WebSphere Business Process Management

What is WebSphere Business Process Management?

WebSphere Business Process Management (WBPM) and WebSphere Process Integration (WPI) are two terms IBM uses for its evolving suite of SOA integration servers and development IDEs. The core set of products are:

WebSphere Process Server – A runtime environment for SOA applications
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus – An IBM ESB runtime environment built into WPS
WebSphere Integration Developer – An IDE for developing WPS apps and WESB mediations
[WebSphere Business Modeler] – An IDE for business analysts to model business processes
[WebSphere Business Monitor] – A runtime monitoring system to measure business processes
Websphere Business Services Fabric – Extends WPS and WID to build and execute composite business applications
[WebSphere Partner Gateway] – A B2B gateway that can be used to connect other companies into WPS

There's also a number of related products:

IBM ESB products
WebSphere DataPower – Integration appliances for XML processing, security, and data transformation
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository – A service registry for finding services and their providers
WebSphere Adapters – These are a new set of adapters for WPS
WebSphere Business Integration Adapters – An older but still current set of adapters from WBI Server Foundation that also run in WPS

For some of the main documentation, see:

I've talked about these products in:

Two technologies they rely on heavily are Service Component Architecture (SOA) and Service Data Objects (SDO).

(Original blog posting: WebSphere Business Process Management)

I have a WBPM thread on my blog.