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WebSphere Business Events v7.0 STEW

Jeff Hampton, Jared Michalec, Jerry Resutek
WW WBE Tech Sales

19-20, April 2010

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WebSphere Business Events

1 Quick Product Overview

2 High-level Overview of v7 Features

3 WebSphere Business Events and Message Broker

4 WebSphere Business Events and ILOG JRules

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Business Event Processing: Sense and Respond

to Actionable Situations at the Right Time

Mitigate Risk and Identify Greater Agility Faster Time to

Opportunities Value

Through earlier and Real-time Discovery and Reduced time to Implement

more intelligent insight Response to Actionable Situations Sense and Response Process

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Business Event Processing Turns Insight

into Action

Business Context Action: Offer loyalty

2nd purchase in a week program membership
and total purchases this before customer leaves
year > $1000 the store
Event
POS purchase
Action: Trigger
Business Context automated
Third consecutive troubleshooting
period without signal process
Event
No meter
signal

Business Context Action: Prioritize

delivery to
3rd late delivery installation site
Event from third party and initiate follow-
logistics supplier up process with
Parts in the last week
assembly supplier
received
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WebSphere Business Events

1 Quick Product Overview

2 High-level Overview of v7 Features

3 WebSphere Business Events and Message Broker

4 WebSphere Business Events and ILOG JRules

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WebSphere® Business Events v7.0 – What is new!

 Designed to enhance business user experience and tooling
– Extends the business-focused design tools to the Web 2.0 mashup environment
within IBM Business Space Framework
 Designed to expand and simplify business logic validation
WebSphere
Business
– Enables business to analyze the impact of a change Events
– Delivers event capture and replay capability
– Offers a new test environment geared to the business user
 Designed to enhance performance and reliability
Business
– Provides increased throughput and decreased memory footprint Services
 Designed to extend reach and visibility, enabling more insightful, timely action
Interaction Process Information

Management
Development
–

Services
Leverages ILOG JRules for key operational decisions Services Services Services

Services
– Hosted trial available in IBM SOA Sandbox Enterprise Service Bus

Info Assets
– Introduced as a key component in the Energy and Utilities Industry Framework

Apps &
Business Access
Partner
– Receives events from IMS for participation in event processing App Services
Services
Services
 Designed to extend the design components for interaction outside the tooling Infrastructure
Services
– Surfaces programmatic interfaces to the Business User Design components to
construct business logic outside the tooling
– Provides option to quickly adjust business logic parameters in a running WBE
system
 Designed to provide additional platform and standard coverage
– WAS V7
– Support government standards - IPv6, FDCC, FIPS

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Design UI now in Business Space

Enhanced business user experience to access the WebSphere Business
Events Design, Dashboards, and Test from a single view
 Extends the design tools to the Web 2.0 mashup environment within IBM Business Space Framework
 Multiple Design widgets in one view
 Hosted Project Space
 Supports project sharing and locking
 Single button to publish to runtime (no check-in/check-out)
 Uses published Rest-based interface for all backend functionality

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New REST Programmatic Interface

 Extends the design components for interaction outside the

WBE tooling
 Implements all Design back-end functionality
 Runtime Repository Access (i.e. deploy, reload)
 New Design uses this exclusively

 Provides option to quickly adjust business logic parameters in a running

WBE system
 Able to change constants used in BEP logic outside the WBE Design tool

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New Event Capture and Replay

Dedicated Business Space widgets to capture and replay events to validate and test
BEP logic
 Event Capture
 Collected in WBE format from
Runtime
 Ranges from sec/min/hours to
days
 Event Replay
 Named groups of events for
export and replay
 Share through Import/Export to
other runtimes
 Display individual event fields
 Editing of individual event
timestamps
 Observe effects of the replay
through the Dashboard, reports, or
the test widget

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Business Events Test Widget and Event Simulator Environment

 Business Events Test Widget
 Provides option to test using events created manually or through replay of captured events
 Includes option to purge Context data for clean run
 Easy to view outcome :
 Events/Actions saved in the Context table
 Outcome of Filter evaluation (true or false)
 Information on Time-based Interactions and Actions
 Details of Actions that were fired
 Deploy to any runtime; Great for use in POC or demo

 Event Simulation Environment

 Provides simple, pre-configured, self contained environment targeted for business users to define and
test event logic
 Includes only what the business user needs: WBE Design, Event Replay Widget and Business Events
Test Widget installed in Business Space along with the associated WBE runtime
 Events received from test widget or event capture

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New Test Widget within Event Simulator Environment

Tabs in the Event Test Widget reflect the

results of the events on the current project
(including detailed information on the
actions, filters, context data and pending
time-delayed assets.

Events can be created manually via

the panel in the Event Test Widget
UI or played from stored events with
the Event Replay Widget.

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Impact Analysis
Allows business user to visualize the impact of a change to a business rule
component before it is applied
 Simple right click asset and select “Search For All ”
 Navigator presents list of all affected assets
 Details available on selection of each asset
 Available only in rebased Design

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JRules Integration
Together : Additional Insight for Action

Detect
Event Sources Decide WBE - Detects when events or patterns of events
occur to notify people or systems to take action

Evaluations JRules - Decides business outcome through

Correlations execution of business rules against available data

JRules
Actions

 Uses JRules as an additional data source for enrichment of events and actions
 Exchange through WebService using the Hosted Transparent Decision Service
in the ILOG Rule Execution Server
 Configured in WBE as a data source in Design Data
 Multiple fields can be sent and received for any decision

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What Sets WBE Apart?

BEP Puts Power in the Hands of
the Business User… …Through Collaboration
with IT, Allowing IT to
Manage Resources
 Define business situations and responses  Defines available events and
 All tasks performed via intuitive GUI properties
 Provides connectivity to event
Condition Block
sources
Event Definitions

Event Interaction Block Business User

Event Properties

IT Developer
Point and click from drop-down lists

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WebSphere Business Events

1 Quick Product Overview

2 High-level Overview of v7 Features

3 WebSphere Business Events and Message Broker

4 WebSphere Business Events and ILOG JRules

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Solution overview
Key themes:
 WMB as the core integration
backbone.

 Use of the specialist WBE

input/output nodes to illustrate
integration of WMB and WBE.

 Business Space and WBE Design

as the main touch points with the
user.

WBE Dashboards
In Business Space

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Instrumenting a WMB flow with the WBE input/output nodes

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Examining WBE
● The Design Tools
Design
● Publishing Projects
● Business Space Widgets

Deploy

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WebSphere Business Events

1 Quick Product Overview

2 High-level Overview of v7 Features

3 WebSphere Business Events and Message Broker

4 WebSphere Business Events and ILOG JRules

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WebSphere ILOG JRules Background

Rule Studio
 Develop Rule Project Structure
 Focus on Business Object Model
 Organize rule set execution flow
 Source code control integration

Rule Execution Server

 Runs the rules in scalable –
monitored environment
 Runs the Hosted Transparent
Decision Service used by WBE

WebSphere Rule Team Server

WebSphere Solutions for Office
WebSphere Rule Decision Validation Service
Supported version of WebSphere ILOG JRules is version 7.0

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Development and Runtime Flow

1. Create Data Source

2. Create Intermediate Object Model
Generic
3. Configure IO Fields as JRules
Mapped Keys
WBE XSD
1.Import Object
Model
2.Create Rule Set
3.Deploy
WBE Design Data Rule Studio
Tooling

Runtime
SOAP over Rule
WBE Runtime HTTP Execution Server

1. Call the HTDS service 1. Execute Rule

2. Return result(s)
4. Enrich with response field(s)

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Defining the connection in Design Data

 From Design Data:
– Insert a new Data source giving the Rule
Application Name and Rule Set Name of
the JRules application

 This constructs a default HTDS URL

assuming localhost and the RES default
port

 To change the URL select the data

source properties and within there the
source tab

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Creating the Intermediate Object Fields in Design

Data
 Construct intermediate objects and their fields as you would normally

 To associate these with the JRules data source set:

– Type to Mapped Keys
– Source to the data source name or rule application name
– Object as the rule set name
– Item to the name of the object as it appears in Rule Studio. This defaults to the same as the
name

 Fields then need to be set as key

or non-key (the default) fields
 A key is sent to JRules
 All fields including non-key fields are
returned and update the field values

 Map to and from events and

actions as per usual

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Within Rule Studio

 There are two scenarios that need to be considered
– To call an existing rule the user must:
• Create a BOM entry for WBE format that is passed in
• Edit the existing BOM entries to add getters/setters
• And setup new parameters for the call
– Or starting with new rules
• In this case a user is provided with a template project
• The user must then build up their object model and rules from this template
– The documentation leads the user through each of these paths
 Once a complete project is ready this can be deployed to the
Rule Execution Server
 The Rule Execution Server console can then be used to see the
details of or configure the hosted transparent decision service
– This is particularly useful in this case for confirming the URL for the
service being called
• Note: both full path with versions or partial paths with versions omitted can both be used

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Within Rule Studio

Develop

Deploy

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Getter and Setter functions

 A generic message format is passed between WBE

and the HTDS
– This is defined by WBEFields.1.0.xsd

 This generic format must be mapped to a particular

Business Object Model that is being used by the rules
– BOM to XOM mapping is used here
– Two helper functions assist with this mapping
• getWBEField(String name)
• setWBEField(String name, String value, String
type)
• Documented in appendix 1

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In WBE

Define the web services URL

Map the fields

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In WBE

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Where to go for more Information and Assistance

The Key WBE web pages
 External Home page: IBM WebSphere Business Events
ibm.com/soa/bep
 WBE Wiki: http://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki08/display/WBE/WBE+Home
 WBE Xtreme Leverage: WebSphere Business Events

Further your education:

 Review the Sales Training Presentation: How to sell WebSphere Business Events
 Pool of WBE Resources (DeveloperWorks articles, presentations, demos, Discovery summaries etc):
https://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki08/display/WBE/Resources

For your clients:

 Client webcast: BEP the “When” to BPM’s “What”
 Hear more about BEP and WBE on IBM TV: Turn the information explosion to your advantage
 Invite your customer to experience WBE hand on in the SOA Sandbox: Customer Loyalty (WBE) Exercise:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/soasandbox/process/?S_TACT=105AGX28&S_CMP=SANDB
OX (registration required)
 Nominate your prospects for the Early Access Program (Intranet password required)
 Use Sales Acceleration play Insight and Action for clients looking for BEP capability

For help:
 SWAN for Technical Product Assistance
 Send email to: WebSphere Sales Assistance Center
 Pose and respond to technical queries about WBE: WBE Forum
 Share and collaborate with your peers: WBE Wiki
 Solutions Assurance website to download the WBE TDA: http://w3-
03.ibm.com/support/assure/assur30i.nsf/Web/SA

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