IBM® WebSphere® Process Server, Business Modeler

In my last post, I gave a brief overview on the IBM WebSphere Integration Developer. In this post, I am introducing the products IBM® WebSphere® Process Server and IBM WebSphere Business Modeler. These products together deliver a rich process integration platform for enterprise services based on SOA.

IBM® WebSphere® Process Server is a high-performance business process automation engine to help form processes that meet your business goals.
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.

Built on open standards, it deploys and executes processes that orchestrate services (people, information, systems, and trading partners) within your service-oriented architecture (SOA) or non-SOA infrastructure.

• Helps increase efficiency and productivity by automating complicated processes that span people, partners, and systems.


• Helps cut costs by enabling flexible business processes with reusable assets, reducing the need to hard-code changes across multiple applications.


• Extends value of core applications by centralizing business processes and sharing them across the enterprise to maximize resources and increase ROI.


• Strong support for human workflow and enables rapid process changes, providing the business agility required to compete in emerging markets by leveraging resources efficiently.


• Accelerates time to value by enabling rapid change and reconfiguring of existing IT assets without redeployment.

IBM WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Business Compass

Business process modeling with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler enables you to visualize, document, model, and analyze business processes for understanding and process execution. IBM WebSphere Business Compass enables users to collaborate with stakeholders via a Web browser to translate business intent into process execution through strategy maps, capability maps, process models, and other BPM assets.
IBM® 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.


• Enables business users to design, model, and deploy vital business processes


• Allows users to make informed decisions before deployment through advanced simulation capabilities based on modeled and actual data


• Provides integrated industry content to help business users jumpstart solution development


• Accelerates process optimization by allowing users to visualize and identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in processes


• Provides enhanced integration through role-based business spaces, a unified end user interface that integrates BPM content for a holistic management of business processes


• Enables subject matter experts to share models and collaborate to translate business intent into process models using a Web browser with WebSphere Business Compass

References:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wps/

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wbimodeler/