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1.1 Products covered in this publication
This paper describes the following products:
► IBM Business Process Manager V8.0. (all editions)
This product combines simplicity, ease-of-use, and task-management capabilities that
support enterprise integration and transaction process management requirements as part
of an overall SOA solution. Business Process Manager adds value in the following ways:
– Optimizes business processes by providing visibility to all process participants,
fostering greater collaboration and enabling continuous process improvement across
distributed platforms and IBM z/OS®.
– Increases efficiency with a federated view for performing tasks, managing work items,
tracking performance, and responding to events, all in real time.
– Empowers users with real-time analytics to optimize business processes.
– Enhances time-to-value through business user-focused design capabilities, including
process coaching to guide users easily through the steps of a process.
– Confidently manages change with a unified model-driven environment that makes the
same process version visible to everybody.
– Combines simplicity, ease-of-use, and task management capabilities for IBM
WebSphere Lombardi Edition with key capabilities from IBM WebSphere Process
Server (Advanced Edition only). These capabilities support enterprise integration and
transaction process management requirements as part of an overall SOA.
– Offers compatibility with earlier versions for the latest versions of WebSphere Process
Server (Advanced Edition only) and WebSphere Lombardi Edition.
► IBM Business Monitor V8.0
This product provides comprehensive business activity monitoring (BAM). This feature
enables user visibility into real-time, end-to-end business operations, transactions, and
processes to help optimize processes and increase efficiency. Business Monitor adds
value in the following ways:
– Provides a high-performance BAM solution for processes and applications running in
disparate environments which might or might not be implemented using any Business
Process Manager technology.
– Offers built-in tools and runtime support for integrated BAM for Business Process
Manager.
– Integrates IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence Server V10.1.1 for advanced analysis
and reporting on historical data.
– Automatically generates dashboards for your Business Process Modeling Notation
V2.0 (BPMN2) processes. This feature allows real-time visibility to process instances,
key performance indicators (KPIs), Cognos reports, and annotated BPMN2
process diagrams.
– Includes fine-grained security to enable or prevent anyone from seeing a wide range of
information depth or detail.
– Enables enhanced business user customization of data filtering and dashboard
controls and reports.
– Enables views of KPIs, metrics, and alerts through web interfaces, Apple iPad, mobile
devices, and corporate portals.
– Is available for distributed platform and z/OS.
2 IBM Business Process Manager V8.0 Performance Tuning and Best Practices