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WebSphere Business Services Fabric


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Features and benefits

New features in WebSphere® Business Services Fabric Version 6.1.2

WebSphere Business Services Fabric is at the core of Business Process Management (BPM) enabled by service oriented architecture (SOA) environment for providing dynamic business process capabilities by assembling and storing business services that are managed and whose outcomes are changed with business service policies.

New capabilities include:

  • More functionality for business users with simplified tools
  • Integration with WebSphere Services Registry and Repository
  • Enhanced integration with WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1.2 and WebSphere Business Modeler 6.1.2
  • Platform enhancements for business partners to deliver asset-based solutions and software stack upgrades for WebSphere products, databases and operating systems

WebSphere Business Services Fabric can deliver:

  • Integrated environment to rapidly model, assemble, deploy, and manage, and govern business services, the building blocks of Composite Business Applications
  • Ability to leverage rather than replace legacy, packaged and custom applications
  • Ability to define and leverage common industry semantics as the language for helping to simplify interoperability between disparate systems
  • Life-cycle management and governance of business services
  • Personalized service delivery and adaptation
  • Ability to define and manage subscriber entitlements and portfolios
  • Repository for service metadata, policy, and subscriber information

IBM WebSphere Business Services Foundation Pack provides the following capabilities:

  • A highly scalable, run-time business service policy definition and enforcement engine
  • Dynamic business service assembly and behavior adaptation based on content, context, and contract
  • Control and automation of business service entitlements for subscribers, enabling creation, control, and management of service
  • End-to-end governance of business services through design, runtime, deployment, and management
  • Storage and management of business services, business service policies, and business service entitlements
  • Integration with leading security and identity management products
  • Visibility and monitoring of service-oriented business processes and applications with multi-perspective views that enable drill-down analysis of events and exceptions

IBM Business Services Tool Pack includes:

  • User tools to maintain, manage, and govern business services metadata, subscribers, business service policies, and governance processes
  • Ability for domain-experienced software architects to model, create, publish, and manage industry-specific service metadata models and business service policies around data, processes, resources, and domains
  • Enables a visual assembly environment for creating and managing industry-specific business service metadata models and policies
  • WebSphere Business Services Fabric requires the use of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository to help facilitate service discovery, reuse and life-cycle governance

Industry Content Packs will help you get started even quicker by assembling and reusing with the available IBM Industry Content Packs contains prebuilt SOA accelerators designed to speed time to market for payments-specific composite business applications. These assets are provided in the form of Business Services Templates, and each asset is fully optimized for use within the industry’s ecosystem.

IBM Industry Content Packs are optional to WebSphere Business Services Fabric and together you can see business value in the following areas:

  • Pre-built industry content on IBM middleware
  • Simplify consumption of industry standards
  • Reuse SOA assets
  • Consistency across industry Lines of Businesses and processes
  • Governing architecture to extend the content

The following Industry Content Packs are currently available:

IBM Insurance Property & Casualty (P&C) Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.0.2 focuses on the P&C lines of businesses for insurance enterprises. (0.71MB)
IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric v6.0.2 focuses on the payor processes in healthcare enterprises (0.32MB)
IBM Banking Payments Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric v6.0.2 focuses on payments capabilities for financial services enterprises (0.35MB)
IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric v6.0.2 focuses on billing, fulfillment, and assurance operations for telecommunication enterprises (0.33MB)

For additional information on other industries contact your IBM Representative or request more information.

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