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.

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.

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

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

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

Prior to enrolling, IBM Employees must follow their Division/Department processes to obtain approval to attend this public training class. Failure to follow Division/Department approval processes may result in the IBM Employee being personally responsible for the class charges.

GBS practitioners that use the EViTA system for requesting external training should use that same process for this course. Go to the EViTA site to start this process:

http://w3.ibm.com/services/gbs/evita/BCSVTEnrl.nsf

Once you enroll in a GTP class, you will receive a confirmation letter that should show:

• The current GTP list price
• The 20% discounted price available to IBMers. This is the price you will be invoiced for the class.