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Collaborative Business Processes in a Global eBusiness Domain Using ebBP
Monica J. Martin
Sun Microsystems
5 June 2007
ebBP v2.0.4, OASIS Standard,

2. OASIS Week of ebXML Standards Webinars 4-7 June 2007
OASIS Week of ebXML Standards Webinars 4-7 June 2007

3. OASIS ebXML Business Process Tuesday, 5 June 2007
OASIS ebXML Business Process Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Dr. Asuman Dogac, METU (TC member)
Umut Orhan, METU (freebxmlbp editor)
Monica J. Martin, Sun Microsystems

4. Presentation Outline Overview of original ebXML initiative
Presentation Outline
Overview of original ebXML initiative
The eBusiness domain of collaborative business processes
Where does ebBP fit?
Real-world example of best practices and use of ebBP
Current ebBP progress/plans
Questions

5. ebXML Framework Origin
UN/CEFACT
United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and eBusiness
Conducted analysis of EDI in 1998/1999
OASIS
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
Consortium hosting XML and related standards work

6. ebXML Initiative then....
Phase 1-Joint effort with UN/CEFACT and OASIS
Open invitation to eBusiness community to join in September 1999
Involved 18-month project (November 1999-May 2001)
Specifications delivered on time
Vision
Create a single global electronic marketplace where enterprises of any size and in any geographical location can meet and conduct business with each other”
Provide a “modular, yet complete electronic business framework”
Approach
Semantic and technical interoperability
Modular framework leveraging EDI, XML, Internet, and Web technologies

7. ebXML standards today.... ebXML Messaging (ebMS)
Secure reliable messaging, binding to CPP/A
Version 2 certified interoperable messaging since 2002
Collaboration Protocol Profile / Agreements
Bilateral message service and partner configuration
Binding to ebXML Messaging (ebMS)
Business Process (ebBP)
Support for complex business interactions
Choreography (public process)
Binding to message protocols via CPP/A
Registry / Repository: Information model and services
Core Components: Information model for vocabularies and business documents

8. The Global eBusiness Domain Current State
The Global eBusiness Domain Current State
Electronic interchange across domains of control and communities involves:
Competitive pressures
Business expectations, and technology and topology in heterogeneous environments
Community relationships
With peers, partners, and within or across domain entities
Constraints or conditions
Regulations, agreements, or regional norms
Focused on community or domain business requirements based on business expectations
Affected by enterprise constraints (outward view)
Regulatory compliance – policies, controls, regulations and laws that may be broad and conflict.
Compliance is happening with Sarbanes Oxley, and in Europe for Single Euro Payment Area. Money laundering is one risk that is often regulated.
May be organic or legacy based

9. Global eBusiness Requirements
Global eBusiness Requirements
For business processes, capture:
Business quality of service contract
Business transaction patterns
Partner expectations
Semantics - business, operational and context
Facilitate collaboration
Balance policies and practical realities
Enable communities to migrate from business messages and content only
Use agreements and processes
The eBusiness domain involves electronic interchange by parties in a peer-to-peer relationship when those communications cross domains of control, and encompasses many aspects such as:
1.Secure and reliable transport
2.Means to publish, discover and make available artifacts and services
3.Configurable technical contracts between collaborating or business parties: CPPA, SLA, ebBP
4.Well-understood transaction patterns that support typical interchanges and provide guiding principles
5.Relevant business and operational semantics that associate business processes, content and expectations
Experience in transparency and automated efficiency
Learn from experience
Maximize strengths
Use iterative approaches
Collaborate

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What is ebBP?
An eBusiness standard process definition for document-based message exchange
Business quality of service expectations
Realized through definition in products / tools
Focused on collaboration and choreography between 2+ parties
Business transactions patterns
Technical state alignment based on business messages and business signals
Multiple roles that parties play
Business conditions and constraints
Logical business documents
Conscious of lifecycle of business processes as initiated by the business through realization in definition, products, open source editors, etc.
Abstracted from but related to technical execution using events, processes and software components
Relates to technical contract
Allows for use of software, systems, gateway or services
Stereotype map into business metamodels that allow for design flexibility (BPMN, BPDM)
Can be design as simple or complex as business requirements dictate – modular yet pragmatic design approach

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Where does ebBP Fit?
ebBP is targeted at design / use of business quality of service contract
Focused on:
Design view of eBusiness exchange
Basis for activity monitoring
Guides technical contract
Relates business documents and activities
Patterns
Constraints
Business and operational semantics
Controls
Composition of process activities into complex collaborations
Provide initial needs for role and process visibility based on real-world experience
Context, variables and semantic context associated with activities and documents; allows specialization of process patterns based on community of use.
Composite Applications, NetBeans, Sun Microsystems

12. ebBP and Business Processes
ebBP and Business Processes
ebBP is targeted at design / use of the business quality of service contract
Relationship to other process components
Influences enterprise technology and processes (orchestration)
Monitors eBusiness activities (choreography)
Applies constraints
Links business design view
Composite Applications, NetBeans, Sun Microsystems

13. Real-World Examples for ebBP
Real-World Examples for ebBP
Community and standards examples
Role-based profiles to share electronic patient records
Trading partner guidelines for business agreements and technical contracts
Profiles spanning across (and within) domains for European eInvoicing and health care
Marketplace use case examples
Leverage common content, building blocks and secure, reliable infrastructure
Choreographic control flow for gateway, supported by application integration components
Monitoring of business quality of service contracts
Historically focused on the communities served:
Health care: Allow constraint, routing and visibility based on roles associated with collaborating parties
Realization of basic criteria for constraints evidenced in trading partner agreements – non-repudiation, security, reliability, use of receipt and business acceptance signals.
Differentiates technical and business failures or success.
Input to collaborative efforts to support European eInvoicing
Other domains of interest include:
Asian transport
Italian knitwear
Danish criminal justice
European financial services
eBusiness technology

14. Serving Health Care Using ebBP Editor Tool
Serving Health Care Using ebBP Editor Tool
User friendly, open source tool designed to create generic or domain specific Business Processes
Create ebBP instances from scratch or existing ones
Editor available at Sourceforge.net
The ebBP Editor consists of two main components
XML stylist
Expert mode: Create, modify and validate ebBP instances through tree presentation
Graphical component pane
Drag and drop-based interaction
Dr. Asuman Dogac and Umut Orhan Middle East Technical University
Freebxmlbp editor tool
Role-based profiles for health care automated processes

15. All code generated from the public domain ebBP editor
All code generated from the public domain ebBP editor
Dr. Asuman Dogac and Umut Orhan Middle East Technical University
Freebxmlbp editor tool
Role-based profiles for health care automated processes

16. Integrating Health Care Enterprise (IHE)
Integrating Health Care Enterprise
(IHE)
IHE specifies an implementation framework to facilitate the integration of health care information resources
The IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework [IHE-ITI-1, IHE-ITI-2] identifies a subset of the functional components of the healthcare enterprise
IHE Actors (Roles in ebBP)
IHE Transactions (ebBP Collaborations)
More specifically, IHE transactions define how IT systems communicate by using existing standards such as HL7
Dr. Asuman Dogac and Umut Orhan Middle East Technical University
Freebxmlbp editor tool
Role-based profiles for health care automated processes

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IHE Profiles
Are business processes describing selected real-world scenarios (use cases)
Specify
The IT systems or applications involved in a use case (Actors)
The transactions involved in a use case
Interfaces by restricting the use of the existing standards such as HL7 or DICOM to accomplish a specific transaction
The choreography of the transactions involved
Dr. Asuman Dogac and Umut Orhan Middle East Technical University
Freebxmlbp editor tool
Role-based profiles for health care automated processes

18. IHE XDS Profile Example
IHE XDS Profile Example
Dr. Asuman Dogac and Umut Orhan Middle East Technical University
Freebxmlbp editor tool
Role-based profiles for health care automated processes

19. IHE Profiles and ebBP An IHE Profile is, in fact, a Business Process
IHE Profiles and ebBP
An IHE Profile is, in fact, a Business Process
Configuration management in IHE is not easy
Particularly, when Actors are grouped to produce combined business processes!
Therefore configuration management should be delegated as much as possible to the computers
They process quickly and are less error prone than humans
This can only be possible by describing the IHE Profiles through a:
Robust standard, and
Machine-processable, business process specification language
IHE Profiles can be represented through ebBP
Doğaç A., et. al, “ebBP Profile for Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)”, Draft OASIS Profile, June 2006
Dr. Asuman Dogac and Umut Orhan Middle East Technical University
Freebxmlbp editor tool
Role-based profiles for health care automated processes

20. What ebBP Provides to IHE Profiles
What ebBP Provides to IHE Profiles
When an IHE business process is defined using ebBP, an Actor taking part in the process knows in a machine processable way:
The business collaboration of which it will participate
Its roles in the business collaboration
The Actors of which it will communicate
The business documents it will send and receive
The choreography of the business transactions it will execute
Dr. Asuman Dogac and Umut Orhan Middle East Technical University
Freebxmlbp editor tool
Role-based profiles for health care automated processes

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Progress and Plans
Achieved OASIS Standard for ebBP v2.0.4 in December 2006 with an overwhelming membership vote
Working plan is to join ebXML framework in ISO in ISO TC 154
Build on worldwide interest through domains to promote deployment and adoption
Future strategy
Support interaction protocols with BPDM/BPMN: ebBP mapping
Profiles: Such as IHE health care
Solidify ebBP future planning

22. Global Business Processes Summary and Questions
Global Business Processes Summary and Questions
Collaborative eBusiness processes:
Focused on business quality of service contract
Focused on business community needs and expectations
Success based on:
Modular flexibility – simple to complex
Integrates business semantics / context
Design view (looking up), while...
Guiding technical execution (looking down)

23.
Resources Quick Hit
ebBP: Recent podcast: freebxmlbp Editor: IHE Profiles Using ebBP: (latest paper) BPDM, BPMN: BPDM submission: BPMN OMG (pre-FTF): CPP/A: UBL: