IBM is the industry leader in Business Process Management enabled by SOA. Through a combination of business expertise, software, services, industry templates & workplace forms we help you understand, define, execute, & optimise the core business processes that generate value for your company.
The benefits of developing reusable business processes on an SOA foundation are:
- Business and IT flexibility
- Streamlined and efficient operations
- Consistent workflows, business rules enforcement & automation for regulatory compliance (Sarbannes-Oxley, HIPPAA)
- Rapid response to emerging market opportunities, customers & partners
- Measurement of business processes enabling continuous improvement and optimisation
BPM enabled by SOA unlocks the capabilities that you already have within your company and allows you to use them more productively.
Products, solutions and tools
Products
- WebSphere Business Services Fabric
A comprehensive SOA offering that enables faster assembly and easier maintenance of composite business applications.
- WebSphere Business Modeler
Allows you to fully visualise, comprehend, and document your business processes, with the capability to perform simulation and analysis for continuous optimisation, while letting business users easily define key performance indicators (KPIs) and business measures that you want to monitor.
- WebSphere Business Monitor
Enables you monitor business events in real-time by providing key users with a visual display of business process status on customisable dashboards, together with alerts and notifications, so that immediate actions can be taken in response to critical situations, with multidimensional analysis and reports supported through the dashboards.
- WebSphere Process Server
Is the next generation server based on Service Oriented Architecture that simplifies the integration and automation of enterprise business processes. It transforms existing processes to be dynamic and adaptive to deliver cost effective business agility.
- WebSphere Registry and Repository
Is the next generation server based on Service Oriented Architecture that simplifies the integration and automation of enterprise business processes. It transforms existing processes to be dynamic and adaptive to deliver cost effective business agility.
- WebSphere Partner Gateway
Provides centralised and consolidated B2B trading partner and transaction management to enable and manage process and data integration with trading partners based upon industry standards-based EDI and XML data formats and secure transport protocols.
- WebSphere RFID Premises Server (US)
Help improve your supply chain and asset management. With RFID technology, connect the edge of your environment with your enterprise operations.
Solutions
- Business-to-Business Integration (US)
B2B integration solutions based upon industry data format and transport protocol standards support data exchange, process integration, and Web Services interoperability among trading partners.
- Information Integration (US)
Solve typical pains associated with business integration, such as integrating customer data, speeding the development of portal applications, and aggregating information across and beyond the enterprise. Ultimately, with WebSphere II, companies can leverage their existing data and content assets in a business integration context.
- Product Lifecycle Management (US)
Leverage openness, interoperability & strategic integration to increase effectiveness.
- More SOA Information (US)
Tools and components
- WebSphere Integration Developer
The developer experience is second to none. WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Adapters all use WebSphere Integration Developer. One tool, one set of skills enabling you to orchestrate processes, construct mediations between services and truly integrate the capabilities previously locked away in your packaged business applications. Build your SOA the way you want it - flexible, fast and business driven.
- WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
Provides Web services connectivity, JMS™ messaging and service oriented integration to power your Service Oriented Architecture.
- WebSphere Adapters
A range of predefined adapters as well as a build-your-own tool kit to rapidly and fully integrate your business applications into your SOA.
