Architecture

Below are the components in IBM BPM architecture:

1. Process Apps
   A Process Application is the container for a solution, much like a project. First you will create the Process Application within the Process Center Console and you give it both name and a unique tag, or an acronym, that is no more than seven characters in length. Once created, a Process Application can have additional artifacts added to it using the BPM Process Designer (PD) tooling. Both the Process Application and its artifacts are stored in a repository managed by the Process Center.
   Process Applications can be created via the Process Center console, either via its web interface or from within BPM PD. The button to create a new Process Application is on the main Process Apps page. When a new Process Application is created, a dialog opens asking for a name and acronym for the new application.
   A "state" of the Process Application can be captured in a "snapshot" anytime. In creating a snapshot, all artifacts and their respective content are captured at that moment. Modifications done to the Process Application after the snapshot are not represented in previous snapshots. More snapshots can be created anytime.
   Process Applications generally house one or more Business Process Definitions. These Business Process Definitions are models of processes that at some future date will become executable. In this book, I make use of the terminologies BPDs and BPMN processes interchangeably since they mean the same thing.
2. Toolkits
3. IBM BPM Components
   • Process Server
   • Process Center
   • Process Designer
   • Performance Datawarehouse
   • Process Center Console
   • Process Portal
   • Process Admin Console