Developing Workflow Solutions using IBM Business Automation Workflow V20.0.0.1

This course is designed for project members who design and implement detailed logic, data models, and external system integrations for an executable business process. These roles include process owners, BPM analysts, BPM authors, BPM developers, BPM administrators, and BPM project managers.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Understand the key capabilities of Business Automation Workflow
• Describe how to use IBM Business Automation Workflow to accomplish process modeling goals
• Describe the purpose of the Process Portal, Process Designer, and Workflow Center repository
• Describe the high-level architecture for Business Automation Workflow
• List and describe the core notation elements that are used in the IBM Process Designer
• Describe the purpose and function of Blueworks Live
• Explain the benefits of using IBM Business Automation Workflow on Cloud
• Define Business Process Management (BPM)
• Understand the process spectrum
• List and describe the phases in the IBM Playback methodology
• Describe Playback 0 and the achievements that are reached during this stage
• Examine a defined workflow from detailed process requirements and identify the interrelated process activities
• Describe how to model a structured process
• Decompose activities into a nested process
• Describe process sequence flow and the runtime use of process tokens
• Explain how to evaluate and model conditions for a gateway
• List and describe intermediate event types that are used in the IBM Process Designer
• Model a business process escalation path with an attached timer intermediate event
• Describe the differences between process flow data and business flow data
• Add variables and business objects to a process
• Describe teams and process lanes
• Explain user distribution in a process application
• Implement routing for tasks
• Create a routing design by using a team filter service
• Assign an expert group to an activity
• Expose a process application to a team
• Use coaches to define and implement guided user interactions
• Implement a service for an activity in a process
• Enhance coaches by applying a theme and adding tabs
• Create a reusable view
• Create a snapshot
• Share your assets by using a toolkit, and exporting your process application
• Organize assets with favorites, tagging, and smart folders
• Conduct a Playback session
• Explain how to create a decision service
• Describe how to create and configure an undercover agent (UCA)
• Describe how to start a process with a message start event
• Define the basic function of services
• Configure and define services for outbound integration
• Create an inbound web service
• Describe the differences between an environment variable and an exposed process variable
• Catch an error in a process and service
• Explain when to use team filter services to support business policy
• Use parallel tasks and messaging in a BPMN model
• Use Multi-instance loops to efficiently route work
• Explain how to integrate with external systems in IBM Business Automation Workflow
• Explain how to handle content events in a process
• Understand how the Target Object Store (TOS) can be used to share documents between a BPM solution and a Case solution
• Understand how to build a simple Case solution that integrates a process from a BPM solution

Introduction to IBM Business Automation Workflow
Exercise: Creating your first process application
Introduction to Business Process Management
Playback 0: Modeling the As-Is and To-Be business processes
Exercise: Playback 0: Creating the To-Be process
Playback 0: Controlling process flow
Exercise: Playback 0: Controlling process flow
Playback 1: Controlling process flow with business data
Exercise: Playback 1: Controlling process flow with business data
Playback 1: Business data, services, and coaches
Exercise: Playback 1: Business data, services, and coaches
Playback 1: Enhancing coaches
Exercise: Playback 1: User interface design and implementation
Exercise: Playback 1: Conducting the Playback session
Playback 2: Integrations
Exercise: Playback 2: Integrations
Playback 3: Error handling and deployment
Exercise: Playback 3: Handling errors and deploying your process application
Advanced routing
Exercise: Implementing a custom routing solution
Exercise: Implementing the “four eyes  policy by using a team filter
Managing complex tasks and process interactions
Exercise: Building a cancellation pattern
Integrating with external systems
Exercise: Building web service connections
Handling content events in a process
Exercise: Handling content events in a process

Before taking this course, you should have:

• Practical knowledge of data structures
• Understanding of SQL syntax and JavaScript
• Basic understanding of web services
• Experience with modern programming techniques