IBM Business Process Manager overview
IBM® BPM is a comprehensive business process management platform. It provides a robust set of tools to author, test, and deploy business processes, as well as full visibility and insight to managing those business processes.
The IBM BPM components provide a unified business process management (BPM) repository to manage the business processes and their associated artifacts, tools for authors, administrators, and users, and a runtime platform.
| Edition | Description | When to use |
|---|---|---|
| IBM BPM Express | Offers an affordable entry point for initiating BPM projects. It provides an easy-to-use interface with a process execution, monitoring and optimization engine, allowing participants to engage in process improvement activities. | You are starting your first business process management project and are looking primarily for rapid time-to-value and improving user productivity. You don't require an upgrade path to deployment topologies and features only offered in IBM BPM. |
| IBM BPM | Offers a comprehensive BPM platform that provides full visibility and insight into managing business processes. It includes tooling and run time for process design, execution, monitoring and optimization, along with system integration support and connectivity capabilities. IBM BPM combines simplicity with ease-of-use for task management, and extended support for high-volume automation. | Your enterprise is involved in multiple BPM projects and it requires integration support. It might also require high-volume process automation and needs additional SOA components for extensive service integration and orchestration. |
IBM BPM is a single platform that combines human-centric and integration-centric capabilities into a unified product. To select which edition to install, consider your enterprise's needs in terms of the level of business process management adoption and the product features and topology support that you want.
| Capability | IBM BPM Express | IBM BPM |
|---|---|---|
| Execution compatible with WebSphere® Lombardi Edition | X | X |
| Execution compatible with WebSphere Process Server | X | |
| Process Designer authoring tool | X | X |
| Collaborative editing and immediate playback of processes | X | X |
| Interactive user interfaces | X | X |
| Process rules based on IBM Operational Decision Manager | X | X |
| IBM Integration Designer (BPEL and SOA) | X | |
| Designing and building case management systems | X | |
| Process Portal | X | X |
| Real-time monitoring and reporting | X | X |
| Performance analytics and optimizer | X | X |
| Performance Data Warehouse | X | X |
| IBM Process Center, with a shared asset repository | X | X |
| IBM Process Federation Server | X | |
| Built-in enterprise service bus (ESB) | X | |
| Transaction support | X | |
| Integration adapters | X | |
| Unlimited process authors and end-users Important: Review the product licenses to understand the usage restrictions for all
the software components that are included with the products.
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200 users / 3 authors
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X |
| Support for Linux on System z®, Linux on Power, AIX® | X | |
| Network deployment support | X | |
| High availability: clustering and unlimited cores |
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X |