On April 5, 2011, IBM announced IBM Business Process Manager, a single unified BPM platform that is designed to support the entire range of business process improvement projects. This is an exciting new BPM release that consolidates the market-leading capabilities of both WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Lombardi Edition.
IBM Business Process Manager is the successor to WebSphere Process Server (WPS), WebSphere Lombardi Edition (WLE), and related products. IBM will help customers migrate their current entitlements for existing products to equivalent entitlements for corresponding IBM Business Process Manager product components.
In order to preserve the investments that customers have already made in WebSphere BPM products, IBM Business Process Manager is backward compatible with previous releases of WPS (6.1/6.1.2/6.2/7.0) and WLE (7.1/7.2). Applications that run on those WPS and WLE releases will run on similar configurations of IBM Business Process Manager. In addition, migration tools are available with IBM Business Process Manager. See the Application Migration section below for more information.
Customers that have WebSphere BPM products will be able to migrate their current product licenses to corresponding IBM Business Process Manager licenses, anytime after June 3, 2011. The tables below explain how that entitlement migration will work for each WebSphere BPM product.
Please note that IBM will continue to support existing WebSphere BPM releases for the time periods specified in the tables below, giving customers the time needed to plan and complete migration to IBM Business Process Manager releases.
Entitlement Migration Summary – By Product
WebSphere Process Server & WebSphere Integration Designer
Customers who have WebSphere Process Server (WPS) will be entitled to IBM Process Server Advanced, and customers who have WebSphere Integration Designer (WID) will be entitled to IBM Integration Designer. For your convenience, entitlements will be mapped automatically as described in the following table.
Previous releases of WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Designer will be supported through the standard end-of-service dates listed below. Optionally, support may be extended for up to 3 years beyond those dates.1
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1 PVU of WebSphere Process Server migrates to 1 PVU of IBM Process Server Advanced. 1 User of WebSphere Integration Developer migrates to 1 User of IBM Integration Designer. NOTE: IBM Process Center Advanced and IBM Process Designer parts must be purchased separately in order to upgrade to a complete IBM Business Process Manager Advanced configuration. |
NOTE: IBM Process Center Advanced and IBM Process Designer parts must be purchased separately in order to upgrade to a complete IBM Business Process Manager Advanced configuration.
WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition
Customers who have WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition (WDPE) Server V6.1.2, V6.2.x, V7.0.0 with Business Services Fabric will be entitled to IBM Process Server Advanced, IBM Process Center Advanced, IBM Business Monitor, and associated development tools. Customers who have WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition (WDPE) Business Server V7.0.1 will be entitled to IBM Process Server Advanced, IBM Business Monitor, and associated development tools. For your convenience, entitlements will be mapped automatically as described in the following table.
Previous releases of WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition will be supported through the standard end-of-service dates listed below. Optionally, support may be extended for up to 3 years beyond those dates.1
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WDPE Server w/Fabric (6.1.2, 6.2.x, 7.0.0) 2 PVUs of WDPE Server migrate to 4 PVUs of IBM Process Server Advanced and 1 PVU of IBM Process Center Advanced PVU and 1 PVU of IBM Business Monitor. 1 User of WDPE Tool Pack migrates to 1 User of IBM Process Designer and 1 User of IBM Integration Designer and 1 User of WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced. NOTE: WDPE customers that want to continue using Fabric will need to request a manual entitlement. Please ask your IBM sales representative for assistance. |
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WDPE Business Server (7.0.1) 2 PVUs of WDPE Business Server migrates to 1 PVU of IBM Process Server Advanced and 1 PVU of IBM Business Monitor. 1 User of Business Tool Pack migrates to 1 User of IBM Integration Designer and 1 User of WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced. NOTE: IBM Process Center Advanced and IBM Process Designer parts must be purchased separately in order to upgrade to a complete IBM Business Process Manager Advanced configuration. |
WebSphere Lombardi Edition
Customers who have WebSphere Lombardi Edition (WLE) or associated Office and SharePoint add-ons will be entitled to equivalent IBM Business Process Manager Standard components. For your convenience, entitlements will be mapped automatically as described in the following table.
NOTE: WLE Participant User entitlements will not be migrated as IBM Business Process Manager has no entitlements or limits on end users.
Previous releases of WebSphere Lombardi Edition will be supported through the standard end-of-service dates listed below. Optionally, support may be extended for up to 3 years beyond those dates.1
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2 PVUs of WLE Server migrates to 1 PVU of IBM Process Server Standard and 1 PVU of IBM Process Center Standard. 1 User of WLE Author migrates to 1 User of IBM Process Designer. WLE Participant User limits will not be migrated as IBM Business Process Manager has no limit on end users. NOTE: WLE customers that prefer a different allocation of PVUs to Process Server Standard and Process Center Standard will need to request a manual entitlement. Please ask your IBM sales representative for assistance. |
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1 Instance of WLE for Office migrates to 1 instance of IBM BPM for Microsoft Office. |
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1 Instance of WLE for SharePoint migrates to 1 instance of IBM BPM for Microsoft SharePoint. |
Lombardi Teamworks
Lombardi Teamworks is a BPM platform formerly offered by Lombardi Software prior to its acquisition by IBM in January 2011.
Customers who have Lombardi Teamworks (TW), Teamworks for Office (TFO), Lombardi for Office (LFO), or Teamworks for SharePoint (TFS) will be entitled to equivalent IBM Business Process Manager Standard components.
This will require an inventory and declaration of the customer’s current Teamworks usage, in terms of Server PVUs in development, test, and production environments, Author users in development, and Server instances supporting Office and SharePoint add-on users.
Please contact your IBM sales and S&S renewal representatives if you are interested in migrating your Lombardi Teamworks entitlements to IBM Business Process Manager Standard components.
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Inventory the current environments, and migrate current usage to equivalent IBM Business Process Manager Standard entitlements: 1 PVU of Teamworks Server in Dev environment migrates to 1 PVU of IBM Process Center Standard. 1 PVU of Teamworks Server in Test environment migrates to 1 PVU of IBM Process Server Standard. 1 PVU of Teamworks Server in Prod environment migrates to 1 PVU of IBM Process Server Standard. 1 User of Teamworks Author migrates to 1 User of IBM Process Designer. |
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1 Instance of Teamworks for Office migrates to 1 instance of IBM BPM for Microsoft Office. |
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1 Instance of Teamworks for SharePoint migrates to 1 instance of IBM BPM for Microsoft SharePoint. |
Heritage WebSphere BPM Products
For customers that have heritage WebSphere BPM products – including WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) products, WebSphere InterChange Server (WICS), and WebSphere MQ Workflow (WMQWF) – IBM offers the opportunity to migrate those product entitlements to IBM Business Process Server Advanced and IBM Integration Designer.
Heritage BPM customers do not have to migrate entitlements immediately. Customers can continue to use heritage BPM products through the announced end-of-service dates. Optionally, support may be extended for up to 3 years beyond those dates.1
To facilitate the extended migration period some customers may require to move to the newer replacement products (and to avoid "double payment" during that migration period), IBM is offering customers complimentary "extended entitlement" to the specified replacement products until the customer fully migrates from their original entitled products.
For more details on this extended entitlement program for heritage WebSphere BPM products, please refer to Extended Entitlement for Migration to Latest WebSphere BPM Products.
Please contact your IBM sales and S&S renewal representatives if you are interested in migrating your heritage WebSphere BPM product entitlements to IBM Business Process Manager components.
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For details on the extended entitlement program for heritage WebSphere BPM products, please refer to Extended Entitlement for Migration to Latest WebSphere BPM Products. Please contact your IBM sales and S&S renewal representatives if you are interested in migrating your heritage WebSphere BPM product entitlements to IBM Business Process Manager components. |
*These dates were established in earlier end-of-service announcements.
Application Migration
In order to preserve the investments that customers have already made in WebSphere BPM products, IBM Business Process Manager is backward compatible with previous releases of WPS (6.1/6.1.2/6.2/7.0) and WLE (7.1/7.2). Applications that run on those WPS and WLE releases will run on similar configurations of IBM Business Process Manager. In addition, migration tools are available with IBM Business Process Manager. Here are more details:
WebSphere Process Server
- WPS 6.1, 6.1.2, 6.2, and 7.0 applications will run unmodified on IBM Process Server Advanced V7.5. (Note to WDPE customers: IBM Business Process Manager Advanced only provides compatibility with the WPS component of WDPE.)
- WPS 6.1, 6.1.2, 6.2, and 7.0 applications can be imported into IBM Integration Designer v7.5 to migrate the application assets to IBM Business Process Manager Advanced v7.5.
- Upgrade tools support migration of in-flight instances from WPS 6.1, 6.1.2, 6.2, and 7.x to IBM Business Process Manager Advanced v7.5.
WebSphere Lombardi Edition & Lombardi Teamworks
- IBM Business Process Manager Standard V7.5 is backward compatible with WLE 7.1 and 7.2 process applications.
- Upgrade tools support the migration of your Lombardi Teamworks 6.1, 6.2, 7.0 and WLE 7.1, 7.2 applications definitions, as well as in-flight process data in production, onto the IBM Business Process Manager Standard platform.
Additional migration steps or effort may be required for applications based on:
- older releases of WebSphere Process Server or Lombardi Teamworks.
- features outside of the WPS component of WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition.
- heritage WebSphere BPM products (WBI, WICS, or WMQWF products).
For help in understanding the effort involved in migrating your application to IBM Business Process Manager, please contact your IBM sales or services representative for assistance.
Notes
Note 1: Optional extended service is available for up to 3 years beyond the standard service period, for products licensed under terms of the IBM International Program License Agreement. For information on the IBM Software Support Lifecycle, please refer to the IBM Software Support Lifecycle Policy. If interested in extended service, please contact your IBM sales representative for assistance.
Additional Information
Please refer to the product overview pages for IBM Business Process Manager on the IBM web site.
For more information on IBM Business Process Manager V7.5, please refer to Software Announcement 211-092, dated April 5, 2011.
For information on the exact mapping of WebSphere BPM part numbers to IBM Business Process Manager part numbers as well as end-of-service dates, please refer to Software Announcement 911-087, dated April 5, 2011.
If you have additional questions or concerns, please contact your IBM representative, or send us email at askibmbpm@us.ibm.com.
