Business Process Management is about designing, automating and managing your operational business processes.
Business processes often span a wide range of requirements, supporting various degrees of human interactions, and can include document routing, complex decision-making, compliance mandate enforcement and integration with packaged, custom and external applications, transaction and database systems.
IBM® WebSphere® Process Server delivers a rich unified process integration platform for enterprise services based on service-oriented architecture (SOA), and supports the end-to-end lifecycle from analytical modeling to performance management and optimization for business process management (BPM). It can be used either in conjunction with or instead of the native document routing services of DB2® Content Manager Enterprise Edition, depending on the requirement.
Designed to be part of a services-oriented architecture, WebSphere Process Server V6.0 delivers and supports multiple styles of integration. It is designed to automate processes that span people, workflows, applications, documents, systems, platforms, and architectures. The types of processes can vary greatly, ranging from Web services or Web page navigation to human task management, document routing and process portals to business transaction support. Processes can be based on automated steps that together constitute a single transaction, or they can involve human interaction and may run for days, weeks or months.
The IBM Content Manager/WebSphere Process Server Integration Quick Start provides a toolkit of components (Java™ classes, EJBs), documentation and comprehensive samples that set in motion the many interaction patterns between Content Manager Enterprise Edition and WebSphere Process Server.
With Content Manager and WebSphere Process Server together, you can extend the value of documents and provide content services across your company. To learn more, download the Integration Quickstart Guide from the download section of the Content Manager Support site.
