Overview

This course provides students with a detailed examination of Sterling B2B Integrator, which provides end-to-end enterprise integration server for dynamic real-time and near-real time business collaboration and commerce automation.

This course teaches students techniques, tools and recommended practices that can be used to run a business process, create a business process using the Graphical Process Modeler, explain how to create a service configuration, explain how to track an executable business process, and discuss the basics of Sterling B2B Integrator  through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs.

Audience

This course is designed for EDI End Users, Connect: End Users, Web Developers, as well as  System Administrators.

Prerequisites

This course assumes you have the following foundation knowledge:

• J2EE Framework and N-Tiered Architectures
• Database schemas and related concepts
• SQL Scripting
• XML
• Sterling B2B Integrator Basics
• Client/Server Relationship

Objective

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Run a business process.
• Create a business process using the Graphical Process Modeler.
• Explain how to create a service configuration.
• Explain how to track an executable business process.
• Discuss the basics of Sterling B2B Integrator.

Course Outline

The following topics will be covered during this course:

• Course Overview
• Lesson 1. About IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
  • Exercise. About Sterling B2B Integrator
• Lesson 2. Basic BPML Concepts
  • Exercise. Basic BPML Concepts
• Lesson 3. XPath Basics
  • Exercise. XPath Basics
• Lesson 4. Graphical Process Modeler (GPM)
  • Exercise. Graphical Process Modeler (GPM)
• Lesson 5. Using the GPM
  • Exercise. Using the GPM
• Lesson 6. Troubleshooting a Business Process
  • Exercise. Troubleshooting a Business Process
• Lesson 7. Introduction to Service Management
  • Exercise. Introduction to Service Management
• Lesson 8. Case Study
• Lesson 9. Sterling B2B Integrator Mapping
  • Exercise. Sterling B2B Integrator Mapping
• Lesson 10. Typing Map
  • Exercise. Typing Map
• Lesson 11. Tracking System Health
  • Exercise. Tracking System Health
• Lesson 12. Best Practices
  • Exercise. Best Practices
• Lesson 13. Case Study
• Lesson 14. Course Wrap Up