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IBM Integration Designer solves the key problem today of integrating data and applications to create technical solutions for complex business processes. To understand how to use Integration Design, you must understand the product's architecture and features.

• Team development in IBM BPM
  IBM BPM provides tools to help teams share resources and collaborate effectively.
• Service-oriented architecture
  Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a loosely-defined industry standard that presents all business processes in a service-oriented way. Dependencies among services such as web services, Enterprise Information System (EIS) service assets, workflows, and databases are minimized and implementation of any service is hidden.
• SCA
  Service Component Architecture enables a service oriented architecture and is made available by many corporations including IBM.
• Deployment options for IBM Integration Designer
  In IBM Integration Designer you can deploy applications in two ways. The method you select depends on whether you use IBM Process Center with IBM Integration Designer.
• The runtime environments for IBM Integration Designer
  

  You can use IBM Integration Designer to create applications that can be run in IBM Process Server or WebSphere DataPower Appliance.

• Task flows
  

  You can use task flows to learn about and perform tasks in IBM Integration Designer in an interactive manner. When you use learning task flows, you can learn key concepts; when you use creating task flows, you can learn how to perform key tasks.