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The IBM WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition is a comprehensive set of role-based, SOA enabled product capabilities providing customers the ability to continuously optimize processes and adapt them to rapidly changing needs. This IBM Redbooks publication addresses the configuration, administration, and security of the key runtime environments in WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition: IBM WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Business Services Fabric, and WebSphere Business Monitor. Through a series of step-by-step instructions you will learn how to select and create a production topology environment based on WebSphere Process Server deployment environment patterns. You will learn how to secure this environment and administer it. This book also contains a chapter on extending existing production topologies to add components such as additional clusters. This Redbooks publication also provides practical examples demonstrating how to incorporate WebSphere Business Services Fabric and WebSphere Business Monitor into existing topologies. The book contains extensive examples of working with all of these products in distributed environments. A separate publication covering z/OS is forthcoming.

Business activity monitoring (BAM) is a solution that provides real-time tracking of business events, including the tracking of business processes, operational activities, and business situations. The business events that drive business activity monitoring can be sent by a variety of applications and technologies. The collected event information is available in the form of dashboards. Through step-by-step hands-on examples, in this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we explore how you can use IBM WebSphere® Business Monitor V6.1 to track business events from a variety of applications. We discuss combining WebSphere Business Monitor with process-based applications running in IBM WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere MQ Workflow, and FileNet® P8 BPM to achieve business activity monitoring. In addition, we explore monitoring business events from non-process based applications including WebSphere MQ, and WebSphere Adapters running within WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). We also explore how to create a custom event emitter.

This IBM Redbooks publication presents a business process management (BPM) "improvement cycle" scenario, showing how a business can use a full business integration solution to complete the following tasks: - Model and simulate a business process - Develop and test an application to implement the business process - Deploy and run the application on a server - Implement and test business measures - Monitor the application to observe pre-determined key performance indicators - Import the observed data to make revisions to the original process model The business scenario described in this document has been simplified to provide a full description of each stage of the BPM end-to-end process. To avoid having an overly large and unwieldy document, the authors focus on specific tasks, elements, and details, and not on presenting all possible facets of a complex business process. This document updates the IBM Redbooks publication SG24-7148-00 using the Version 6.0.2 products of WebSphere Business Integration.

This IBM Redbook is based on the experiences of a team in the IBM Hursley laboratory. They built an auto-claim insurance solution to put the WebSphere software platform through its paces. The team worked with WebSphere developers to use the experience of building the solution to improve the design of WebSphere version 6 platform products. They thought it would be valuable to share their experiences with a wider audience. The result is a tour de force, showing how the team went about using IBM's software development platform to understand business requirements and then architect, design and build the solution. Their experiences will help you plan, design and build a business driven development solution using products from IBM's WebSphere Business Integration portfolio. This redbook is written from the perspective of three types of developer: the business analyst, the software architect, and the IT specialist. Individual chapters in the book show how each member of the team developed their part of the solution, and how the team integrated the solution together.

In this IBM Redbook, we discuss business performance management (BPM) and its integration with business intelligence. BPM is all about taking a holistic approach for managing business performance and achieving the business goals. Businesses align strategic and operational objectives, and business activities, to fully manage performance through more informed and proactive decision making. This holistic approach enables the integration and use of business intelligence, process management, business service management, activity monitoring, and corporate performance management to achieve a single view of their enterprise. Businesses are evolving to an environment capable of supporting continuous data flow, which enables the support of business intelligence environments with more current data. This is referred to as real-time business intelligence, and represents a significant competitive advantage. In this redbook, we demonstrate how BPM can be enabled, using DB2 for data warehousing and WebSphere Business Integration for monitoring and managing the business processes. The result is proactive business performance management and problem avoidance, in addition to the more typical reactive problem impact minimization. We also discuss techniques, architectures, and approaches for implementing BPM as a proactive means of managing the attainment of business measurements and business goals.

WebSphere® Business Integration is the IBM® business integration solution for process integration, workforce management, and enterprise application connectivity. WebSphere Business Integration helps you to create and deploy new business processes, synchronize business information in multiple business applications on diverse platforms, and transform message formats en-route between applications. This IBM Redbook takes you through the full life cycle of an adapter development project, from design considerations, building, and testing through deployment and implementation on multiple broker types (using both an out-of-the-box technology adapter and the custom adapter for our development project). For this redbook, we designed a scenario that mirrors many of the issues that real-life integration projects can face. The scenario starts by integrating custom enterprise applications. It then integrates those applications into the business-to-business world by extending the infrastructure. Finally, it adds a human interaction component which determines whether to take the internal route or external route (via trading partners) to application integration. Using many of the components within the WebSphere Business Integration family of products, this book includes a range of integration options that are available to implement this scenario.

This IBM Redbook introduces the industry open standard for business processes: Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS), focusing on the use of BPEL4WS throughout the WebSphere Business Integration product set. Part One introduces the BPEL4WS standard and presents appropriate usage scenarios. The heritage of BPEL4WS as the next generation of Web services and service-oriented architecture is discussed, along with a detailed description of BPEL4WS components. Part Two describes how WebSphere Business Integration Modeler can be used to create high level business process models suitable for business analysts, and explains how these models can be implemented as fully functional BPEL4WS processes using WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition . This creates a BPEL4WS process suitable for deployment to WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation . A sample scenario with step-by-step instructions is provided. Part Three describes migration considerations for existing business process implementations. Migration considerations and tools for WebSphere Application Server Enterprise FDML processes are discussed. The reuse of WebSphere MQ Workflow process logic in BPEL4WS is also described. Step-by-step instructions are provided for both scenarios.

Continuous Business Process Management is the concept of continuously defining, analyzing, and improving a business process. In this IBM Redbook, we explore the business process development life cycle. We use HOLOSOFX BPM Workbench to model an existing process. We use the model to create, simulate, and analyze the process, and select optimal new process design. We use HOLOSOFX BPM Server to share process model information through the Web and to provide a secure repository for access and version control. We convert a business process model into an MQSeries Workflow model and generate an appropriate code format. This format is imported into MQSeries Workflow where the process metrics will be captured in real time. We use HOLOSOFX BPM Monitor to monitor work-in-process items and perform corrective actions by reassigning, reprioritizing, or suspending them. We use actual process metrics to answer what-if questions and make process improvements.