Course Overview
This course introduces students to process integration using WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Business Modeler, and WebSphere Business Monitor. Students learn the basics of developing an IBM solution for process integration by taking a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach.
The course begins with an overview of Service Component Architecture, business process choreography, and supporting services introduced at a high level. This includes an overview of WebSphere Integration Developer and WebSphere Process Server, and is designed for people who are looking for a brief introduction to the technology. For integration developers, course WB111 or VB111, Integration Using IBM WebSphere Integration Developer and Process Server, is a better alternative.
Prior experience with WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer enables students to implement IBM WebSphere Business Monitor. WebSphere Business Monitor is business activity monitoring software that provides the capability to measure business performance, monitor in-flight and completed processes, and report on business operations. It provides the necessary information to identify business problems, correct exceptions, and improve processes to achieve a more efficient and competitive business.
WebSphere Business Monitor can monitor and analyze processes modeled with WebSphere Business Modeler and running with WebSphere Process Server. Monitor retrieves actual process data from WebSphere Process Server's runtime database and compiles that data in Monitor's database for use in comprehensive historical analyses using DB2 Cube Views. Further, Monitor can provide feedback of the actual results into WebSphere Business Modeler, thus improving simulation and analysis and expediting continuous process improvement.
The second half of the course demonstrates why WebSphere Business Monitor is a key part of IBM WebSphere Business Process Management. Students learn to use the powerful ability of WebSphere Business Monitor to provide real-time business views of enterprise data, which can be compared to process historical data to ensure that targets are reached. Students begin by exploring the modeled process in Modeler, and then assembling the application in WebSphere Integration Developer (WID). Based on this BPEL application, students use the Monitor Development Toolkit, which is a plug-in for WID, to develop a monitoring model to measure business process performance. After deploying the application and monitoring model on WebSphere Process Server, students use WebSphere Portal to build customized business dashboards.
This is a highly technical and extremely detailed course that provides a documented process for use on future installations and troubleshooting efforts. Students install and configure WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, DB2, Cube Views, Alphablox, WebSphere Business Monitor Server, WebSphere Process Server, and the Monitor Development Toolkit. Installing this platform is vital to understanding Monitor's value, functionality, maintenance, and relationship with other products.
Audience
This course is designed for implementation consultants, integration developers, IT specialists, project managers, and support engineers.
Skills Gained
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Describe Service Component Architecture (SCA)
- Describe the Business Object framework
- Describe the tools supported for defining Business Objects
- Build a business process (WS-BPEL) using the WebSphere Integration Developer tooling
- Describe IBM WebSphere Adapters
- Describe the WebSphere Adapter Toolkit
- Describe Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Connector Architecture (JCA) 1.5
- Describe Enterprise Metadata Discovery
- Configure WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files to output Business Objects to a local directory
- Explain interface mapping
- Explain parameter mapping
- Define relationships in WID
- Create interface maps and BO maps
- Explain and configure selectors in WID
- Define Business Rules in WID
- Explain monitoring concepts
- Describe the WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2 environment
- Explain SOA and how it is supported by WebSphere Business Monitor
- Install WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.2
- Prepare a project in WebSphere Business Modeler for deployment to WebSphere Business Monitor
- Test the model in WebSphere Integration Developer
- Deploy the business measures model and the process model
- Configure the Adaptive Action Manager
- Explain the concepts of dashboards and Dashboard Server
Prerequisites
None
Course Outline
- Integration Developer and Process Server overview
- Business Objects
- Business process choreography
- WebSphere adapters (JCA)
- Interface mapping and Business Object mapping
- Supporting services overview
- Overview of SOA and WebSphere Business Monitor
- WebSphere Business Monitor basics
- Business Measures View in WebSphere Business Modeler
- Monitor Model Editor in WebSphere Integration Developer
- Monitor Unit Test Environment in WebSphere Integration Developer
- Model deployment
- Adaptive Action Manager
- WebSphere Business Monitor Dashboards
