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• Delivering Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) on the IBM SmartCloud: Using ICON to extend Business Process Manager cloud images

  This article describes two new capabilities of 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 create your own BPaaS offerings.

• 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.

• Introduction to IBM Business Process Manager on z/OS

  IBM Business Process Manager Advanced 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.

• Synchronicity: An agile approach to business process management

  Learn how to use tools like IBM Business Process Manager and Blueworks Live, along with techniques like process discovery workshops and playbacks, to support an agile approach to business process management.

• The rogue business object model: Pitfalls and anti-patterns to avoid when creating a BOM

  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 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.

• 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 techniques.

• 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.