What is BlueWorks Live missing against Websphere Business Modeler - Part 1

THE ROLES

IBM Websphere Business Modeler.
WBM allows you to do document several things of the roles inside a process.

Look all the stuff you can put inside a role.

 

Qualifications, Costs, Availability, Documentation... you can have a color for this role. You can really document what is this role about. 

Blueworks Live "Participants".

More than roles inside a process, they have participants. 

It is useful only for setting the roles on the "swimline". 

Does the participating has a color, documentation, description, qualifications, costs, availability?

I don't know where to document that on Blueworks Live.

If I'm wrong please let me know and post a comment on this page.

Update: I noticed that on the glossary of Blueworks Live you can add a little description of the "participant". But you can not document much more.

Exporting from Websphere Business Modeler to .bpmn and Importing to BlueWorks Live.

Here goes another example of exporting a more complete process to Blueworks Live, by converting WBM to .bpmn.

This is the process on WBM.



This time I had exported more things. 1 Process diagram, 4 Business Items, 4 resources (roles).

This is how to graphic looks on Blueworks Live.
The good thing is that the swimnlines are with the "roles", so it was a good import. 

 

The bad thing is that Blueworks Live does not know what to do with the WBM Business Items and with the Input and Output of the model. 

Another good thing is that the documentation inside the activities get reflected on Blueworks Live.

 

Exporting from Websphere Business modeler to .bpmn to Blueworks Live

Ok, I tried to export a simple process test from Websphere Business Modeler, converting it to .bpmn.

Here it the process in Websphere Business Modeler .7.

 

I exported this model in .bpmn and uploaded it to Blueworks Live.  Here it is the results. 

The "Entrada" (Input) and "Salida" (Output) was not converted as I will like to.

What about if I export it as XPDL (used by Filenet) and import it to Blueworks Live.

 

Looks better, but I don't know what that "LaunchStep" is. It must be something specific about XPDL format. 

I will keep trying with more complicated models.