| Overview IBM WebSphere Business Modeler is a business process modeling tool that enables you to model, design, analyze and generate reports for your business processes, integrate your new and revised workflows, and define your organizations, resources, and business items. You can do the following using the modeler: - Create realistic models
- Leverage skill sets
- Collaborate with team members
- Anticipate change
WebSphere Business Modeler provides a number of business modeling modes, each of which offers a different view of the models that you create. You can switch between business modeling modes depending on the level of detail for a model or some aspect within it that you want to view. The Basic Business Modeling mode is intended for the business analyst or other user who wants to work at the high-level view of a business process model. This mode focuses on creating and displaying sequence flows and does not expose low-level technical details of process and data modeling. The Intermediate Business Modeling mode gives the more technically focused user the opportunity to specify and view additional details of process and data models. For example, with this mode you can specify business rules and logic that apply to model elements and a broader set of specifications for data attributes. The Advanced Business Modeling mode provides the most comprehensive level of detail for process models and data models. This mode facilitates the work of technically experienced personnel who prepare models that will be used as the basis for software applications. For example, you can use this mode to specify invocation characteristics, static fields, instance correlations, and a larger set of simulation parameters. WebSphere Business Modeler also provides three different business modeling modes that are optimized for different technologies. The WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation mode is optimized for generating output in Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) format, which you can import into WebSphere Integration Developer, and later deploy to WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1. The WebSphere MQ Workflow mode is optimized for generating output in Flow Definition Language (FDL) format, which you can use in WebSphere MQ Workflow as the basis of an automated workflow solution. The WebSphere Process Server technology mode is optimized for generating output in Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) format, which you can import into WebSphere Integration Developer, where you can further define the process for deployment in a runtime environment. Modeler functions - Process modeling
- Business item modeling
- Resource modeling
- Organization modeling
- Structure modeling
- Analysis
- Process simulation
- Reporting
- Importing and exporting
- Business measures modeling
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