BPM 8.5 vs. 8.0.1 vs. 8.0 Highlights
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What’s New in IBM BPM v8.0?
Social Collaboration
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Mobile
Access
Defining “social” collaboration for BPM
A cutting edge process portal
Getting end-users excited about BPM
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Enhanced
Governance
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Content
Access
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A great Mobile App
Providing the APIs
customers need to realize
their mobile strategies
Enabled for IBM Mobile
Platform Tools
Departmental to Enterprise-wide Governance, sharing,
teaming and re-use
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Making it easy for processes
to interact with content in
ECM systems –
IBM, Sharepoint, and others
IBM BPM 8.0.0 Release Highlights
IBM BPM
Released
2Q2012
1. New Web 2.0 Process Portal delivering a highly
collaborative work experience with increased social
capabilities and visibility for knowledge workers
2. New Coach Designer with the ability to create and
reuse custom, user-defined Coach controls,
sections and templates
3. Enhanced Governance capabilities including userdefined processes for snapshots and deployment
events
4. Managed links to artifacts managed by OSLCenabled content providers
5. Multiple Process Center support including the
ability to search and share content between process
centers
6. Ability to interact with documents in enterprise
content management systems via Content
Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)
7. Expanded REST/JSON API for mobile application
development
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IBM BPM
Released
4Q2012
IBM BPM 8.0.1 Release Highlights
8. Enhanced IBM BPM Process Portal that delivers a highly collaborative work
experience with increased notifications and improved performance
9. Improved ease of use for the Coach Designer with the ability to create and
reuse custom, user-defined Coach controls, sections, and templates
10.New ability to incorporate IBM BPM Coaches within WebSphere Portal hosted
composite applications
11.New graphical views of data flow & related components in business
process models that improve visibility and understanding
12.Enhanced governance capabilities that include out-of-the-box, defaultgovernance processes and samples
13.Integration with SAP Solution Manager for utilizing the design-time capabilities
of IBM BPM for designing, documenting, and customizing SAP processes
14.Built-in constructs react to lifecycle events on documents in FileNet
Content Manager enterprise content management systems
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BPM 8.5 What’s New Highlight Areas
IBM BPM
Released
2Q2013
 Installation, Configuration, Migration and Security
 Dashboards, Coaches, Teams and Process Designer
 Local Documents
 Web Services
 BlueWorks Live Integration
 Various Miscellaneous Enhancements
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What’s New in IBM BPM v8.5?
1. Simplified IBM BPM installation, configuration, and administration
reduces time and effort to setup, manage, and expand IBM BPM
2. Process Portal Dashboards redesigned, componentized and
delivered using extensible “Dashboards” Toolkit of custom Coach
Views. This means you can customize the Process Portal end-user
experience and build custom apps with the new dashboard views.
3. New, internal document repository to consistently store document
attachments, both internally and externally, using CMIS
4. Enhanced collaboration, communications, and change tracking
between Blueworks Live and Process Designer
5. Enhanced Web Services security and SOAP header support in the
IBM BPM standard runtime
6. MOBILE: Includes IBM Worklight Enterprise Edition to accelerate
developing Mobile Apps on any device
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IBM BPM v8.5 - Includes Worklight for Mobile Apps
BPM 8.5 bundles Worklight Enterprise
Edition with entitlement to develop
custom mobile apps with IBM BPM. Full
license required for production use.
Worklight Adapter for
BPM REST APIs
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Common HTML5
code base
Leverage Worklight capability
for multi platform development
& deployment. Integrate with
IBM BPM through REST APIs.
New Sample Mobile Coaches
Toolkit includes over 15 coach
views for Mobile Device Access,
Theming, Page Navigation and
Visual Controls.
http://Tinyurl.com/IBMBPMSamplesExchange
http://bpmwiki.blueworkslive.com/display/samples/SAMPLE+EXCHANGE+HOME
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IBM BPM v8.5 - Social, Actionable Coach-Based Dashboards
‣ Next generation out of the box dashboards –
replaces “scoreboards” from previous
releases
‣ Process Owners can view current
performance against expectations
‣ Team Managers can visualize and manage
the work of their team
‣ Participants can see their own task
performance measurements
‣ Take action directly to resolve issues and
balance work
‣ Created using “coach views” – empowering
customization and extensibility
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IBM BPM v8.5 - Social, Actionable Coach-Based Dashboards
Empower business users to collaborate and act on observed insights
Create tailored operational dashboards to
offer enhanced visibility for process
owners, team leaders and process
participants
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Process Portal Dashboards Implemented Using Coach Views
New toolkit cotaining
building block of
dashboards
• Prior to v8.5 Process Portal could not be modified
• In v8.5 Process Portal dashboards were re-built using Coach Views
• Process Portal dashboards are three Human Service (BPM_WORK, Process
Performance Team Performance)
• Dashboards can now be easily customized and redeployed
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Dashboards Toolkit
Default Ajax Data
Services
BOs used by CVs
and Ajax Services
19 new dashboard
Coach Views
• Contains all that is needed to build the Dashboards:
Services, BOs, Coach Views (i.e. the “Pill” Editor CV)
• You can modify and extend the default dashboards
• You can also create use the toolkit elements to
create new custom dashboards
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Custom Dashboards
Dashboard Human Service:
• Coaches;
• System Services to feed data to dashboards;
• Navigation links for dashboard screen
transitions
Coach composed of
Dashboard Coach Views
Expose Human Service
as "Dashboard“
• Custom dashboards are Human
Services constructed from the
Dashboard CVs
• Must be exposed as “Dashboard”
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Dashboard in Process
Portal
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Install & Configuration
Profile Changes
• Only ND profile for BPM Standard or BPM Advanced
– Stand Alone profile available only for: BPM Express and the IID UTE
– 12 profile type collapsed into 1
• All work done in Deployment Environment (i.e. can change from Standard
to Advanced without re-installing
Profile type
Installed Product
Standalone
DMgr
Custom Node
BPM Express
Yes
No
No
BPM Standard
No
Yes
Yes
BPM Advanced
No
Yes
Yes
IID UTE
Yes
Optional
Optional
(BPM Advanced)
• Single node ND is a better starting point to grow your configuration by
merely adding new BPM nodes as required
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Install & Configuration
BPM Advanced 8.0.x 4-Cluster
Dramatically Simplified Deployment Topology
Msg.member2
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AppTarget
Cluster
App.member1
(PC Console)
Process Admin
BPC
Your Apps
App.member2
(PC Console)
Process Admin
BPC
Your Apps
Support
Cluster
Sup.member1
Perf Console,
CEI
Sup.member2
Perf Console,
CEI
PDW tables
CEI
Msg.member1
BPC
Node Agent
SCA.APPLICATION
Node Agent
SCA.SYSTEM
IHS
Messaging
Cluster
Node2
PERFDW
DMGR
IP
Sprayer
PROCSVR
Node1
IHS
ProcServer tables
CommonDB tables
FEMgr, ES, BRules, etc
MEDB tables
SCA.SYS, SCA.APP, CEI,
BPC, procsvr, perfdw
BPEDB tables
Web
Cluster
Web.member1
Process Portal,
BSpace,
widgets, BRM, BPC
Explorer
Web.member2
Process Portal,
BSpace,
widgets, BRM, BPC
Explorer
BSpace tables
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Install & Configuration
BPM Advanced 8.5 3-Cluster
Dramatically Simplified Deployment Topology
DMGR
Node Agent
IP
Sprayer
Messaging
Cluster
IHS
1
3
App
Cluster
CMNDB (cell)
AppSched,
Mediations, Rels
CMNDB (DE)
BPC, FEM, ES,
BSpace, MEDB
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BPMDB (DE)
Process Server,
EmbeddedECM
Support
Cluster
Msg.member1
Node2
Node Agent
Msg.member2
ME
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PROCSVR
Node1
IHS
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1. Fewer cell
scoped
tables
2. Only three
database
types
App.member1
3. Only three
Clusters
(PC Console)
Process Admin
Process Portal
BSpace
Widgets
Embedded ECM
BPC
SCA
BRM
Support.member1
Support.member2
PDW, CEI,
BPC Explorer
PDW, CEI,
BPC Explorer
4. Only one SI
Bus - One
SIB for all
components,
Separate
SIB per DE
PDWDB (DE)
Performance DW
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For more details, please reference the longer
BPMv85 What’s New Deeper Dive deck here:
http://soapower.com/IBMBPM/Presentations/WhatsNew/IBM-BPMv85-WhatsNew-DEEPER-DIVE-by-PaulPacholski-V1.1.pptx
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