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  • Good practice resource – Implementing Disaster Recovery

    Many organizations today are performing highly visible and important business processes on IBM BPM. These processes often need a robust IT infrastructure that his highly available and can recover from disaster situations. IBM BPM supports a variety of replication and recovery approaches which can help customer architects design a Disaster Recovery strategy. Disaster recovery guidance […]

  • Good practice – Plan for disaster recovery

    By Chris Richardson Many factors, ranging from human error to natural disasters, could compromise the capability of the hardware infrastructure that runs your IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) system. To preserve business continuity when an entire data center is lost, it is important to have a disaster recovery plan. This plan describes the operational procedures […]

  • Good practice – Back up your IBM BPM data regularly

    By Meng Wang Back up your IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) data regularly, particularly after you make discrete configuration changes, such as installing a new system, applying interim fixes, deploying applications, and changing the topology, which you would do for vertical or horizontal scaling. It is also especially important before purging any data. The more […]

  • Good practice – Use the right process for the job

    By Phil Coulthard It is important to use the right type of process for your requirements. You can determine the right type of process by following these guidelines: For human and case centric processes, use BPMN or business process definitions (BPDs). If you have IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Advanced, for straight-through processes that contain […]

  • Good-practice resource – Use the IBM BPM Center of Excellence and Program to Project Redbooks

    By Phil Coulthard To succeed with IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) beyond your first project, ensure that you are prepared and organized for success. For example, do you have the proper buy-in and participation from the organization? The following timeless resources will help you expand your first project into an ongoing program: Scaling BPM Adoption: From Project to Program with IBM Business Process Manager (SG24-7973-01) Creating a […]

  • Good-practice resource – Read the coaches IBM Redbooks publication

    By Phil Coulthard If you use IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) next-generation coaches, which were introduced in IBM BPM V8.0, read the Leveraging the IBM BPM Coach Framework in Your Organization IBM Redbooks (SG24-8210-00) publication that focuses on this subject to learn about how to develop coaches and find out about the various tips and good practices. Applicable editions: Express, Standard, and Advanced Applicable releases: V8.0 and […]

  • Good-practice resource – Tune your IBM BPM performance

    It is imperative to your success that you read and follow the advice in the appropriate IBM Redpaper™ for your release: IBM Business Process Manager V8.5 Performance Tuning and Best Practices IBM Business Process Manager V8.0 Performance Tuning and Best Practices IBM Business Process Manager V7.5 Performance Tuning and Best Practices Also see 5 Things to Know […]

  • Good practice – Use the facade pattern for Advanced Integration services

    By Paul Pacholski When you use Advanced Integration services in IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) Advanced, a copy of the EAR file for the implementation of each Advanced Integration service is created for each process app that uses it. For large implementations, these EAR file copies take a lot of space. To avoid wasting space, […]

  • Good practice – Use query tables for BPEL processes

    By Phil Coulthard For BPEL process list and human task queries in IBM WebSphere® Process Server and IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Advanced, use composite query tables to achieve excellent response times for high-volume task and process list queries. Particularly in production scenarios, use composite query tables instead of the standard Business Process Choreographer query […]

  • Good practice – Use the sync-over-async invocation pattern with caution

    By Phil Coulthard When you develop advanced IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) applications using IBM Integration Designer, use caution when you invoke an asynchronous component or import using a synchronous invocation style. Invoking an asynchronous component or import using a synchronous invocation style causes the infrastructure underneath to switch from synchronous to asynchronous, often with […]