Introduction
This Quickstart tutorial is designed to introduce you to the basic elements, tools, functions, and capabilities available to you in IBM® WebSphere® Business Modeler and to show how you can quickly create realistic working models for your business processes.
The tutorial modules are designed to be completed using the Basic business modeling mode. By completing the full tutorial, you will give yourself a solid foundation of understanding and be ready to move on to the more advanced features and modeling capabilities of the product. The tutorial is arranged in a particular sequence that is commonly used when modeling processes, but you do not need to follow a strict order and complete every preceding exercise if you want to jump ahead and learn a particular task. For example, if you want to start putting activities into a process diagram right away without first creating resources and business items, you can skip the modules dealing with resources and business items. However, be aware that certain exercises will require that you complete one or more previous exercises.
If you would rather just read the exercises, or want to jump ahead without completing all of the preceding exercises, you can import the Quickstart Financesample project. This sample project is a companion to the tutorial, providing the process diagrams, resources, and other modeling elements that you would create if you completed each exercise in the tutorial. It can also be used as a starting point if you want to start adding new elements to your models.
When you feel comfortable with the basic tasks demonstrated in the Quickstart tutorial, you can begin to build more complex models with the assistance of the product's information center and the tutorials and samples available on the WebSphere Business Modeler library Web site.
The tutorial modules are designed to be completed using the Basic business modeling mode. By completing the full tutorial, you will give yourself a solid foundation of understanding and be ready to move on to the more advanced features and modeling capabilities of the product. The tutorial is arranged in a particular sequence that is commonly used when modeling processes, but you do not need to follow a strict order and complete every preceding exercise if you want to jump ahead and learn a particular task. For example, if you want to start putting activities into a process diagram right away without first creating resources and business items, you can skip the modules dealing with resources and business items. However, be aware that certain exercises will require that you complete one or more previous exercises.
If you would rather just read the exercises, or want to jump ahead without completing all of the preceding exercises, you can import the Quickstart Financesample project. This sample project is a companion to the tutorial, providing the process diagrams, resources, and other modeling elements that you would create if you completed each exercise in the tutorial. It can also be used as a starting point if you want to start adding new elements to your models.
When you feel comfortable with the basic tasks demonstrated in the Quickstart tutorial, you can begin to build more complex models with the assistance of the product's information center and the tutorials and samples available on the WebSphere Business Modeler library Web site.
The Completed Project Tree
Below is the completed QuickstartFinance Project Tree
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The Completed Loan Application process (As Is)
Below is the completed QuickstartFinance Loan Application process (as is)
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How to build the QuickstartFinance Project
The WebSphere Business Modeler Quickstart tutorial provides you with step-by-step instructions, taking you through the basic tasks that you need to understand to begin modeling your own processes, resources, and organizations.
If you would rather just read the tutorial exercises, if you want to jump ahead without completing all the of the preceding exercises, you can import the tutorial's sample project. The sample project contains all of the various modeling elements that you would create if you completed each tutorial exercise.
The Quickstart tutorial included in WebSphere Business Modeler presents a simple business scenario which you will address by completing the exercises within each module.
- Module 1: Creating resources
A resource is a person, piece of equipment, or material used to perform a task or a project. Each resource is a particular occurrence or example of a resource definition and can be saved in your project.
- Module 2: Creating business items
Business items are any business documents, work products, or commodities that are used in business operations. You can model as a business item anything that is created, assembled, inspected, tested, modified, or worked upon. Business items undergo changes and are passed from one process step to the next.
- Module 3: Creating process diagrams
A process diagram is a representation of the flow of a real-time business process, and is composed of the individual steps or activities that make up the process. It can include the conditions that dictate when those activities occur and the resources required for their performance or execution.
- Module 4: Running simulations
Simulations enable organizations to observe how a process will perform in response to a certain set of circumstances or inputs to the process, just as it would in a real-life work environment.
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