WebSphere Business Modeler using BPM

Overview

This course will integrate a combination of instructor-led discussions and interactive workshops to illustrate the use of the modeling abilities within WebSphere Modeler. This course will focus on; role of the integration server, role of different integration patterns, WBI toolset implementations, demonstrate process modeling abilities, process simulation execution, performing model analysis, reporting capabilities and versioning.

This course will utilize a variety of different case studies and practical tutorials to demonstrate the abilities of the WBI Modeler to support business process modeling

Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of application development and design methodologies.

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Audience

Java or OO developers, web page designers and other professionals that will be designing and modeling large scale applications using WebSphere Business Modeler.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

Introduction to concepts and capabilities of Business Process Modeling

Understand the concepts of business process modeling

Illustrate the role of the IBM WBI Modeler toolset

Depict the different types of business integration patterns: Business, Integration, Application and Runtime

Discuss the role of eCommerce integration patterns

Depict the abilities of the Modeler toolset and illustrate the various model elements

Demonstrate the methods for building effective process models

Create process models using connectors, repositories, services and tasks

Illustrate advanced Model Elements

Perform simulation for all of our designed business processes using tokens and interrupts

Illustrate use of WBI analysis tools for static, dynamic, profile and model analysis

Depict the various reporting functions within the modeling tool

Illustrate the versioning of modeling projects

Course Duration

3 Days

Course outline

Business Integration

Need for application integration
How SOA addresses integration
Using integration and IDE tools
Integration Components
o Application Server
o Process Server
o Enterprise Service Bus
Role of adapters
Use of business objects
Topology
o Point-to-Point
o Hub-to-Bus

Modeling Integration Patterns

Defining eBusiness Integration Patterns
o Business
o Integration
o Application
o Runtime
Business patterns
o Self Service
o Collaboration
Information aggregation
o Extended Enterprise
o Integration Patterns
o Process
o Application

Business Process Modeling

Defining BPM
Benefits of BPM
BPM Workflow analysis
Process re-engineering
Integrating SOA into BPM
o Notation specification
o Behavior modeling
o Process activity sequencing
BPM lifecycle
Roles in BPM

WBI Toolset

Illustrating WebSphere Business Modeler
Eclipse-based environment
Dominant capabilities
Available implementations:
o Basic
o Advanced
o Publishing Server
Components
o WebSphere Integration Developer
o WebSphere Process Server

WebSphere Business Modeler

Project organization
o Projects
o Catalogs
o Business groups
Creating a process
Exporting and importing
Basics of simulation and analysis

Model Elements

Defining model elements?
Using Data catalogs
Business Items
Role of Notifications
Use of Notification templates

Enterprise Service Bus

Architecture pattern
Unify message oriented, event driven and service oriented processes
Optimize delivery of information and services
IBM Product integration
Interoperability with different platforms

Process Modeling

Business modeling modes
Process diagram
o Tasks
o Services
o Repositories
o Connector
Specify input and output data
Conditional components
o Forks
o Merge
o Loops

Advanced Model Elements

Resources
Resource catalogs
Roles
Timetables
Costs
Modeling organizations
Working with expressions
Adding colors

Advanced Process Modeling

Components
o Map
o Observer
o Timer
o Classifiers
Specify cost and revenue
Measures
o Input criteria
o Precondition
o Correlation
o Output criteria
o Post condition
Require roles
Specify resources
o Individual resources
o Bulk resources
Specify organizational unit
Specify location
Specify classifier value
Swimlane layout
Process validation

Process Simulation

Process simulation
Simulation components
o Tokens
o Interrupts
o Attributes

Performing Model Analysis

Using model analysis
Analysis templates
o Static analysis
o Model analysis
o Profile analysis
o Dynamic analysis

Report Processing

Query feature
Report designer and using templates
Documentation reports
Dynamic analysis reports
Static analysis reports
Printing and exporting reports