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Good practice – Mark system tasks for deletion when you create them

by LauraSnider on March 7, 2015

By Phil Coulthard For system tasks in your business process definitions (BPDs), select the Delete task on completion check box on the Implementation tab of the...

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Good practice – Use governance processes for snapshot installations

by LauraGardash on March 7, 2015

By Phil Coulthard As of IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) V8.0, Process Center supports a special type of process called a governance process. This process...

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Good practice – Ensure business processes have a business owner

by LauraGardash on March 7, 2015

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...

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Good practice – Plan for and perform non-functional testing

by LauraGardash on March 7, 2015

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...

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Good practice – Ensure the health of your BPMN processes by using the JavaScript loop detector and process monitor

by LauraGardash on March 7, 2015

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)...

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Good practice – Use IBM BPM Advanced, an enterprise service bus, or both to expose services to your business processes that use BPMN

by LauraGardash on March 7, 2015

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...

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Good practice – Use an offline process server for production

by LauraGardash on March 7, 2015

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...

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Good practice – Diligently deal with faults when invoking external services

by LauraGardash on March 7, 2015

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...

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Good practice – Divide the labor when you author custom coach views

by LauraGardash on March 7, 2015

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...

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Good practice – Do not use IBM BPM as a system of record

by LauraGardash on March 7, 2015

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,...

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