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The IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) platform enables you to harness the power of change through your business processes. BPM helps you embrace change – it allows you continuously optimize your business processes and maintain continuous alignment between business and IT. Core capabilities include the following:

WebSphere® Business Modeler helps organizations fully visualize, comprehend, document, and analyze their business processes. WebSphere Business Modeler uses an easy to use drag-and-drop interface where you can create process flows or import them from Visio or other design tools, such as Aris. You can run "what-if" simulation scenarios to accurately predict how the process will flow, where the bottlenecks will be, and what the projected cost savings will be before you begin any implementation work. Enhanced capabilities of WebSphere Business Modeler include enhanced life cycle management of BPM project assets and easier reuse and traceability of process models and other artifacts. WebSphere Business Modeler simplifies communication of business processes with BPM and custom graphical images, accelerates the modeling of human workflow, and has expanded platform support for Linux®.

WebSphere Business Modeler Publishing Server allows you to share process model designs with other stakeholders and subject-matter experts in the company by publishing the work through a Web-based browser for people to comment on, review, and provide feedback on the new process.

Prebuilt Industry Process Models and assets allow you to accelerate time to value and allows you to use best practices in your BPM deployments.

WebSphere Process Server is a high-performance process engine that enables you to create and deploy new business processes. It allows you to orchestrate a business’ assets–people, processes and information services–to help form highly optimized and effective processes in a single service oriented architecture (SOA) environment. Enhanced capabilities of WebSphere Process Server include support for the business user with new out-of-the-box, ready-to-run, Web 2.0 BPM client. Platform support has also been expanded to Microsoft® Windows® 2008 Server and IBM i5/OS® V6R1.

WebSphere Integration Developer provides a common tool for building SOA-based integration solutions across WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, and WebSphere Adapters. It enables integration developers to assemble complex business solutions–processes, mediations, adapters, or code components–using drag-and-drop technology without having a working knowledge of Java™. Enhanced capabilities of WebSphere Integration Developer include stronger life cycle management of BPM products, and helps improve iterative development and traceability of human tasks and business rules.

WebSphere Services Registry and Repository enables you to publish, find, enrich, manage and govern services and policies in your SOA. It enables SOA governance of your services throughout their service life cycle, and promotes reuse and eliminate redundancies by increasing visibility of services, applications and processes.

WebSphere Business Monitor enables you to monitor business processes in real time for visibility and insights into process performance and operational metrics to support continuous process improvement. It provides a visual display of business process status with alerts and notifications for business users. Process performance data is exported to WebSphere Business Modeler to facilitate continuous improvement of your business processes.

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