Business Process Management

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Business Process Management

• Matt Gunter
• Principal Systems Engineer
• Matt.Gunter_at_bea.com
• BEA Systems
• July 13, 2020

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Agenda

• What is BEAs value?
• Todays Business Landscape.
• What is Business Process Management?
• BEAs solution.
• Show me!
• Tying it all together.
• QA.

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BEAs Solution Value

• Leading J2EE Application Server
• Most scalable, reliable and deployable platform
• Broad Solutions support
• End to End Standards support

• The leader in Application Server and Transaction
  Infrastructure

• B2B Infrastructure that is implementable based
  upon your requirements.
• B2B Transactions across the Enterprise and the
  Internet.
• Next Generation integration and B2B Management
  today.
• All the ilities that you demand.

• Standards based B2B and Guaranteed Enterprise
  Transactions

• Integration at the business process level instead
  of at the program code level
• Quick assembly of application components
• Partitioning of business processes into public
  and private flows
• Native Support for EAI tool sets

• Business-level automation allowing for agility
  and responsiveness

• Bi-directional application interoperability with
  XML

• Normalization of non-XML data into XML dialects
• Bi-directional translation of non-XML to XML data
• Rapid integration of existing business logic with
  XML

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BEAs Solution Value

• A unified view of the customer across all touch
  points and delivers information on customer
  behavior and buying patterns throughout the
  organization.
• Advanced analytic capabilities allow you to
  identify your most valuable customers and focus
  your marketing dollars on highly targeted
  opportunities

• Proactive Customer Interaction
• Knowledge Mgmt, Business Intel.

• Time-to-market solution for Customer to Business
  success

• Pre-built templates and commerce functionality to
  quickly assemble adaptable, scalable e-commerce
  site solutions

• Brand-aware personalized customer touch points

• Launch e-Commerce initiatives with In-the-Box
  Personalized content management and
  pre-integrated e-Analytics e-Marketing systems

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BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform
FIREWALL
BEA WebLogic Portal
Custom Applications
Third Party Applications
BEA WebLogic
Enterprise
Personalization
Commerce
Campaign Manager
Applications
ERP
CRM
BEA WebLogic Integration
Business
Application Integration
Web
SCM
Custom
Business Process Management
Services
B2B Integration
HR
Legacy
BEA WebLogic Server
Simple
Web
Transaction
High Reliability/Availability
Services
Persistence
Scalability
State Management
Security
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Todays Landscape Requirements
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Business Process Management

• BPM is a methodology and a technology for
  modeling and then managing business processes.
• BPM requires two complimentary sets of skilled
  individuals
• Business process analyst who can understand and
  model the business issues of the enterprise
• Technical analyst who can make the connections to
  the underlying systems work
• BPM, the motivation is improving business
  processes. An independent process layer will
  allow an organization to be more flexible and
  responsive to future changes in the business
  model.

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Solution Overview
J2EE XML Integration Platform
XML/XML Transformation
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WebLogic E-Business Integration
WebLogic Server
Java Adapter for Mainframe
XSLT XSLTC
WebLogic Process Integrator
WebLogic Integration Framework
WebLogic Collaborate/ Web Services
WLPI Worklist Clients
WebLogic XML/non-XML Translator
WebLogic TUXEDO Connector

• eLink

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BEA WebLogic Process Integrator

• A powerful J2EE workflow engine that automates
  e-business events, rules-based enterprise
  processes, and component application assembly
• Enables users to dynamically model, design,
  simulate, and modify business events obtain
  metrics and maintain complex process within
  your organization or extend your business rules
  beyond the firewall.

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BEA WebLogic Process IntegratorKey Functions

• Process Modeling (Drag and Drop)
• Separate business logic from underlying
  application logic
• Process Execution
• Manage operational execution of processes
• Process Monitoring
• Track status and check statistics

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WLPI Components

• WebLogic Process Integrator Server
• The EJBs that implement the workflow engine
• WebLogic Process Integrator Studio
• The design-time client application that allows a
  workflow designer to define workflows
• WebLogic Process Integrator Worklist
• The run-time client application that manages a
  list of tasks for a logged on user

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WLPI Process Management

• Process Definition
• Capturing the definition of the business process
• De-coupling business logic from application logic
• Reusable process components
• Process Execution
• Managing the execution of e-business and workflow
  processes in an operational environment
• Proactively drive information and tasks to
  applications
• Process Monitoring
• Monitoring the status of processes and
  dynamically configuring the runtime controller
• Collecting metrics
• Providing instant status reports

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WLPI System Architecture
JMS Application
XML Event
XML
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Screen shot of WLPI Studio
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Anatomy of a WLPI Process

• A WLPI process consists of a series of tasks
• Tasks are individual business activities
• Tasks consist of a series of actions
• Manipulating process variables
• Mapping data to the application format
• Sending and receiving application messages
• Tasks interconnect with dependency structure
• Conditions, joins
• Events allow the process to be blocked dependent
  upon external events
• Process variables
• Run-time information used by process

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Workflow Nodes

• Start
• Indicates where a workflow starts execution
• Task
• The main nodes in a process, they define discrete
  business activity such as calling EJBs
• Event
• Causes the workflow to wait for the arrival of an
  XML doc from internal/external source
• Join
• Joins process flow paths into a single path
• Decision
• True/false condition and determines which path to
  proceed on
• Done
• Indicates process completion

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Actions

• Define actual behavior of a task
• Primitive building blocks - 1 actions per task
• Map business oriented tasks to technically
  oriented actions
• Task state
• Manipulate task state - mark as done, set due
  date, .
• Workflow state
• Manipulate process state - set process variables,
  abort process, .
• Integration
• Send XML on JMS, Call EJB, Call Java class
• Miscellaneous
• Send e-mail, evaluate condition/expression

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Monitoring and reporting

• WLPI Studio includes tools for monitoring and
  reporting
• Instance monitoring
• Monitoring a specific instance
• E.g. state of the instance, values of process
  variables
• Workload monitoring
• Monitoring of task states across all running
  instances
• Determine bottlenecks in process definitions
• Statistical monitoring
• History of executed process instances
• E.g. time taken to execute a specific tasks

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Historical Statistics Reports
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WLPI Studio Monitoring
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Human Integration
WebLogic Server
Java Adapter for Mainframe
XSLT XSLTC
WebLogic Process Integrator
WebLogic Integration Framework
WebLogic Collaborate
WLPI Worklist Clients
WebLogic XML/non-XML Translator

• eLink

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WLPI Worklist

• Run-time client that allows users to interact
  with a running process
• Allows the user to perform task management
• Allows user to see personal tasks and tasks
  assigned to users roles
• Allows user to re-assign tasks to another user
• Allows user to view the status of the workflow to
  which a task belongs
• Allows a user to execute a task
• Standard worklist client provided with WLPI
• WLPI API allows custom worklist clients to be
  developed
• HTML worklist client available as sample code

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WLPI Worklist
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Plug-Ins for WL Process Integrator XML /
Non-XML

• Facilitates the integration of data from diverse
  enterprise applications by normalizing legacy
  data into XML so it may be directly consumed by
  XML applications, translated into a specific XML
  grammar, or integrated to run with BEA WebLogic
  Process Integrator
• Enables users to graphically define and
  interactively test the translation of business
  documents or information into XML.

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XML/Non-XML Translation
Same data Different format
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Integrating with an Application with a Binary
Interface
Message Format Language
WLXT Engine
Application with a file based interface
Binary
MQSeries (MDB)
J M S
Binary
WLXT Engine
Message Format Language
DTD and/or XML Schema
WLXT WebLogic XML/Non-XML Translator
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Field definition
Optional field definition
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Format Tester
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E-Health Integration
MQ Series
BTP Enabler
WLIF
Plug-In
WLPI
Hub
Administration Console
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