WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition

Empowering business users through Business Space powered by WebSphere

Business Space powered by WebSphere enables business users to create an integrated and customized user experience so that they can access contextualized process information in a secure role-based environment. Using the single sign on, Web 2.0-based mashup environment, Business Space users can collaborate with colleagues and subject matter experts by sharing process content and working together to review BPM assets.

Users can create and share their own spaces, or collections of pages that comprise a business process, application, or collaborative end-user experience. Business Space also provides a set of out-of-the-box templates which provide pre-integrated process capabilities for an enhanced user experience. Users can immediately use or customize these templates to rapidly create a new or customized process experience. Users can choose to mark their spaces as private or share their spaces with potential viewers or contributors.

By providing a consolidated view of business process content and enabling contextual collaboration in one location, Business Space enables business users to manage their processes more effectively, make smarter decisions, and take action more quickly.

Business Space also enables IT developers to achieve faster time to value when developing BPM end user experiences and solutions, through leveraging out-of-the-box product content and simplified user interface assembly tooling.

Strengthening collaboration and the BPM Experience with Business Space

Business Space ships as a common business user interface component with the following products: WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Business Services Fabric, and WebSphere Business Modeler Publishing Server. Users of WebSphere Integration Developer can create and then test business space content within their test environments. Users of WebSphere Business Modeler can deploy process models to a managed test environment and then interact with the process models in Business Space. Finally, Business Space capability also complements the BPC Explorer, the out-of-the box administrative client for IT administrators that ships with WebSphere Process Server.

With each purchased and deployed IBM BPM product from WebSphere, customers receive additional Business Space content that surfaces the capabilities of that product. To provide a richer BPM experience, this content has been pre-integrated to take advantage of IBM BPM Suite of capabilities. In addition, you can create and integrate your own custom content or third party content within the Business Space, alongside BPM product content, for accessing your internal systems and extending application content.

Integration with WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition

Overview of process content available in Business Space

• Users of WebSphere Business Monitor can view KPI information alerts, process instance information, human task workload, and historical analyses within the Business Space. Users can also create new alert conditions, subscribe to alerts, and create new KPIs from within Business Space.
• Users of WebSphere Process Server can work with human tasks, business rules, govern changes to business artifacts, and work with business calendars. Additionally, WebSphere Process Server provides content for the IT administrator to assess the health of their BPM systems and applications, as well as ensure smooth operation.
• Users who have deployed on WebSphere Business Services Fabric can easily create new processes or immediately change existing processes - without IT involvement - by modifying business service policy attributes linked to these processes from within Business Space. Examples of these attributes include a new role, channel, region, or a broad corporate policy.
• Users of WebSphere Business Modeler Publishing Server can share and collaborate on process models, dashboard designs, and user interaction forms within Business Space.

Example of Process Scenario using Business Space powered by WebSphere

When a client has these products deployed, a business user can combine process content from across the WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition and other BPM products from WebSphere to manage their processes in a holistic manner. For example, a manager could receive an alert in Business Space that a KPI has exceeded its threshold. This user can then create a task to investigate the out of range KPI and assign it to one of his staff. The staff member would claim that task in his own Business Space environment, complete the work by changing a business rule, and then send a notification back to the manager informing him that the KPI is now back on track. The manager might then notify the company's executive team that the KPI target threshold has been reached and suggest that the business rule change across the entire corporation. Should the executive team agree, they would assign an individual to change a business service policy in their systems, and all business rules across the corporation that subscribe to the policy would update accordingly.