HHG is now an IBM WebSphere® Business Partner.
HHG senior consultants have been doing business process management (BPM) and enterprise application integration (EAI) "the hard way" for many years at some of the world's largest companies (finance, logistics, telco). That approach required many consultants using proprietary business analysis methodologies and senior programmers using esoteric custom-coding software.
In our opinion, the IBM WebSphere® product suite represents a genuine advance, allowing customers to tackle projects where BPM, EAI and service-oriented architecture (SOA) methods were previously intractable or cost-ineffective.
All HHG senior technology consultants have been trained in using IBM WebSphere® tools, including:
- Business Process Modeler
- Integration Developer
- Business Monitor
- Process Server
- Transformation Extender (WTX)
- DataPower Integration Appliance
- Service Registry and Repository
We are using these WebSphere tools to support SOA initiatives, BPM and EAI projects for HHG customers.
Several HHG consultants also have years of experience working with ILOG tools for rules management. Therefore, we are delighted to see the recently announced IBM acquisition of ILOG, which will add superb business rules management capabilities to the WebSphere suite.
SOA BPM using WebSphere®
The advantages of a SOA-enabled approach to BPM and EAI using WebSphere tools include:
- Consistent role-based tooling that enables active business-line participation
- Speedier and more cost-effective implementation
- Easier prototyping and iterative development
- Improved business and IT flexibility
- Streamlined and efficient business operations and IT support
- More consistent workflows, business rules enforcement & automation for regulatory compliance
- Rapid response to emerging market opportunities, customers & partners
- Active real-time monitoring of business processes, enabling continuous improvement and optimization
IBM WebSphere® is the leading tool set for developing reusable business processes and interpreting business rules on a SOA foundation. Through a combination of software, services, templates and modeling, WebSphere helps us help our clients understand, define, execute, and optimize their core business processes that generate enterprise value.
The WebSphere® brand comprises a group of standards-based IBM products designed to analyze, design, integrate and operate business applications across multiple computing platforms using SOA technologies.
In particular, we have found WebSphere products to include powerful and practical business rules support that easily integrates human tasks (customer-facing as well as internal) to the Web as well as to back-office activities, processes and systems. Once implemented, WebSphere makes it much easier to maintain and extend the new integration without deploying exotic technology or recoding legacy spaghetti-ware.