Business Process Management Curriculum

The BPM priority

Do you have visibility into your company’s end-to-end processes? How do you detect and respond to business events as they occur throughout your enterprise? If you’re noncompliant with regulations or internal controls, what will it cost your business? When you account for the cost of inefficiency, declining customer satisfaction and lost business, what is the price of not automating your processes through business process management (BPM)? Fifty-six percent of Fortune 500 companies told Information Week in their Data 2010 500 survey that automating processes through BPM is a top priority.

Skills enable the BPM journey

BPM is a journey. BPM initiatives commonly start with a single BPM project. Growing your initiatives to a cross-organization BPM program requires skills at its foundation. The WebSphere Education BPM curricula---available in traditional classroom, instructor-led online and self-paced virtual format---close the BPM talent gap with specific skills for process owners, business analysts, developers, administrators and executive project sponsors. This training coupled with IBM Professional Certification for BPM provides a turn-key skill development program designed to grow with your team as you expand your initial BPM success into projects throughout the organization.

Our BPM curricula provides skills for the complete BPM lifecycle enabling your team to leverage IBM business process management to discover, document, automate, and continuously improve business processes.

BPM Methodology

BPM concepts and IBM Blueworks Live
This curriculum is the ideal starting point or organizations new to BPM. Courses in this curriculum provide an introduction to BPM concepts and methods. The core of this curriculum includes a course for IBM Blueworks Live that lets your entire organization document and publish processes in the cloud.

End-to-End BPM

IBM Business Process Manager
The courses in this curriculum are centered on IBM Business Process Manager. It includes tooling and run-time for process design, execution, monitoring and optimization. This curriculum will develop your team’s skills to administer, develop and monitor business processes.

WebSphere ESB
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus helps enable fast and flexible application integration with reduced cost and bridging to next-generation interconnectivity. This curriculum is comprised of courses for the Integration Developer and System Administrator. Students learn how to build application integration solutions and also how to deploy them.

Business Monitoring

IBM Business Monitor (formerly WebSphere Business Monitor)
IBM Business Monitor provides a comprehensive Business Activity Monitoring system offering real-time insight into your business processes. This curriculum is comprised of courses for the Integration Developer, the Administrator and the Business User who need relevant skills for IBM Business Monitor.

Process Design

IBM Integration Designer (formerly WebSphere Integration Developer)
IBM Integration Designer V7.5 provides the user-friendly visual drag-and-drop programming and test environment for WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Adapters and IBM Business Process Manager Advanced. This curriculum includes both development and administration focused topics.

IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS

IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS
ILOG Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) provide easy, safe and predictable control over automated business decisions with the right tools for business managers, analysts, architects and developers. This curriculum provides a set of courses with introductory to advanced topics for the key business rules stakeholders, including developers, policy managers and business analysts. Courses are available for both Java and .Net deployment environments.

Business Events

IBM WebSphere Business Events
WebSphere Business Events is a product designed specifically for managing the business events flowing across systems and people with the goal of providing timely insight and response. This curriculum provides an introductory course which teaches students how to implement and use WebSphere Business Events.

WebSphere Operational Decision Management

WebSphere Operational Decision Management
WebSphere Operational Decision Management---a combined business rules and events management platform---provides critical technology for organizations in virtually every industry to improve the quality of repeatable transaction and process related decisions. The WebSphere Operational Decision Management curriculum provides a set of courses for the key business rules stakeholders, including architects, developers, policy managers and business analysts to develop product expertise.

BPM Mentoring

BPM Workshops and Mentoring from WebSphere Education are ideal for organizations requiring a more in-depth, customized and collaborative training approach. The mentoring offerings advance in length from 3 to 20 days depending on your specific training objectives.

Related Courses

WebSphere Lombardi
WebSphere Lombardi lets both the business and IT stakeholders engage in process improvement. Courses and certifications in this curriculum encompass the complete spectrum of stakeholders and skills involved in the collaborative development of your business’ processes, including analysts, program managers, developers, administrators and executives.

WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer
This curriculum is comprised of courses for the System Administrator and Integration Developer. Students will learn how to leverage WebSphere Process Server and Integration Developer to deploy business solutions. They can further specialize their skills with courses in performance, tuning, problem determination and human task management.

WebSphere Business Modeler
WebSphere Business Modeler is IBM's premier business process modeling and analysis tool for business users. It offers process modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities to help business users understand, document, and deploy business processes for continuous improvement. This curriculum is comprised of courses for the Business Analyst to build skills to define, simulate, and design key performance indicators for a process solution.