Business process concepts

A business process is a goal-driven, ordered flow of activities that accomplishes a business objective. A service is a set of instructions that Sterling B2B Integrator uses to perform an activity in a business process. Process data is data that a process stores in an XML document when the process runs. For example, process data that a service extracts from a document can be used to determine which service runs next in the process.

IBM Transformation Extender for Sterling B2B Integrator installs the WTX Map service into Sterling B2B Integrator. The WTX Map service and certain Sterling B2B Integrator services can run a IBM Transformation Extender map as part of a business process.

See the Sterling B2B Integrator documentation for details about business processes, services, and process data.