1. IST421: Advanced Systems and Enterprise Integration

2. EI Roadmap
Source: GBR, 2005, p. 18

3. Process Integration Architecture
Improve a process to increase business efficiency
Provides business level view of the end-to-end process
Processes are technology-independent
Role of process integration architecture
Process models and definitions
Business level view of end-to-end process
Dashboards to track key performance indicators (KPIs)
Process simulation
Alignment between IT and business
Start here (top-down) to build Enterprise Integration Architecture
Source: GBR. p

4. Background 1950s – 1980s: 1990s 2000s Quality Movements
Dr. Edward Deming
Improvements in managing business processes lead to improvements in overall business and significant competitive advantage
Process variations introduce product defects
Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)
Six-Sigma
1990s
Business Process Reengineering
Lack of technology support for BPR
2000s
Business Process Management
Plan: Business process modeling
Do: Automate and integrate
Check: Monitoring tools and dashboards
Act: Simulation and analytical tools
Business Process Automation (BPA)
Business Process Integration (BPI)
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
Source: GBR. p

5. Business Process Modeling
Process models are organizational assets
Processing modeling standards  prevent technology lock-in
BPMN: Business Process Modeling Notation: For business processes (OMG)
BPEL: Business Process Execution Language: For web services (OASIS)
UML: Unified Modeling Language: For software development (esp. object oriented) (OMG)
BPMI: Business Process Management Initiative (AKA Business Modeling & Integration - BMI): Develop specification of integration models (OMG)
IDEF: Integration DEFinition: For software engineering and design using Structured Analysis and Design Technique (US-DoD)
More BPM standards
Source: GBR. p

6. Process Flow Models
Combination of Events, Actors, Software services, Messages, Business rules
The modeling methods and tools vary with industry
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7. Process Flow Models
Source: GBR, p.175

8. Conclusion
PDCA
Models are assets
Standardize

9. BPM Standards
Standard
Organization
Type
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
OASIS
Execution Language
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) / Now merged with OMG
Notation language
Business Process Modeling Language (BPML)
BPMI / OMG
Execution language
Business Process Query Language (BPQL)
Administration and monitoring interface
Business Process Semantic Model (BPSM)
Process metamodel, in fashion of Object Management Group (OMG) Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)
Business Process Extension Layer (BPXL)
BPEL extension for transactions, human workflow, business rules
UML Activity Diagrams
OMG
Workflow Reference Model
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
Architecture
XML Process Definition Language (XPDL)
WfMC
Workflow API (WAPI)
Administration and monitoring, human interaction, system interaction
Workflow XML (WfXML)
Choreography (or similar to it)
Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM)
Execution language and/or notation language, as MDA metamodel
Business Process Runtime Interface (BPRI)
Administration and monitoring, human interaction, system interaction, as MDA metamodel
Web Services Choreography Interface (WSCI)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Choreography
Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL)
W3C
Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL)
XLANG
Microsoft
Web Services Flow Language (WSFL)
IBM
Business Process Schema Specification (BPSS)
Choreography (and collaboration)
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