The Business Process Accelerator (BPA) is a new IBM offering which combines the power and flexibility of IBM WebSphere Portal with the intuitive, secure interface of IBM Lotus Forms in order to accelerate the automation of end-to-end business processes. Used in conjunction with IBM’s industry-leading Business Process Management (BPM) offerings, the Business Process Accelerator can improve process efficiency, increase corporate agility and reduce the time-to-value on BPM initiatives. This session provides a rich technical deep dive featuring tools now available to ease integration between the WebSphere Portal, BPM solutions, and Lotus Forms. It will discuss integration points, leveraging XML, and connectivity to different process engines or content sources. A live demo will showcase ways the new software assets and Redbook aid in the deployment of a once-difficult combination of products.

1. David Manning | Development Manager and Architect | Lotus Forms Anthony Fiorot | Program Manager | WebSphere Portal SOA and BPM Leveraging IBM Lotus ® Forms ™ with IBM WebSphere ® Process Server ™ and IBM WebSphere ® Portal ™ to Enable Business Process Automation WEB214

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5. BPM is a top priority for our customers. “ Roughly 20% of Portal opportunity is BPM based… 83% of Portal customers use some type of Forms in Portal apps ” - IDC Source: WPLC MPA 1H 2007

6. The Portal Accelerators IBM® accelerators for IBM WebSphere® Portal are prepackaged offerings that speed time-to-value of portal deployments. “ I need to deliver business processes to users in context with the information, applications, and data that they need to make decisions. “ I need to increase the value of my website by delivering real-time, personalized data based on user attributes” “ I need to track my organization's goals and performance against them to more effectively drive results” “ I need a cost effective way to deliver personalized, online training “just in time” within the context of my employees’ ongoing activities.” “ I need my teams to work together more effectively and efficiently, while easily accessing relevant corporate applications” “ I want to deliver exceptional user experiences to my mobile workers, partners and customers.”

10. An architecture of reusable assets: By adding WebSphere Portal and Lotus Forms to a BPM deployment, the UI and application components become reusable assets – and new possibilities for systems integration emerge. Legacy/COTS Applications Web Service Components Process Components (BPEL) Documents (Forms) Composite Application Components (Portlets)

27. BPA Design Time Topology

28. BPA Run Time Topology

29. BPA Runtime – Selecting a form task from the UTL