Planning for IBM Business Process Manager
To ensure that the system that you implement meets your needs, plan your IBM® Business Process Manager before you introduce its software into your enterprise information system.
- Planning your path through the installation documentation
The installation process for IBM Business Process Manager, with its various components and potential configurations, supports many scenarios and topologies, ranging from a basic proof-of concept, demonstration, or test environment, to a mature distributed high-availability production environment. You might need some help with the many installation options. - Assessing your requirements
To minimize rework and outages, take the time to study your current environment before you make installation and configuration decisions. Consider your current business requirements and design, the hardware and software already installed, and your current strengths and shortcomings. This planning could also help you minimize your financial investment. - Choosing the type of installation
Choose the typical installation option to install IBM Business Process Manager interactively in environments for development, quality assurance, and single-cluster staging and production. Choose the custom installation option to install silently, if you will be installing on an existing WebSphere Application Server, or if your business requires complex deployment environment and database topologies. - Planning your network deployment environment
Setting up a network deployment environment involves many decisions, such as the number of physical workstations and the type of pattern you choose. Each decision affects how you set up your deployment environment. - IBM Business Process Manager security considerations
Security is an integral consideration when you are planning to install IBM Business Process Manager, when you are developing and deploying applications, and in the day-to-day running of IBM Business Process Manager. - Planning your database configuration
To plan your database configuration, you need to know which databases must be in place and configured to use the software, which components of IBM Business Process Manager you will use and their associated databases, the tasks required to administer the databases, and the security privileges of the database system that you are using. - Planning for an external Enterprise Content Management server
You can configure IBM Business Process Manager with an external Enterprise Content Management (ECM) server. - Planning to configure Business Process Choreographer
Plan your Business Process Choreographer setup.