The WebSphere® Business
Services Fabric applications suite includes optional industry content packs.
The content packs contain prebuilt SOA assets that accelerate development
of industry-specific service-oriented business solutions. This is done by
providing industry-specific SOA assets in the form of prebuilt templates and
metadata based on industry standards and prevalent industry practices.
The following industry content packs are available for the specified industries:
- The IBM® Insurance
P&C Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric: Focuses on the property
and the casualty systems for insurance enterprises.
- The IBM Healthcare Payor Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric: Focuses
on the payor processes in health care enterprises.
- The IBM Banking Payments Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric: Focuses
on payment capabilities of financial services enterprises.
- The IBM Telecom Operations Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric: Focuses
on the operational support systems for telecommunications enterprises.
The WebSphere Business Services Fabric Industry Content Packs deliver business
services templates. It consists of the following prebuilt SOA assets:
- Business services metadata: Includes definitions of business policy
assertions, business roles, and business channels based on the industry business
glossary.
- Industry business glossary: Presents a taxonomy of industry terms,
including the relationship and properties as an ontology.
- Industry-standards-based data types and Web service interfaces: Enables
interoperability across various systems in the enterprise ecosystem.
- Industry-common services: Speeds the delivery and assembly of service-oriented
business solutions.
- Industry business object model (BOM) ontology: Used as a semantic
model for design and development of service-oriented business solutions.