IBM recently announced IBM BPM 7.5 (Business Process Manager) which combines Lombardi and WebSphere Process Server. IBM maintains the core principals of BPM deployments to improve speed to market, better user experience and possessing an intuitive workflow. This new version provides a stronger focus on a company’s business side as well as IT to give a holistic view. The technology platform is built using a shared model. This model allows for input and decisions form all parts of an organization. Below are the key components of IBM BPM 7.5
• Process Designer
o A single interface that enables business process authors and analysts to Model, Simulate, Implement, Inspect, Debug, Monitor performance and automatically optimize the process
• Integration Designer
o An eclipse based tool that makes it easy for service and integration developers to build reusable SOA services.
• Process Center
o Provides the centralized process governance capabilities.
o Assets can be shared between Process Designer and Integration Designer.
o Process Center is embedded in both designers making all the assets available.
• BPM Repository
o The assets in the repository are shared across the designers even though the designers do not have the same functionality.
o Provides versioning capabilities across all the assets, no matter which designer has been used to create them, and manages them as a set.
• Process Server
o A single BPM runtime to support, Business Processes, Service Orchestration and Integration.
o Powerful UI features by an out of the box process portal providing visibility of process performance.
o The Business spaces UI framework assists in creating an integrated customized user experience.
Sample Use Case
1) Financial Institution is experiencing large growth in personal and mortgage loans.
2) There are several operational sites and processes due to prior company acquisitions.
3) The company lacks integration with loan and customer data bases making it difficult to process loans.
4) Salesmen in the field don’t have access to accurate sales and loan processing information resulting in lost revenue.
5) IT and Business teams identify the need for a strong BPM tool and company with understanding of FS industry/lending.
6) IBM BPM 7.5 is chosen as tool to perform a Proof of Concept. There are successful results and BPM 7.5 is implemented.
7) Financial Institution now has increased productivity, less human intervention, growth in revenue, metric based reporting and improved user experience.
