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• #5: Main Point: WebSphere Lombardi Edition (formerly Lombardi Teamworks) is a model-driven Business Process Management offering This offering can provide a single, shared process model library that ensures that all process-related assets are always in synch Now embeds WebSphere Application Server V7 (was formerly jBoss) IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.1 is a model-driven business process management (BPM) offering for building and managing process applications in a single executable platform. WebSphere Lombardi Edition provides organizations with an environment for rapid composition and continuous change of process applications. A unique shared model architecture supports the highest levels of dynamic process definition with features including: Shared library for all process assets to facilitate reuse and collaboration Graphical workspace for building process diagrams and services Interactive playback for validating process requirements at any time without compilation Standards-based process design using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Properties sheets for all process elements help less technical users participate in design This architecture allows for quick time to market and the ability to implement change easily. What’s new? WebSphere Lombardi Edition, formerly Lombardi Teamworks, is now a new IBM single BPM offering allowing companies to continually improve their end-to-end business processes from build to execute to improve and manage functions. Organizations can drive better process performance because WebSphere Lombardi Edition provides fine-grained visibility and real-time control for in-flight processes. Process owners can react and adjust quickly to market pressures, regulatory changes, or other external forces by leveraging WebSphere Lombardi Edition which supports the highest levels of dynamic process execution. Features include a graphical view of process status, real-time scoreboards to provide out-of-box visibility into work in progress and the capability to take dynamic action and collaboration activities to allow for process participants to communicate and collaborate on specific process instances during process execution. WebSphere Lombardi Edition allows organizations to manage all aspects of their BPM program and exponentially expand BPM adoption throughout their organization by increasing collaboration, governance, reuse and simplifying tasks across the entire process development lifecycle. WebSphere Lombardi Edition supports the highest levels of program manageability with features including a process center for all process artifacts created in development, toolkits to facilitate and manage reuse of common functionality across multiple versions of multiple process applications and snapshots of all artifacts as specific points in time to manage all changes to process models. Back-in-time versioning allows organizations o instantly view any historical version of a process at any time with just the click of a mouse, as well as run the entire process application as it existed at that specific point in time, including models, rules, services, data, and forms. WebSphere Lombardi Edition also has a process server registry with centralized tools to deploy and track versions of multiple processes across various runtime server environments are now provided in the process server registry. What’s significant? The business process management (BPM) market is extremely broad and growing -- and the market needs are quite diverse. In the current business landscape, our clients understanding how their business is performing and transforming their business processes into engines of innovation is paramount. By enhancing awareness and understanding across ecosystems, they can gather insights to enable redesign of processes, systems, and strategies that span the breadth of their business network across employees, customers, partners, and suppliers to drive innovation. BPM requires various approaches to solve a spectrum of business challenges faced by the market today. WebSphere Lombardi Edition enables business-driven change to allow development of process applications involving human-to human interactions, ad-hoc collaboration, and work flow patterns that require fast deployment. WebSphere Lombardi Edition is designed to help companies meet the challenges of designing, controlling, optimizing and managing the lifecycle of processes across an organization by providing a simple graphical interface so business users can build processes and easily help everyone on the team to understand their processes. [3-4 features/bullets total] Authoring environment - Enables collaboration between business and IT authors and provides the ability to quickly build and share every process element, from diagrams to forms, rules, and services in a single design environment Process portal - Helps drive process performance giving users a consolidated view of all outstanding tasks while giving managers visibility into team and process performance Shared model architecture - Includes a single shared process view across design and runtime environments to ensure that business and IT have a unified understanding of the process model Performance data warehouse - Tracks key business metrics and process performance data to help analysts identify process performance hotspots to target for enhancement in future process versions Process center -- Provides a central hub for managing the design-time aspects of a BPM program including a repository for storing process model versions, a framework for deploying processes and related artifacts to runtime environments, and a registry for tracking the deployment of each process What are the benefits? Efficiency Eliminate manual data entry - Reduce time required to add a new employee record into the HR system from 9 hours to 10 minutes Reduce process cycle time - Reduce compensation processing timing for 12,000 sales representatives from 33 days to 7 Reduce manual routing - Eliminate 80% of the manual work required to route invoice exceptions to the appropriate resolution teams Effectiveness - Handle exceptions promptly, resulting in saving distressed shipments from 5% to 70%, yielding $2M per quarter in saved revenues Make better decisions - Improved review process, resulting in $3M Saving in billing disputes that were write-offs Consistent execution - Improve client satisfaction to 92% based on proactive tasks to ensure home loans are processed promptly Agility Faster regulatory compliance – Changed customs-related processes after September 11, 2001, within 90 days to comply with new federal regulations Support new business models - Change shipping partners within 10 minutes in core process, enabling manufacturer to change primary shipper every quarter, if beneficial Who is this designed for? Mid-to-large-sized enterprises in any industry that want to stay competitive and to rapidly change their business processes to respond to a variety of market and business demands will need business process management capabilities to address their business opportunities and challenges. More information: [Availability/cost/requirements] Planned availability dates: June 18, 2010: Electronic distribution - U.S. English and national languages [add hyperlink] to come RFA number: 52874 IBM legal compliance (3rd party software) IBM product branding, copyrights, etc. Replace embedded JBoss with WebSphere App Server v7 Replace embedded SQL Server Express with DB2 Express Support Windows and UNIX platforms Support DB2 Express, Oracle, and SQL Server databases DB2 will be a post-GA certification Two install experiences, one installer technology Simple experience includes app svr, databases, no config Standard experience allows clustering and other databases
• #6: WDPE/WPS – sales cycle is architecture lead Service orchestration Security High volume Straight through SOA architecture is what I need Lombardi – business lead Optimization Human workflow Scalability never an issue with Teamworks I need to fix my business issues very quickly and need people centric solution and need to optimize Start with one single process and endup automating all business processes in the enterprise
• #7: Speaking Points: Lombardi really complements the IBM BPM Suite. As you know, the BPM market is extremely broad and growing -- and their needs are quite diverse. We are excited about the idea of being able to “fit for purpose” BPM across People, Process, and Information. IBM is the only Vendor to so thoroughly and completely cover the BPM Landscape Process End-to-end business processes that are integration intensive, highly scalable, built on SOA principles of governance & reuse across the enterprise. Information Content management, workflow & collaboration capabilities between departments and across the enterprise. People – this is where we see Lombardi most strongly addressing the needs – but of course, these solutions will come together depending on the individual needs of the customer. Cross organization, functional process discovery and design capabilities combined with business driven change allows departments to build applications involving ad-hoc collaboration and workflow patterns that require fast deployment. . e.g. claims exception processing for personal line auto insurance to identify and manage fraud
• #8: Main point: WebSphere Process Server is based on a proven and mature base, WebSphere Application Server. WPS exploits powerful service offered through WAS, e.g. security, administration. WAS ND is an extension to WAS, offering distributed application hosting, clustering and an operational environment to setup failover and HA scenarios. WESB is based on WAS ND and WAS, offering WebServices connectivity. WPS finally is the top-offering combining features and capabilities of both WAS, WAS ND and WESB plus the value-add business integration features of WPS itself. Important: This “Russian doll” model states that whenever a “higher-valued” offering is purchased, all the “lower-valued” offerings are included, e.g. WPS has WESB, WAS ND and WAS incldued.
• #27: Example: show a simple process app that calls a system activity – drag “Send SMTP Email” service from System toolkit and configure (familiar to everyone) (Hint: Lombardi smtpServer internal name = smtp.lombardisw.com)