Continuando a “sessão" de novas versões da IBM, foram anunciadas as novas versões dos softwares WebSphere Business Modeler e WebSphere Business Monitor que estarão disponíveis para download a partir de 11/dezembro/2009 (assim como os outros produtos que formam a suíte de BPM da IBM powered by Smart SOA technologies).
Dica: Para quem já conhece os produtos, o WebSphere Business Modeler Publishing agora é o WebSphere Business Compass (mesmo software, regras... e obiviamente com novas funcionalidades)
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Highlights
Enhanced business user empowerment across the process modeling lifecycle
- Improves collaboration between business users and IT.
- Empowers business users to go directly from modeling to deployment on WebSphere Process Server and (optionally) WebSphere Business Monitor runtimes for certain human-centric process scenarios. A pre-configured business space is created as part of deployment that can be immediately used for testing process execution, management, and monitoring in managed environments.
- Enhancements to support large scale modeling efforts across an organization.
- Visual comparison of process models to manage and control changes made to process models.
- New compare merge functions allow for the comparisons of modes within Concurrent Version System (CVS), ClearCase®, and Rational® Asset Manager.
- Ability to print processes in swimlane mode when generating reports to support additional reporting styles.
- Improved search throughout the product for finding information more quickly.
- Ability to import key performance indicators (KPIs) into the existing KPI library for enhanced management of KPIs.
- Ability to view status information of a project or project element in the team repository through visual indicators in the project tree.
- Transformation of artifacts from WebSphere Business Compass to native WebSphere Business Modeler format.
- New URL linking feature allowing users to externalize URLs for modeler artifacts so that they may be linked to other products or sources for traceability purposes.
Enhancements in iterative development and traceability -- Helps ensure that business and IT development tooling work together to support an iterative collaboration between roles at design time. This enables IT developers to create business consumable services, mediations, and policies.
- Improvements supporting multi-casting of business items and business objects for better support of data through the BPM lifecycle
- Support to generate annotations as BPEL sticky notes to share information between business modelers and integration developers
- Support for WebSphere Process Server case handling allows you to create more flexible processes
- Support for more Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 constructs to support IT handoff and generation of IT artifacts from those constructs
- Compare/merge of WSDL/XSDs to manage changes across the business and IT lifecycle
BPM direct deploy improvements - Enhanced interactive process design with stability, performance, and improvements to allow the WebSphere Business Modeler user to create real world human-centric processes that can be tested and put into production
- Enhanced support for multi-user deployments in an interactive process design to allow multiple users to test out processes using the same sandbox environment
- Support for Web-rendered Lotus® Forms for improved interaction with deployed BPM applications
WebSphere Business Compass V7.0 is a Web-based tool for collaborating on design and development of business process assets and includes business authoring to help support broader business methodologies to help organizations ensure they have solutions based on business intent and motivations. New features focus on document linking, capabilities by organization, progress discovery on process modeling, simple document management by business users, checkpoint management on business documents, and team collaboration to provide a comprehensive authoring and reviewing environment for business users.
Highlights:
Designed to improve productivity and empowerment across all roles
- Provides converged capabilities between business authoring and model publishing
- ID searching improvements in the product and on Google
Helps deliver rapid time to business value by improved integration with the IBM BPM portfolio
- Enhanced Web-based visualizations leveraged from ILOG to improve overall business user experience
- Interchange of KPI information with WebSphere Business Monitor in order to implement operational measures defined in WebSphere Business Compass
- Interchange of a BPMN process with WebSphere Business Modeler created in WebSphere Business Compass to support downstream integration with the rest of the IBM BPM portfolio
New capabilities for business users and business analysts to help scope and refine BPM projects
- Support for BPMN 2.0 standard at Level-1 to simplify:+ Process diagramming+ Collaboration diagrams
- Process advisor for simplified model validation
- Forms integration to sketch human interfaces for BPMN processes
- New BPMN service editor to create a BPMN service interface to support process service tasks
- New value stream mapping to support lean methodologies for analyzing material flow and information currently required to bring a product or service to a consumer
- New Business Vocabulary Editor to create business terms, BPMN item definitions, business roles, and other common vocabulary that can be leveraged across the business to level set terminology and business understanding
- New organization tooling to help derive and understand all of the roles, stakeholders, and relationship within a business
- New tool to create process walkthrough scenarios for process design review and discussion
- Enhanced business strategy editor including linkage to business vocabulary
- Enhanced business capability editor with linkage to business vocabulary
- New PowerPoint export capability for BPMN process and collaboration diagrams to help business users communicate and share information
- New support for WebSphere Portal and Lotus Mashups environments
You can choose WebSphere Business Compass V7.0 to extend the collaboration capability of your existing WebSphere Business Process Modeler V7.0 suite of products or choose one of the following editions of WebSphere Business Modeler that best suits your needs:
- WebSphere Business Modeler Basic V7.0
- WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V7.0
- WebSphere Business Compass Advanced Edition V7.0
IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V7.0 is a comprehensive business activity monitoring (BAM) software that provides business users and managers with a real-time and end-to-end view of business processes and operations enabling you to proactively manage business problems or take advantage of business opportunities. A core part of the WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition foundational offering of the IBM Business Process Management (BPM) Suite, WebSphere Business Monitor is also available as a standalone product. It provides customizable business dashboards that calculate and display key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics derived from business processes, business activity data, and business events from a wide range of information sources. Business users can view these KPIs, metrics, and alerts through various means including lightweight Web interfaces, Smartphones, via corporate portals, and on desktops. These offer business users immediate actionable information and insight into their business operations to mitigate problems or take advantage of opportunities. WebSphere Business Monitor enables business users to proactively manage business situations by providing advanced and earlier warning on impending situations. WebSphere Business Monitor helps you:
- Increase revenue: Real-time visibility provided by WebSphere Business Monitor enables you to increase revenue, for example, by identifying business opportunities early to gain competitive advantage and improving customer satisfaction through improved customer service.
- Reduce costs: Real-time visibility provided by WebSphere Business Monitor enables you to take proactive and informed action to reduce costs, for example, ensuring critical business processes meet commitments to customers, identifying inefficiencies in the processes, ensuring key business metrics meet targets, or improving operational planning based on volume analysis.
Rich analytics provide business users with additional insight into the business operations and processes to make better, more informed decisions based on historical and trending data. Tight integration with the IBM BPM suite of products enables you to rapidly improve critical business processes.
WebSphere Business Monitor enables the IT departments to focus on high value projects and innovative solutions rather than routine and inefficient data collection for their line-of-business users. WebSphere Business Monitor enables IT to very quickly develop monitoring solutions to provide business stakeholders with a comprehensive view of the business by collecting real-time events from a wide variety of sources.
- IBM BPM Suite and Connectivity portfolio
- Events from your applications and other third-party applications through the IBM Connectivity portfolio
New capabilities in WebSphere Business Monitor V7.0:
- Ability to link strategic organization goals to operational metrics. This enables business leaders to identify metrics affecting strategic goals, and track progress and execution of the strategy.
- Rapid development of monitoring solutions for monitoring processes on WebSphere Process Server.
- Accelerated and enhanced delivery of monitoring solutions through WebSphere Industry Content Packs.
- Improved end-to-end process monitoring by enabling event processing from other IBM middleware such as IMS™ and CICS®.
- Increased productivity for IT developers when creating end-to-end process monitoring solutions through improved tooling for WebSphere Message Broker.
- Easier management and configuration of WebSphere Business Monitor for System Z customers.
- Wizard-driven topology configurations for optimal and rapid configuration of monitor installations.
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