Friday, May 1, 2015

Benefits of using IBM Business Process Manager Advanced. (80/285 technotes for 2015)

Connectivity

RecProcess Integration Challenges:

  1. Variety of different types of messaging - over TCP/IP and SNA etc, propriety data formats, unusual and one off integration mechanism.
  2. Long running Business processes and handling failure scenarios 
  3. Undoing Business processes in a controlled manner.
  4. Data mapping is complex
  5. Inbound event based Business processes.
  • In particular, an automated recovery method allows you to bypass the manual interventions that would have been used

IBM BPM Standard - philosophy

  • Build simple interfaces to back end out of the box
  • It takes a fairly optimistic view of the the processing environment.

Short Comings:

  • Anything more in the backend requires a lot of Java Script.
  • Does not support Transaction, Recovery and 
  • Does not provide out of the box capabilities of addressing issues when they occur

IBM BPM - Advanced - phylosophy

  • Provides a pessimistic view 
  • handle issue when they occur

SOA  - is one of the most component oriented distributed computing models of recent years is SOA.

SOA - requires - orchestration component that not only invokes the services in order but also handles failure, error or any other challenge 

SCA - todays environment is made up of many different moving parts

  • properly joining them.
  • multiple connection type.
  • different interfaces.
  • global and discrete transactions.
  • passing or security context and so on.
  • loosely coupled

Advantages of IBM BPM Advanced (which ESB as such does not have)

  • Adapters
  • Integrated ESB
  • Distributed Transactions
  • Compensations
  • Failed Event Management
  • Event Sequencing
  • Endpoint, retry and re-selection

Support from Tools

  • Refactoring support
  • Component Testing

Advantages of IBM BPM Advanced having ESB

  • Same tooling, Same component model
  • Ability to use process Senter and its management and government capability
  • Transaction propagation
  • Possibility of co-location when performance requirement demands such a pattern.

Can we use IBM BPM Standard and ESB instead of IBM BPM Advanced?

  • ESB provides basic application integration capabilities
  • Some adapters
  • provide basic transaction support
  • endpoint retry and reselection
  • Connectivity
  • Endpointvirtualization
  • Data mediation and Tranformation
  • Data encaptulation
  • Data enrichment

But

  • Minimal support for SCA,
  • Compensation and Failed events (Websphere ESB does so)

References:

http://ibm.co/1Q7FWET

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