IBM Business Process Manager Application Pattern V8.5 enables elastic business process scaling for your private cloud
IBM United States Software Announcement 213-143April 26, 2013
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IBM® Business Process Manager Application Pattern ( IBM BPM Application Pattern) V8.5:
- Introduces IBM Business Process Manager ( IBM BPM) as an application pattern for use with IBM PureApplication™ System W1500.
- Offers elastic scaling policies to automatically detect when the configuration capacity should be increased to meet increasing demands on your process solutions.
- Optimizes IBM BPM V8.5 for IBM PureApplication System environments, enabling higher hardware utilization, while enabling you to spend less time on installation and configuration, and more time on strategic initiatives.
- Facilitates streamlined setup and management of complex, highly available IBM BPM configurations that are optimized for development, test, and production use.
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| Overview |
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IBM BPM Application Pattern V8.5 offers a pattern configuration of IBM Business Process Manager ( IBM BPM), optimized to run in an IBM PureApplication System W1500 environment.
IBM BPM Application Pattern V8.5:
- Introduces elastic scaling policies to automatically detect when the configuration capacity should be increased to meet increasing demands on your process solutions.
- Facilitates streamlined setup and management of complex, highly available IBM BPM configurations that are optimized for development, test, or production use
- Enables you to focus critical resources on value-add activities and less on installation, configuration, and management.
- Helps accelerate the expansion of business process management from a project to a program across your enterprise.
IBM BPM Application Pattern includes the same business process management capabilities as delivered in IBM BPM Advanced V8.5.
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| Key prerequisites |
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IBM BPM Application Pattern V8.5 requires IBM PureApplication System W1500.
For the most current hardware requirements for IBM BPM Application Pattern, visit
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| Planned availability date |
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June 26, 2013: Electronic distribution
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| Description |
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IBM BPM is a comprehensive and consumable business process management platform that offers enhanced visibility and management of your business processes. It includes tooling and run time for process design, execution, monitoring, and optimization. It is specifically designed to make it easy for process owners and business users to engage directly in the improvement of their business processes.
IBM BPM Application Pattern V8.5 is available as an application pattern that can be used with other application pattern parts to create application configurations for deployment on PureApplication System. This new support is designed to give you an elastic, highly available, and production-ready configuration that is easy to set up, manage, and scale. Using this pattern helps reduce setup and management of your business process solutions to focus critical resources on value-add activities and accelerate the expansion of IBM BPM from a project to a program across your enterprise.
IBM BPM Application Pattern consists of a single package and requires appropriate entitlement to one or more of the following products:
- IBM Process Center for Business Process Manager Application Pattern V8.5
- IBM Process Server for Business Process Manager Application Pattern V8.5
- IBM Process Designer V8.5 (installed separately on a desktop system)
- IBM Integration Designer V8.5 (installed separately on a desktop system)
IBM BPM Application Pattern supports PureApplication System W1500. PureApplication System is a hardware system that delivers a scalable virtualized environment to run your applications. It is designed to quickly deploy new application workloads via predefined patterns, into a virtualized environment, and to enable additional capacity, as needed, in a building-block fashion. It is designed to help you manage workloads intelligently with set service levels for key application workloads and automatically meet them, and to easily update an entire application stack through a single point of management. It can help accelerate cloud initiatives and reduce lifecycle costs.
For more information about IBM PureApplication System W1500, refer to Software Announcement 213-157, dated April 26, 2013 .
Accessibility by people with disabilities
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Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act
IBM BPM Application Pattern is available as of June 26, 2013, when used in accordance with associated IBM documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it. A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) can be requested on the following website
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| Statement of direction |
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IBM intends to deliver the IBM BPM Application Pattern and the IBM Operational Decision Manager Application Pattern for the IBM PureApplication System W1700 to provide consistent capability across both the IBM PureApplication System W1500 and W1700 configurations.
IBM's statements regarding its plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice at IBM's sole discretion. Information regarding potential future products is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. Information about potential future products may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.
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| Reference information |
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For more information about IBM PureApplication System W1500, refer to Software Announcement 213-157, dated April 26, 2013 .
For additional information on IBM BPM V8.5, refer to Software Announcement 213-023, dated April 23, 2013 .
For more information on IBM ODM Application Pattern V8.5, refer to Software Announcement 213-131, dated April 26, 2013 .
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| Availability of national languages |
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Availability
Description Language date
IBM Business Process Multilingual June 26, 2013
Manager Application (Chinese -Simplified,
Pattern V8.5 Chinese -Traditional,
English US, French,
German, Italian
Japanese, Korean,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
Spanish)
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| Program number |
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Program Program
number VRM name
5725-L40 8.5.0 IBM Business Process Manager
Application Pattern
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information website
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® website
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| Publications |
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IBM BPM Application Pattern documentation is planned to be available in an information center, which can be viewed from a web browser with Internet access or run locally. A local copy of the information center can be downloaded and installed. Any new or updated version of the documentation can be added to that locally installed information center.
On June 26, 2013, IBM BPM Application Pattern V8.5 information will be included in the online version of the IBM BPM V8.5 information center at
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
IBM BPM Application Pattern requires IBM PureApplication System W1500.
For the most current hardware requirements for IBM BPM Application Pattern, visit
For more information about IBM PureApplication System W1500, refer to Software Announcement 213-157, dated April 26, 2013 .
Software requirements
IBM BPM Application Pattern requires:
- IBM Transactional Database Pattern
- IBM OS Image for Red Hat Linux™ Systems V2.0
For the most current software requirements for IBM BPM Application Pattern, visit
IBM PureApplication System includes entitlement to run these products.
For more information about IBM PureApplication System W1500, refer to Software Announcement 213-157, dated April 26, 2013 .
For more information about IBM Transactional Database Pattern, refer to Software Announcement 211-474, dated November 1, 2011 .
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Limitations
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Planning information
Packaging
IBM BPM Application Pattern
No media pack - electronic delivery only
Part
Component number
Business Process Manager Application CRM4SML
Pattern V8.5 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Base Server
Multilingual eAssembly
Business Process Manager Application CIJH3ML
Pattern V8.5 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Base Server
Multilingual Quick Start Guide
Business Process Manager Application CIJH4ML
Pattern V8.5 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Base Server
Multilingual
The application pattern is available as a downloadable eAssembly file that can be directly uploaded onto IBM PureApplication System.
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Security, auditability, and control
IBM BPM Application Pattern uses the security and auditability features of the host hardware or software. The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities. The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
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Product group: WebSphere Product identifier description (PID) IBM Business Process Manager 5725-L40 Application Pattern Product category: Application Integration Middleware Other
Passport Advantage
IBM Business Process Manager Application Pattern No media pack - electronic delivery only
IBM BPM Application Pattern V8.5
Part
Program name/Description number
IBM Process Center for Business Process
Manager Application Pattern
Per Processor Value Unit (5725-L40)
License + Software S & S 12 months D0ZMMLL
Annual Software S & S Renewal 12 months E0HMHLL
Software S & S Reinstatement 12 months D0ZMNLL
IBM Process Server for Business Process
Manager Application Pattern
Per Processor Value Unit (5725-L40)
License + Software S & S 12 months D0ZMQLL
Annual Software S & S Renewal 12 months E0HMILL
Software S & S Reinstatement 12 months D0ZMRLL
IBM Process Server for Business Process
Manager Application Pattern for
non-production environment
Per Processor Value Unit (5725-L40)
License + Software S & S 12 months D0ZMULL
Annual Software S & S Renewal 12 months E0HMJLL
Software S & S Reinstatement 12 months D0ZMVLL
Passport Advantage trade-up
To be eligible to acquire equivalent licenses using the trade-up part numbers, you must have already acquired a license for one of the following precursor products.
IBM BPM Application Pattern V8.5
Precursor product Trade-up product Trade-up
part number
IBM Process Center IBM Process Center for D0ZMPLL
Advanced Business Process Manager
Application Pattern
IBM Process Server IBM Process Server for D0ZMSLL
Advanced Business Process Manager
Application Pattern
IBM Process Server IBM Process Server for D0ZMWLL
Advanced Business Process Manager
non-production Application Pattern
non-production
IBM Process Server IBM Process Server for D0ZMTLL
Application Pattern Business Process Manager
non-production Application Pattern
Consult your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner if you have any questions.
Charge metric
Part number or
Program name PID number Charge metric
Business Process Manager 5725-L40 Processor Value Unit
Application Pattern
Processor Value Unit (PVU)
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License Information number
IBM BPM Application Pattern V8.5
Program name LI number IBM Process Server for Business Process L-DJEN-94QJYW Manager Application Pattern V8.5 IBM Process Server for Business Process L-DJEN-94QJYW Manager Application Pattern V8.5 non-production environment IBM Process Center for Business Process L-DJEN-94QJVC Manager Application Pattern V8.5 IBM Process Designer V8.5 L-DJEN-94QJSX
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Yes
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Volume orders (IVO)
No
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Yes
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No
Other support
Passport Advantage
System i Software Maintenance applies
No
Variable charges apply
No
Educational allowance available
Not applicable
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