Business Process Modeling

SOA Adoption, Strategies, and Implementation

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Table of Contents

••Business Modeling: Problem Domain & Motivation
Business Modeling: Problem Domain & Motivation

••Introduction to IT & Business Alignment Model
Introduction to IT & Business Alignment Model

••Business Concepts: A Meta Model
Business Concepts: A Meta Model

••Business Process Modeling: Implementation Views
Business Process Modeling: Implementation Views

••Solution Domain: Technological Implementation
Solution Domain: Technological Implementation


Business Modeling: Problem Domain & Motivation


Business Modeling: Motivation

••Recording and Preserving Undocumented Business Processes
Recording and Preserving Undocumented Business Processes
Productivity
••Maintaining Business Continuity
Productivity
Maintaining Business Continuity

••Establishing aaCommon Organizational Language
Establishing Common Organizational Language Profitability
Profitability
••Contributing to Product Requirements and Process Automation
Contributing to Product Requirements and Process Automation

••Identifying Functionality Redundancy Across the Enterprise
Identifying Functionality Redundancy Across the Enterprise
Business
Business
Agility
Agility
••Facilitating Asset Consolidation
Facilitating Asset Consolidation

••Fostering Asset Reuse
Fostering Asset Reuse Time-to-Market
Time-to-Market

••Increasing Communication Gaps between Silo Organizations
Increasing Communication Gaps between Silo Organizations

••Increasing Collaborations with Business Partners
Increasing Collaborations with Business Partners

••Creating Process-Centric Composite Services & Applications
Creating Process-Centric Composite Services & Applications


Introduction to IT & Business Alignment Model


IT & Business Alignment Model

A Model for Business
& IT Organizations
Alignment

Driving Business
Principles, Such as
“Customer Focus”,
etc…

Identifying and
Documenting
Business & IT Business Activities
and Process Flow by
Alignment Opportunities Employing a Formal
BPM Language

System Behavior,
Orchestration,
Applications,
Services,
Repositories,
Middleware,
Infrastructure, COTS
Products


Business Concepts: A Meta-Model


Business Concepts: A Meta-Model

What is the Typical
Process for Deriving
Business Concepts
and Establishing a
Business Modeling
Meta-Model?

Solid Business
Business Process Concepts and A
Modeling Typically Meta-Model for
Take Place at the Business Modeling
Business Analysis & Activities are
Business Architecture Typically Derived at
Stage the Concept
Extraction Phase


Again, What Are Business Concepts?

Concepts Constitute
Organizational
Vocabulary. A
Language that can be
used to Fill in the
Communication Gaps

Concepts
Communicate
“Client Centric” Solution Propositions
So, What are to Resolve Business
Business Concepts Problems
and why do we Need
to Formalize these
Ideas?
“Household Portfolio”

Concepts are
Reusable Entities

“Federated Identity”


Business Process Modeling


What is Business Process Modeling?

Identifying and Documenting Business Activities (also known as tasks) and Processes by Employing a Formal BPM Language.

A Process MUST have a business objective. Business activities identify the steps to achieving a business goal.

A Process Consists
Documenting
of Multiple Activities
an Entire Process

Documenting
a Singe Activity
Documenting
Another Activity


BPMN Diagram Example

BPMN Partial Notation

Example Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BPMN-CollectVotes.jpg


Business Process Modeling Life Cycle

Model

Trace, Optimize, and
Simulate

Construct & Deploy


Who is Involved? Stakeholders?


Business Process Modeling: Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Products Profile


Business Process Modeling: …And Industry Standards?

BPMM
BPMM

BPEL4WS
BPEL4WS

BPMI
BPMI

WfMC
WfMC More?
More?

BPML
BPML

BPDM
BPDM

WSCI
WSCI WS-I
WS-I


Business Process Modeling: …And Industry Standards?


Business Process Modeling: Implementation Views

How Should the
Business Process
Modeling Practice Be
Implemented?

To Which Business
Initiative Should the
At Which Level of the Business & IT
Business Process
Organization Should Alignment
Modeling be Applied?
we Practice Business Opportunities
Process Modeling?

Business Process
Modeling Success Business Process
Level: Hot Spots Modeling Success
Level: Sweet Spots
Implementation Plan


Business Process Modeling Granularity Perspective

What are the Various
Business Process
Levels?

A Predictable Model
For BPM

Granularity Matrix for
Business Process
Modeling


Business Process Modeling Value Perspective

What are the Various
Business Initiatives
that can be Modeled?


Business Process Modeling Alignment Perspective

How can Business
Process Modeling
Enable Proper
Alignment of
Business and IT
organizations?


Solution: Technological Implementation


Technological Feasibility & Success Criteria

How can we ensure
Business Process Modeling
Success?

Identification of
Opportunities

Technological
Success


An Evolutionary Process that Ensures Business & IT Alignment


Solution: Crafting a Technological Ecosystem…

What are the IT Assets that
are Influenced by the
Business Modeling
Paradigm?

Dependencies of IT
Assets


Technological Implementation: Planning the Next Steps…

Planning…
Planning…

••Plan Software Evolution & Metamorphosis
Plan Software Evolution & Metamorphosis

••Device Software Life Cycle Best Practices and Standards
Device Software Life Cycle Best Practices and Standards

••Establish Software Asset Portfolio Management Practices
Establish Software Asset Portfolio Management Practices

••Found Service-Oriented Governance & Center of excellence
Found Service-Oriented Governance & Center of excellence

••Craft an Organizational Architecture Roadmap
Craft an Organizational Architecture Roadmap

••Launch an SOA Adoption Program
Launch an SOA Adoption Program


Technological Implementation: Planning the Next Steps…

Leading Best Practices
Leading Best Practices

••Interoperability
Interoperability

••Reusability
Reusability

••Loose Coupling
Loose Coupling

••And More…
And More…


To Learn More…

Service-Oriented Architecture:
Service-Oriented Modeling:
A Planning and
Service Analysis, Design, and
Implementation Guide for
Architecture
Business and Technology


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