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WebSphere business process management

IBM® WebSphere® provides the tools you need to model, assemble, deploy and manage business processes.

Updated 27 Jun 2008

Creating flexible service-oriented business solutions with WebSphere Business Services Fabric, Part 2
Build composite business applications that support dynamic binding and orchestration. In Part 2, you'll use Fabric Modeling Tool to model variability points in the business process as ontology extensions. More

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General interest

	Play the Innov8 game to learn business process management Learn the fundamentals of business process management (BPM) by playing the strategic IBM BPM-simulation game Innov8. Interact with other virtual employees, participate in their daily work activities, and learn about BPM as you discover, collaborate on, and optimize the company's business processes.

	Business analyst tools and best practices This new developerWorks space can help you keep current with the latest tools and best practices for business analysts to help you translate business requirements into IT requirements.

	Integrating IT monitoring and business activity monitoring This article describes how to set up a communication link and configure an event format converter between Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA and WebSphere Business Monitor.

	BPM with SOA, Part 4: Monitoring FileNet P8 and Process Server processes Correlate and monitor events from both platforms using a monitor model, and use Monitor dashboards to view real-time transaction status with metrics and KPIs.

	Exploring key facts about business process management with WebSphere software (PDF) This white paper explains four critical capabilities and strengths of the WebSphere BPM offerings, and helps to position them relative to offerings from other vendors.

Building BPM user interfaces

	Getting started with Lotus Forms in the WebSphere business process management suite Learn some methods for integrating Lotus Forms into your business processes and human tasks using WebSphere V6.1 business process management products.

	Customize the look of your WebSphere Business Monitor business dashboard It's easy to change the look of your Monitor dashboards to reflect your company's style and preferences by creating custom banners, themes, logos, colors, and more.

	Get started with WebSphere business process management V6.1 Learn about WebSphere business process management by using the Clips and Tacks end-to-end BPM tutorial to build and deploy a business process and configure a business dashboard.

Business activity monitoring (BAM)

	Put new capabilities of business activity monitoring (BAM) to work, Part 9: What's new in WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1 This article describes the many new functions for creating and editing monitor models in the WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 development toolkit. Learn about the major enhancements, including integration with IBM WebSphere Integration Developer, XSD event definitions, visual model updates, and editing changes for KPIs and dimensional models.

	Enhance WebSphere Business Monitor reports with Crystal Reports, Part 2 In Part 2 of this series, you’ll learn how to use the Business Objects universe you created in Part 1 to provide reporting on WebSphere Business Monitor’s data mart using Business Objects Crystal Reports, Desktop Intelligence and Web Intelligence.

	Jump-start business activity monitoring (BAM): Monitoring human tasks with WebSphere Business Monitor Part 11 of this series describes the Human Task Monitoring SupportPac, available in WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2.1.

Content and collaboration

	Accessing WebSphere Service Registry and Repository from WebSphere Message Broker Accessing WebSphere Service Registry and Repository from WebSphere Message Broker This article shows you how to use WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 and its WSRR nodes to access service information stored in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.

	Creating business model templates with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.1 This article describes how to create, load, update, and use new business models within WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.1.

Modeling and simulation

	Use cyclic flows to enable loopbacks in WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Integration Developer Learn a simple technique for converting loopbacks in Modeler models into cyclic flows in Integration Developer so that the loops can run on WebSphere Process Server.

	Discover and model your business processes with WebSphere Business Modeler Learn how using WebSphere Business Modeler for business process discovery and modeling can get your business project management projects off and running.

	Why model business processes? Learn about the advantages of capturing and modeling your business processes. Compare different modeling approaches, and learn why WebSphere Business Modeler is a powerful tool for creating process models.

Process execution and optimization

	Adding custom roles in WebSphere Business Services Fabric Learn how you to add custom roles to the WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.1 business model using Rational Software Architect and the Fabric Modeling Tool. You can then build policies and assertions around them.