Business processes

Business processes are service components that provide the primary means through which enterprise services are integrated.

A business process is any system or procedure that an organization uses to achieve a larger business goal. When you break it down, you see that a business process is actually a series of individual tasks, and each task is executed in a specific order. As an integral part of applications running on IBM WebSphere Process Server, business processes provide the primary means through which enterprise services are integrated.

Business process components implement a fully supported Web Services Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engine. WebSphere Process Server includes a business process choreography engine on top of the WebSphere Application Server. You can develop and deploy complex business processes in a simple development model with sophisticated support for long and short running business processes in a highly scalable infrastructure. You can either create BPEL models in WebSphere Integration Developer, version 6.0, or import them from a business model you created in WebSphere Business Modeler, version 6.0.

Web Services Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is used to choreograph the flow of business processes. Business process integration services build on BPEL4WS version 1.1 and add major capabilities of the upcoming WS-BPEL version 2.0 specification.

For more information about business processes, refer to About business processes.


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