Running a business process
A business process can run on a predefined schedule, in response to an activity, or manually.
Each step in a business process performs one of these activities:
- A service runs within the system.
- An adapter calls a third-party application to perform activities outside of the system.
- Sterling B2B Integrator performs
the BPML activities that are configured in the business process.
For example, the BPML might start or stop the process flow, assign a specified value in the data, or run specified activities simultaneously.
A map runs when the service that invokes it is triggered by the business process.
See the Sterling B2B Integrator documentation for details about defining business process schedules, bootstrapping, and manually running a business process.