QUESTIONS 3

1. What is Teamworks?

• Teamworks is a BPM tool developed by Lombardi Software.
• Teamworks architecture enables all groups with with in your enterprise to collaborate to design and deploy efficient processes.
• Teamworks also allows you to manage and analyze process performance.

Teamworks is having Eclipse based Authoring Environment integrates with your other development tools.

2.What are Teamworks Components?

• Shared Model : Stores all Process, Services,Performance Data,Business Events and Conditions.
• Process Server: Executes the Process and Services that authors build using Teamworks Authoring Environment.
• Performance Server: Manages and aggregate Process Performance data and monitors business events and conditions.
• Server Consoles: provide interfaces that enables administrator to configure and maintain the Process Server and performance Server other users may have limited access to change password and perform other basic tasks.
• Authoring Environment: Eclipse based development Environment consists of several interfaces that enable authors to Model, Simulate and Inspect processes. Available interfaces include Service Modeler, Process Inspector, Process Molder.
• Process portal: Enables process participants to perform assigned task,view the history of task,launch any processes or services that are attached to task and view the performance of their processes andteams.Tools available from the process portal include Scoreboards.

3.What is a Process in IBM BPM ?

• A process is like a Program that does works inside Teamworks. It has a starting point and at least one exit point.

4.What is an Activity in IBM BPM?

• An Activity represents a logical unit of work that can be execute at run time by a Human or  System.

5. What are Variables(Business Objects) in IBM BPM?

Business objects are called variables in Teamworks represent the data that provides the data that provides the business context to a running process. There are two types of variables -Simple And Complex variables have different scopes- private Input and Output.