Business Processes

Sterling B2B Integrator helps you monitor, troubleshoot, model, and analyze your.business processes. Each business process is defined by a single, unique BPML document known as a business process model (.bpml or .bp file).

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and BPML
A basic understanding of BPML fundamentals will enhance your understanding of Sterling B2B Integrator and facilitate your monitoring, troubleshooting, business process modeling, and process analysis activities.
Business Process Modeling Best Practices
The business process modeling best practices documentation is designed to provide information that can be a helpful reference when modeling your business processes.
Business Process Modeling
The IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator approach to integration centers on business process management. Business process modeling is the foundation of the configurability and extensibility of Sterling B2B Integrator.
Business Processing Queued and Non-Queued Processing Modes
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator supports two modes for business processes: BP Queued processing and BP Non-Queued processing. It is important to understand the difference between the two modes.
Business Process Monitoring
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator provides a variety of ways to monitor processing activity at the business process level, enabling you to ascertain whether your transactions are happening expeditiously, pinpoint and troubleshoot slow or halted processes, and research and correct errors that led to unexpected results.
Business Process Troubleshooting
Sometimes you may need to troubleshoot your IBM Sterling B2B Integrator business processes to determine why something is not working as you intended.
Document Tracking
The Document Tracking feature enables you to obtain tracking data on documents as they flow through the system and to understand the relationships between documents. This document-centric feature enables you to track a document through its entire life cycle and to obtain document status information at any point in the document’s life cycle—from the time the document arrives in Sterling B2B Integrator, until processing is complete or the document exits the system
Graphical Process Modeler
To help you create business process models, Sterling B2B Integrator includes the Graphical Process Modeler (GPM).
Graphical Process Modeler Checklist
The Graphical Process Modeler checklist contains information to assist you when planning to use the Sterling B2B Integrator Graphical Process Modeler (GPM).
Monitor Business Process Deadline Events
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator provides several ways to monitor business process deadline events.
Transaction Management
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator provides functionality to help you manage your business process transactions.
Web Extensions
Web Extensions is a suite of utilities and services that enable human interaction within business processes when the business processes run in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator.