1. Enterprise Knowledge Base Integrated knowledge for and about the enterprise Cory Casanave, President Model Driven Solutions Cory-c (at) ModelDriven.com July 2008

2. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org EKB Goals Management, Integration & Analysis of Enterprise Architectural, Systems, Metadata and Governance Information  Authored and managed by multiple authorities  Using different tools, models, diagrams, standards, paradigms and formats  Presented in user-friendly views appropriate to the role and task  Provisioned to tools & technologies for execution  Federated across the Enterprise, Government and Supply Chain

3. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Business Focused Architected Solutions Business Concerns Goals Policy Customers Costs Agility Technology Specification JMS, JEE, Web Services WSDL, BPEL, XML Schema Technology Specification JMS, JEE, Web Services WSDL, BPEL, XML Schema Logical Systems Architecture Technology Services (t-SOA), Components, Process Execution Interfaces, Messages & Data Logical Systems Architecture Technology Services (t-SOA), Components, Process Execution Interfaces, Messages & Data Business Architecture Enterprise Services (e-SOA) Roles, Collaborations & Interactions Business Process & Information Business Architecture Enterprise Services (e-SOA) Roles, Collaborations & Interactions Business Process & Information Refinement & Automation Line-Of-Sight Computation Independent Model Platform Independent Model Platform Specific Model MDA Terms

4. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Value derived from the architecture Component Acquisition Specification Technology Interfaces Test & Simulation OMB 300 FEA/FTF BRM SRM DRM TRM Business Driven Technology Facilitating Business Processes Adapters Components DataDeployment

5. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org There is no one enterprise view! What is King?  Information & Data  Services (SOA)  Process (BPM)  Finances  Rules  Goals  Governance  Systems Design  Organizational Structure Yes Every one, and more, are part of the Enterprise and Systems Architectures But none of them can stand alone A solution must integrate information, while providing the view of that information appropriate to each stakeholder

6. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org The “Meta Muddle” There are hundreds of “meta models”, tools, diagrams and exchange formats, all associated with our business architectures, solution architectures and systems implementations. These are “stovepiped”, and not designed to work together. Users struggle to keep different views of the same thing and related things coherent and consistent The result is an error prone, expensive and ineffective process for managing our information assets and system implementations. Business and systems goals and requirements are not integrated and thus not fully realized. Information defined in a “foreign” format, tool or methodology is frequently lost, inconsistent or manually synchronized. Each new standard or proprietary product is just another stovepipe. Different contractors and technologies introduce more of the same, or proprietary ways to integrate information that attempt to lock the enterprise into a single vendor’s solution.

7. EKB Approach

8. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Three layers of solution Dynamic Configuration Management of Artifacts  Understand where all of your information artifacts are, where and who they came from and how they evolved over time (Based on Subversion and Provenance) Structured Information & Metadata Management  Get all of your models, forms, requirements and other structured information into a common form that can be analyzed and federated (Based on the Shared Web) Integration of Information through Shared Concepts  Understand how information in multiple forms, tools, standards and methodologies is related and mutually supportive (Based on Ontologies and standards from the OMG, W3C and Oasis)

9. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Enterprise Knowledge Base Configuration Mgmt Eclipse Tortoise Web-UI User Views Forms Browse Query File Get/Put Eclipse IDE Subversion Interface Artifact Repository Subversion Orbeon XForms Server EKB High Level Architecture Artifact / KB Integration XML “Rest” Interface Knowledge Base Sesame RDF KB Inference & Rules Transformation Eclipse EMF Adapter*Semantic Web Interface Shared Concepts Green = Existing Open Source

10. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Enterprise Knowledge Base Configuration Mgmt Eclipse Tortoise Web-UI User Views Forms Browse Query File Get/Put Eclipse IDE Subversion Interface Artifact Repository Orbeon XForms Server Transformation Example (BPMN/UML) Artifact / KB Integration XML “Rest” Interface Knowledge Base Sesame RDF KB Inference & Rules Transformation Eclipse EMF Interface*Semantic Web Interface BPMN Process Model BPMN Model UML Model UML Shared Concepts Subversion

11. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Enterprise Knowledge Integration Knowledge Base Process Models Information Models Services Models Rules Models Governance Models Integrated Enterprise Viewpoints Systems Architects And Developers Business Analysts And Stakeholders Software Artifacts And Execution {BPM, SOA, Rules, DBMS…}

12. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org EKB OWL Concepts XML Concepts UML Concepts Shared Concept Libraries Integrate Architectures Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Shared Concept Library of Concepts Growing based on need Modular, not monolithic A construction set for languages A lattice of interoperable concepts

13. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org “Views” of Integrated Information EKB Shared Concepts UML DoDAF BPMN Ontologies FEA Requirements EDOC XML SQL OWL Provision Web Services Java/J2EE WorkflowDocumentation LegacyBPEL E/R ModelsSecurity Projection * Conceptual - Not all of these models are implemented!

14. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Managing Change & Provenance Enterprise knowledge must be trusted and managed. The source and authority of each fact in the knowledge base is traceable to the “speech act” of some individual at a particular time. Knowledge Base Data Asset Version Speech Act What is stated by a particular authority at a particular time with respect to a particular data resource A view of the data resource at a particular point in time informed by a authorized set of speech acts A managed set of information, I.E. “A process kodel” “Head” version – is up to date

15. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Base Technologies & Standards Eclipse with EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) and UML-2 RDF & OWL Using Sesame (www.openrdf.org)www.openrdf.org Subversion configuration management (http://subversion.tigris.org/)http://subversion.tigris.org/ Orbeon xForms ( http://www.orbeon.com/) http://www.orbeon.com/ Intalio BPMN (http://www.intalio.com/)http://www.intalio.com/  BPDM / BPMN-2 Support planned Magicdraw UML OMG - UML, MOF, XMI, EDOC, BPMN (BPDM & IMM Planned) W3C “Semantic Web: - RDF, RDFS, OWL Tomcat using REST XML Stack (XSD, XSLT…)

16. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Licensing The EKB is an open source project  https://sourceforge.net/projects/enterpisekb https://sourceforge.net/projects/enterpisekb  Not announced yet Licensed as “GPL”  Free for open source and internal use  Licensed for commercial use Initially funded as part of a U.S. Government project of the G.S.A (osera.gov) Planned as commercial open source under ModelDriven.org

17. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Status The EKB is a prototype implementation aimed at Government requirements, but is not government specific The prototype release is planned for the end of August, 2008 All of the functionality mentioned will demonstratable in this release, with the exception of a dynamic Eclipse-EMF API & Rule support. Model synchronization is not yet bi-directional. Current model support includes: XSD, BPMN, UML (partial), EDOC & RDFS Our goal is to create a pervasive and open knowledge management platform Both commercial and open source tools will plug into this platform Next stage is to plan and execute a production version ModelDriven.org plans to develop to a commercial open source product with partners

18. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Opportunities Enable better integration of architectural and governance information for our enterprise customers Open and pervasive governance and metadata platform throughout the government and large organizations Enabling communities and virtual organizations SOA & BPM Governance Better execution of architecture and implementation projects Products and services that leverage and build on the core repository capabilities Solve our own problems with multiple tools, standards and methodologies.

19. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org EKB Demo DRM (Data Reference Model) View Configuration Management UI SVN Integration / Artifact versions & Provenance Model/Configuration management integration Model Transformation (Not fully integrated yet)

20. Support slides

21. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org Integration Via Semantic Hubs Concepts We Specify Semantic Hub Reference Ontologies Shared Concepts Monetary Trade Part Of Is Mapped Dis-Integrated Information Buy Purchase Ways To Specify Things Shared Core Joint Behavior Part Of Describes UML XML Describes Library of common concepts Can grow over time Mapping is not “one-one”

22. Copyright © 2008, Data Access Technologies Inc. / ModelDriven.org EKB (Enterprise Knowledge Base) Artifact Management / Configuration Management (Subversion) Asset Categorization, Provenance, Dependencies (OWL) EKB Layers Articles About Anything (RDF) Shared Concept Hubs (OWL Ontologies) FEA DRM BRM SRM SOA EDOC SOA-Pro Process BPMN UML Extended Knowledge Analysis Plug-ins Governance Business concepts XML Import/ Export View specific User Interface Mapping Facility Shared Metadata Concepts Asset Management Concepts Governance Ontology of Architecture Query Views Information ERD UML OWL Rules SBVR SWRL Technology Provisioning