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WebSphere Process Server v6.0.1 and WebSphere Integration Developer v6.0.1 deliver process integration platform for enterprise services based on service-oriented architecture, which delivers one programming model that unifies and leverages underlying IT. In addition to fault tolerance and error-detection, software enables use of fully integrated tooling to enable business-driven development. Users can import models from WebSphere Business Modeler.




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IBM WebSphere Process Server V6.0.1 and WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0.1 - for Building and Deploying Service-Oriented Business Process Applications



WebSphere Process Server V6.0.1 and WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0.1 deliver a rich process integration platform for enterprise services based on service-oriented architecture (SOA).

They help you:

Simplify IT by leveraging it. The new Service Component Architecture delivers one programming model that unifies and leverages the 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 higher performance and quality of service with advance fault tolerance and error-detection.
Benefit from improved incremental economic benefits from sustained use of enterprise services.

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Your IBM representative 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.

SOA helps enterprises respond to business needs in an on demand way by delivering the flexibility to quickly assemble and change business processes. The new WebSphere® Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer deliver on the promise of SOA, while requiring relatively minimal skills and resources.

Introducing WebSphere Process Server for Multiplatforms V6.0.1 and WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0.1

WebSphere Process Server V6.0.1, the next-generation business process server built on the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus product, delivers and supports all styles of integration to automate business processes that span people, workflows, applications, systems, platforms, and architectures. Based on SOA and open standards, WebSphere Process Server represents a single, simplified programming model.

Based on Eclipse technology, WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0.1 is a new tool that helps you rapidly assemble business solutions that describe all styles of processes with one programming model based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). Easy to use, it requires relatively minimal skills. It offers rich features for integrated development, testing, and deployment to WebSphere Process Server V6.0.1 and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.0.1.

New in WebSphere Process Server V6.0.1 and WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0.1:

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, role-based task assignments, and multilevel escalation; visual editors for component assembly
Ability to change business processes quickly with relatively minimal skills
Business rules, business state machines, and selectors to dynamically choose the interface based on business scenarios
Broadest reach in integration: Built on WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and support for IBM WebSphere Adapters
Support for business-to-business (B2B) through a restricted use license of IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway
Support for running on Linux(TM) for zSeries®

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 http://ibm.com/software/integration/wid/sysreqs

Planned availability dates
December 29, 2005 (electronic software delivery and documentation)
January 27, 2006 (media delivery)

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