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Automotive manufacturers in Europe are facing major changes to several processes. These processes include their new product introduction, manufacturing, and service after sales processes. The changes come in the wake of the European Union (EU) Directive 2000/53/EC on end of life vehicles (ELV) and Directive 2002/95/EC on the restriction of the use of hazardous substances (RoHS) in electrical and electronic equipment. Failure to reach regulation targets will cost each original equipment manufacturer (OEM) approximately 1 billion euros annually. As the automotive industry continues to expand, the need for cost-efficient responses to regulation that strives for process efficiency grows increasingly important. The automotive industry demands robust, flexible solutions that provide insight into business processes in order to remain competitive and profitable. This paper illustrates how automotive manufacturers can use Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and business process management (BPM), including business activity monitoring (BAM) methodologies and technologies, to develop and deploy optimized solutions. Such solutions will help address the carbon impact of the post-sales management of hazardous vehicle materials and recycling of the vehicle materials upon end of life. This paper unites existing methods and technologies including process operational status, event correlation, aggregation, and predictive analysis. It explores future technologies that create a vision for addressing ELV environment challenges. It

Enterprise IT environments continue to grow in complexity, through natural expansion or mergers and acquisitions. As the pace of business demand accelerates, IT environments look more for opportunities to flexibly reuse existing applications, services, and data. With the IBM® connectivity portfolio of products, these IT environments can discover and reuse services, expose and use application services, and route and transform messages. The set of capabilities (in the IBM connectivity portfolio) supports client requests for a broad service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure that addresses the need to bridge and streamline communication in heterogeneous IT environments. In this IBM Redpaper publication, we provide an overview of the IBM connectivity portfolio to market watchers who have a keen interest in understanding the most current connectivity technology releases, and how IBM is taking them to the next level. Specifically, we review the key benefits and features of the following products: IBM WebSphere® MQ IBM WebSphere Message Broker IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus IBM WebSphere DataPower® IBM WebSphere Adapters IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

This IBM Redpaper is the first in a series of Redpapers dealing with the development and deployment of IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters. In this first Redpaper, "An Introduction to the Basics," we describe the basics of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters, the components that make up the adapters, and how to get started with developing and deploying a customer adapter.

In the world of e-Business, where things evolve at a rapid and quickening pace, we see the continual and increasing impact of technology on the Financial Services business model. Recent advancements in component technology and messaging enable financial institutions to implement infrastructures that enable enterprise wide reuse of their significant investment in application assets. Financial institutions are being asked to deliver their multi-channel approach with a customer-centric view, meaning that a consistent view of the customer, encompassing all products, is supplied across all channels. Implementation of this requires significant integration capability. This document intends to offer a view of how IBM software can be applied in support of all of these objectives. That is, our offerings can and do supply a financial institution with an end-to-end infrastructure that enables best-of-breed enterprise-wide reuse of business function in support of a robust multi-channel architecture.