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Federated BPM Deployment and Scaling

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Key Points

  • Michael’s rollout of IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) for claims handling spurred organization‑wide adoption of BPM.
  • Adam segmented the network with separate VPNs and departmental BPM environments, isolating processes while still enabling centralized management.
  • By introducing a Process Federation Server, Adam gave users a single portal that transparently federates BPMN and PIPAL tasks across different BPM versions, eliminating the need for users like Sarah to switch portals.
  • The upgrade to BPM 8.5.7 was performed by deploying a parallel instance, allowing new processes to run on the latest platform while existing ones continue, and the infrastructure can be further scaled by adding more process servers as business demand grows.

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# Federated BPM Deployment and Scaling **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5mhe5Cd-8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5mhe5Cd-8) **Duration:** 00:03:05 ## Summary - Michael’s rollout of IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) for claims handling spurred organization‑wide adoption of BPM. - Adam segmented the network with separate VPNs and departmental BPM environments, isolating processes while still enabling centralized management. - By introducing a Process Federation Server, Adam gave users a single portal that transparently federates BPMN and PIPAL tasks across different BPM versions, eliminating the need for users like Sarah to switch portals. - The upgrade to BPM 8.5.7 was performed by deploying a parallel instance, allowing new processes to run on the latest platform while existing ones continue, and the infrastructure can be further scaled by adding more process servers as business demand grows. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5mhe5Cd-8&t=0s) **Unified BPM Access via Process Federation** - Adam consolidates departmental BPM portals using a Process Federation Server, allowing users like Sarah to access multiple processes from a single portal across BPM versions while supporting a parallel upgrade to BPM 8.5.7. ## Full Transcript
0:00travel 0:11Michael the claims general manager for a 0:13large global insurance company has 0:15rolled out a new claims handling process 0:17using IBM Business Process manager the 0:20success of this BPM project drives the 0:22adoption of IBM BPM throughout the 0:24organization over time Adam the IT 0:28administrator has installed separate VPN 0:30deployments for each department so that 0:32the infrastructure can be managed and 0:34scaled independently some departments 0:36even have separate environments to 0:37isolate processes Sarah a claims handler 0:41indicates that she needs to use a 0:42different process portal depending on 0:45the process that she wants to use with 0:47BPM 8 5 7 Adam uses the process 0:50Federation server to enable business 0:52users to access all their processes 0:54using a single process portal the 0:58process Federation server AP is are 1:00identical to those provided by the 1:02process server so the process portal is 1:04simply configured to use the process 1:06Federation server instead a process 1:09Federation server even works with 1:11different versions of BPM and can 1:14federate both BPMN and Pipal tasks 1:16without Sarah needing to be aware of the 1:18implementation or origin 1:22has decided to upgrade from BPM 801 3 to 1:25BPM 85 7 so that he can leverage the 1:28latest mobile and case management 1:30capabilities to improve his business 1:31operations further Adam installs a new 1:35instance of BPM 8 5 7 so that new 1:37processes can be rolled out without 1:39having to migrate the existing processes 1:41first 1:43the original processes are also deployed 1:45to BPM 857 so that any new instances are 1:48started on the new environment once all 1:52instances on BPM 801 three environments 1:54have completed then it can be 1:56decommissioned 2:00over the lifetime of the claims process 2:03Adam timescale the process server in 2:05line with business growth with process 2:07Federation server Adam can now scale the 2:10beef in infrastructure further by adding 2:12more process servers as required 2:16is very pleased that they've decided to 2:17move to BPM 857 so that he can isolate 2:20processes manage departmental 2:22deployments massively scaled the BPM 2:25infrastructure managed my gracious and 2:27combine different task implementations 2:29without impacting business operations 2:32[Music]