Software builds and deploys business process applications.
Press Release Summary:
Based on service-oriented architecture, WebSphere Process Server v6.0 delivers and supports all styles of integration based on open standards to automate business processes that span people, workflows, applications, systems, platforms, and architectures. WebSphere Integration Developer v6.0 provides rapid assembly of business solutions that allows user to describe all styles of processes with one programming model based on Business Process Execution Language.
Original Press Release:
IBM WebSphere Process Server for Multiplatforms V6.0 and WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0 - For Building and Deploying Service-oriented, Component-based, Business Process Applications
At a glance
WebSphere Process Server V6.0 and WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0 delivers a rich process integration platform for enterprise services based on service-oriented architecture (SOA).
It allows you to:
Simplify IT by leveraging it. New Service Component Architecture delivers one programming model that unifies and leverages underlying IT.
Improve business agility with solution assembly, business rules, business state machines and selectors, events, and escalation.
Use fully integrated tooling to enable business driven development. Allows you to import models from WebSphere Business Modeler.
Experience high performance and quality of service with advance fault tolerance and error-detection.
Benefit from improved incremental economic benefits from sustained use of enterprise services.
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
Overview
Enterprises are under constant pressure to deliver more with less and are looking for ways to reuse select parts of existing IT to achieve business goals.
The promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables enterprises to respond to business needs in an on demand way by delivering the flexibility of quickly assembling and changing business processes. The new WebSphere® Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer deliver on the promise of SOA with minimal skills and resources.
Introducing WebSphere Process Server for Multiplatforms V6.0 and WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0:
Based on SOA and as a single, simplified programming model, WebSphere Process Server V6.0 is the next-generation, business process server that delivers and supports all styles of integration based on open standards to automate business processes that span people, workflows, applications, systems, platforms, and architectures.
Based on Eclipse technology, WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0 is a new tool for rapid assembly of business solutions that allows you to describe all styles of processes with one programming model based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). Easy to use, it requires relatively minimal skills and offers rich features for integrated development, testing and deployment to WebSphere Process Server V6.0.
New in WebSphere Process Server V6.0 and WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0:
Service component architecture - One simplified integration framework that leverages existing IT
One tool to describe all processes - Visual editors for component development, assembly, integrated testing, and deployment
Support for all styles of integration - Including human tasks, roles based task assignments, and multilevel escalation.
Visual editors for component assembly
Change business processes on the fly with relatively minimal skills
Business rules, business state machines, and selectors to dynamically choose interface based on business scenarios
Broadest reach in integration - Built on Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technologies and support for IBM WebSphere Adapters
Support for business-to-business (B2B) through a restricted use license of IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway
Key prerequisites
For details on hardware and software requirements for WebSphere Process Server, visit
http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wps/sysreqs
For details on hardware and software requirements for WebSphere Integration Developer, visit ibm.com/software/integration/wid/sysreqs
Planned availability dates
September 29, 2005 (electronic software delivery and documentation)
October 21, 2005 (media delivery)
