The Process Center includes a repository for all processes, services, and other assets created in the IBM® Business Process Manager authoring environments, Process Designer and Integration Designer.
Process Center is a software component that runs as a server where Process Designer and Integration Designer share assets, in effect letting them develop business processes cooperatively in a highly interactive manner. These business processes can use monitoring points created with the Business Monitor development toolkit. The result is a business process that can be examined at run time for effectiveness under real working conditions.
In the diagram that follows, you see several related components that together let you build complex business processes.
The Process Center console provides the tools that you need to maintain the repository.
- From the Process Center console, you can create process applications and toolkits and grant other users access to those process applications and toolkits.
- In the authoring environments, you can create process models, services, and other assets within process applications.
- Process Center includes a Process Center server and performance data warehouse, allowing users working in the authoring environments to run processes and store performance data for testing and playback purposes.
- From the Process Center console, administrators install process applications that are ready for testing or production on the process servers in those environments.
- From the Process Center console, administrators manage running instances of process applications in configured environments.
The Process Center console provides a convenient location in which to create and maintain high-level containers such as process applications and toolkits. Administrators who do not actively work in the Designer view can use the Process Center console to provide a framework in which BPM analysts and developers can build their processes and underlying implementations. Another primary task for administrators is managing access to the Process Center repository by setting up the appropriate authorization for users and groups.
Users with appropriate authorization can perform some administrative tasks directly in Process Designer and Integration Designer. For example, a developer with write access to the process application who wants to capture the state of all project assets at a significant stage of development can create a snapshot while working in the Designer view.
Note: Installation of a Process Center is
not supported on a z/OS® system,
but you can customize the system to connect to a Process Center repository
that is installed and configured on Linux, UNIX, or Windows. For more information about installing,
configuring, and managing a Process Center repository,
see Installing and configuring IBM Business Process Manager Advanced and Managing and
sharing assets in the Process Center repository. See the topic Administrative
console for information about the administrative console.