Announcement: IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Version 8.6.0

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IBM Business Process Manager (IBM BPM) V8.6.0 is an update to the comprehensive and consumable IBM BPM platform that provides visibility and management of your business processes.

This release, the product name changed from IBM Business Process Manager to IBM Business Process Manager Server as a result of simplifying the package, combining IBM BPM Advanced and IBM BPM Standard into a single edition. IBM Business Process Manager Server includes all the same server profiles (IBM Process Center, IBM Process Server, IBM BPM Advanced, IBM BPM Advanced only, IBM BPM Standard, and IBM Process Federation Server) as separately deployable components of IBM BPM Server.

Information is available on the following topics in this document:

• IBM Business Process Manager including IBM Process Designer and IBM Integration Designer
• Detailed hardware and software requirements
• Announcement letter and release date

IBM Business Process Manager including IBM Process Designer and IBM Integration Designer

• Product simplification
• Web Process Designer
• Representational state transfer (REST) integrations
• IBM BPM UI toolkit
• Process Portal and Process federation Server (PFS) enhancements
• IBM BPM on Cloud
• Housekeeping
• Cloud product insights
• New supported environments that includes Java 8
• Various usability and performance improvements

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Detailed hardware and software requirements

For information on the supported hardware and software for the release, see the following documents:

• Detailed hardware and software requirements for IBM Business Process Manager
• Detailed hardware and software requirements for IBM Business Process Manager Express



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Announcement letter and release date

Refer to the IBM Business Process Manager V8.6 Announcement Letter for additional information.

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