IBM Business Process Manager (BPM)

IBM Business Process Manager is a software platform for improvement of business processes of the class BPM which integrates in itself the best functionality of the systems in the market focused on interaction of people (human-centric) and integration of IT systems (integration-centric). It represents single, end-to-end, universal, high-performance, reliable and stable system. Its main advantage consists that business users can actively take part in improvement of processes thanks to intuitive and simple tools in application. The platform allows to organize effective interaction IT and business users within the unified development environment managed by model. The built-in opportunities of visualization and the analysis are intended for the help to the organizations in improvement and optimization of crucial business processes.

2012

IBM Business Process Manager is created based on Lombardi, offers a full range of perspective BPM opportunities and is the integrated and scaled platform on all aspects of business process automation and their improvement. A system holds a leading position in the market due to the functional features:

• Possibilities of active participation of business users in improvement of processes thanks to intuitive and simple tools in application
• Expanded interaction of IT and business within the unified development environment managed by model
• Accurate and effective management of tasks of users via "intelligent" user interfaces
• The preintegrated opportunities for orchestration and integration reached at the expense of the built-in components of service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Detailed visualization of processes at the expense of the built-in monitors and the analysis
• High urovenya scalability and availability which is provided with the built-in IBM WebSphere Application Server application server
• Complete management of lifecycle of VRM which is provided with a uniform repository the VRM-component and command center

IBM Business Process Manager is easy and is smoothly scaled – from the first project to the program of the corporate level. Simplicity of deployment and use both a shrink-wrapped software product, and configured under needs of the client provide fast return of invested funds and increase performance of users. This VRM-platform approaches both for Wednesday based on SOA, and without SOA, providing complete visualization and management of business applications. It contains tools and dynamic components for modeling, configuration, delivery and business process management. IBM Business Process Manager helps the companies to reach complete business process management and shared services, providing at the same time opportunities for deployment and change management which cover all lifecycle of each process.

IBM Business Process Manager provides the centralized, flexible, user interface for task performance, management of working procedures, monitoring of performance measures and the reporting under events in real time, providing at the same time cumulative vision of the status of all performed tasks.

Such main functional assemblies as the process center (Process Center) integrating all process components on BPMN and BPEL in a unified environment of design and a repository of assets, the built-in data warehouse of performance measures (Perfomance Data Warehouse), the environment of process optimization (Process Optimizer) integrated into software environment of development are a part of IBM Business Process Manager.

IBM Business Process Manager:

• Provides complete visualization for all participants of process, providing continuous improvement and process optimization
• Increases efficiency of works at the expense of a versatile view of the carried-out tasks, managements of working objects, trackings of performance measures, responses to events in real time
• Increases the level of knowledge of employees, providing them operational analytical information for process optimization
• Reduces investment payback time due to new functionality of business users on design, including process training. Users receive from the screen step-by-step instructions when passing on process steps
• Allows developers of process to manage changes through the unified software environment, giving the chance to each of them to see identical versions of process
• It is scaled under any processes - from the first projects to solutions of the corporate level which are executed continuously, reliably, safely and with support of transactions
• Flexibly connects corporate applications and services to infrastructure of the built-in corporate service bus (ESB)
• It is easily installed, allowing to get to work with the minimum efforts quickly

On May 1, 2012 during the Impact 2012 conference which was taking place in Las Vegas the IBM company provided three new business solutions. As the integration platform for them the IBM WebSphere application server which base of installations integrates over 100 thousand customers worldwide acts. Its new version was issued on Impact 2012 too.

IBM Business Process Manager contains new opportunities of social and mobile interaction and allows to approve management of IT transactions with corporate business initiatives. New software helps to monitor all changes of business processes, to introduce necessary amendments and to estimate the received results.

At the same time IBM Operational Decision Management accelerates and simplifies management of business rules for control of the made decisions in business processes and applications. The user interface in many respects reminds usual social network, it provides the intuitive environment for interaction and simplifies problems of search, viewing and making changes in rules.

The trilogy of the provided integration business solutions of IBM is supplemented by tool kit for the Services WebSphere Cast Iron Live Web Application Programming Interface (API) programmers. With its help customers will be able to develop cloud applicaions with social and mobile functions "to the taste".

Suggests to estimate benefits from implementation of the products and IBM services mentioned above on the example of the project in located in Ottawa of medical clinic. With assistance of vendor in it the new system of quality improvement of service and management of flows of patients is constructed. It allowed to avoid the arising queues and to increase the number of the accepted patients with sharp symptoms. Solutions of IBM make available to personnel the comprehensive information about patients and available resources. Doctors and nurses receive it directly on mobile devices – it significantly accelerates procedures of acceptance new and service of the existing patients.