IBM Business Process Manager in Detail

 IBM Business Process Manager Overview

 V8.5 enables seamless integration with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems by providing an embedded CMIS-compliant (Content Management Interoperability Services) internal document store known as the BPM document store, which addresses the business requirement to include the management of related physical documents in the scope of a business process. In this tutorial you'll find out how to achieve a content-driven integration scenario using the new document store feature. This content is part of the IBM Business Process Management Journal.

IBM Business Process Manager—product highlights

1. Provides complete visibility to all process participants, enabling continuous process  improvement and optimization
2. Increases efficiency with a federated view for performing tasks, managing work items, tracking performance and responding to events—all in real time
3. Empowers knowledge workers with real-time analytics to optimize business processes
4. Enhances time to value through business-user-focused design capabilities, including process coaching to guide users easily through the steps of a process
5.  Enables process designers to confidently manage change with a unified model-driven environment that provides everybody with visibility of the same process version
6. Designed to scale from first projects to enterprise-wide solutions with processes that execute consistently, reliably, securely and with transactional integrity
7. Flexibly connects enterprise applications and services with a built-in enterprise service bus (ESB) connectivity infrastructure
8. Delivers full compatibility with the latest versions of WPS, WID and WLE
9. Installs simply—gets you up and running with minimal time and effort

There are three configurations of IBM Business Process Manager available to match an organization’s desired entry point:

IBM Business Process Manager Advanced

• Complete set of advanced BPM capabilities
• Includes the BPM capabilities of IBM Business Process Manager Standard
• Extended support for high-volume process automation, with high quality of service
• Built-in flexible SOA connectivity infrastructure for extensive enterprise-wide service integration and orchestration
• Business Space UI framework for creating an integrated and customized user experience
• Federated view for performing tasks, managing work items, tracking performance and responding to events—all in real time
• Integration Design tooling for visually constructing services, data transformations, BPEL orchestrations and integration to applications and back-end systems
• Comprehensive set of adapters to service-enable your assets, including packaged, custom and heritage applications, technology protocols and databases

IBM Business Process Manager Standard

• Configured for typical BPM projects
• For multi project improvement programs, with high business involvement
• Focus on improved workflow, productivity
• Highly collaborative process development using direct playback of BPMN
• Includes basic system integration support
• Rapid time to value
• Fully compatible with the latest versions of WLE

IBM Business Process Manager Express

• Configured for first BPM project
• For small numbers of users-Single server, no clustering
• Installs in just six clicks
• Includes all the capabilities in Standard, but configured for an initial small project

Configuring IBM Business Process Manager to use a web server

The IBM HTTP Server or WebSphere proxy server can be used to spread the http requests among the IBM Business Process Manager Cluster members. After the IBM Business Process Manager Deployment environment is ready, you can further configure it to use IBM HTTP Server or WebSphere proxy server.

IBM BPM Business Process Life Cycle:

            The Business Process Life Cycle rely on six main aspects. This is a linked (or) a chained process in which these six steps involve in the Life cycle process of Business Process Management. The six steps are listed as follows:

1. Process Identification
2. Process Discovery
3. Process Analysis
4. Process Re-Design
5. Process Implementation
6. Process Monitoring & Controlling

The Life Cycle of Business Process Management can be explained in a better way by using pictorial representation as follows:

     1)      Process Identification

  

2) Process Discovery

This is the second step of Business Process Life Cycle. The Process is first identified and then sent for discovery. So this step can be called as Process Discovery. Here the architecture of the Process is discovered.

Process discovery and design is the modeling, simulation, and adjustment of core business processes for both documentation and execution. It facilitates the collaboration of the process strategy with your business goals.

     3)      Process Analysis

           

                

This is the third step of Business Process Life Cycle. Here the discovered process is sent for analysis. The Discovered process is analyzed here. This step is called as Process Analysis.

Process analysis empowers organizations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes. This includes a broad range of capabilities, business intelligence( BI), predictive analytics and performance management, through which businesses can apply to their data to continuously monitor, measure, manage and improve the decisions that drive their operations. Process analysis is beyond simply analyzing process data. For continuous process improvement, this includes the embedding of analytical insights into the process itself.

4)      Process Re-Design

        5)      Process Implementation:

      6)      Process Monitoring & Controlling: