You're reading from Intelligent Automation with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation A practical guide to automating enterprise business workflows to deliver intelligent solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801814775

Length 450 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

IBM Automation

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (5):

Suzette Samoojh

Guilhem Molines

Stephen Kinder

Allen Chan

Kevin Trinh

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Business Automation and Cloud Pak Overview

2. Chapter 1: What Is Cloud Pak for Business Automation? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: RPA, Workflow, Decisions, and Business Applications

4. Chapter 3: Process Discovery and Process Mining

5. Chapter 4: Content Management and Document Processing

6. Part 2: Use Cases and Best Practices

7. Chapter 5: Task Automation with RPA

8. Chapter 6: Chatbot with RPA

9. Chapter 7: Workflow for Process Automation

10. Chapter 8: Automating Decisions to Speed Up Your Processes

11. Chapter 9: Manage Documents with Content Management

12. Chapter 10: Extract Meanings with Document Processing

13. Chapter 11: Engaging Business Users with Business Applications

14. Chapter 12: Workforce Insights

15. Part 3: Deployment Considerations

16. Chapter 13: On-Premises and On-Cloud Deployments

17. Chapter 14: Deployment Topologies, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery

18. Chapter 15: Automating Your Operations and Other Considerations

19. Index

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Process-driven workflow (business process management)

As can be expected, a process-driven workflow comprises a series of activities connected via a process diagram. In BAW, we support the use of the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0) to model the process sequence. BPMN 2.0 is a graphical notation for business users to visualize a business process and can also be used as an interchange format between different BPMN 2.0 modeling tools.

Here are some of the basic workflow patterns that can be composed in IBM BAW to create an end-to-end process flow. Each pattern is a combination of work being done by humans, robots, and systems, and the automation developers can choose to combine these patterns to form arbitrarily complex workflow logic:

Figure 2.7 – Workflow patterns – sequence and loops

A key difference between a workflow designed for a business process and an integration-centric workflow is each activity can be long-running (it...