About this Course

This intermediate course teaches application developers and BPM team members how to use IBM Business Process Manager to design and develop process applications. It is an interactive class with demonstrations and hands-on lab exercises.

Audience Profile

This intermediate course is designed for process application developers with experience in implementing IBM Business Process Manager, or other project team members who design, architect, and build complex process applications.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

Explain the architecture for a typical IBM Business Process Manager deployment

• Create business objects that are optimized for use inside a business process diagram
• Identify and track critical business data inside a business process diagram, and describe the database schema to extract the data for business reports
• Design and create custom reports and scoreboards to provide process visibility for multiple stakeholders and users across an organization
• Use cutting-edge JavaScript and Dojo libraries to create rich user interfaces without introducing adverse performance impacts
• Create Ajax coach elements for a responsive and highly polished user experience
• Translate a coach into numerous languages through localization
• Design an IBM Business Process Manager data architecture for a process application with complex business data
• Model all decision authority for a process and employ complex logic for task routing and assignments
• Construct complex task and process task-to-task interaction controls
• Identify and solve common integration issues

Prerequisites

You should:

• Successfully complete course Process Implementing with IBM Business Process Manager Standard V8.5.5 - I (WB814) or Process Implementing with IBM Business Process Manager Standard V8.5.5 - I -SPVC (ZB814)
• Build and deploy at least one IBM Business Process Manager process application release into production

Course Outline

• Course introduction
• Data perspectives and use
• Tracking data in IBM Business Process Manager
• Exercise: Creating tracking groups in a business process definition
• Reports and scoreboards
• Exercise: Creating an ad hoc report in Process Portal
• Exercise: Creating a custom ad hoc report in IBM Process Designer
• Advanced custom reports
• Exercise: Creating a coach custom report with coach views
• Defining ad hoc activities and use of the REST API
• Exercise: Creating an ad hoc activity and exploring REST APIs
• Adding localization and use of JavaScript, Dojo, and Ajax
• Exercise: Localizing a coach
• Exercise: Developing a coach with JavaScript, Dojo, and Ajax
• IBM Worklight integration with IBM Business Process Manager
• Designing complex process applications
• Advanced routing
• Exercise: Implementing the ""four eyes"" policy
• Managing complex tasks and process interactions
• Exercise: Building a cancellation pattern
• Exercise: Implementing a multi-instance loop
• Integrating with external systems
• Exercise: Building web service connections
• Course summary