The WebSphere® Business
Services Fabric software is a platform for modeling, assembling, deploying,
managing, and governing business services.
The WebSphere Business
Services Fabric application suite enables personalized business services
to be delivered through multiple communication channels, such as the
Web, business-to-business, and interactive voice response. It also
helps automate the provisioning of service subscriptions and entitlements
to role-based service consumers.
The WebSphere Business
Services Fabric also has available optional industry content packs.
Industry content packs contain prebuilt industry assets that include
capability and process maps, business services templates, service
interfaces, industry-common services, business object model , business
glossary model and knowledge assets. Industry content packs are used
to accelerate business service development.
Key features
WebSphere Business Services Fabric provides
the following key features:
- Has highly scalable Dynamic Assemblers that enable business services
to adapt and deliver based on content, context, and contract
- Has an end-to-end platform that is used to source, assemble, deliver,
and manage business services for SOA applications
- Extends and enhances IBM® service
oriented architecture (SOA) foundation products that include WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Integration Developer,
and WebSphere Service
Registry and Repository
- Contains a standard-based business metadata repository that stores
and manages business services, policies, and business service entitlements
- Is Eclipse-based and Web-based tools that enable collaborative
assembly and management of business services for SOA applications
- Provides a visual assembly environment for creating and managing
industry-specific business service metadata models and policies
- Enables use and reuse of tools that interoperate with external
monitoring systems
- Governs across the product lifecycle, including the creation of
versions and migration across environments