Business process management

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• Care process management: Using BPM tools and methodology in the healthcare environment

  Historically, healthcare excellence has been achieved through individual practitioners focusing on being best in their medical discipline. The industry has evolved into a series of independent providers and processes, focusing on intervention. Focusing within each discipline does not provide consideration for the overall patient experience. Today, the healthcare industry is marked by its poor design, high fragmentation, and stunning inefficiency. Care Process Management (CPM) uses best practices for business process management to improve clinical outcomes without changing care processes or displacing the role of health workers.

• Integrating IBM Business Process Manager V8 with an Enterprise Content Management system

  This article describes how to develop an application in IBM Business Process Manager V8 that handles documents stored in an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. It describes the steps to configure the connection to the ECM system and how to develop the user interface elements to present the content to end-users in a business process.

• Best practices for designing and implementing decision services, Part 2: Integrating IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Operational Decision Management

  Part 1 of this series addressed some best practices for designing and implementing a decision service using IBM Business Process Manager Advanced and WebSphere Operational Decision Management. This article describes different out-of-the-box BPM and ODM integration capabilities and recommends an approach that provides better performance and flexibility for a long-term production solution.

• Deploying a BPM pattern on IBM PureApplication System

  In this article, you'll learn how to use IBM PureApplication System to deploy clustered IBM Business Process Manager V8 Advanced environments using BPM patterns with all the functionality and security features. You can connect this BPM cloud environment to other existing on-premise software components.

• Deploying process applications in IBM Business Process Manager V8

  Process developers using Process Designer or IBM Integration Designer can deploy their applications either interactively or manually via scripts. The key is to have the proper roles and authorizations set up so that you can control and monitor who deploys what and where. Deploying a brand new application is much simpler than having to deploy an application that already exists in Process Server. An offline Process Server is another feature that BPM administrators need to manage carefully. This tutorial describes different deployment strategies that you can use with IBM BPM V8.

• Automating your business process application test cases using Java in IBM Business Process Manager

  Using the REST API provided by IBM Business Process Manager, you can begin the execution of a business process and drive it all the way to completion. In this article, you'll learn how to use this capability along with the Java™ REST client API to write automated test cases to ensure to that your IBM BPM processes run properly, to try out the different execution paths in your processes, to perform regression testing, to ensure that human steps are performed, and more.

• Creating a Decision Server Events runtime in WebSphere Operational Decision Management V7.5, Part 1: Configuring a standalone environment

  This two-part series describes how to create a Decision Server Events environment in WebSphere Operational Decision Management V7.5. Part 1 takes you through the steps for building a standalone environment.

• Creating a Decision Server Events runtime in WebSphere Operational Decision Management V7.5, Part 2: Configuring a highly available and scalable environment

  Part 2 of this series takes you through the steps for building a highly available and scalable environment.

• Developing custom reports using the Coach Reporting Framework in IBM Business Process Manager

  Learn how to use the TWList pattern, part of the Coach Reporting Framework, to create custom reports that query the application data for reporting purposes. We'll demonstrate the creation of two reports with drill-up and drill-down options configured using the custom toolkit.