IBM Business Process Management 8.5

IBM Business Process Management(BPM 8.5)

Rafie Tarabay

eng_rafie@mans.edu.eg

Why we may need BPM

To computerized all documents work-flow in the company, for example if the employee need vacation he just fill a form then submit to take manager approval and if approved goes automatically to HR and if rejected back to employee and send notification on his mail.

The implementation of work-flow will need no coding in most cases!, just drug and drop the sequence of the process.

BPM Final Screen Sample

BPM Architecture

Example of developing hiring request

The user will use BPM to draw the sequence process in the Process Designer

Flow will divided to leans according to who will apply the stepin this case we have 3 leans(Hiring Manager, General Manager, Human Resources)

What is BPM? BPM: is a comprehensive change management of

business processes that results in continuous process improvement.

BPM Goal: efficient business process with visibility.

BPM System: manages People2People, System2System, and Person2System.

BPM Results: improve in financial, customer, and employee satisfaction.

BPM Vision

BPM Vision: is to improve operations by using internal business expertise, business people directly engaging in Design, in Definition, and in Creation of the process.

Design → Modeling → Execution → Optimization

BPM life cycle

BPM Modeling

Design → Modeling → Execution → Optimization

Modeling: capture the ordered sequence of the business process tasks and the roles of doing the activity.

Modeling approach

Describe → Analyze → Implement (Execute)

Describe: Vision, Goals, KPIs …

Analyze: Business requirement, Process requirement, Function requirement.

Implement: Development requirement, Solution implementation.

Processing Model

A graphical representation, or diagram, of the business process.

BPM Teams ResponsibilitiesSponsor: define Project Goal

Owner: success execution of the process, know the process E2E in high level.

PM: Project Success

Subject Matter Expert: selected by owner, know specific process.

Core Team Member: (Analysis, Developer, Architect)

Administrators: Install, Update, Configure BPM system.

Facilitators: manage the meetings.

IBM BPM 8.5

1) Process Center (Development)

(a) Process Designer Interface

(b) Process Center Console

(c) Process Servers

(d) Performance data warehouse (PDW)

2) Process Servers (Production)

(a) Process Servers

(b) Performance data warehouse (PDW)

(1) Process Designer Interface

Process Designer Interface

Desktop application save its data to process center

Allow developer to create, manage, test and optimize BPD( business process definition)

BPD: reusable shared model of the process, define what is common in all runtime instance of the process.

Process Designer Interface

Consists of

- Designer: allow create, modify, implement BP model

- Inspector: allow test process during modeling & implementation

- Optimizer: evaluate the business process model simulation scenarios

(2)Process Center Console

Process Center Console

This tool is used to deploy process application to the production servers.

Developer should create a Snap Shot first then Process Center Console deploy this Snap Shot.

(3) Process Center

Process Center

Central repository, where process application are created and stored.

It consists of - Process server (PS): run business process in development and store history, versions of development/deployment.

- Performance data warehouse (PDW) : collect performance data during development.

(4) Process Servers

Process Server

Application server run on webSphere.

Provide the workflow facilities, such as task management, routing, and simulation.

Components:

- BPD engine

- Service engine

- Event manager

(5) Performance data warehouse (PDW)

Performance data warehouse (PDW)

It is application runs on webSphere to collect performance data.

Working with BPM 8.5

How to start PBM 8.5

Another way to start BPM

We can start BPM on two steps

- Start the deployment manager

- Start the node agent

Now BPM is start

How to get Business Process Designer

Create new project and create new BPD inside it

Open Process Designer

Create New Process App

Create new Business Process Definition (BPD)

Process Designer Elements

Process Designer Elements

Simple hire process

Start Event

End Event

Lean

Phase

Leans VS Phases

Lean : Group of users complete some tasks

Phases : Logical organization unit in the flowchart

Activity

Activity: Nested Process

Gateways

Intermediate & Boundary Events

Nested Process

Types of Nested Process

Subprocess: create a subprocess flow

Linked Process: linked to another reusable flow

Event Subprocess: not linked on the flow, it is fire automatically when certain event is happened

Subprocess implementation

Define it as subprocess the double click on it to set its implementation sequence

Linked Process Implementation

Gateways

Gateways

1) Exclusive Gateway (one nested IF condition)

2) Inclusive Split Gateway (many IF conditions)

3) Inclusive Join Gateway (OR condition) wait for any

4) Parallel Split Gateway (send to all)

5) Parallel Join Gateway (wait for all)

Control Gateway Behavior

Exclusive Gateway (IF condition)

One condition only are evaluated

if ()

else if ()

else

end if

Exclusive Gateway (IF condition)

Evaluate conditions one by one from top to bottom

if one are true cancel evaluate the other conditions

Inclusive Gateway

All conditions are evaluated

if ()

end if

if ()

end if

if ()

end if

Inclusive Join (OR condition)

Wait to any incoming tasks to continue

Parallel Join

Wait for all incoming tasks to complete first before continue.

Parallel gateway

Many steps must complete regardless of its sequence, and these steps can run in parallel.

Boundary Event vs Intermediate event

Intermediate event

Pause the flow until event occurred

Boundary Event

Timer Intermediate event

Message Intermediate event

Content Intermediate event

Tracking Intermediate event

Error Boundary Event

Toolkits

Default toolkits

BPM has by default 5 toolkits

(1) Coaches

(2) System Data

(3) Content Management

(4) System Governance

(5) Dashboards

the 1st two items are included by default in any new project

Add new toolkit to exist project

Develop new BPM project steps

Development iterations

To develop any work flow, it is normal to have 6 iterations, from playback 0 to playback 5.

Playback 0 Iteration (Defined the process): Capture →Document → Map → Refine

Playback (1-5) Iterations (Develop the process): (Playback1 to Palyback5 steps): Requirement →Design → Build → Test

Playbacks objectives

Playback 0: Describe the current state (as is) and how it should be (to be).

Playback 1: Manage variables and dataflow and gateways and routing.

Playback2: Business data flow, business objects

Playback3: create services for integration to get the real data for web service/Databases …

Playback4: focus on the user screens to create a better user interface

Playback5: focus on handle process errors, error handling

Playback 0Draw Business flow

Playback 1

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Local Variables

Input, Output, and Private

Variable Namespace

All variables are java script objects

tw.system.org.findParticipantGroupByName("Loan Officers").userstw.system.process.instanceId

Implement timers

Implement Gateways

Implement Routing Task

Playback 2

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Playback 3

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Playback 4

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Playback 5

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