Book description
In today's business in motion environments, workers expect to be connected to their critical business processes while on-the-go. It is imperative to deliver more meaningful user engagements by extending business processes to the mobile working environments.
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an overview of the market forces that push organizations to reinvent their process with Mobile in mind. It describes IBM Mobile Smarter Process and explains how the capabilities provided by the offering help organizations to mobile-enable their processes.
This book outlines an approach that organizations can use to identify where within the organization mobile technologies can offer the greatest benefits. It provides a high-level overview of the IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Worklight® features that can be leveraged to mobile-enable processes and accelerate the adoption of mobile technologies, improving time-to-value. Key IBM Worklight and IBM Business Process Manager capabilities are showcased in the examples included in this book. The examples show how to integrate with IBM Bluemix™ as the platform to implement various supporting processes.
This IBM Redbooks publication discusses architectural patterns for exposing business processes to mobile environments. It includes an overview of the IBM MobileFirst reference architecture and deployment considerations.
Through use cases and usage scenarios, this book explains how to build and deliver a business process using IBM Business Process Manager and how to develop a mobile app that enables remote users to interact with the business process while on-the-go, using the IBM Worklight Platform.
The target audience for this book consists of solution
architects, developers, and technical consultants who will learn
the following information:
What is IBM Mobile Smarter Process
Patterns and benefits of a mobile-enabled Smarter
Process
IBM BPM features to mobile-enable processes
IBM Worklight features to mobile-enable processes
Mobile architecture and deployment topology
IBM BPM interaction patterns
Enterprise mobile security with IBM Security Access Manager and
IBM Worklight
Implementing mobile apps to mobile-enabled business
processes
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Mobile Smarter Process overview
- Chapter 2. IBM Worklight Foundation V6.2 overview
- Chapter 3. IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.5 overview
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Chapter 4. Architecture patterns for mobile-enabled processes
- 4.1 IBM MobileFirst reference architecture
- 4.2 Enterprise mobile architecture
- 4.3 Deployment topology
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4.4 IBM BPM interaction patterns
- 4.4.1 Pattern 1: IBM BPM Process Portal
- 4.4.2 Pattern 2: IBM BPM dashboard
- 4.4.3 Pattern 3: IBM BPM portlet and iFrame
- 4.4.4 Pattern 4: IBM BPM REST API
- 4.4.5 Pattern 5: API facade
- 4.4.6 Pattern 6: Message or web service start
- 4.4.7 Pattern 7: Service orchestration and advanced integration
- 4.4.8 Pattern selection guide
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Chapter 5. Enterprise mobile security with IBM Security Access Manager and IBM Worklight
- 5.1 Security principals
- 5.2 Mobile security principals
- 5.3 IBM Worklight security overview
- 5.4 Extending Worklight security with IBM Security Access Manager
- 5.5 IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile overview
- 5.6 Planning for OAuth using IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile
- 5.7 Integrating Mobile and self-service requirements into IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile
- 5.8 Example OAuth flow with PIN validation using IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile
- 5.9 Conclusion
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Chapter 6. Scenario 1: Getting started
- 6.1 Scenario 1 requirements and use case description
- 6.2 Field service mobile application
- 6.3 Worklight features
- 6.4 Worklight implementation details
- 6.5 IBM BPM processes supporting this scenario
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6.6 Building the business process
- 6.6.1 Creating the business process definition
- 6.6.2 Define the business objects and variables
- 6.6.3 Implementing the Capture Customer Order coach forms
- 6.6.4 Implementing the Installation Work Order linked process
- 6.6.5 Implementing the Create Customer Profile system activity
- 6.6.6 Implementing the Schedule Work Order system activity
- 6.6.7 Implementing the Send Notification to Field Staff activity
- 6.7 IBM BPM REST API
- Chapter 7. Scenario 2: Advanced features
- Chapter 8. Deeper insight through IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Worklight analytics
- Appendix A. Samples included with this book
- Appendix B. Additional material
- Related publications
- Back cover
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IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Reference Architecture
- Introduction
- Business problem and business value
- Reference architecture use
- Requirements
- InfoSphere BigInsights predefined configuration
- InfoSphere BigInsights HBase predefined configuration
- Deployment considerations
- Customizing the predefined configurations
- Predefined configuration bill of materials
- References
- The team who wrote this paper
- Now you can become a published author, too!
- Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
- Notices
Product information
- Title: Extending IBM Business Process Manager to the Mobile Enterprise with IBM Worklight
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2015
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738440323
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