Features and benefits
Learn more about the new V4.5.1 Starter Pack and what's new for Agile ECM
Key features include:
Web 2.0 mashup based framework with a broad collection of extensible pre-wired ECM Widgets provides key process and content functionality so that business analysts and IT staff can quickly and easily compose user interface elements for BPM applications.
Standard-based Process Modeling for Business: A Visio-based, easy-to-use modeling environment to define business process models that can be directly mapped to process definitions in XPDL.
Standards-based Process Design Tool: A Web-based process design tool that can read and produce portable process definitions in XPDL. It provides reusable step palettes that can be extended and customized for various groups and industries.
Process Simulation: A modeling tool for simulating processes based on real execution data or assumed scenarios. It provides simulation animation and produces statistics that can be analyzed to identify process bottlenecks and optimize processes.
Process Tracking and Analysis: A tool to ensure better business decisions by monitoring processes and providing in-depth analysis of live and historical process information.
Event-Driven Processing increases the agility and responsiveness of business operations by automatically responding to transactions or business events as they occur.
Process Versioning and Easy Administration supports rapid deployment of improved processes while minimizing the impact on normal operations.
Fully Integrated Content Management (including FileNet Content Manager and Content Manager) seamlessly manages, stores and shares content that is part of the business process without the burden of integrating third-party tools or custom programming.
IBM FileNet Business Process Manager provides numerous technology and business benefits:
100% Web-based: Delivers a high level of easily accessible process functionality while minimizing deployment costs
Process flexibility: Provides a rich process definition environment that can accurately implement highly complex, interrelated processes with comprehensive functionality
Support for standard platforms: Protects investments by integrating with other infrastructures using industry standards (J2EE™, Web Services and XML)
Business Process Framework: Offers rapid development and deployment of custom business process management applications, is ideal for case-based applications, supports complex task management and provides a role-based, customized and personalized user experience
Interaction and integration with business rules engines – based on long-term experience with various market-leading Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) such as ILOG.
Lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Powerful components such as eForms, Connector for Microsoft Visio, and BPF are now included in IBM FileNet Business Process Manager as well as limited use licenses for IBM DB2 Workgroup Server Edition, WebSphere Application Server (Base Edition), Business Space powered by WebSphere, and IBM Cognos Now! Limited Edition
V4.5.1 includes:
FileNet Content Manager
FileNet ECM Widgets
FileNet Process Analyzer
FileNet Process Designer
FileNet Process Monitor
FileNet Process Simulator
FileNet Business Process Framework
FileNet Connector for Microsoft Visio
FileNet eForms
