Introduction to IBM FileNet Business Process Framework (BPF) and commercial applications

BPF Introduction

What's BPF?

The IBM FileNet Business process Framework (BPF) is an application development framework that provides a model for typical business process management, not only through the BPF Configuration tool (BPF Explorer) to design our own application framework , we can also add our own extension code through its interface to meet our different needs. Of course, BPF needs a running platform, BPF is a case-based application development framework that runs on the IBM FileNet P8 (Process Engine, Content Engine, application Engine) platform, It can meet the needs of a wide range of corporate organizations worldwide.

On the IBM FileNet P8 platform, not only can you run BPF products, you can also run a range of platform products, such as IBM FileNet Eforms,eforms can help users design, manage, and process electronic forms for enterprise Content Management (ECM). These platform offerings are not independent, they can be leveraged and integrated with each other, just as IBM FileNet eforms can be integrated into IBM FileNet BPF. By integrating the eforms into the BPF, we can create business cases based on electronic forms that can be mapped to case information in BPF to enable the interaction of different types of business case information, while also unifying different types of case information to BPF Case information in the implementation of unified processing functions.

It can be said that, technically speaking, BPF is a JAVA application, with Ear/jar packages in the application, Jsp/servlet/js, AJAX, and other technologies and applications such as Windows Vb/com, SQL. Functionally speaking, BPF is an application component of the IBM FileNet BPM (Business Process Management), which is highly configurable and extremely easy to customize.

Why need BPF

Now, more and more organizations are starting to benefit from business process Management (BPM) tools that leverage business process management tools to build their own business process models, automate them, and optimize their business processes with relevant analysis tools. In an era of changing customer types and business needs, easy and rapid construction, layout, and maintenance of business process applications are critical to an enterprise. Of course, while meeting changing customer types and business needs, we also need to provide an application-consistent user UI for existing customers. The Business process framework is an application development framework that meets these requirements, enabling fielnet business partners to quickly develop and deploy BPM process applications. The Business Process Framework provides a case-based, configurable environment that enables the creation of customized business process management applications with web-based Enterprise user interfaces to maximize component reuse, reduce application development costs, and deploy time. Overall, the Business Process Framework has the following advantages:

Features for rapid development and deployment

Case-based features

Configurable and customizable user interface

Functions of role management and task partitioning

Scalable Features

Capabilities to integrate with other P8 products

High quality of reliability

Localization

Based on the Java Web based

Of course there are other advantages, such as being able to run on a variety of operating systems, such as Windows, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, and so on. Application servers running BPF can also be of various types of application servers, such as BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, and JBoss, and there are also a variety of databases available, such as Oracle, MS SQL, and DB2.