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Use this section as a starting point to investigate the technologies used in and by IBM® Business Process Manager.
- Authoring scenarios
Use scenarios to understand and work with components and products from the business process management family. - Versioning
The lifecycle of a process application begins with the creation of the process application and continues through a cycle of updating, deploying, co-deploying, undeploying, and archiving the process application. Versioning is a mechanism used to manage the lifecycle of the process application by uniquely identifying the individual versions of the process application. - Configuration objects
You can use the WebSphere command-line administration tool (wsadmin) AdminConfig commands to access and modify database and security properties in IBM Business Process Manager. - Deployment architecture
The IBM Business Process Manager deployment architecture consists of software processes called servers, topological units referenced as nodes and cells, and the configuration repository used for storing configuration information. - BPMN 2.0
IBM Business Process Manager business process definitions support the Common Executable subclass of the BPMN 2.0 Process Modeling conformance class, which deals with models that you can run. - Business process definitions (BPDs)
To model a process in IBM Process Designer, you must create a business process definition (BPD). The business process definition can be based on an imported BPMN model. - BPEL processes and human tasks
BPEL processes and human tasks drive process and human workflows. - Bindings
At the core of a service-oriented architecture is the concept of a service, a unit of functionality accomplished by an interaction between computing devices. An export defines the external interface (or access point) of a module, so that Service Component Architecture (SCA) components within the module can provide their services to external clients. An import defines an interface to services outside a module, so the services can be called from within the module. You use protocol-specific bindings with imports and exports to specify the means of transporting the data into or out of the module. - Business objects
The computer software industry developed several programming models and frameworks in which business objects provide a natural representation of the business data for application processing. - Relationships
A relationship is an association between two or more data entities, typically business objects. In IBM Business Process Manager Advanced, relationships can be used to transform data that is equivalent across business objects and other data but that is represented differently, or they can be used to draw associations across different objects found in different applications. They can be shared across applications, across solutions, and even across products. - The enterprise service bus in IBM Business Process Manager
IBM Business Process Manager supports the integration of application services, including the same capabilities as WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus.
Parent topic: Getting started with IBM Business Process Manager