Introduction
IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM) V8.5 is a comprehensive and
consumable business process management platform designed for faster time to
deployment. For use straight out of the box or in an easily customizable
configuration, this highly integrated environment scales smoothly and easily
from initial project to enterprise-wide program, providing faster time to value
with improved user productivity.
Business Process Manager V8.5 includes tooling and run time for process
design, execution, monitoring, and optimization of business processes. BPM V8.5
helps to reinvent business processes with:
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Simplified BPM installation,
configuration, migration, and administration capabilities—to help reduce the
time and effort required to setup, manage, and expand IBM BPM environments.
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Built-in dashboards enhancements—
to help improve business process outcomes using dashboard customization option
for enhanced visibility.
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Entitlement to IBM Worklight
Enterprise Edition for Nonproduction Environment —to help accelerate the
development of IBM BPM applications on mobile devices.
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New internal repository—for
consistent storage of internal and external document attachments using standard
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) interfaces.
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Improved communications and change
tracking—for better collaboration between business process stakeholders using
IBM Blueworks Live and implementation teams using IBM BPM.
IBM Business Process Manager supports:
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Full visibility for streamlining tasks, enabling continuous process improvement through
analytics.
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Real-time collaboration for facilitating task management and communications with subject matter
experts, helping to ensure project accuracy and timely completion.
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Program-wide governance using the Process Center, a scalable and centralized, common design
environment and asset repository.
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Enterprise integration of applications and back-end systems.
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BPM mobile capability for task management from both IBM Business Process Manager and
Blueworks Live™.
Process
Portal
Access insightful,
concise information from redesigned default dashboards if you are a process
owner or team manager
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Visualize process performance
issues more easily, and in real time. For example, instantly see overdue and at
risk work.
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Take corrective actions directly
from the dashboard to improve business process outcomes or balance workloads.
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Collaborate with team members and
contribute to instance activity streams without leaving the dashboard.
Experience a highly
effective and collaborative work environment with improved social capabilities
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See whether other users are logged
in to Process Portal to identify and contact an expert to move work
forward.
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Keep up to date with posts to
the @Mentions stream. Unseen posts are counted and marked, and
streams are automatically refreshed.
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Easily find and choose the right
experts to send an invitation to collaborate on tasks.
Work more efficiently and
effectively as process participants
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Complete tasks in environments
that are integrated with IBM Connections and IBM Domino® Server.
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Decide which pages are shown in
the Process Portal interface by reordering the displayed and hidden
tabs.
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Copy URLs for inclusion in chat
sessions, emails, and documents.
Process
Designer and Process Center
More efficiently design
dashboards for Process Portal users
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Modify and extend the newly
designed, default dashboards using tools that are in Process Designer.
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Create custom, localized
dashboards with the reusable components that are in the Dashboards toolkit:
interface elements, implementation services, and data objects.
More easily design
Coaches
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Use Ctrl + SPACE code assistance
to see the available Coach API when you are entering JavaScript code.
JavaScript code and HTML code now feature syntax highlighting.
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Add variables to custom HTML items
that are resolved when the HTML page is generated. For example, you can assign
a user name as a variable so that each user’s name is displayed on the HTML page.
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Set the visibility of a Coach View
when you are editing it in a Coach.
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Call classes and functions that
are in Dojo 1.8.3.
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Use Tab and Table stock controls
that feature improved runtime performance. This enhanced performance is for all
browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.
Enable groups of users to
interact with processes more easily
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Define organizational structure of
teams by adding managers that teams report to.
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Delegate the specification of a
team's members to a team retrieval service that dynamically returns a list of
users that is based on parameters.
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Use a team filter service to
specify who must work on a task from the originally assigned users.
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There are also terminology
improvements: participant group changed to team in IBM
Process Designer, Process Portal, and Process Admin
Console; milestone changed to phase in Process Designer.
More easily integrate
services
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Optionally select to cache the
results of an integration service. The results are cached according to unique
input variable data.
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Add a new web service
configuration on the Servers tab of the Process App Settings editor. You can
reuse the new web service configuration from multiple web service invocations.
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Configure web services with policy
sets that are reusable.
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Use variables to add SOAP headers
to an outbound message request and automatically retrieve SOAP headers from an
incoming response message. Using this method, you can work with SOAP headers
whether or not they are defined in the WSDL definition.
Rename business objects,
their attributes, and variables with refactoring support
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See how renaming a business object
will affect the objects that refer to it before you rename the business object.
Correlate on top-level
properties of variables when working with intermediate events
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When you are designing
intermediate events that are attached to undercover agents, you can now
correlate on an individual top-level property of a variable, instead of only on
the variable object.
Consistently interact
with documents in the internal IBM BPM document store and external
CMIS-compatible ECM systems
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IBM Business Process
Manager supports Enterprise Content Management (ECM) integration with IBM
FileNet® 5.1 Content Manager, IBM Content Manager 8.4.3, Microsoft SharePoint
2010, and Alfresco Community 4.2.
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ECM Coach Views now work with the
internal IBM Business Process Manager Document store.
More easily work with
processes that were originally created in Blueworks Live™
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You now can view Blueworks Live
processes in Blueworks Live when you are subscribing to the processes
from IBM BPM.
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You now can search to find
specific spaces and processes when you are subscribing to Blueworks Live
processes.
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Blueworks Live activity details
that are not imported into another field are now imported into the
documentation field, including business owners, experts, systems, suppliers,
inputs, outputs, customers, risk, custom fields, problems, and existing
documentation.
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Some Blueworks Live values are
automatically imported into KPIs: cost, work time, wait time, total time, and
value add.
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You now can check for updates to
the original Blueworks Live processes from IBM BPM.
Enjoy more flexibility
with enhanced importing
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You can now import BPMN files into
an existing process application instead of creating a process application that
is based on a BPMN model.
Extend your ability to
administer snapshots
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You can now specify which
snapshots recognize and respond to a message event.
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You can now delete unnamed and
archived snapshots of a process application using the
new BPMSnapshotCleanupcommand.
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You can schedule IBM Process
Center to automatically delete unnamed snapshots.
Use governance processes
to provide approvals for snapshots that are installed by wsadmin commands
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Installations that are initiated through BPMInstall and BPMCreateOfflinePackage commands
now can use a governance process. With a governance process, you can attach
rules or approvals to the installation of a snapshot on a server.
Process
Server
Experience more options
for managing applications and artifacts by using wsadmin commands
Update system toolkits with interim fixes by using
the BPMUpdateSystemApp command.
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Administer the new IBM
BPM document store with the following commands:
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maintainDocumentStoreAuthorization
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getDocumentStoreStatus
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startDocumentStoreMigration
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maintainDocumentStoreTrace
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updateDocumentStoreApplication
Monitor events with the
centralized Failed Events Manager
The Failed Event Manager is now available from the administrative
console under your deployment environment.
Customize a context root
prefix across a deployment environment to simplify administration
Experience easier deployment-environment administration with a custom
context root prefix configuration. You can now use the BPMConfig command
with the -update parameter to create a single context root prefix
configuration, minimizing the initial costs, reducing security costs, and
hiding context root management issues from users.
Remove durable
subscription messages from your database
Using the BPMDeleteDurableMessages command,
you can remove old durable subscription messages from the LSW_DUR_MSG_RECEIVED
database table. You can use this capability to trim the size of the table
periodically.
Integration
Designer
Speed setup time with
simplified installation
You can now install IBM Integration Designer and the IBM Process
Server test environment from the Launchpad:
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Select the specific features in
IBM Integration Designer to install.
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Specify the user names and passwords
for cell administrative account fields and deployment manager account fields
while you are installing the Process Server.
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Specify the user name and password
for database connectivity.
In addition, the options IBM
Integration Designer for WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and IBM Integration Designer for IBM Business
Monitor are no longer available.
Enjoy improved
flexibility with custom XPath extension functions
Custom XPath extension functions can be used in BPEL processes. You now
can create your own XPath extension functions instead of using only predefined
functions. Custom XPath extension functions are helpful if you are migrating
from a different product and want to use existing functions with IBM BPM.
Mobile
Develop mobile
applications with the IBM Business Process Manager V8.5 and IBM
Worklight® bundle
IBM Business Process Manager Advanced and IBM Business Process
Manager Standard V8.5 now include a nonproduction license entitlement
for IBM Worklight Enterprise Edition as a supporting program. You can download
Worklight Enterprise Edition from Passport Advantage® based on your IBM
BPM entitlements.
Worklight Enterprise Edition offers organizations a wide set of services
to help manage, develop, and deploy functionally rich, cross-platform mobile
applications. When you combine Worklight Enterprise Edition (nonproduction
license entitlement) with IBM BPM, you can do the following tasks:
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Develop custom hybrid mobile
applications that extend IBM BPM experiences to smartphones and
tablets.
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Use IBM BPM APIs and
Coaches in custom mobile applications.
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Use authentication, notification,
and analytics capabilities from Worklight Enterprise Edition.
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Use the Worklight App Center
private application store to test the distribution of your application inside
your enterprise.
When you are ready to move your application to a production environment,
you can do so by purchasing either a Worklight Enterprise Edition license or a
Worklight Consumer Edition license, depending on your needs.
Performance
Data Warehouse
Control the size of the
Performance Data Warehouse
Delete records from the Performance Data Warehouse by using the
new prune command, which is part of the Performance Data Warehouse
tool (perfDWTool). By pruning records that you no longer need, you can keep the
Performance Data Warehouse from becoming too large.
