Features and benefits
NEW capabilities include:
- Enhanced business user experience designed to manage, with IT governance, changes to business process outcomes
- Web-based, customisable user interface, Business Space power by WebSphere
- NEW Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Content Pack for Automotive, Electronics, Aerospace and Defense, and Industrial verticals. Simpler installation for network deployments.
- Prescriptive guidance for developing your own unique content packs
- Enhancements to existing IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack
- Connects to existing islands of event information
- Support for Czech, Hungarian, Polish languages; basic support for bidirectional text
- Additional system support: RHEL on Series p; Oracle 11g
WebSphere Business Services Fabric adapts and responds rapidly to change with truly dynamic, SOA-based business processes and can:
- Assemble, store, reuse and share, individual business process attributes in an IT governed yet easily updatable database and runtime environment
- Expose to business users only those process attributes that can be changed with no risk, while built-in governance processes allow IT to ensure that more drastic changes do not crash any systems.
- Store and act upon formerly hard-coded, individual process attributes in an IT governed yet easily updatable database and runtime environment, enabling enterprise-wide policy changes to be proliferated concurrently across all applicable processes and disparate IT systems.
- Optional Industry Content Packs speed time to market with prebuilt industry assets that leverage years of investments in systems and applications.
Industry Content Packs will help you get started even quicker by assembling and reusing with the available IBM Industry Content Packs contains prebuilt SOA accelerators designed to speed time to market for payments-specific composite business applications. These assets are provided in the form of Business Services Templates, and each asset is fully optimised for use within the industry’s ecosystem.
IBM Industry Content Packs are optional to WebSphere Business Services Fabric and together you can see business value in the following areas:
- Pre-built industry content on IBM middleware
- Simplify consumption of industry standards
- Reuse SOA assets
- Consistency across industry Lines of Businesses and processes
- Governing architecture to extend the content
The following Industry Content Packs are currently available:
- NEW Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Content Pack for Automotive, Electronics, Aerospace and Defense, and Industrial verticals. Simpler installation for network deployments.
- IBM Banking Payments Content Pack V6.1
- IBM Healthcare Payer Content Pack V6.1
- IBM Insurance Property & Casualty Content Pack V6.1
- IBM Telcom Operations Content Pack V6.1 (PDF, 72KB)
For additional information on other industries contact your IBM Representative or request more information.

