B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

142 B2B Integration — A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce
5.3.1. BEA WebLogic integration
BEA WebLogic integration is a platform that includes application server,
application integration, business process management and B2B integration
functionalities. In this section we will focus on the BPM aspect of the
software suite.
BEA WebLogic integration takes a process-centric approach to B2B
integration and allows channel-masters and their business partners
to model, execute and easily manage business processes among
organizations. With intuitive design tools (see Figure 5.12) and an
award-winning process engine, BEA WebLogic integration empowers
the business analyst to design collaborative business processes and
integrate them with internal processes and systems. At run-time, the
process engine manages the execution of defined business processes
(see Figure 5.11). Monitoring capabilities enable companies to identify
bottlenecks and optimize processes on-the-fly, without interrupting
ongoing processes.
In this BPM system, collaboration-specific processes exist separately
to protect proprietary information during interactions between individual
companies. Shared processes, defined and managed collaboratively, are
deployed as local processes and execute only at each trading partner
site to ensure that private information remains secure.
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