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IBM Business Process Management What’s New in WebSphere Business Modeler v6.1.2. Features & CapabilitiesReview Pablo Irassar, BPM Tools Technical Strategy Joshua Bock, Worldwide BPM Technical Sales. WebSphere Business Modeler New Capabilities. Process Editor BPM Asset Repository
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IBM Business Process ManagementWhat’s New in WebSphere Business Modeler v6.1.2 Features & CapabilitiesReview Pablo Irassar, BPM Tools Technical Strategy Joshua Bock, Worldwide BPM Technical Sales
WebSphere Business Modeler New Capabilities • Process Editor • BPM Asset Repository • Reporting & XML Enhancements for Business Rules and Human Tasks • Excel™ and Open Office Import • Form Simulation & Human Workflow Storyboarding • Enhanced WebSphere Business Monitor Integration • Improved WebSphere Integration Developer Integration • Business Space
Process Editor Enhancements BPMN StyleNotation Toggle between Business Process Modeling Notation and traditional Modeler notation
Process Editor Enhancements • New EditingPalette • Collapsible Drawer-Style Interface • Selectable Icon Size • Optional ‘Favorites’ Drawer New Layouts
Process Editor Enhancements Input/Output On-Off Toggle Less Invasive I/O Pin Design
Process Editor Enhancements BreadcrumbNavigation For use with loops and sub-processes Custom Images On process activities
Process Editor Enhancements SimplifiedToolbar Removed Eclipse icons that have no relevance to Modeler ‘Grabby’ Connection Behavior Hover over source to create new connection BPMN StyleNotation
Process Editor Enhancements ImprovedAttributes View Look and Feel More CompactAttribute Tabs Reduced scrolling to find hidden tabs
Integration between Modeler and BPM Asset Repository • Every global element in Modeler is a potential asset • Make elements available for easy re-use in other projects by publishing in asset repository • Leverage business process commonality • Govern versioning and changes to assets, automatically push to desktop Modeler clients • Advanced searching and tagging features • Leverage repository as intermediary between Modeler and WID • Ideal for large-scale enterprise models, including IFW, IAA • Not a replacement for teaming/versioning repositories • CVS, ClearCase • Requires license for IBM Rational Asset Manager (RAM)
Repository Integration GraphicalSearch Text Search & Filtering Repository Navigator
Graphical Search of Repository Search for Assets Visualize Relationships Between Assets Filter by Results Categories
Business Rules and Human Tasks Reporting Extended XML Import/Export and Reporting with BR and HT support Updated Predefined Reports Includes details of Business Rules and Human Tasks Modeler XML Format Includes full details of Business Rules and Human Tasks
Template-based Excel™ import Template-based import for core model elements from Excel™ workbooks Use templates to import process model content from Excel™ and Open Office formats
Forms Simulation Data-Driven Process Simulation Verifies process logic and Form behavior Interactive Form Simulation Interactive Form Completion Form Status
Human Workflow Storyboarding Create your human storyboards with a process context Process Context Understand process behavior Form Presentation Confirm validity of form design and layout given process context Storyboard Definition Requires Simulation Snapshot, but no active simulation (as with case analysis)
Advanced Monitoring Capabilities Advanced Business Measure Details Extended definitions for KPIs, metrics, filters and dimensions Complete Measure Definition from within Modeler
Monitor Model Export Optional Two-Layer Monitor Model Export For eased monitoring of BPEL processes executing in WPS
Improved WID Integration • Business Calendar Support • Associate timetables with Human Tasks • Enhanced Modeler/WID Compare/Merge • Support for Human Task and Business Rule details • Simplified Compare-Merge via BPM Asset Repository • WebSphere Business Services Fabric Mode • Define activities to be implemented as Dynamic Assembly components through Fabric • Business Rule “Points of Variability” • Expose to Business Space
Publishing Server in Business Space Business Space Integration with Monitor, Human Tasks, and Process Variability Review Forms And other custom images
Publishing Enhancements Colors Labels
Industry-Focused Model Samples! • Financial Management • Human Capital Management • Supply Chain Management • Banking • Insurance • Government • Retail Expertise provided by IBM Global Business Services Over 100 process models http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg27012846