1. www.oasis-open.org BCM (Business Centric Methodology) Technical Committee Defining methods to acquire interoperable e-business information systems within communities of interest Mike Lubash (co-Chair)US DoD Carl Mattocks (co-Chair)MetLife David Webber (Sec.)Individual Member Eric OkinUS DoD Neil WassermanIndividual Member Hans AanesenIndividual Member Sally St. AmandIndividual Member

2. BCM Focal Points Approach for reducing unneeded risk by providing proven techniques that enable a service oriented architecture and support enterprise agility and interoperability. l Allows business people the choice to think and communicate in business terms l Helps managers communicate precisely their business goals among heterogeneous partners as well as layering the appropriate steps that must be applied for a project to succeed n Complements existing Specifications l Architectures e.g. Zachman (EA), Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) l Frameworks e.g. Federal Architecture Reference Models, US DoD Architecture Framework l IT Service Management best practice, e.g. ISO 20000, COBIT OASIS Standards e.g. SAML, UBL, WS-Reliability, ebXML Messaging, ebXML Registry, UDDI, XACML

3. BCM Guideline Essentials n Conceptual layer improves the understanding of the semantics by aligning the terminology of the business and uncovers the real meaning of the business vocabulary n Business layer develops an understanding of the core business goals that the “preferred” business objects must accomplish and constrains them according to defined business processes and patterns n Extension layer provides outreach for mapping the Target Constructs to the desired industry consortiums, standard bodies, and internal legacy system formats n Implementation layer provides in-depth technical requirements analysis of the selected framework

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5. n V1 Standard May 2006 n SC Work l ERP / e-Folders n Norwegian Electronic Process work n Home Healthcare services and Building and Construction Maintenance n New Work l BCML n Framing language that will use 'service bridges' to ensure information used by one SOA artifact is accurately communicated to the other BCM layers l BCMO n Ontology for eBusiness that resides in the Concept layer to ensure semantic synchronicity across all BCM layers OASIS BCM TC Work Status