Objectives

• 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