Introduction

This end-to-end business dashboard tutorial introduces you to IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) products by showing you how to build and deploy a business process and configure a business dashboard to monitor that process. No prior usage knowledge of the BPM products is required to complete the steps in this sample.

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This tutorial focuses on the technical details that are related to building, running, and monitoring the scenario provided. A single Lotus® form is used throughout the process to convey information from one user to the next. You will use IBM WebSphere® Business Modeler to model the sample and WebSphere Integration Developer to complete the development, generate an end-user interface (or business client) using Lotus Forms, and add monitoring to the sample business process. You will use WebSphere Process Server to deploy the completed sample and WebSphere Business Monitor to configure a dashboard to monitor the sample business process. The sample culminates in a business dashboard and a business process using IBM Lotus Forms.

In addition to this introduction, the tutorial has four major sections:

  • Overview – Explains the scenario used in this sample, the data model, and the Human tasks that are involved.
  • Build It Yourself – Contains step by step instructions to build the sample from scratch.
  • Run the Sample – Explains how to run the sample using either the artifacts that you download or the artifacts that you created in the Build It Yourself section.
  • Download the Sample – Explains how to install the downloaded pre-built solutions for this sample.

Time required

This tutorial could take approximately two days to complete, depending on your familiarity with the products.

Skill level

This is a tutorial-style sample that has been designed for new users. Step-by-step procedures are provided to guide you through the process development lifecycle, from the beginning to setting up a test run time server and monitoring the data.

System requirements

This sample runs on Windows® operating systems.

Prerequisite software

Before you build the sample, you must install the following products. All of these products can be installed on a single computer:

  • WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced version 6.1
  • WebSphere Integration Developer version 6.1:
    • You must apply iFix 001 for WebSphere Integration Developer.
    • You must select WebSphere Process Server test server during the installation process.
  • WebSphere Business Monitor development toolkit version 6.1
  • Lotus Forms Designer (shipped with WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Integration Developer)
  • Lotus Forms Viewer (shipped with WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Integration Developer)
  • Lotus Forms Server (shipped with WebSphere Integration Developer)
For more information about the products that are involved in this sample, refer to the product documentation at the following link:
Consider the following information when preparing to install your software:
Note: This tutorial uses admin as the user ID and admin as the password for the dashboards.