Process Portal
Access insightful,
concise information from redesigned default dashboards if you are a process
owner or team manager
·Visualize process performance issues more easily, and in real
time. For example, instantly see overdue and at risk work.
·Take corrective actions directly from the dashboard to improve
business process outcomes or balance workloads.
·Collaborate with team members and contribute to instance
activity streams without leaving the dashboard.
Experience a highly effective and collaborative work environment
with improved social capabilities
·See whether other users are logged in to Process Portal to
identify and contact an expert to move work forward.
·Keep up to date with posts to the @Mentions stream.
Unseen posts are counted and marked, and streams are automatically refreshed.
·Easily find and choose the right experts to send an invitation
to collaborate on tasks.
Work more efficiently and effectively as process participants
- Complete tasks in environments
that are integrated with IBM Connections and IBM Domino® Server.
- Decide which pages are shown in
the Process Portal interface by reordering the displayed and
hidden tabs.
- Copy URLs for inclusion in chat
sessions, emails, and documents.
Process Designer and Process
Center
More efficiently design
dashboards for Process Portal users
·
Modify and extend the newly designed, default dashboards using
tools that are in Process Designer.
·
Create custom, localized dashboards with the reusable components
that are in the Dashboards toolkit: interface elements, implementation
services, and data objects.
More easily design Coaches
- Use
Ctrl + SPACE code assistance to see the available Coach API when you are
entering JavaScript code. JavaScript code and HTML code now feature syntax
highlighting.
- Add
variables to custom HTML items that are resolved when the HTML page is
generated. For example, you can assign a user name as a variable so that
each user’s name is displayed on the HTML page.
- Set
the visibility of a Coach View when you are editing it in a Coach.
- Call
classes and functions that are in Dojo 1.8.3.
- Use
Tab and Table stock controls that feature improved runtime performance.
This enhanced performance is for all browsers including Microsoft Internet
Explorer 8.
Enable groups of users to
interact with processes more easily
- Define
organizational structure of teams by adding managers that teams report to.
- Delegate
the specification of a team's members to a team retrieval service that
dynamically returns a list of users that is based on parameters.
- Use
a team filter service to specify who must work on a task from the
originally assigned users.
There are also
terminology improvements: participant group changed to team in IBM Process Designer, Process
Portal, and Process Admin Console; milestone changed to phase in Process Designer.
More easily integrate
services
- Optionally
select to cache the results of an integration service. The results are
cached according to unique input variable data.
- Add
a new web service configuration on the Servers tab of the Process App
Settings editor. You can reuse the new web service configuration from
multiple web service invocations.
- Configure
web services with policy sets that are reusable.
- Use
variables to add SOAP headers to an outbound message request and
automatically retrieve SOAP headers from an incoming response message.
Using this method, you can work with SOAP headers whether or not they are
defined in the WSDL definition.
Rename business objects,
their attributes, and variables with refactoring support
See how renaming a
business object will affect the objects that refer to it before you rename the
business object.
Correlate on top-level
properties of variables when working with intermediate events
When you are designing
intermediate events that are attached to undercover agents, you can now
correlate on an individual top-level property of a variable, instead of only on
the variable object.
Consistently interact with
documents in the internal IBM BPM document
store and external CMIS-compatible ECM systems
- IBM
Business Process Manager supports
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) integration with IBM FileNet® 5.1
Content Manager, IBM Content Manager 8.4.3, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010, and
Alfresco Community 4.2.
- ECM
Coach Views now work with the internal IBM Business Process Manager document store.
More easily work with
processes that were originally created in Blueworks Live™
- You
now can view Blueworks Live processes in Blueworks Live when you are
subscribing to the processes from IBM BPM.
- You
now can search to find specific spaces and processes when you are
subscribing to Blueworks Live processes.
- Blueworks
Live activity details that are not imported into another field are now
imported into the documentation field, including business owners, experts,
systems, suppliers, inputs, outputs, customers, risk, custom fields,
problems, and existing documentation.
- Some
Blueworks Live values are automatically imported into KPIs: cost, work
time, wait time, total time, and value add.
- You
now can check for updates to the original Blueworks Live processes from IBM BPM.
Enjoy more flexibility
with enhanced importing
You can now import BPMN
files into an existing process application instead of creating a process
application that is based on a BPMN model.
Extend your ability to
administer snapshots
·
You can now specify which snapshots recognize and respond to a
message event.
·
You can now delete unnamed and archived snapshots of a process
application using the new BPMSnapshotCleanupcommand.
·
You can schedule IBM Process Center to automatically delete
unnamed snapshots.
Use governance processes
to provide approvals for snapshots that are installed by wsadmin commands
Installations that are
initiated through BPMInstall and BPMCreateOfflinePackage commands now can use a governance process.
With a governance process, you can attach rules or approvals to the
installation of a snapshot on a server.
Process Server
Experience more options
for managing applications and artifacts by using wsadmin commands
- Update
system toolkits with interim fixes by using the BPMUpdateSystemApp command.
- Administer
the new IBM
BPM document store
with the following commands:
- maintainDocumentStoreAuthorization
- getDocumentStoreStatus
- startDocumentStoreMigration
- maintainDocumentStoreTrace
- updateDocumentStoreApplication
Monitor events with the
centralized Failed Events Manager
The Failed Event Manager
is now available from the administrative console under your deployment
environment.
Customize a context root
prefix across a deployment environment to simplify administration
Experience easier
deployment-environment administration with a custom context root prefix
configuration. You can now use theBPMConfig command with the -update parameter to create a single context root
prefix configuration, minimizing the initial costs, reducing security costs,
and hiding context root management issues from users.
Remove durable
subscription messages from your database
Using the BPMDeleteDurableMessages command, you can remove old durable
subscription messages from the LSW_DUR_MSG_RECEIVED database table. You can use
this capability to trim the size of the table periodically.
Integration Designer
Speed setup time with
simplified installation
You can now install IBM Integration Designer and the IBM Process Server test environment from the launchpad:
- Select
the specific features in IBM Integration Designer to install.
- Specify
the user names and passwords for cell administrative account fields and
deployment manager account fields while you are installing the Process
Server.
- Specify
the user name and password for database connectivity.
In addition, the options IBM Integration
Designer for WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and IBM Integration Designer for IBM Business Monitor are no longer available.
Enjoy improved flexibility
with custom XPath extension functions
Custom XPath extension
functions can be used in BPEL processes. You now can create your own XPath
extension functions instead of using only predefined functions. Custom XPath
extension functions are helpful if you are migrating from a different product
and want to use existing functions with IBM BPM.
Mobile
Develop mobile
applications with the IBM Business Process Manager V8.5 and IBM Worklight® bundle
IBM
Business Process Manager Advanced and IBM Business Process Manager Standard V8.5 now include a nonproduction license
entitlement for IBM Worklight Enterprise Edition as a supporting program. You
can download Worklight Enterprise Edition from Passport Advantage® based on
your IBM BPM entitlements.
Worklight
Enterprise Edition offers organizations a wide set of services to help manage,
develop, and deploy functionally rich, cross-platform mobile applications. When
you combine Worklight Enterprise Edition (nonproduction license entitlement)
with IBM BPM,
you can do the following tasks:
·
Develop custom hybrid mobile applications that extend IBM BPM experiences to smartphones and
tablets.
·
Use IBM BPM APIs
and Coaches in custom mobile applications.
·
Use authentication, notification, and analytics capabilities
from Worklight Enterprise Edition.
·
Use the Worklight App Center private application store to test
the distribution of your application inside your enterprise.
When you are ready to move your application
to a production environment, you can do so by purchasing either a Worklight
Enterprise Edition license or a Worklight Consumer Edition license, depending
on your needs.
Performance Data
Warehouse
Control the size of the Performance Data Warehouse
Delete records from
the Performance Data Warehouse by using the new prune command, which
is part of the Performance Data Warehouse tool (perfDWTool). By pruning records
that you no longer need, you can keep the Performance Data Warehouse from
becoming too large.
