Video transcript: Getting started with IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.5

The following transcript is for the "Getting started with IBM® Business Process Manager V8.5.5" video, which provides an overview of IBM Business Process Manager.

Table 1. Introduction
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Welcome to the Getting Started with IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.5. video series. In this video, I am going to provide an overview of IBM Business Process Manager, or BPM as we call it. BPM is a comprehensive business process management platform, providing full visibility and insight into managing business processes and cases. It provides tooling and a runtime environment for process design, execution, monitoring, and optimization, along with basic system integration support. After watching this video, you will become more familiar with BPM and how all of the components fit together.

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The tools in IBM BPM help you author, test, and deploy business processes, which gives you full visibility and insight into managing those business processes. The components of IBM BPM provide a unified repository to manage the business processes and their associated artifacts, tools for process authors, administrators, testers, and users, and a runtime platform. IBM BPM is also part of Smarter Process because it can connect to other IBM products, such as and can import process models from products such as IBM Blueworks Live.

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Table 2. BPM tour
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Three editions of IBM BPM support various levels of complexity and involvement in business process development and management.

is an affordable entry point for initiating business process management. It includes an easy-to-use interface with a process execution, monitoring, and optimization engine that allows users to engage in process-improvement activities.

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The following capabilities are configured for first IBM BPM projects.

  • Full process visibility for task management and performance monitoring with the ability to initiate changes in real time
  • Real-time collaboration between business and IT for facilitating task management and communications, helping to ensure project accuracy and timely completion
  • Lifecycle governance using IBM Process Center, a scalable, centralized, common design environment and asset repository
  • IBM BPM mobile capability for supporting task management from both IBM Business Process Manager and Blueworks Live
  • Low entry price
  • Easy installation and configuration
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IBM BPM Standard includes the same features as the express edition and is ideal for multi-project improvement programs that focus on workflow and productivity and scale easily from initial project to enterprise-wide programs.

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IBM BPM Standard

The following capabilities are configured for typical IBM BPM projects.

  • Full visibility for streamlining tasks, enabling continuous process improvement through analytics
  • Real-time collaboration for facilitating task management and communications with subject matter experts
  • Program-wide governance using Process Center, a scalable, centralized, common design environment and asset repository
  • IBM BPM mobile capacity for task management from both IBM Business Process Manager and Blueworks Live
  • Ideal for multi-project improvement programs with high business involvement
  • Basic system integration support
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IBM BPM Advanced supports enterprise integration and transaction process management as part of an overall service-oriented architecture, or "SOA". This software includes the same features as the standard edition with more advanced integration and connectivity capabilities. It combines simplicity with ease-of-use for task management and extended support for high-volume automation.

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IBM BPM Advanced

The complete set of IBM BPMcapabilities are included.

  • Extended support for high-volume process automation
  • Built-in SOA components for extensive enterprise-wide service integration and orchestration
  • Full visibility for streamlining tasks, enabling continuous process improvement through analytics
  • Real-time collaboration for facilitating task management and communications with subject matter experts
  • Program-wide governance using Process Center, a scalable and centralized, common design environment and asset repository
  • Enterprise integration of applications and back-end systems
  • IBM BPM mobile capacity for task management from both IBM Business Process Manager and Blueworks Live
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This architecture diagram depicts the makeup of and . After we examine what is available in and , we'll explore IBM BPM Advanced to reveal the Advanced-only capabilities.

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The process application is the fundamental container for processes and their components in IBM BPM.

Process Center provides centralized deployment capabilities and governance over the entire lifecycle of a process application, from initial modeling all the way through to deployment in production. Process Center contains the process application's artifacts, including assets that are shared across multiple process applications.

You can also have different versions of process applications, enabling different levels of the same application to be maintained in the repository and deployed to process servers. The repository also maintains a registry of the process servers in the environment.

You also use Process Center to model and develop process applications, run the process applications during initial testing, and deploy the process applications to test and production servers.

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IBM Process Designer is the authoring tool that you use to model, develop, and complete initial testing of process applications when Process Designer is connected to Process Center.

With Process Designer, you can create business process diagrams, cases, reports, simple services, and other assets. You can also run and debug processes and you can run simulations.

In previous releases, you worked with artifacts in Process Designer on your desktop. Now, you can work with artifacts that are in the Process Designer web editor and in the Process Designer desktop editor.

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IBM Process Server is the runtime environment for process applications. It provides a rich and diverse set of function for business processes. Some of the key capabilities include
  • Business Process Modeling Notation, or BPMN, which is a way to define the flow of a business process
  • Rules, which are a way to extract decision points from code so that they can be more easily adjusted
  • Finally, monitoring, which is a way to track in real time how a business process is performing to help identify bottlenecks and potential places for improvement. Process applications have a built-in monitoring capability that captures data in Performance Data Warehouse. You can then use this data to provide reports on the effectiveness of the business process.

The "Process Server" box is highlighted on the IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.5 - and diagram.

The "BPMN", "Rules", and "Monitoring" boxes are highlighted.

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IBM BPM on Cloud is a Platform as a Service that you can use to develop and manage process application solutions without building or maintaining a supporting IT infrastructure. Users in your enterprise can access the environment through the IBM BPM on Cloud user interface.

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By using the Process Admin Console, you can manage the process servers in your runtime environments, such as the process servers that are used for development, test, staging, and production, as well as the process server that is part of Process Center.

IBM Process Portal is the user interface that people use to participate in processes.

Plus, the IBM BPM for Microsoft Office and IBM BPM for Microsoft SharePoint add-ons enable integration with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Sharepoint.

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Here is the diagram for IBM BPM Advanced. IBM BPM Advanced has IBM Integration Designer, ESB, BPEL, and Service Component Architecture capabilities, and the WebSphere® Application Server administrative console in addition to all of the components that IBM BPM Express and IBM BPM Standard have. There is also a case management function if you have the Basic Case Management feature installed.

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Integration Designer is the development environment where you build integrated business applications that are targeted for the IBM BPM runtime environment. Integration Designer is a separate product from IBM BPM; however, it is a critical authoring tool that is used to develop SOA-based services that can be called from process applications. It can run either connected or disconnected from Process Center.

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Process Server is the runtime environment for process applications. It provides a rich and diverse set of functions for business processes. In addition to IBM BPM Express and IBM BPM Standard, IBM BPM Advanced capabilities include
  • Business Process Execution Language, which provides a high-level way to define your business processes that are provided as Service Component Architecture, or SCA, components. By using SCA components, you can implement SOA-based services that can have various implementation types and support various communication protocols.
  • Enterprise Service Bus capabilities, which provide a way to loosely couple service requestors and service providers, allowing for protocol conversion, message transformation, and routing.

The "Process Server" box is highlighted on the IBM Business Process Manager - IBM BPM Advanced V8.5.5 diagram.

The "BPMN", "Rules", "Monitoring", "BPEL", "ESB", and "SCA " boxes are highlighted.

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The WebSphere Application Server administrative console is available in IBM BPM Advanced. You can use the administrative console to administer applications, services, and other resources at a cell, node, server, or cluster level with stand-alone servers and with deployment managers that manage all servers in a cell in a networked environment.

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Now that you understand the parts that make up IBM BPM, I can explain the various user roles using theIBM BPM Advanced diagram . Process authors, analysts, and developers use Process Designer. Process authors and administrators use Process Center to manage servers and deploy process applications.

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Developers, who have a deeper and more technical background than process authors, use Integration Designer.

Process end users use Process Portal and optional Microsoft Add-ons.

Administrators use the Process Admin Console and the WebSphere Application Server administrative console.

The Integration Designer user is highlighted.

The Process Admin Console and WebSphere Application Server administrative console users are highlighted, and then the Process Portal user is highlighted.
18 Various users work together with the various components of IBM BPM to build business processes. For example, a process author creates a business process that uses an Advanced Integration service in Process Designer and then notifies a developer that the service needs to be implemented in Integration Designer. After it is implemented and delivered back to Process Center, the process author uses the service in Process Designer. The business process that contains the service will then be deployed to Process Portal for end-users.

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An image shows the Advanced Integration Service window that highlights the requirement to open in Integration Designer to implement.

Table 3. Conclusion
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19 This video introduced you to IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.5. You learned about the various editions and components that make up IBM BPM. I described the high-level architecture and associated user roles, and I introduced the editions and various components of the product.

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This video covered the following information:
  • The editions and various components that make up IBM BPM
  • IBM BPM architecture and user roles
20 For more information about IBM Business Process Manager, browse our other videos or visit these other official resources.

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