The IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) platform enables you to harness the power of change through your business processes. BPM helps you embrace change – it allows you continuously optimize your business processes and maintain continuous alignment between business and IT.
Core capabilities include the following:
WebSphere® Dynamic Process Edition is a key IBM BPM Suite element, with built-in support for adapting, responding dynamically to change. This offering provides the BPM enabled by SOA foundational capabilities for modeling, simulating, deploying, monitoring end-to-end dynamic business processes. Business user tools visualize, understand, document, and simulate business processes through enhanced documentation, samples, and installation consistency across WebSphere Business Services Fabric, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Monitor and the Business Space powered by WebSphere.
WebSphere Industry Content Packs are prebuilt accelerators for WebSphere Business Process Management offering. The WebSphere Industry Content Packs integrate seamlessly with WebSphere Business Process Management (BPM) components and provides various prebuilt, industry-specific assets to accelerate and enhance BPM solution delivery.
WebSphere Business Services Fabric enables business users to rapidly assemble new business processes, make concurrent changes with governance with minimal impact to IT, while reusing and sharing current IT assets.
WebSphere Business Modeler helps organizations fully visualize, comprehend, document, and analyze their business processes. WebSphere Business Modeler uses an easy to use drag-and-drop interface where you can create process flows or import them from Visio or other design tools, such as Aris. You can run "what-if" simulation scenarios to accurately predict how the process will flow, where the bottlenecks will be, and what the projected cost savings will be before you begin any implementation work. Enhanced capabilities of WebSphere Business Modeler include enhanced life cycle management of BPM project assets and easier reuse and traceability of process models and other artifacts. WebSphere Business Modeler simplifies communication of business processes with BPM and custom graphical images, accelerates the modeling of human workflow, and has expanded platform support for Linux®.
WebSphere Business Monitor enables you to monitor business processes in real time for visibility and insights into process performance and operational metrics to support continuous process improvement. It provides a visual display of business process status with alerts and notifications for business users. Process performance data is exported to WebSphere Business Modeler to facilitate continuous improvement of your business processes.
Business Space powered by WebSphere enables you to create an integrated and customized user experience to access contextualized process information in a secure role-based environment. Using the single sign-on Web 2.0-based mashup environment, Business Space users can collaborate with colleagues and subject matter experts by sharing process content and working together to review BPM assets. Business Space also enables IT developers to achieve faster time to value when developing BPM end user experiences and solutions, by using out-of-the-box product content and simplified user interface assembly tooling.