IBM Business Process Manager is provided in two major configurations: Business Process Manager Standard and Business Process Manager Advanced. The benefits of using Business Process Manager Standard are fairly well understood, but the incremental benefits of using Business Process Manager Advanced are not as well understood. This article is intended to address that situation.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Process integration challenges
• Handling failure scenarios with IBM Business Process Manager
• Business Process Manager process integration capabilities
• Tools support for SOA integration with IBM Integration Designer
• Integration with IBM Process Center and Process Designer
• IBM Business Process Manager Standard and an ESB?
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Resources
• About the authors
• Comments