IBM Business Process Manager provides a number of ways to integrate with other systems. Although advanced integrations can always use the Integration Designer, you should first consider the ways in which Process Designer empowers you to implement integration with external systems. There are a number of standard ways of connecting with external systems within the Process Designer tool.

• Web Services
  • Web Service connector (WSDL)
    • By entering URL (http://, file://, etc.) that links to WSDL list of all operations provided by WebService is given
  • SOAP connector
    • It is a lower-level connector in that no translation of data is done within the connector; the request is sent as raw XML and the response is received as raw XML. It is based on Apache Axis 1.4 framweork
  • REST connectors (HTTP)
    • Integration with Representational State Transfer serices.
• JMS Messaging
• SQL Connector (Database)
• LDAP Connectors