IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 - It's Announced

Announcement: IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Integration Designer Version 8.5 products

This product version includes the following enhancements:

• Simplified IBM Business Process Manager installation, configuration, migration, and administration processes to help reduce the time and effort required to set up, manage, and expand IBM Business Process Manager environments

• Significant enhancements to the IBM Business Process Manager built-in dashboards to help improve business process outcomes and enable the creation of custom dashboards

• New internal repository to enable a consistent method for storing document attachments, both internally and externally, using standard Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) interfaces

• New methods of Team definition, including service-based Team resolution and first-class support for Team managers

• Improved collaboration, communications, and change tracking between business process stakeholders using IBM Blueworks Live and implementation teams using IBM Business Process Manager

• Enhanced security capabilities for web services and support for SOAP headers in the IBM Business Process Manager Standard run time

• Entitlement to the IBM Worklight Enterprise Edition for Nonproduction Environment product to help accelerate the development of IBM Business Process Manager applications on mobile devices

IBM® Business Process Manager ( IBM BPM) V8.5 is an update to the IBM comprehensive and consumable BPM platform that delivers enhanced visibility and management of your business processes. IBM BPM V8.5:

• Simplifies the installation, configuration, and administration of your IBM BPM server environments, with a streamlined user interface and new powerful scripting options

• Includes the next generation of process performance dashboards with better visualization and the same social collaboration capabilities found in the Process Portal, such as activity streams and real-time access to experts

• Keeps "live" reference links to IBM Blueworks Live™ process documents that are relevant to a Business Process Diagram

• Includes an entitlement to IBM Worklight Enterprise Edition for Nonproduction Environment

• Includes WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment V8.5

The announcement letter is here: -

IBM Business Process Manager V8.5 enhances process visibility with next-generation process dashboards and simplifies environment setup and management

Note: These products will be generally available on June 14, 2013.