Websphere帮您建设SOA的架构.pptVIP

**Main point: Business processes are made up of individual services; SOA requires business process management for automating and optimizing Let’s look more deeply into a central element of SOA called Business Process Management (or BPM). Recall from back when we were doing definitions that Services are nothing more than repeatable business tasks. These business tasks or services are strung together like building blocks to create a composite application. So to pursue SOA well, it’s vital to be able to automate and optimize your business processes through BPM. Being able to do this flexibly and to easily alter the business process in response to opportunities and threats is what SOA is all about. SOA helps make you more competitive by helping you manage your business processes. BPM lets you: Identify and eliminate redundancies and bottlenecks Reduce risk by gaining an understanding of process impacts prior to operationalizing Automate process implementation, eliminating manual deployment tasks Immediately execute new business rules and processes Visualize actual process performance against key performance indicators Pinpoint future process improvements While these things would still be possible without BPM, they would have to be done manually or through multiple tools from multiple vendors that you would have to integrate yourself. Main Point: WebSphere Business Modeler has been enhanced to provide the business user with an intuitive yet powerful tool that models, simulates, and optimizes business processes yielding an insightful operational view. What’s New: a Business Measures editor that permits the business analyst to define Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) – a scorecard of how your business is performing against established goals. The Business Modeler Publishing Server allows collaboration on business models – subject matter experts can view and comment upon models via a web browser. Differentiators: simulation capabilities (which can also be