BPM-Xchange – an enterprise application integration solution

BPM-Xchange, a Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software specialized in model, master and meta data transformations offers the exchange of non-transactional data amongst a range of formats, tools and methodologies, and covers an extensive range of standard to sophisticated requirements. As an enterprise application integration platform, BPM-Xchange integrates modeling applications, repositories or databases by converting, transforming and exchanging both their model data and methodology. The latest integration offering includes the connectivity between the business process management system (BPMS) platform TIBCO iProcess Suite and SPARX Systems Enterprise Architect for BPMN modeling of business processes.

SPARX Systems offers the Enterprise Architect tool for business process modeling and software engineering. It also provides support for standard UML 2.3 as well as a subset of BPMN version 1.1 and provides data storage and exchange defined by the XMI 2.1 specification. The BPMN notation is specially targeted towards the business modeling community and has a relatively direct mapping in Enterprise Architect to UML through BPMN Profiles. By using these profiles, Enterprise Architect enables users to develop BPMN diagrams and store these diagrams in XMI format in real- time and with ease.

TIBCO is a software provider offering very sophisticated business process management (BPM) and EAI software that enables enterprises to drive their business process improvement. TIBCO BPM software automates any type of process, short-lived or long-lasting, structured or dynamic, processes involving people and IT systems, and processes that expand organizational and geographical boundaries. A number of large enterprises are making use of the TIBCO iProcess BPM software for optimizing their internal business, B2C or B2B processes.

However, organizations are making use of different tools in the area of business process analyzing (BPA), Enterprise Architecture, software design, process integration and process execution. In the event when an organization makes use of SPARX Enterprise Architect, it can be used for process capturing and mapping. With the help of BPM-Xchange, the BPMN models can now be loaded into the TIBCO Business Studio modeling environment. Business experts can improve business process models with the addition of user interface forms, business objects and organizational structures in order to design highly sophisticated process models for execution in TIBCO iProcess.

For practicing this scenario, BPM-Xchange provides the transformation between XML data storage which is used in SPARX Enterprise Architect and TIBCO Business Studio. Therefore, businesses are able to permit different teams to work together for SoA and BPM projects, to protect their investments in documentation and tools and to save time as well as money with seamless process model data exchange.