WebSphere Process Server

One of the biggest challenges for businesses is to have the agility to respond on demand to business processes. Unlike traditional integration methodologies, WebSphere Process Server allows you to respond dynamically to business demands and adapt to business conditions. This is accomplished with rich features like business rules, business state machines, and interface mapping. Its open standards-based services architecture allows clients to change underlying IT assets, with minimal impact on business processes. This orchestration of your business assets into highly optimized and effective processes will meet your business goals, whether you need to automate processes in the factory, process claims and financial payments, execute an efficient supply chain, or ensure compliance with the latest industry regulations.

New features in WebSphere Process Server V7.0

Increases business flexibility with powerful human workflow capabilities

• Dynamically react to changing business requirements with the ability to install new versions of a process and migrate running processes to a new version.

• Supports additional human workflow scenarios, including parallel approval with voting and result aggregation.

• New human tasks and workflow widgets deliver more scenarios such as human task, workflow, escalation management, ad-hoc multi-column filtering and adaptive paging.

• Provides richer capabilities to manage in-flight processes, such as modifying ownership of a process instance and enhanced activity repair capabilities.

Empowers users and accelerates productivity across all process roles.

• Faster server start-up time and deployment of BPM solutions from WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer.

• Improved user experience for Interactive Process Design scenario with faster deployment.

• Enhances operational visibility with new and improved role-based widgets enabling better service monitoring and health determination.

• Improves problem determination with consistent fault handling across SCA bindings and cross-component trace enhancements.

• New widgets for solution administrators enable better module administration.

Accelerate time to value for implementing and deploying BPM solutions.

• Simplifies system installation, including easier cluster configuration.

• Provides consistent, flexible and independent BPM topology and database configuration and management.

• Simplifies handling of runtime environment outages with support for unexpected service downtime with "store and forward" capability to queue events until service is restored.

• Eases the process of loading or unloading static relationship data through a data import and export capability.

• Leverages Web-based forms rendered from Lotus Forms Server, in addition to the existing Lotus Forms Client rendering capabilities.

Enhancements for easier migration from WebSphere Business Integration heritage server solutions.

• Enhances the maintainability of the generated BPEL from migrated WebSphere InterChange Server repositories.

• Improves performance of WebSphere InterChange Server migration with improved user experience for migrating large repositories.

Enhances support for open standards.

• Java enhancements including Java EE 5, EJB 3.0, JPA, JDK 6 support, and enhanced Java integration.

• Web services enhancements including WS-Addressing, Attachments, Kerberos token profile, and WS-Policy support.

• OpenSCA support, enhanced OSGi support, and enhanced XML fidelity.

Platform alignment and currency.

• Exploits and extends WebSphere Application Server V7.0, providing enhanced standards support, simplified system installation and administration, and enhanced WebSphere MQ V7 integration.

• Enables the use of SQL Server 2008 as the underlying database for storing WebSphere Process Server program data (excluding BPC Explorer reporting capabilities).

• Improved integration of the WebSphere Customization Tool with the WebSphere Process Server for z/OS and WebSphere ESB for z/OS installation experience, and enhanced tool support to assist with the DB2 database creation process, and a Common Installer Framework that provides an integrated "look and feel" for all z/OS BPM products.

• Complies with the security settings as defined by the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) for the U.S. federal government.