Product Announcements

Companies use business process management software to gain greater insight and better manage, monitor and improve business processes to drive innovation. However, the true value of BPM is delivered through the combination of software and services expertise. This strategy enables customers to facilitate business innovation in the BPM lifecycle of business modeling, collaborative development, business monitoring and continuous process improvement within a flexible architecture that can easily adapt to planned and unplanned changes that impact business.

WebSphere: Enduring SOA Impact - The leading software platform for on demand business.

IBM Sees Growing Market Demand - for Service Oriented Architecture as Thousands Gather at Inaugural 'IMPACT' Global User Conference

IBM BPM Service Engagement Framework - a guiding roadmap that logically maps to a BPM engagement lifecycle can help clients prioritize and understand where to focus and what software can help.

IBM BPM Competence Center - built from years of experience working with WebSphere MQ Workflow, the BPM Competence Center is a team skilled in the broad aspects of BPM as well as the underpinning SOA-based technology—the team consists of a combination of an IBM Briefing Center and client facing process experts.

Component business modeling - Global Business Services offers component business modeling to identify and prioritize the core parts of the business that should be addressed, improved, and optimized.

SOA Business Catalog - a comprehensive, online resource for clients to find IBM and IBM business partner SOA Assets validated for enablement onto IBM's SOA foundation products.

WebSphere Business Services Fabric - industry specific and domain specific business services. Based on assets IBM gained in its August 2006 acquisition of Webify Solutions. The technology platform consists of prebuilt SOA assets, semantic models and policies that can be used to create industry-focused SOA products.

WebSphere Business Modeler V602 - is an enhanced 'Business Measures Designer' component, to better meet the needs of the business analyst.

WebSphere Process Server - the latest release of WebSphere Process Server bolsters support for human-centric processes. WebSphere human-centric support offers a common platform and tools inheriting the capabilities of WESB and App Server.

Business dashboards - within WebSphere Business Monitor offer enhancements to design and management features for Workplace Dashboard Framework and Workplace for Business Strategy Execution.

Service registry - WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is being announced and offers full service governance of process-services.

WebSphere content-centric BPM - IBM's announced intent to acquire FileNet means IBM just got a lot bigger in BPM.