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IBM Business Process Manager v8.0.1 overview
The components of IBM BPM provide a unified BPM repository...
- tools for authors, administrators, and users
- runtime platform
IBM BPM can be configured to support various levels of complexity and involvement with business process management.
- From the Process Designer and Integration Designer authoring environments, developers connect to IBM Process Center.
From either of these GUI-based application development tools, developers can create, test, debug, and deploy business applications.
- In the Process Designer and Integration Designer authoring environments, process and service designers create deployable process applications and reusable toolkits.
Process applications contain process models and service implementations, including the supporting files that are required. The process applications are stored in Process Center repository so that they can be shared.
- The Process Center includes two servers...
These servers allow developers that are working in Process Designer to run their process applications and store performance data for testing and playback during development efforts. Performance Data Warehouse retrieves tracked data from Process Server or Process Center server at regular intervals.
- Process Center supports numerous administrative functions.
From the Process Center Console, administrators install process applications that are ready for staging, testing, or production on the process servers. The administrators can also manage running instances of process applications in configured environments.
- Install process applications on a process server for staging, testing, and production.
The runtime environments support Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0 processes. IBM BPM Advanced also supports Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) processes.
- From the Process Admin Console and Performance Admin Console, administrators can manage and maintain all runtime servers.
Use the Process Admin Console to manage the Process Center server and process servers in your runtime environments. Use the Performance Admin Console to identify performance bottlenecks and to capture instrumentation data for further analysis.
- Use the administrative console to manage resources, applications, and servers.
- Use Business Space to create custom business spaces that provide widgets for monitoring or administering different aspects of your system.
For example, you can monitor business activities, services, and system health or administer mediation policies and business calendars. You can also create a business space with the Human Task Management widgets and use it to participate in business processes.
- Using Process Portal, process participants can connect to the Process Center server or a Process Server in any configured runtime environment, whether a process is being developed, tested, or has been released to a production environment.
- Manage Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process instances in the Business Process Choreographer Explorer or in Business Space.