IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.1 supports national language translations

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1 Software Announcement April 25, 2006 IBM V6.0.1 supports national language translations Overview This announcement satisfies the statement of direction included in Software Announcement , dated September 12, 2005, regarding national language translations. Close monitoring of key business performance metrics can drive continuous improvement and empower innovation and optimization. WebSphere Business Monitor gives you this capability through: A visual display of business process status, allowing you to monitor these processes in real time Alerts and notifications to key users of anomalous situations and critical events requiring action Metrics in the form of multiple views of business performance measured against targets, including a scorecard view for executives provides significant new enhancements to the IBM business process management portfolio, and is tightly integrated with both WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Process Server. It also provides support for the Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) by leveraging the Common Base Event (CBE) format for receiving and emitting events, as implemented through the WebSphere Process Server. includes one copy of WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced, providing sophisticated, intuitive modeling and simulation capabilities to precisely model the critical aspects of your business. When the is used in conjunction with WebSphere Business Modeler, you can create a business measures model that specifically identifies activities to be monitored, including events, business metrics, and key performance indicators. Once the model is complete, WebSphere Business Monitor then recognizes the model and the measurements to be captured from incoming events. The IBM business process management portfolio allows you to model, deploy, monitor, and analyze critical processes, and to take action based on informed and timely decisions, resulting in real-time competitive advantage. Key prerequisites Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows 2003 IBM AIX V5.2 or AIX V5.3 For details, refer to /integration/wbimonitor /requirements/ Planned availability dates April 27, 2006 V6.0.1 Electronic delivery May 26, 2006 V6.0.1 Media At a glance IBM delivers: The ability to monitor critical business processes in real time, and to be alerted of anomalous situations An adaptive action manager component that invokes a selected real-time action or set of actions based upon predefined rules and policies Customizable and visually intuitive dashboard views, implemented as WebSphere Portal pages, that enable you to assess business process performance against goals Multidimensional analysis and reports supported through the dashboards, with embedded business intelligence and user-controlled filtering The ability to understand and transform your business through insightful business modeling, simulation, analysis, and innovation all enabled with WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced (included with WebSphere Business Monitor) For ordering, contact: Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001 This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation

2 Description New in Version National language translations V6.0.1 provides national language translations for the following languages: Arabic Brazilian Portuguese Czech French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Polish Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Traditional Chinese Turkish monitors business processes in real time, provides a visual display of business process status, and provides alerts and notifications to key users to enable business process optimization. is a critical part of an integrated business innovation and optimization solution on the WebSphere V6 platform, delivering closed-loop business process management by integrating business process modeling, execution, and real-time monitoring. In addition, continuous business process improvement metrics, such as task working durations and process decision percentages, are calculated and can be exported to update their corresponding business process models in the WebSphere Business Modeler. These capabilities provide for processes running in WebSphere Process Server. includes one copy of WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced, which bridges the gap between Line of Business and IT. Many business process modeling efforts stop at developing flow diagrams or process maps. With WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced, this effort is extended to include simulation, analysis, and redesign. Event sources: receives events in the Common Base Event format. This standards-based format is included as part of the WebSphere Process Server components. WebSphere Business Monitor V6 receives events from WebSphere Process Server. receives and processes events from WebSphere Process Server. Common Event Infrastructure (CEI): WebSphere Business Monitor supports CEI, and thus leverages the Common Base Event format for consuming and emitting events. It also leverages the event catalog and event store capabilities to manage and keep record of the incoming event types. Currently the Common Event Infrastructure support is provided in WebSphere Process Server. requires WebSphere Process Server to be installed in order to leverage the CEI capabilities. components: WebSphere Business Monitor provides different data stores to manage the large amounts of information and analysis needed. These data stores are: State, an internal persistent data store for event collection and processing. It is not user accessible. Runtime, which contains all information required for running process instances or in-progress events. Performance warehouse, designed as a data mart, which contains all of the historical information of completed process instances and enables multidimensional analysis. Monitor repository, which contains the definitions of the deployed models, and is accessed by the monitor server and dashboards. Monitor server is used to perform the management of the key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, as well as other relevant information from the business measures model which is defined as part of the business measures modeling capabilities of WebSphere Business Modeler. The monitor server is also responsible for event correlation as well as situation detection that then triggers the adaptive action manager component. Adaptive action manager is part of the monitor server that is responsible for receiving situation events and then taking the appropriate actions for the given situation. The adaptive action manager will also emit CBEs when actions are initiated. Types of action which can be taken include , dashboard alerts, corrective action processes in the WebSphere Process Server, and invocation of a Web service. Information manager is responsible for managing the multidimensional analysis capabilities as well as determining when and how information is managed in the various monitor data stores, in order to provide scalability and multidimensional analysis capabilities. Business Monitor has WebSphere Portal based dashboards that can be customized with a predefined set of configurable views that are implemented via portlets. A dashboard designer with WebSphere Portal skills can take these portlets and configure them or create custom dashboards. Some of these view types will leverage DB2 Alphablox. Eight different view types can be combined together to create dashboards: Scorecard view shows groupings of KPIs and primarily supports executive users. Key Performance Indicators view shows the values of individual KPIs, focusing on the position of the KPI value relative to its defined limits. Gauge view displays individual KPI values, either relative to KPI lower and upper limit values, or relative to the KPI target value, visually using the appearance of physical instruments as in an automobile. Active Instances view shows the details of processes, which contain a group of related metrics, KPIs, and situations on a particular process. The monitor view can monitor either individual instances or groups of process instances. This is in addition to providing the capabilities to perform drill-down and drill-up among child and parent instances. Report view provides performance reports relative to a time axis. Such reports typically contain tables and graphs analyzing historical data contained within the performance warehouse data store. The Report view has built-in analysis types that include Quartile, Trend, and Control Analysis

3 Dimensional view provides a multidimensional view of business performance data. Users can pivot on business dimensions to view the performance. Alert view displays the notifications for a specific user. Process view displays the process status. Such a display will show a process graph with visual cues on the status of the process. In addition to the eight supported views, there are two helper views: Organization view displays the organization, organization units, and employees available in the customer user registry that WebSphere Portal is configured to use, whether that is an LDAP user registry or a custom registry. The Organization view is used to help users filter the data generated by the Report view based on employees available in selected organization or organization unit, or based on a selected employee. Export Actual Values view is the export of an XML representation of the actual values to be used for the feedback loop with WebSphere Business Modeler. Launchpad installation helps you effectively deploy. WebSphere Business Monitor includes a limited license to certain components of the following programs, and the launchpad installation tool helps automate installation of those components: DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition DB2 Cube Views DB2 Alphablox WebSphere Portal WebSphere Process Server WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment also includes a limited license to certain components of WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V6. Those components are not, however, installed through the launchpad. Availability of national languages General Product availability description Language date WebSphere Multilingual May 26, 2006 Business (French, Russian, Monitor Hebrew, Arabic, V6.0.1 Korean, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Japanese, Chinese Traditional, Hungarian, English U.S., Greek, Turkish, Czech, Italian, Polish) Trademarks WebSphere, AIX, DB2, and Cube Views are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. Statement of direction In Software Announcement , dated August 10, 2004, IBM stated an intent to deliver WebSphere Business Integration Monitor in the first half of 2005, featuring enhanced capabilities that utilize the Alphablox technology, as well as support for WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1. V6 now supports WebSphere Process Server and features enhanced capabilities that utilize the Alphablox technology. IBM intends to deliver support for WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1 and WebSphere MQ Workflow in a subsequent release. All statements regarding IBM s plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice

4 IBM United States Announcement Supplemental Information April 25, 2006 Education support IBM Global Services, IT Education Services, provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT professionals and managers are on the IBM IT Education Services Web site Refer to the IBM IT Education Services Web site for information on course locations and availability dates. Call IBM IT Education Services at 800-IBM-TEACH ( ) for catalogs, schedules, and enrollments. Offering Information Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site Also, visit the Passport Advantage Web site Publications No publications are shipped with this product. On the electronic delivery general availability date of WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.1, the publications will be available for download at the following location. The information will be made available in the supported national languages. /wbimonitor/library/ Technical information Specified operating environment Hardware requirements: For information on the hardware requirements for, visit /wbimonitor/requirements/ Software requirements: For information on the software requirements for, visit /wbimonitor/requirements/ Planning information Extended entitlement: IBM plans to protect customer investments and does not expect current customers to migrate immediately from currently entitled products to V6. In order to facilitate the extended migration periods that some customers may require, IBM is offering extended entitlement. Effective upon the date of electronic software delivery, customers with active subscription to eligible products can activate extended entitlement to WebSphere Business Monitor. For information on extended entitlement activation, eligible products and their equivalent extended entitlement products, and general information about extended entitlement, visit the Entitlement section at /library/entitlement.html Customers should contact their IBM sales representatives for questions and additional assistance. Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support, is included in the Passport Advantage Agreement. Installation and technical support is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity, with voice and electronic access into IBM support organizations. Packaging: is distributed via electronic download and a single physical media pack with multiple CD-ROMs. Security, auditability, and control uses the security and auditability features of the host hardware or software. The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities. Ordering information This product is available only via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap. This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation

5 Product information Licensed Product Product function title group category IBM WebSphere App App Business Monitor Integration Integration Middleware Middleware Other Other PID Charge unit Program name number description IBM WebSphere 5724-M24 Processor Business Monitor Charge metrics definitions Processor: In Full Capacity charging, Proofs of Entitlement (PoEs) must be acquired for all activated processors (available for use) that are on the server where the program or a component of the program is run. 1. If there are program components included in the offering whose function is not to be included in the charge metric, these must be listed in the Program-unique Terms of the License Information. 2. IBM defines a physical processor in a computer as a functional unit that interprets and executes instructions. A physical processor consists of at least an instruction control unit and one or more arithmetic and logic units. 3. Multicore technology allows two or more processors (commonly called cores ) to be active on a single silicon chip. Unless otherwise announced, with multicore technology, IBM considers each core to be a physical processor. For example, in a dual-core chip, there are two physical processors residing on the single silicon chip. 4. In the zseries Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) environment, each IFL engine is considered a single physical processor. 5. Threading, a technique which makes a single processor seem to perform as two or more, does not affect the count of physical processors. 6. Where blade technology is employed, each blade is considered a separate server and charging is based upon the total number of processors on the blade on which the program is run. Passport Advantage program licenses Part description IBM Processors License & SW Maintenance 12 Months Processors SW Maintenance Annual Renewal Processors SW Maintenance Reinstatement 12 Mo Passport Advantage supply Program name/description V6.0.1 Media Pack Multilingual (French, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Japanese, Chinese Traditional, Hungarian, English U.S., Greek, Turkish, Czech, Italian, Polish) Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, AIX 5L, V5 CD ROM Digital Disk ISO 9660 Standard V6.0.1 Part number D527QLL E00P8LL D527SLL Part number AF0AQML Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack. V6.0.1 Entitled maintenance offerings Media packs Part description description number WebSphere WebSphere Business AF0AQML Business Monitor English U.S., Monitor Multiplatforms, Processor CD-ROM Digital Disk ISO 9660 Standard Withdrawal of previous Passport Advantage part numbers Effective July 25, 2006, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following products licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement. A replacement product and availability date is listed if one is available. Withdrawn products Replacement products Part Part Avail number Product name number Product name date 5724-M24 WebSphere Business Monitor V6.0.0 AF0AQNA WebSphere Business AF0AQML WebSphere Business 5/26/06 Monitor AIX Monitor AIX V3.x, V3.x, Windows 2000, Windows 2000, Windows Server Windows Server 2003 V V

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