WebSphere Business Services Fabric

An extension to WebSphere Process Server

WebSphere Business Services Fabric creates and manages modular, dynamically assembled, extensible business processes.

Businesses frustrated with the slow rate of change and complexity of their processes can make them highly flexible and responsive by breaking them into modules, called intelligent Business Services, and assembling the modules at run time.

• Quickly implement innovative new products with the agility of an SOA/BPM infrastructure organized into shareable, flexible modules called intelligent Business Services.
• Save IT the headache of opening up, reprogramming and redeploying processes with a modular environment that allows governed rapid changes by business users, often with no impact to IT.
• Continuously increase your return on investment (ROI) by sharing and reusing the run time modules called intelligent Business Services.
• Save costs by making enterprise-wide Business Service Policy changes simultaneously shared across all applicable processes.
• Improves business and IT collaboration by empowering business users with tools like role-based business spaces, a browser-based graphical UI based on Web 2.0 mashup technology.
• WebSphere Business Services Fabric version 7.0 adds improvements in install, tooling experience and performance including WPS runtime integration and a new interface for context extraction.

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• Simpler, easier way to map business context information flowing through a process with a new user interface

• Ensures minimal downtime for long running mission critical processes with support for context high availability

• Reduced complexity of deploying a meta-data driven solution, while still enabling runtime agility with a new shared WPS repository

• Faster, easier installation experience with IBM Install Manager

• Supports more environments including SLES 11 and DB2 9.7

• Extremely rapid business process changes such as: on-boarding a new vendor, bundling services with existing services for an innovative new product, or simply streamlining an internal process

• Organizes a BPM and SOA infrastructure into shareable, flexible modules called intelligent Business Services, helping organizations realize the SOA vision of architectural agility and reuse

• An ever-increasing return on investment each time an intelligent Business Service is reused or shared.

• Enables governed changes by business users so they can quickly create and change their own processes while changes in corporate policy are concurrently proliferated across all processes

• Saves IT effort and cost with less reprogramming and redeploying old code, program by program

• New functionality can be added to a process without changing or redeploying the process, providing for rapid time-to-market for new business services

• Separates individual intelligent Business Services lifecycles from umbrella core processes, making manageability of complex BPM projects easier, significantly lowering total cost of ownership (TCO)

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System requirements

Operating System	Software	Hardware
AIX	Foundation Pack: IBM AIX 5.3 (32 and 64 bit kernel support) IBM AIX 6.1 (64 bit kernel support) Detailed system requirements for AIX	Foundation Pack: Any system from the IBM POWER™ family of processors Minimum 2 GB physical memory; 4 GB recommended DVD/CD-ROM drive Detailed system requirements for AIX
Linux on x86	Foundation Pack : Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS/ES (Update 6) (32 and 64 bit kernel support) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 AS/ES (Update 1) (32 and 64 bit kernel support) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 SP 4 (32 and 64 bit kernel support) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 SP 1 (32 and 64 bit kernel support) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 (32 and 64 bit kernel support) Detailed System Requirements for Linux on x86	Foundation Pack : Intel® EM64T or AMD Opteron Minimum 2GB physical memory; 4 GB recommended DVD/CD-ROM drive Detailed System Requirements for Linux on x86
Linux on POWER	Foundation Pack : Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS/ES (Update 6) (32 and 64 bit kernel support) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 AS/ES (Update 1) (32 and 64 bit kernel support ) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 (32 and 64 bit kernel support) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 (32 and 64 bit kernel support ) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 (64 bit kernel support only) Detailed system requirements for Linux on POWER	Foundation Pack : Any system from the IBM POWER™ family of processors Minimum 2 GB physical memory; 4 GB recommended DVD/CD-ROM drive Detailed system requirements for Linux on POWER
Linux on System z	Foundation Pack : Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS/ES (Update 6) (64 bit kernel support only) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 AS/ES (Update 1) (64 bit kernel support only) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 (SP4) (64 bit kernel support only) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 (SP1) (64 bit kernel support only) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 Detailed system requirements for Linux on System z	Foundation Pack : System z processors Minimum 2 GB physical memory; 4 GB recommended DVD/CD-ROM drive Detailed system requirements for Linux on System z
Solaris	Foundation Pack : Sun Solaris 10 (patch cluster dated 01/07/08 or later) (32 and 64 bit kernel support) Detailed system requirements for Solaris on SPARC	Foundation Pack : Sun Solaris operating environment compatible SPARC at 440MHz or faster Minimum 2 GB physical memory; 4 GB recommended CD-ROM drive Detailed system requirements for Solaris on SPARC
Windows	Foundation Pack : Windows® Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition SP2 (32 and 64 bit kernel support) Windows® Server 2008 Standard Edition SP1 (32 and 64 bit kernel support) Note: The Windows XP and Vista platforms for IBM Business Services Foundation Pack and WebSphere Process Server v7.0 are ONLY supported in the WebSphere Integration Developer v7.0 test environment and are not to be used for Production usage. Tool Pack(Client): Windows XP Professional SP2 (32 bit kernel support) Microsoft Vista (Business & Enterprise) (32 bit kernel support) Windows XP Professional with FFDC SP2 (32 bit kernel support) Microsoft Vista (Enterprise) SP2 with FFDC (32 bit kernel support) Windows® Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition SP2 (32 and 64 bit kernel support) Windows® Server 2008 Standard Edition SP1 (32 and 64 bit kernel support) Detailed system requirements for Windows	Foundation Pack and Tool Pack(Client) : Intel® Pentium at 500MHz or faster; Intel EM64T or AMD Opteron Minimum 2 GB physical memory; 4 GB recommended CD-ROM drive Detailed system requirements for Windows
z/OS	Foundation Pack : z/OS 1.8 (31 and 64 bit kernel support) z/OS 1.9 (31 and 64 bit kernel support) z/OS 1.10 (31 and 64 bit kernel support) z/OS 1.11 (64 bit kernel support) Detailed system requirements for z/OS	Foundation Pack : Any hardware that supports z/OS v1.8, 1.9 , 1.10, or 1.11 Detailed system requirements for z/OS