Configure LDAP with Websphere Lombardi Edition

Out of the box, WebSphere Lombardi Edition installation comes configured with a single federated internal repository that provides default groups and users for Lombardi environment. You can create new users and groups in the internal repository and use the users and roles as part of the business process definition. Alternately, many organizations uses LDAP for users and group management and you would want to source the users and groups…

Moving towards BPMN 2.0

The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standard for modeling business process modeling. BPMN provides a set of graphical notations for modeling business processes.

To model a business process flow, you can simply start of with modeling the events that starts the process, the activities that get performed as part of process, and the end result of the process flow. You can also optionally place the events and activities…

Driving Business Agility using BPM

The WebSphere Technical conference (WTC 2010) was conducted in Bangalore, India last week. As usual, I gave presentations on BPM track. This time my presentation was about “Driving Business Agility using BPM”. I build upon a use case as part of presentation and showed how to enable agility using various agility enablers incrementally. One of the key concepts highlighted…

What is Dynamic BPM

Dynamic BPM is the ability to support process change at any time, with very low latency. Dynamic BPM implies that your business processes are more agile and flexible so it can easily adapt dynamically based on business needs.

So how is Dynamic BPM different from earlier BPM solutions. In my view, the initial SOA BPM solutions focused on streamlining business processes, aligning Business and IT content, process automation and standardizing IT…