Continue reading Good practice – Ensure business processes have a business owner
By Phil Coulthard Business process management can only succeed when there is a close partnership between IT and business. This collaboration is most critical when...
By Phil Coulthard Before going into production, ensure that you planned for and tested non-functional aspects of your process, including response time of the user...
Continue reading Good practice – Plan for and perform non-functional testing
By Phil Coulthard There are tools in IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) that help you ensure the health of your Business process Modeling Notation (BPMN)...
By Phil Coulthard Business processes orchestrate services and people. Most business processes require services, such as web services or REST services, to perform their business...
By Phil Coulthard In IBM® Process Center, you can register online process servers and offline process servers. Online process servers are convenient for easily deploying...
Continue reading Good practice – Use an offline process server for production
By Phil Coulthard Well-designed external and Advanced Integration services have modeled faults for business exceptions such as “insufficient funds” and often have unmodeled faults for...
Continue reading Good practice – Diligently deal with faults when invoking external services
By Phil Coulthard Coach views are reusable user interface controls in the coaches framework of IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM). IBM supplies a number of stock...
Continue reading Good practice – Divide the labor when you author custom coach views
By Phil Coulthard Business processes naturally use business data in the form of variables to represent the process state and affect the process flow. However,...
Continue reading Good practice – Do not use IBM BPM as a system of record
By Phil Coulthard Like all software, IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) is constantly improving. Every so often IBM “rolls up” (consolidates) all fixes into a new...
Continue reading Good practice – Have a plan for regularly upgrading IBM BPM
By Michael Scheible Before you migrate from a version or release to another version or release, for example from V8.0.x to V8.5.x, in any production environment,...
Continue reading Good practice – Plan your release-to-release migration