Whitestein Releases World-Premiere Goal-Oriented, Autonomic BPM Suite

Whitestein Technologies today announced the primary release of LS/ABPM, the Living Systems Autonomic Business Process Management suite.

LS/ABPM is the first BPM suite (BPMS) to enable goal-oriented business process modeling and execution. It is also the only BPM offering to utilize the self-management capabilities of autonomic software for agile, real-time process governance, automation and optimization.

With LS/ABPM's goal-oriented Process Modeler tool, enterprises are now able to model their business processes in the same way they refine their businesses models: by setting goals and strategies. Using LS/ABPM's extended edition of the OMG-standard BPMN notation, process designers capture purpose in terms of its business-level goals and describe any number of viable plans to complete them. Owing to this loose coupling of ends and means in LS/ABPM, its goal-based models are virtually maps of alternate process navigation paths toward business targets. They are easily understood by business analysts and IT specialists and can be executed by the LS/ABPM Navigation Engine.

"Goal-oriented business process modeling mirrors the most compelling way of capturing a process' essential qualities. It offers a way out of the rigidity and complexity traps created by procedure-oriented BPMS that process the how, but don’t understand the why," said Stefan Brantschen, Co-founder & SVP Advanced Technologies at Whitestein Technologies.

Drawing on the strength of Whitestein's J2EE-based Living Systems Technology Suite (LS/TS), the LS/ABPM Process Navigation Engine is also the only BPM execution engine to perform Autonomic Process Management. LS/ABPM continuously monitors execution to govern, automate and optimize agile process instances by autonomically selecting and combining goals and plans in real-time.

"LS/ABPM's Autonomic Process Management is of great benefit where processes do not, or must not, follow a strict predefined execution sequence, but where achieving goals is of primary interest, which is often the case for human-centric collaboration activities," said Stefan Brantschen. Upcoming releases of LS/ABPM will continuously enhance its capabilities for the autonomic adaptation of both the process model and the real-time process navigation to intentional and unintentional changes in goals, plans and environment variables.

The current release of LS/ABPM includes the Process Modeler for goal-based process modeling, the Management Console for process deployment and system administration, and the Navigation Engine for process execution.