Business Integration Management using WebSphere BI Modeler and Monitor A Real World Case Study

Business Integration Management using WebSphere BI Modeler and Monitor A Real World Case Study

by Lee Gavin, Geert Van de Putte, Francois Capristo, Pascal Durazzi, Ian Harvey, Andre Marleau, Lalit Sudan
Released May 2004
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

Integrating distributed business applications is no easy task. Managing a heterogeneous distributed real-time environment is equally challenging. Integrated business environments can process huge volumes of messages per day. Messages are published, routed, transformed and consumed. The integrated environment has to deal with exception handling, performance bottlenecks, and changes in the participating systems. Components are distributed across different machines in different locations. A Business Integration Management System addresses these requirements and provides the best approach or set of approaches that can be followed to manage an integrated business environment.

This IBM Redbooks publication is a case study of a real-life, business process, re-engineering exercise. We follow the pilot phase of this exercise from the design of a solution to modeling of the complex business processes, building these processes, and deploying them to a run-time environment. We also address many of the issues that surround an undertaking such as this and follow up on the success of the pilot.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  3. Chapter 1: Overview
    1. Business process definition and theory elements
      1. Business process environments
      2. Business processes characteristics (1/2)
      3. Business processes characteristics (2/2)
    2. The case study
    3. The case study business process description
      1. Customer order process
      2. Entry audit process
      3. Sub-processes
      4. The case study business process details (1/2)
      5. The case study business process details (2/2)
    4. Some comments on case study selection
  4. Chapter 2: The technology components
    1. Overview
      1. Model: WebSphere BI Workbench (1/2)
      2. Model: WebSphere BI Workbench (2/2)
      3. Model: WebSphere BI Workbench Server (1/2)
      4. Model: WebSphere BI Workbench Server (2/2)
      5. Integrate: WebSphere MQ Workflow
      6. Monitor and manage: WebSphere BI Monitor
  5. Chapter 3: Using WebSphere BI Modeler for WebSphere MQ Workflow
    1. Overview
    2. Terminology
      1. A business process
      2. An activity
      3. A task
      4. Flows and flow diagrams
      5. Data structures and Phis
      6. Some limitations
    3. Preparing and validating a workflow process object
  6. Chapter 4: Modeling the business process in WebSphere BI Workbench
    1. Set up organization data
      1. Prepare Organization data
      2. Import organization data
      3. Create the companies locations
    2. Finalize organization structure data
      1. Units management
      2. Cost
      3. Calendars
      4. Set up data structure
    3. Build the logic flow
    4. Build the Workbench model
      1. Build the tasks lists
      2. Draw the model in Workbench (1/2)
      3. Draw the model in Workbench (2/2)
    5. Model the case study
      1. Parts Replenishment model structure
      2. Build the model structure
      3. Build the case study model in the workbench (1/2)
      4. Build the case study model in the workbench (2/2)
      5. Work Order model
      6. Parts Replenishment model
      7. Order model
  7. Chapter 5: Taking the model to run time
    1. Finalize process model
      1. Create an ‘Empty activity’
      2. Create applications
    2. Finalize general process settings
    3. Finalize tasks settings
      1. Task General tab
      2. Task Staff Assignment tab
      3. Task Automation tab
      4. Task Application design tab
      5. Task Settings tab
      6. Task Notes tab
    4. Finalize phi settings
    5. Finalize choices settings (1/2)
    6. Finalize choices settings (2/2)
    7. Validate the model
    8. Export the model
    9. Create the user interface
      1. Create a project and install Rapid Deployment Wizard
      2. Generate Java Server Pages (1/3)
      3. Generate Java Server Pages (2/3)
      4. Generate Java Server Pages (3/3)
    10. Import model in MQ Workflow run time
      1. Import FDL
      2. Create the process template list
      3. Create process instance list
      4. Create work list
  8. Chapter 6: Simulation
    1. Validate the model
      1. Validate process modeling with Workbench
      2. Validate the model with a simulation test scenario
    2. What if analysis
      1. Capacity baseline
      2. Cycle time and resources baseline (1/2)
      3. Cycle time and resources baseline (2/2)
    3. Simulation conclusions
  9. Chapter 7: Business measures
    1. Understand business measurements needs
    2. Set up a simple measurements
      1. Set up business measure / metric and associated locations
      2. Set up final business measure
    3. Set up a complex measurement
      1. Set up the global internal and external cycles (1/2)
      2. Set up the global internal and external cycles (2/2)
    4. Export business measures from Workbench
    5. Import business measures to Monitor
  10. Chapter 8: Monitoring the runtime
    1. Verify the business measures (1/2)
    2. Verify the business measures (2/2)
    3. Run time analysis
      1. Workflow Web client (1/2)
      2. Workflow Web client (2/2)
      3. Workflow Dashboard
    4. Historical data analysis
      1. Set up reports
      2. Report on the collected data (1/2)
      3. Report on the collected data (2/2)
  11. Chapter 9: Conclusions, lessons learned and next steps
    1. Case study project analysis
      1. The cast
      2. The case study development and deployment
      3. After the case study
    2. Elements of a business process management
  12. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. How to get IBM Redbooks
    4. Help from IBM
  13. Index (1/2)
  14. Index (2/2)
  15. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Business Integration Management using WebSphere BI Modeler and Monitor A Real World Case Study
  • Author(s): Lee Gavin, Geert Van de Putte, Francois Capristo, Pascal Durazzi, Ian Harvey, Andre Marleau, Lalit Sudan
  • Release date: May 2004
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None