5. Overview of IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions

5.1 Components

IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions (IBM BAMOE) is a comprehensive platform for automating business processes and decision services. It provides a range of tools and components that enable you to design, implement, and manage business automation solutions.

5.2 Key Components

IBM BAMOE consists of several core components essential for development, execution, and management of business automation processes.

Development Tools

• IBM Business Automation Manager Canvas: A web-based environment for designing and modeling business processes and decisions.
• IBM BAMOE Developer Tools for VS Code: Tools for developing business processes and decisions within the Visual Studio Code environment.
• Forms CLI: A command-line tool for generating web forms required for process execution.

Execution

• Decision and Rules Engine: Executes decision models and business rules.
• Process Engine: Executes business process models.

Management

• Management Console: Provides an interface for managing and monitoring process instances and tasks.
• Task Inbox: A user interface for viewing and interacting with user tasks in BAMOE process services.

With a solid understanding of IBM BAMOE's main components, we will introduce the primary use case that will guide our hands-on exercises.