Three Reasons To Test Drive Interstage Business Process Manager Version 10

Reason #1 - Application Partitioning Capabilities Aid Multi-Tenancy

Advanced application partitioning and multi-tenancy capabilities allow enterprises as well as SaaS partners to host multiple applications on a single server of Interstage Business Process Manager in a cost-effective, risk-free manner. This makes Interstage Business Process Manager an ideal choice for shared services environments within an enterprise. By segregating all the process artifacts related to a particular application, a company can easily start and stop individual applications without affecting the other applications running on a single instance of the Interstage Business Process Manager server.

Reason #2 - Rapid Application Development capabilities

The newest release of Interstage Business Process Manager includes rich capabilities that support Rapid Application Development – from creating rich user interfaces to delivering service mashups and composite applications. The Forms Designer is built in to Interstage Business Process Manager Studio. It provides an AJAX-based WYSIWYG editor to create rich browser-based forms. The Layout Painter in the tool is central to specifying the layouts of HTML pages and to previewing and testing these forms.

The Forms Designer provides rich controls that can be placed within the layout painter. Each control has an associated property sheet to configure its presentation and appearance with the form.

The created forms are then attached to the relevant steps in the process. The data mapping between the form fields and process attributes can easily be associated in the control property sheets. The end users interact with this screen while performing the tasks, and data entered into these forms are passed back to and from the process seamlessly. The Forms Designer also provides tools to apply validation rules or formulas, in the form. Validation rules eliminate data entry errors when users type values into the form. It also provides users with useful tool tips to guide them, when they fill the forms.

Reason #3 - Advanced process simulation, monitoring, and analysis capabilities

Processes can be monitored by defining monitoring conditions, and outlier values can be automatically escalated with announcements via email or by calls to an external system. Business processes can be analyzed, problems detected, and improvements explored using a process-information data warehouse that includes business data. The Analytics Designer which is built in to the Interstage Business Process Manager Studio environment provides charting options to choose from, to present the process information to business users.