rejection occurs.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Feb 2013 |
| Configuring IBM Business Process Management Human Task Management widgets
for use in WebSphere Portal
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.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Feb 2013 |
| How to secure a hosted transparent decision service in IBM Operational
Decision Management
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. 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.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Feb 2013 |
| Using dynamic domains for flexible rule authoring in WebSphere Operational
Decision Management
Ensuring rule accuracy is an important part of rule development in
WebSphere Operational Decision Management. 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.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Feb 2013 |
| Integrating IBM Business Process Manager with WebSphere eXtreme Scale for
high availability and security
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 Business Process Manager mediation flows,
to improve IBM BPM performance and to enable eXtreme Scale to leverage the
high availability and security infrastructure provided by WebSphere
Application Server, which underpins BPM.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Feb 2013 |
| BPM Voices: Evaluating BPM applications: BPM design reviews and Rubik's
Cubes
In this column, I'll focus on the objectives of
performing BPM design reviews, the key preparation steps for an effective
review, and an overview of the key dimensions to assess as part of a
BPM solution. I'll introduce the basic covenants for how
a BPM design review should be conducted and offer some suggestions on
where clients should focus in the process. In addition, we'll take a
direct look at the IBM BPM playback methodology, because I believe the
convergence of a design review strategy with IBM's playback approach is
related to developing optimized BPM solutions. So how does all this relate to
Rubik's Cubes? Read on...
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13 Feb 2013 |
| Some tips for IBM Business Monitor modeling and versioning
This article describes new modeling features since IBM Business Monitor
V7.5 and
some best practices for a successful production monitoring environment.
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30 Jan 2013 |
| Implementing user contexts across multiple WebSphere ESB mediation flows in
IBM Integration Designer
This article introduces the concept of user contexts and describes
how to implement them in WebSphere ESB flows. User contexts are the only method
for passing data that is not part of the message payload between multiple WebSphere ESB flows.
Also available in:
Chinese
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28 Nov 2012 |
| Importing WS-BPEL 2.0 process definitions
This article describes how to import WS-BPEL 2.0 process definitions
into IBM Integration Designer V8.0 or V7.5 (or WebSphere Integration Developer
V7.0) and how to install and use a software
add-on to accomplish this task. The article also provides a summary of
necessary transformations that take place when the process definitions are
imported, along with a description of follow-up actions if warnings occur
during the import.
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01 Nov 2012 |
| The Support Authority: Introducing the Interactive Diagnostic Data Explorer
This new interactive IBM Diagnostic Tools for Java – Interactive
Diagnostic Data Explorer in the IBM Support Assistant 4 analyzes data and helps you start troubleshooting, even when you have no idea where to begin.
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24 Oct 2012 |
| Configuring error handling for Advanced Integration Services in IBM
Business Process Manager Advanced V8
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19 Oct 2012 |
| Data4BPM, Part 3: Modeling processes with business entities using extended BPMN
The third part in this series explains how to use
business entities (or business-significant data) with business processes to
elegantly model complex, end-to-end business operations. A set of modeling
patterns is extracted to catalog the interactions and relationships between
business processes and business entities.
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17 Oct 2012 |
| BPM Voices: Where does BPM end and SOA begin?
In this column, Claus Jensen, IBM Chief Architect for SOA, BPM, and EA Technical Strategy,
explains the differences between BPM and SOA, why that distinction matters, and why it remains
common sense to combine the two but to do so in a structured and well-defined fashion.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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26 Sep 2012 |
| Troubleshooting common CEI-related issues with IBM Business Monitor
The Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) provides facilities for
the runtime environment to persistently store and retrieve events from many
different programming environments. Events flow from applications to the CEI
and then to IBM Business Monitor. This
article shows you how to identify and troubleshoot
some common CEI related errors in a Business Monitor application and the
corresponding server configuration that might prevent you from seeing data in
your dashboards. You'll learn how to validate and
fix your event process configuration and how to tune CEI for Business Monitor performance
improvements.
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20 Sep 2012 |
| Monitoring the WebSphere Adapter life cycle using the monitoring frameworks
WebSphere Adapters provide bi-directional connectivity between
business applications and Enterprise Information System through event
notifications. This article describes monitoring adapters by leveraging
the various monitoring frameworks available, such as PMI, CEI, and ARM.
The article also explains how to use the right framework for getting the
required data for an Adapter and to tune it accordingly.
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12 Sep 2012 |
| Integrating IBM Business Process Manager with WebSphere Message Broker
This article describes three approaches to integrating IBM Business Process Manager V7.5.1 with WebSphere Message Broker V7 -- WebSphere MQ, web services,
and service component architecture (SCA) -- and then shows you how to use the first approach to set up communications between IBM Business Process Manager and WebSphere Message Broker.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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29 Aug 2012 |
| Integrating human task handling in a virtual WebSphere Portal and WebSphere
Process Server environment
One of the components to create a business process management
integration solution, and based on WebSphere Portal Server and WebSphere Process Server or IBM Business Process Manager, is the Unified Task List portlet. This article shows how to get started with the
Unified Task List portlet, how to set it up manually as well as via scripts. You will also learn how to set up a task handling solution in a multiple locale virtual portal environment.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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22 Aug 2012 |
| Integrating IBM Business Process Manager V7.5 with C APIs using a JNI
bridge
This article provides steps to integrate IBM Business Process Manager V7.5
with a JNI implementation based on a Windows platform by creating a native DLL
library using JNI, configuring the library in IBM BPM to generate Java
Integration Services, and integrating with Java components.
It also discusses a simple operation scenario that invokes native
methods by passing simple and array-based data.
Also available in:
Chinese
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15 Aug 2012 |
| Invoking a process deployed in IBM Business Process Manager V7.5 using
WebSphere MQ
This article walks you through the steps required to integrate
WebSphere MQ with IBM Business Process Manager V7.5. The integration is
illustrated using a process invoked by a message sent through MQ. This kind of
integration may be useful in situations in which a business
process needs to be invoked when an event occurs in any disparate system
not directly integrable through adapter frameworks, and requires some sort
of middleware to exchange data.
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18 Jul 2012 |
| A practical approach to integrating JMS and IBM Business Process
Manager
In this article, you'll learn how to implement a Java Message Service
(JMS) initiated Undercover Agent (UCA)
with IBM Business Process Manager V7.5 to enable sending of JMS messages
directly to the Business Process Manager Event Manager without any
custom configuration. This approach provides an elegant way to implement an
asynchronous method of invoking a business process in Process Center.
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10 Jul 2012 |
| Designing event-driven business processes in IBM Business Process
Manager
IBM Business Process Manager V7.5.1 introduced new support for BPMN 2.0
event subprocesses. This powerful construct provides the capability to design
a business process to be able to handle planned and exceptional events with the
flexibility to process events that interrupt normal processing or that need to be
processed in parallel to the main logic flow. In this article, you'll learn how to
use the event subprocesses feature in IBM Business Process Manager to distribute
and process business events both for a specific process instance and for a
set of qualifying instances.
Also available in:
Chinese
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27 Jun 2012 |
| Configuring single sign-on to SAP systems using WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software
This article shows you how to configure SAP to enable SSO token generation,
including how to log in into different SAP systems via the WebSphere SAP Adapter, and how to pass an SSO token dynamically back to the WebSphere SAP Adapter.
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27 Jun 2012 |
| BPM lifecycle for ARIS models in IBM Business Process Manager
V8.0, Part 1: Importing ARIS models into IBM Process Designer
This two-part article series focuses on a practical approach for a
standard-based, cross-tooling, and cross-vendor business process management
lifecycle that implements ARIS Event-driven Process Chains models in the
IBM Business Process Manager suite, as they were created within its own
repository. Part 1 describes two ways of importing process models from ARIS
into IBM Process Designer via a standard BPMN2.0 import as as well as in
the ARIS XML format. Part 2 shows how to merge a newly imported ARIS model
version with the already extended and executed process in Process
Designer.
Also available in:
Chinese
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20 Jun 2012 |
| The benefits of using IBM Business Process Manager Advanced
IBM Business Process Manager is provided in two major configurations: Business Process Manager Standard
and Business Process Manager Advanced. The benefits of using Business Process Manager Standard are fairly well
understood, but the incremental benefits of using Business Process Manager
Advanced are not as well
understood. This article is intended to address that situation.
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20 Jun 2012 |
| BPM lifecycle for ARIS models in IBM Business Process Manager
V8.0, Part 2: Merging a newly imported process version with an executable one
This two-part article series focuses on a practical approach for a
standard-based, cross-tooling, and cross-vendor business process management
lifecycle that implements ARIS Event-driven Process Chains models in the
IBM Business Process Manager suite, as they were created within its own
repository. Part 1 describes two ways of importing process models from ARIS
into IBM Process Designer via a standard BPMN2.0 import as as well as in
the ARIS XML format. Part 2 shows how to merge a newly imported ARIS model
version with the already extended and executed process in Process
Designer.
Also available in:
Chinese
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20 Jun 2012 |
| Introducing the Generic Ruleset Signature pattern for WebSphere
Operational Decision Management V7.5, Part 2: Improving agility and robustness
The second part of this series extends the Generic Ruleset
Signature pattern, which can be applied to business rules in IBM
WebSphere Operational Decision Management to improve productivity and
maintainability of rules projects using a flat business model.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Jun 2012 |
| A business process management approach to enterprise process
modernization
This article describes how BPM can be used for enterprise modernization.
It introduces techniques and best practices to
ensure BPM success, including business process discovery, business process
decomposition, business process ownership, service identification, and code
modularization. Compared to other legacy modernization approaches, BPM
allows for effective scoping; instead of boiling the ocean, you look
at a specific business process and what is required for that process to
execute, and only modernize the IT functions that are needed by the
process. As you implement more and more processes, you can reuse the services you
developed for previous processes and gradually modernize all that is
needed from the legacy application, making it relevant and essential for
the future of the enterprise. The BPM approach provides quick time to
value and engages business users.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Jun 2012 |
| What's new in IBM Business Process Manager V8
This article describes the highlights of the newly announced IBM Business Process Manager
V8, including a newly redesigned Process Portal, integration with Enterprise Content Management systems,
searching and sharing of content between Process Centers, enhanced governance capabilities, and other new features.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Jun 2012 |
| Making business decisions on the fly
Using decision management and business monitoring, you can build a context-aware
application that can deliver the right content to the right people at the right time to
drive better business outcomes. Monitoring gives you insight into your operations, while
decision management enables you to make business policy changes without incurring the
penalty of long IT cycles. This article shows you how to do it.
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13 Jun 2012 |
| Implementing Java integration components for IBM Business Process Manager
V7.5.1
Learn how to write Java integration components for business process
applications in IBM Business Process Manager V7.5.1. Depending on the
functional or non-functional requirements of the business process application
that you are implementing, you may find that none of the out-of-the-box
connectors provide the functionality you need. For such cases, you may want to
consider writing a Java integration component.
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13 Jun 2012 |
| BPM Voices: Service-oriented design principles: The foundation of new
business engagements
Ten years from now, we'll look back upon today as the beginning of a new era of business and technology.
Similar to the way e-business was formed by the advent of the web, this new era is being formed by the
convergence of mobile, cloud, social networking and big data. In the past decade, SOA principles have
been the foundation for the evolution of transactional systems to e-business and end-to-end business process
integration. In the next decade, these same SOA principles will be at the core of a new era business engagements
that transact at internet scale across locations, devices, people, processes and information. The fundamentals
underpinning the extension of the enterprise beyond its traditional boundaries will more than ever be provided
by a progressive IT organization, and the most successful enterprises will be those that understand how to
meld SOA engineering skills and business operations.
Also available in:
Russian
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13 Jun 2012 |
| Best practices for designing and implementing decision services, Part
1: An SOA approach to creating reusable decision services
Decision services are quite the buzz term lately, and are even turning up as
product features. As a solution architect or developer you may have seen the need to go
outside of the pure product scope and think about designing and implementing decision
services so that they can be easily maintained and consumed. Part 1 of this series
addresses some best practices for designing and implementing a decision service using
IBM Business Process Manager Advanced and WebSphere Operational Decision Management. The
article defines the key points to consider when designing rule-based decision services
that follow best practices and fit into a large IT architecture.
Also available in:
Chinese
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13 Jun 2012 |
| BPM Voices: Using business rules in the cloud to solve Sudoku,
Part 1: Implementing the rules application
This series presents a hybrid approach that combines business rules and
heuristic depth-first search to solve Sudoku puzzles. This approach
emulates the methodology humans use to solve Sudoku. Rules built using
WebSphere Operational Decision Management apply forward-chaining
logic; when this fails to find the solution, the heuristic search with
backtracking emulates the trial-and-error approach. In Part 2 of this
series, we'll outline the architecture and process used to embed the
ruleset into a web application hosted on a public cloud.
Also available in:
Chinese
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06 Jun 2012 |
| Delivering Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) on the IBM
SmartCloud, Part 2: Sharing the BPM middleware among multiple tenants
This article looks at how to set up a multi-tenant business process
management environment in the
cloud so that you can support more teams creating and deploying their own
business processes with fewer installations and configurations. The goal
is to provide as much isolation and sharing as possible between tenants
using the same installation of the middleware. We also discuss how the
different BPM components are set up in the development, test and production
environments that are typically used in a BPM project lifecycle.
Also available in:
Chinese
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06 Jun 2012 |
| Business process optimization, Part 2: Planning for a desired business outcome
The BPO method provides a means of combining various technological
innovations in the context of a business-centric view that affords
increased agility to achieve business outcomes.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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25 Apr 2012 |
| SOA governance using WebSphere DataPower and WebSphere Service Registry and
Repository, Part 1: Leveraging WS-MediationPolicy capabilities
This article will cover how to create and use the new WS-MediationPolicy to
govern Web services in IBM WebSphere DataPower.
Also available in:
Vietnamese
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25 Apr 2012 |
| Business process optimization, Part 1: Planning for sustained agility and business outcomes
This article 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.
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18 Apr 2012 |
| Delivering Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) on the IBM
SmartCloud, Part 1: Using ICON to extend Business Process Manager cloud images
This article looks at two new capabilities that
were recently added to the IBM SmartCloud: the Image Construction and Composition
Tool (ICON) and IBM Business Process Manager images. Together
these features can help you develop and deploy your own process-centric cloud
applications and enable you to create your own BPaaS offerings.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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28 Mar 2012 |
| Using Dojo to extend business processes to the mobile space
This article illustrates an example of how to build a simple mobile user interface
that interacts with a business process. The implementation of the mobile UI
uses Dojo with the IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0
and Mobile, and the sample business process is implemented with IBM Business
Process Manager V7.5. The mobile web application built here renders with a
native look and feel on webkit-enabled mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad,
Android, and RIM smartphones and tablets.
Also available in:
Chinese
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14 Mar 2012 |
| Enabling communication between IBM WebSphere Process Server and IBM WebSphere Portal via command line operations
Learn how to enable SSO and generate LTPA tokens between IBM WebSphere Process Server and an IBM WebSphere Portal server in cross-cell mode; that is, via command line operations (silent mode). Included is a detailed example .zip file with python scripts.
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24 Feb 2012 |
| Configuring a dynamic MQ endpoint using WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
This article shows you how to configure a WebSphere MQ endpoint in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository that will be dynamically selected at runtime from within
a WebSphere ESB mediation module.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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22 Feb 2012 |
| Introduction to IBM Business Process Manager on z/OS
IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V7.5.0.1 on z/OS
integrates for the first time two major BPM products,
WebSphere Lombardi Edition, and WebSphere Process Server.
This article introduces you to Business Process Manager for z/OS
and describes the benefits it brings to the BPM process.
Also available in:
Chinese
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22 Feb 2012 |
| Developing an application that integrates business process management and
case management
This article shows you how to integrate the two leading ways of managing business
processes and documents: business process management and case management. Using
IBM Business Process Manager V7.5.1 with IBM Case Manager V5.1, it shows you
how step-by-step how to develop an application that effectively uses
both products together.
Also available in:
Russian
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Realizing the value of IBM Business Process Manager in the
WebSphere Portal environment, Part 2: The interaction between Coaches and portlets or widgets
In Part 1 of this article series described the options for
integrating WebSphere Portal with IBM Business Process Manager products, and
how to select the best approach for your integration project. Part 2
introduces techniques that enable bidirectional interaction between both user
interfaces, and that can be layered on top of the existing components. Using
this approach, the resulting solution appears as a single, seamless
application.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Accessing external data in a rules application
Although it is generally recommended that external application
data not be accessed from a rule application deployed to a WebSphere
rule execution component, there are certain situations that warrant it. This
article describes these situations, and compares options for handling them. An
example scenario offers practical, hands-on technique
Also available in:
Japanese
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Best practices and patterns for customizing human task forms in IBM
Business Process Manager V7.5
With IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V7.5 , you can manage and
work on human tasks in widget that are provided out-of-the-box. These widgets
are supported by Business Space powered by WebSphere and WebSphere Portal.
You can easily customize and extend the underlying HTML forms with rich Web
2.0 feature using patterns and best practices. By using these methods, you can
save time and effort to build a custom user interface. This article presents a
step-by-step example that models task templates and customizes and extends HTML
forms. The article also highlights applied patterns and best practices that
you can use.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Mobile business process management, Part 1: Extending BPM processes to mobile workers
This article describes how to expose human tasks to remote mobile
business users in a process authored using IBM Business Process Manager 7.5.1.
Using the Android SDK and the IBM Business Process Manager REST APIs, you will
see how you can create an Android business process management (BPM) task list
application that enables mobile users to see, claim, and complete the tasks
assigned to them.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Data enrichment from data sources in WebSphere Business Events V7
WebSphere Business Events V7 provides three methods to
leverage a data source to enrich data after an event is received or
before an action is sent: expression SQL, mapped keys, and
mapped expression.
This article shows how to use these methods to enhance and enrich incoming or
outgoing messages or events that require querying a database for additional
information.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Integrating a host application with an IBM Business Process Manager
business process
This article shows you how to integrate a simple, customized IBM Host
On-Demand Java applet that shows a basic 3270 video session, with an IBM Business
Process Manager V7.5 or WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.2 process.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| BPM Voices: Synchronicity: An agile approach to business process
management
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of business process management is the ability to quickly develop
business processes. With traditional SOA-based BPM solutions, the skills
and development needed to implement even simple processes
limits the ability to respond quickly to changes. Pair this with a lack of
collaboration and shared understanding between business and IT
stakeholders and you can see why many BPM projects get mired in prolonged development
cycles. However, recent changes in this area, including emerging solutions
such as
IBM Business Process Manager, support a more agile
approach to BPM process discovery and development, reducing the time
to market and ensuring a tighter alignment between business and IT. Using
tools and techniques such as Blueworks Live,
process discovery workshops, and iterative BPM development, IT
and business can work together to design solutions. This approach
helps to ensure that requirements are addressed during design and development
instead of the traditional approach where business hands off requirements
to IT with the hope that the final solution meets the requirements. In
this column, we'll talk about these BPM challenges and discuss how
to apply an agile BPM approach to address them.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Integrating business process applications with CICS in IBM Business Process
Manager Advanced V7.5
In this article, you'll learn how to use the JCA Adapter for
CICS to integrate a BPMN process created with the IBM Process Designer with a
CICS system without having to write any Java code. To achieve this
integration, you'll create an Advanced Integration Service (AIS) in IBM
Integration Designer.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Introducing the Generic Ruleset Signature pattern for WebSphere
Operational Decision Management V7.5, Part 1: A framework for achieving agility in rules projects
This two-part article series introduces the Generic Ruleset
Signature pattern. This pattern can be applied to business rules in IBM
WebSphere Operational Decision Management V7.5 to improve productivity and
maintainability of rules projects using a flat business model. Part 1 presents
a basic implementation of the pattern; Part 2 will present a more
sophisticated, "battle-hardened" example used in real consultancy
projects.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| BPM Voices: The rogue business object model
The business object model (BOM) is a fundamental component that provides
the business vocabulary used by business policy managers to define rules built
using WebSphere ILOG JRules V7.2 or WebSphere Operational Decision Manager V7.5. This article describes the frequently observed anti-patterns and
missteps in the creation of a BOM and recommends techniques for avoiding
them.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Implementing ebXML Message Service in WebSphere Partner Gateway V6.2
ebXML Message Service (ebMS) provides a standard way to exchange business messages among ebXML trading partners without relying on proprietary technologies. This article
shows you how to use ebMS with IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway V6.2.
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15 Feb 2012 |
| Transforming your supply chain with IBM Supply Chain Process Modeler, Part
3: Using SCPM for supply chain process modeling and analysis
In Part 3 of this series, you'll learn how to use SCPM the
basic functions of SCPM to create a new project, configure and use various
diagrams and the scorecard, and import and export models and data to and from
SCPM.
Also available in:
Russian
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08 Feb 2012 |
| Transforming your supply chain with IBM Supply Chain Process
Modeler, Part 4: Using advanced analytics
In Part 4 of this series, you'll learn about two advanced
analytics features provided by SCPM: the extended process simulation and
the Performance Analyzer. The extended process simulation enables
the use of scripts for simulation modeling, thus providing support for more complicated business logic and analysis
requirements. The Performance Analyzer enables the quantitative analysis
of the causal relations among different performance metrics using
System Dynamics, which is a theory for studying and managing complex
feedback systems
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08 Feb 2012 |
| Capturing and analyzing interface characteristics, Part 2: Reference guide to integration characteristics
Part 1 of this two-part article discussed the definition of integration
characteristics and how they are best used to reduce risk and improve the efficiency of design for the integration aspects of a solution. Part 2 provides detailed reference information about the integration characteristics themselves to ensure a clear and common understanding of the meaning, importance, and use of each characteristic.
Also available in:
Chinese
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25 Jan 2012 |
| Transforming your supply chain with IBM Supply Chain Process
Modeler, Part 2: Using process reference models in supply chain transformation
In Part 2, you'll learn how to about the process reference
models supported by SCPM and how you can use them in your supply chain transformation projects.
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25 Jan 2012 |
| Associating WebSphere Lombardi V7.2 attributes with users defined in
OpenLDAP and routing tasks
This article demonstrates a design pattern using WebSphere Lombardi attributes
along with users defined in an OpenLDAP server for activities such as decision making or routing.
If user attributes (such as language) are defined in an LDAP server and used for routine activities,
such as routing in WebSphere Lombardi, there is some cost involved in querying the attributes using
a JNDI API from an LDAP server. The recommended design pattern can help improve performance and
can be adopted without using the User Synchronization option in WebSphere Lombardi.
Also available in:
Chinese
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18 Jan 2012 |
| Modeling your business processes with IBM WebSphere Lombardi
Edition, Part 5: Customize the user experience with Coaches
In Part 5 of this series, you'll learn how to use the advanced Coach
features of WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.1, you'll learn about some Coach customization
features, including
dynamic data binding, customizing the display of Coach pages, and creating
custom HTML controls. You'll also learn about the runtime rendering of
Coaches.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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11 Jan 2012 |
| Modeling your business processes with IBM WebSphere Lombardi
Edition, Part 6: Using KPIs and reports for monitoring and performance analysis
In the final part of this series, you'll learn how to use key performance
indicators (KPIs) and reports to do monitoring and performance analysis with
WebSphere Lombardi Edition.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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11 Jan 2012 |
| BPM Voices: How IT can discuss business agility with the business
In this column, Claus Jensen describes how IT can make a difference to the
business by adding structure to discussions about business agility. The ability
to apply engineering skills to an agile business design is a key differentiator
for enterprises challenged by increasing complexity and speed of change.
Also available in:
Chinese
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14 Dec 2011 |
| Integrating SPSS predictive analytics into Business Intelligent
applications, Part 2: Integrating the scoring service into an ILOG JRule
In Part 2 of this series, you'll learn how to use an SPSS
predictive scoring service as an additional factor when quoting a premium for
an insurance policy. In the scenario, predictive analytics are used to
streamline the process of customer acquisition, by predicting the future risk
behavior of a customer, thus leading to informed pricing decisions that
mitigate future risk. Using the insurance quotation scenario from Part 1,
you'll learn how to use an SPSS scoring service and ILOG JRules,
to create and deploy business rules that
have a predictive dynamic factor.
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14 Dec 2011 |
| Managing rule project versions: Introducing branches in
WebSphere Operational Decision Management V7.5
Using three common development situations that require working on
concurrent rule project versions, my goal in this article is twofold:
first, I'll present strategies to best address these situations with the tools
available in WebSphere JRules V7.1, and second, I'll introduce the new project branches
feature of WebSphere Operational Decision Manager
V7.5 Decision Center, and show you how this feature drastically simplifies rule project
maintenance tasks.
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14 Dec 2011 |
| Configuring the IBM Business Process Manager V7.5 environment for a typical
installation
Quickly installing and configuring a working environment for IBM
Business Process Manager is important for new users. The "typical
installation"
option provides
a simple method to install Business Process Manager V7.5. This article focuses on best
practices to help set up your environment with a typical installation, including configuration
tips for different databases, problem determination, and useful
verification practices.
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14 Dec 2011 |
| Monitoring very long-running business processes with WebSphere Business
Monitor
Learn how you can use WebSphere Business Monitor V7 to monitor long-running
processes that can take many years to complete. This article describes how you can connect two
types of monitor models when low-level models monitor events emitted from BPEL applications and
pass key events to a high-level model that correlates these events and enables monitoring of
a long-running process implemented as a state machine.
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14 Dec 2011 |
| A solution model for integrating BPM and package solutions
This article describes a solution model that
integrates enterprise business process management solutions with existing package solutions and other
non-package applications, focusing on enabling businesses to realize the
business agility and flexibility. The proposed solution model comprises an
externalized BPM layer that can be built
using key IBM technologies and tools, and that can be integrated with
ERP package solutions, such as
SAP and Oracle.
Also available in:
Chinese
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14 Dec 2011 |
| Monitoring business processes with IBM Business Process Manager and IBM
Business Monitor
In this article, you'll learn
how to monitor a process application developed with IBM Process Designer
using the built-in monitoring provided in IBM Business Process Manager, as
well as how to use the global process monitor model,
the automatically generated monitor model provided with IBM Business Monitor,
and how to create a custom monitor model.
Also available in:
Chinese
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14 Dec 2011 |
| Implementing the facade pattern using IBM Business Process Manager Advanced
V7.5
In a recent IBM BPM Journal article, "Best practices when using IBM Integration Designer and IBM Process
Designer together," the authors recommend the facade pattern: "A good
pattern to avoid excessive or accidental breakages is to 'facade' the data
types and the interfaces, isolating the models from changes introduced through
the other tool." In this article, we'll explore the facade pattern in more detail.
Specifically, we'll show you how you can use IBM Business Process Manager to
implement the facade pattern efficiently
while maximizing service reuse.
Also available in:
Chinese
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14 Dec 2011 |
| Fuzzy reasoning with WebSphere ILOG JRules
This article proposes a method of applying WebSphere ILOG JRules tooling to
build a fuzzy reasoning system; that is, to make fuzzy assertions, express
inference rules on these assertions, and draw fuzzy conclusions. ILOG Business
Rules Management System supports classical inference-based forward-chain
reasoning with a high-performance implementation of the Rete algorithm (Rete
plus). Forward-chain reasoning is "sharp reasoning," that is, it derives facts
from other "known" facts. However, sometimes the knowledge around a fact cannot be
asserted to be true or false; for example, if I say "Joe is old," I may assert
something qualitative, that cannot be objectively determined to be true: if
Joe is 50, is he old or not? Fuzzy logic has been developed precisely to cope
with and reason about such qualitative facts.
Also available in:
Chinese
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14 Dec 2011 |
| Modeling your business processes with IBM WebSphere Lombardi
Edition, Part 3: Advanced modeling
Part 3 of this series shows you how to
use the advanced features of WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.1 to enrich a
business process in order to meet
more complex requirements, including nested processes, milestones,
event mechanisms, exception handling and Lombardi web services exposure.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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07 Dec 2011 |
| The Support Authority: Major new usability features in Fix Central make it easy and more convenient to find
the fixes you need
Exciting new changes have been made to IBM's Electronic Fix Distribution
system and its public website, Fix Central. In addition to numerous usability
enhancements based on user feedback, a new feature that grabs the set of
installed IBM software products on your server and links you to available
updates is now being piloted.
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07 Dec 2011 |
| Capturing and analyzing interface characteristics, Part 1: Capturing integration complexity for BPM and SOA solutions
This two-part article describes a well-tested technique for capturing
the fundamental interface characteristics of integration points with back end
systems. Integration still accounts for a majority of the design and
implementation effort of many IT solutions. Poorly understood integration
requirements represent a significant risk to a project. You will see how
correct analysis of the integration points improves estimating and technology
selection, and ultimately enables a more predictable pattern-based approach to
solution design and implementation. Moreover, these articles will specifically highlight the relevance of this technique to enterprise architecture initiatives, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM).
Also available in:
Portuguese
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07 Dec 2011 |
| Modeling your business processes with IBM WebSphere Lombardi
Edition, Part 4: Building a human service using Coaches
In Part 4 of this series, you'll learn how to use WebSphere Lombardi
V7.1 Coaches to
create a human service for gathering order details from a user and displaying an
order summary to the user, using a sample purchase order process.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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07 Dec 2011 |
| Comment lines: Defeat image sprawl, once and for all
Virtualization and cloud computing make it very easy to create new
virtual images, but as image catalogs grow, finding and locating the right
images gets harder. New images are created because it is easier to create a
new image than it is to figure out what existing image might be reusable,
creating "image sprawl." Unless you address how to more effectively build and manage your virtual
images, you will not realize the full benefits of the cloud. Two new IBM
capabilities, the Virtual Image Library and the Image Construction and
Composition Tool, can help you quickly understand the content of your images
and build reusable, parameterized images.
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07 Dec 2011 |
| Enabling event flow in BPM solutions and best practices for
monitor model deployment, Part 1: Configuring and verifying event flow between a clustered Process Server and
IBM Business Monitor server
When things don't work in the implementation of
Monitoring solutions for business processes, it's usually not an issue
with the monitor model, but with the underlying infrastructure and its
configuration. Therefore, enabling a robust communication of events
between your Process Server and the IBM Business Monitor server is critical. This
series describes the techniques to configure a
smooth event flow between a standalone Monitor server and a clustered
Process Server and some best practices for monitor model
deployment.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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16 Nov 2011 |
| Operating a WebSphere Process Server environment, Part
6: Preventing system overload situations
Part 6 of this multi-part article series describes essential steps and precautions you can
take to avoid overload situations in a WebSphere Process Server production environment.
It also discusses how to throttle WebSphere Process Server.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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16 Nov 2011 |
| Operating a WebSphere Process Server environment, Part
5: Performance tuning resources for WebSphere Process Server and IBM BPM
solutions
Part 5 of this multi-part article series contains useful references on tuning a
WebSphere Process Server or IBM BPM solution.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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09 Nov 2011 |
| Creating and sending alerts with IBM Business Process Manager V7.5
This article shows you how to use IBM Business Process Manager
V7.5.0.1 to develop and send alerts to
business dashboards using alert handlers (an Service Component
Architecture (SCA) service handler and a web
service handler program) and an end-to-end business process workflow
(a BPEL application) and monitoring (a monitor measures application) sample. In the process, you'll
learn about the runtime support and tooling provided by IBM Business Process Manager Advanced
for developing and monitoring end-to-end business processes using an iterative development process
that spans the life cycle of typical business process
management application development.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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26 Oct 2011 |
| Creating an active-active data warehouse topology using IBM InfoSphere Warehouse
This article explains how you can create an active-active environment for IBM InfoSphere Warehouse to meet the highest availability requirements using DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, WebSphere Edge Components, and Q Replication.
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21 Oct 2011 |
| Enabling cross-domain access of IBM Business Monitor data by Flash
applications
This article shows you how you can overcome security issues involved
with accessing and displaying IBM Business
Monitor data using a customized visualization
application,
such as a proprietary Flash-based web application, using Business Monitor REST APIs.
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04 Oct 2011 |
| Realizing the value of IBM Business Process Manager in the
WebSphere Portal environment, Part 1: Integrating WebSphere Portal with IBM Business Process Manager
The IBM WebSphere Portal family provides ready-to-use tools and
components to build personalized, highly-interactive user interfaces for
enterprise applications. The IBM Business Process Manager family has recently
introduced a new, tightly integrated UI for task processing. By combining the
strengths of both products, enterprises can gain a competitive advantage and
reduce costs. In this article, you'll learn about the options for integrating
WebSphere Portal with IBM Business Process Manager products, and how to select
the right approach based on the needs of your particular integration
project.
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29 Sep 2011 |
| Delivering standards-based BPM and SOA solutions using IBM assets and
tools
This article describes the first iteration of the Banking Process
Models, now available in a BPMN 2.0-compliant format in both IBM Business Process Manager V7.5 and Rational
Software Architect V8.0.3. You'll learn how to import the models into
both tools and what extensions you can make to these analysis-level processes
in each environment. You'll also find out about future strategic
BPM and SOA objectives around using the models to accelerate the development
of an Operational Process Model (OPM) to directly support the banking sector
in terms of their implementation strategies.
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29 Sep 2011 |
| Achieve end-to-end business visibility with IBM Business Monitor
V7.5, Part 3: Configuring Instance and Reports widgets in Business Space
In Part 3 of this series, you'll learn how to use IBM Integration Designer
to generate a monitor model for a Business Process Manager process application, create and add a
global monitoring context to it, and deploy the monitor model using Process
Center.
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29 Sep 2011 |
| Achieve end-to-end business visibility with IBM Business Monitor
V7.5, Part 2: Adding a global monitoring context to a process application
In Part 2 of this series, you'll learn how to use IBM Integration Designer to
generate a monitor model for a Business Process Manager process application, create
and add a global
monitoring context to it, and deploy the monitor model using the IBM Process Center.
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29 Sep 2011 |
| Achieve end-to-end business visibility with IBM Business Monitor
V7.5, Part 1: Generating a monitor model for the process application
In this article series, you'll learn how to leverage the new global
monitoring context feature of IBM Business Monitor V7.5
to monitor and track end-to-end instances of a business
process. In Part 1, you'll import the sample process application and use IBM Integration
Designer to generate a monitor model for it.
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29 Sep 2011 |
| Real-time event processing and dashboard visualization for Sterling
Commerce Managed File Transfer
This article shows how you can use a sample dashboard,
provided for download, to integrate IBM Sterling Commerce Managed File
Transfer products with IBM Business Monitor to achieve greater visibility of
your business transactions. You'll learn how to install
the dashboard in your environment and how you can customize it for your own
needs.
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29 Sep 2011 |
