IBM Business Process Manager V8.5 enhances process visibility with next-generation process dashboards and simplifies environment setup and management

At a glance

IBM Business Process Manager ( IBM BPM) V8.5 is an update to the IBM comprehensive and consumable BPM platform that delivers enhanced visibility and management of your business processes. IBM BPM V8.5:

• Simplifies the installation, configuration, and administration of your IBM BPM server environments, with a streamlined user interface and new powerful scripting options
• Includes the next generation of process performance dashboards with better visualization and the same social collaboration capabilities found in the Process Portal, such as activity streams and real-time access to experts
• Keeps "live" reference links to IBM Blueworks Live™ process documents that are relevant to a Business Process Diagram
• Includes an entitlement to IBM Worklight Enterprise Edition for Nonproduction Environment
• Includes WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment V8.5

Overview

IBM Business Process Manager ( IBM BPM) V8.5 is a comprehensive and consumable business process management platform that offers enhanced visibility and management of your business processes. It includes tooling and run time for process design, execution, monitoring, and optimization. It is specifically designed to enable process owners and business users to engage directly in the improvement of their business processes.

A highly integrated environment that scales smoothly and easily from initial project to enterprise-wide program, IBM BPM V8.5 is designed for easy deployment and use straight out of the box or in an easily customizable configuration. It helps to deliver rapid time to value and improved user productivity.

IBM BPM V8.5 includes these new capabilities:

• Simplified IBM BPM installation, configuration, migration, and administration to help reduce the time and effort required to set up, manage, and expand IBM BPM environments
• Significant enhancements to the IBM BPM built-in dashboards to help improve business process outcomes and enable the creation of custom dashboards
• New internal repository to enable a consistent method for storing document attachments, both internally and externally, using standard Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) interfaces
• New methods of Team definition, including service-based Team resolution and first-class support for Team managers
• Improved collaboration, communications, and change tracking between business process stakeholders using IBM Blueworks Live and implementation teams using IBM BPM
• Enhanced security capabilities for web services and support for SOAP headers in the IBM BPM standard run time
• Entitlement to IBM Worklight Enterprise Edition for Nonproduction Environment to help accelerate the development of IBM BPM applications on mobile devices