Software provides business process modeling.

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WebSphere® Business Integration Modeler and Monitor v4.2.4 offers repository-based simulation with WebSphere Business Integration Workbench. It helps user model, simulate, analyze, automate, and monitor complex business processes. Software unifies activity costing, quality documentation, business process re-engineering, workflow modeling, return on investment data, and integration with application development.



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IBM WebSphere Business Integration Modeler and Monitor V4.2.4 Enhancements


At a glance

The IBM WebSphere Business Integration Modeler and Monitor solution:

Provides comprehensive, and user-friendly business process modeling and collaboration capabilities

Provides repository-based simulation with IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench

Produces redesign reports

Facilitates seamless integration of business process modeling, workflow building, and simulation features

Supports multiple modeling methodologies

Helps unify in one solution activity costing, quality documentation, business process re-engineering, workflow modeling, return on investment (ROI) data, and integration with application development

Are compliant with industry standards

Offers real-time performance measures

Displays meaningful real-time and historical information from a variety of environments

Offers Internet-based workflow monitoring through a standard browser interface

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Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

As companies strive to become leaner and more competitive, the cost and effectiveness of business operations continue to be scrutinized. In response to your feedback, IBM WebSphere® Business Integration Modeler V4.2.4 and IBM WebSphere Business Integration Monitor V4.2.4 improve business visibility for fact-based decision making and more optimized business processes.

These products provide a solution to help you model, simulate, analyze, automate, optimize, and monitor business processes quickly and effectively. With this solution, you will be better able to maximize business effectiveness by optimizing processes giving you competitive leadership in today's e-business environment.

The WebSphere Business Integration Modeler and Monitor solution consists of the following family of products which may be purchased and deployed either individually or together.

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Modeler
This offering, a bundled solution, consists of the following products that may also be purchased separately:

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench (10 licenses included with Modeler)

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench Server

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench Entry Edition

The Entry Edition is not included in the Modeler bundle, but may be purchased separately.

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Monitor

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Software requirements and Hardware requirements sections.

Planned availability dates

September 26, 2003: Electronic distribution

October 10, 2003: Media packs

Description

WebSphere Business Integration Modeler and Monitor provide software tools to help you model, simulate, analyze, automate, and monitor complex business processes quickly and effectively. Line-of-business managers as well as business analysts can more easily design and develop process flows that improve how you do business. With IBM WebSphere Business Integration Modeler and Monitor products, you will be able to maximize business effectiveness by optimizing processes that give you competitive leadership in today's e-business environment.

The solution consists of the following products which may be implemented either together or separately:

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Modeler

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Modeler combines the process design tools used to model processes with the collaborative design environment that allows multiple users to work together. Using this offering, line-of-business professionals from multiple locations can develop business processes and be assured of consistent access to up-to-date process information. The offering provides ten licenses of IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench along with IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench Server in a conveniently packaged offering that scales to meet the needs of any team.

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench

The IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench is an application that provides robust functionality for process modeling, enterprise modeling, business process analysis, and workflow translation.

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench helps you model a process and enterprise, model the applications and design GUIs, analyze the process, and translate the process for workflow automation.

Business analysis is one of the critical and most useful capabilities of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench. Many business process modeling efforts stop at developing flow diagrams or process maps. However, with the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench, the effort is extended to include analysis, redesign, application development, and automation.

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench includes a UML modeler and an Xform designer.

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