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Smart Process Apps on Interstage BOP
1. FUJITSU Software Interstage Business Operations Platform:
A Foundation for Smart Process Applications
Keith Swenson
VP R&D, Chief Architect
Fujitsu America, Inc.
May 30, 2013
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2. We are a software company with a mission…
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We help our customers to improve
their business operations with world-class,
process-oriented software which allows them
to change and innovate the way they do business
with greater speed and flexibility.
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3. Add Agility to IT and Accelerate Time-to-Value
Software
Business
Change Cycle:
Business
Strategy
Technology
Change Cycle:
IT Infrastructure
Business Needs
Supporting Technology
Organizational
Structure
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4. Add Agility to IT and Accelerate Time-to-Value
Software
Business
Change Cycle:
1-2
years(s)
Business
Strategy
Technology
Change Cycle:
IT Infrastructure
Business Needs
Supporting Technology
Organizational
Structure
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5. Add Agility to IT and Accelerate Time-to-Value
Software
Business
Change Cycle:
1-2
years(s)
3-6
months
Business
Strategy
Technology
Change Cycle:
IT Infrastructure
Business Needs
Supporting Technology
Organizational
Structure
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6. Add Agility to IT and Accelerate Time-to-Value
Software
Business
Change Cycle:
1-2
years(s)
3-6
months
6-10
years
6-10
years
Business
Strategy
Technology
Change Cycle:
IT Infrastructure
Business Needs
Supporting Technology
Organizational
Structure
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7. Add Agility to IT and Accelerate Time-to-Value
Software
Business
Change Cycle:
1-2
years(s)
3-6
months
6-10
years
6-10
years
Business
Strategy
Technology
Change Cycle:
IT Infrastructure
Smart Process Apps Synchronize
Business & IT Change Cycles
Business Needs
Supporting Technology
Organizational
Structure
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8. How Smart Process Apps give you ERP Agility
ERP Agility
Instead of building inside ERP, you
build Smart Process App outside the
ERP: allow agile business innovation
and better collaboration.
Use ERP connectors to enable
process-driven integration, flexible
customization involving ERP and
multiple systems, and improved
visibility across those data silos.
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Rigid ERP
ERP does what it does very well
It is powerful, reliable, and gets the core
business functions done
But it isn‟t the place to innovate to
differentiate your business
As you grow and evolve, you need to make
changes happen quickly
Your business has processes that span
many business units, systems, countries
and data
ERP systems lack the agility to quickly
change and innovate
9. What you need to create Smart Process Apps
Out-of-the-box connectivity of your ERP to other systems, people and
business processes
Build multi-channel composite business applications above ERP
Unlock business value by combining the „best of the cloud‟ with your ERP
system
A single, integrated view of information including ERP
Improved enterprise processes and business operations beyond the
boundaries of ERP
Collaboration beyond ERP across the supply chain
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10. Interstage Business Operations Platform
Interstage Business Operations Platform (BOP)
Smart Services Grid
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Enterprise Service
Bus
Business
Services
Master Data
Management
Business Process Management Suite (BPMS)
Business
Process
Management
Case
Management
Rules
Management
Business Activity
Monitoring
Composite Application Framework (CAF)
Composite
Application
User Interfaces
Task
Management
CollaborativeWorkspace
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11. A single platform, combining the world of Integration, Business
Process Management, and Composite Application Development
Enables true business and IT collaboration via a single
Collaborative Workspace
Support for any type of workflow including human-to-human
workflows, system-to-system integration-type interactions and hybrid
processes
Modern and open platform, built on a secure, highly available and
scalable architecture
Designed to support multi-tenancy and cloud deployment – deploy
an application development environment in a matter of hours
Interstage BOP Differentiators
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12. Key BOP Features Enabling Smart Process Apps
Composite Applications
Dynamic Case Management
Enterprise Scale SOA-based Integration
Master Data Management
On-Premise and the Cloud
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13. Key Features: Composite Applications
Composite applications are particularly suitable for:
Subject matter experts and knowledge workers
Anyone participating in a process
Delivering a rich, effective customer experience
What is it?
A way of building user interfaces to present processes, cases,
applications, dashboards etc to users
The capability for business users to self assemble or compose
business mash-ups made up of internal and external information
What does it give you?
High levels of productivity and speed for subject matter experts
to create, share and publish relevant business applications
Technology in the workplace that is as productive as the
consumer IT people use outside work
Disposable application that solves a problem but can be thrown
away
Mix and match structured data from internal systems (e.g. ERP)
with external data (e.g. Google Maps)
A rich way of participating in processes and giving the right
information in one place to the right person (customer,
employee, business manager)
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14. Key Features: Dynamic Case Management
Dynamic Case Management is particularly suitable for:
Investigative case applications
Fraud, Legal, Regulatory compliance
Service request case applications
Customer service, Underwriting, Claims
Incident management case applications
Exception management, Healthcare, Complaint management
What is it?
A typical process centric approach is suitable for task driven,
structured and standardized functions of an organization
A case centric approach is suitable for case and knowledge
driven, unstructured and collaborative functions that need to
capture the experience and expertise of subject matter
experts
What does it give you?
Collaboration and high speed change for dynamic, ad-hoc,
unstructured operations but with high productivity, efficiency
and governance
Better decision support without constraints whilst retaining
flexibility and control
Fully integrated cases with the data, systems & documents
for an actionable single view of case across the enterprise
Automation of what makes sense to reduce the workload for
“commodity” processes
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15. Key Features: Enterprise Scale SOA-based Integration
The SOA Grid is particularly suitable for:
Legacy modernization
System to system orchestration
Extending ERP systems
What is it?
A full integration capability built around an Enterprise Service
Bus delivering Service Orientated Architecture
The Interstage BOP has a SOA grid at is foundation to deliver
connectivity, advanced integration and business services to
support organization wide, mission critical BPM
What does it give you?
A single URL for anything (a process, rule, UI, case, MDM etc)
A way of ensuring enterprise wide business processes work
seamlessly with the existing IT estate
A robust, highly available, highly scalable framework allows
non-stop execution of business processes
Enables enterprises to adapt rapidly to changing business
needs and substantially lowering the total cost of ownership
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16. Key Features: Master Data Management
Master Data Management is particularly suitable for:
A single view of risk
A single view of customer or employee
A single view of product
What is it?
A real-time, single, uniform view of data regardless of source
from across an organization giving a consistent context for the
use of data everywhere within the organization
Data stays where it is – this is not “rip and replace” but “leave
and layer”. Integration to data is read & write, data is loosely
coupled
What does it give you?
A standards based, reusable single view of data available as a
service
Better, more complete information for your business processes
for customer service, compliance, up-sell/cross-sell etc
More intelligent decision making for key stakeholders
Reduced complexity of data access, transformation,
aggregation and integration behind a standard data service
layer
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17. Key Features: On-Premise and the Cloud
BPM in the cloud is particularly suitable for:
Outsourcing, BPO and systems integrators
Combining the best of SaaS with existing legacy
Flexible charging models – e.g. subscriptions
What is it?
Enterprise wide BPM in the cloud, on-premise or a hybrid mix of
both
The Interstage platform can run in the public cloud, the private
cloud, on-premise or hosted by a delivery partner. It is exactly the
same platform.
What does it give you?
Business processes spanning the people, applications and services
regardless of where they are. A business process could orchestrate
SAP, Siebel, Salesforce, Google, Azure etc
Choice of using the cloud, not using the cloud, moving to the cloud
when it makes business sense
The best of both worlds – make use of innovative SaaS applications
together with traditional applications and existing legacy
The option of being able to run your business processes as a
service (BPaaS) but retain control of your differentiation and
innovation
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18. Business processes typically span
many systems, business units and the
extended enterprise
ERP‟s are usually not accessible
outside the corporate network
BOP supports the extended enterprise
by connecting
suppliers, agents, customers and
external experts to the SAP system
with tailored fit-for-purpose business
solutions
Customers have taken this approach
to quickly build applications and
portals, both on the supply, as well as
the demand-side, focusing on „ease of
use‟ and speed of collaboration
Case Study 1: Extending The Enterprise
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19. Build flexible, mobile, process-driven
applications on top of SAP and other
packaged applications such as CRM
and HR solutions
Involve internal stakeholders who do not
use SAP for their day-to-day jobs in
approval processes and collaboration
Cross organizational boundaries
Create more mission critical applications
Eg CRM applications that are tailor made
and tie multiple systems and data sources
together
Case Study 2: Quickly Build New Applications / Functionality
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20. Unlock application and information silos
Gain visibility, control, speed of
change, innovation and flexibility
Reduce costs, time-to-market, inefficiency
and expensive ERP customizations
Integrate, orchestrate and leverage a
diversified SAP and IT landscape by bridging
the gap between different systems
Maximize business potential of the current
and future IT infrastructure
Develop robust and flexible
integrations, leveraging the speed of
development and re-use capabilities of the
BOP
Case Study 3: Connect ERP To Business Critical Applications
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21. Q&A
For more information visit us at
http://www.fujitsu.com/interstage
or email at
interstage@us.fujitsu.com
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Our mission is to improve business operations with world-class process-oriented software that allows customers to change and innovate and get to market much more quickly. And we do this by achieving significantly shorter development cycles, with significantly lower costs.
Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
ERP Agility is a Fujitsu software solution category that uses Interstage Business Operations Platform (BOP) in combination with ERP systems to integrate, customize, and extend the reach and value of your ERP investments. It has a number of different use cases that we will discuss later, but all of them are grouped under the solution name ERP Agility.
This view of the technology stack provides a bit more detail on the elements of Interstage BOP: At the SOA layer, it includes Master Data Management for data governance and quality At the business process layer, it includes capabilities for Case Management of unstructured and dynamic processes, as well as Rules Management and Business Activity Monitoring And the Composite Application Framework includes tooling to address user interface and task development and managementAdditional technical detail from Jaideep:SOA Grid aka Smart Services Grid - This is the platform that ensures that all of the services provided by and/or deployed in BOP are accessible and available for usage at all times. It leverages the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for actually routing the messages/requests to and from the various components within the BOP. The SOA Grid makes available the deployed web services for building applications as well as allows management of the services. The "smartness" in the grid comes from its knowledge of - what and where all the application connectors are in BOP- leverage the load balancing logic of the various "nodes" within the BOP- automatic detection of failed nodes and rerouting their requests- leverage MDM for automatic reconciliation and synchronization of shared data Collaborative Workspace - Collaborative Workspace (CWS) enables a “Compose and Assemble” paradigm by bringing together all the necessary logic into a single solution development environment. It simplifies the development and deployment of Web Services using a model driven approach.It provides seamless collaboration between business experts and IT users in a unified working environment to build, test, and package up the applications for deployment. Master Data ManagementThe MDM component of BOP provides the single consolidated view of the master data ensuring that the source from which this data was derived is a trusted and reliable source. It also ensures that the processes that rely on this data continue to work efficiently and effectively even in the wake of changes to the underlying data. MDM facilitates management of the complete lifecycle of the shared data within BOP as well as implement strong governance to ensure appropriate access to the data. It supports the creation of the common representation of the data that can be shared across multiple systems as well as the availability of reusable services to access and manipulate this data. Business Services - A Business Service is a business-level building block representing a specific business function that is aligned with an end user's view of the business and capabilities it provides. It encapsulates processes and Web Services whose behavior is adapted at run-time, based on the business context and service request of the user or system making that request. Business Services help decouple or abstract business logic from multiple locations into a centralized location, so that changes—and their impact—can be more easily understood and executed.
What makes Interstage BOP different?First, the product is a unified, single, platform for integration, business process management, and composite application development. This is our drumbeat.Our Collaborative Workspace allows IT and the business side to collaborate in process initiatives – this is a big advantage.In our BPM layer, we support any form of workflow – including Case Management and instances of hybrid processes.We are truly multi-tenant, truly scalable. And Interstage BOP can be deployed over the Cloud in just a few hours, providing a rapid application development environment. Interstage BOP has been benchmark tested in very high-volume transaction processing environments like commercial banking and has performed flawlessly.Finally, our architecture is highly secure and available, and comforms to all industry standards for an open platform.
As markets change, information for making decisions needs to change. Companies need to combine existing data and system assets in new ways with new systems and capabilities, and they need to do it quickly and easily.Interstage BOP lets you leverage existing and new assets in exciting, innovative ways. At its Composite Application Framework layer, business users are enabled to self-assemble business mash-ups using all manner of information, whether sourced internally or externally. Mix and match structured data from an internal system like ERP with external data, say, from Google Maps. It all provides a rich way of delivering new, actionable information to business consumers and providing renewed value to existing IT investments.
Now, to drill down a bit more into the different capabilities of Interstage BOP, let’s start with Dynamic Case Management.Not every process in a business setting are completely structured and repeatable. Some are, and these are good targets for traditional business process management. Others, however, involve knowledge work, judgment, and collaboration; these processes cannot be reliably modeled in advance. To streamline these processes types, case management is required.Interstage BOP includes Case Management to address business processes like claims processing, customer service, legal, and healthcare scenarios that involve flexible decision-making and process changes, some of them ad hoc.So in addition to its core capabilities to support traditional BPM automation, Interstage BOP also can handle this new, emerging form of process automation and improvement.
Over time, many businesses make organic and significant investments in their IT infrastructure. Adding to this complexity, different corporate locations may invest in different systems, and at the corporate level, merger and acquisition activities may take place regularly. What can result is a massive investment in IT systems that don’t talk to each other.Interstage BOP addresses this with its enterprise-scale Service-Oriented Architecture. The platform includes a SOA grid to deliver connectivity, advanced integration, and business services to help increase the value of existing IT investments.This is essential to initiatives such as legacy system modernization, extensions to ERP systems, and orchestrating new processes across legacy or hybrid applications. This means you have the means to adapt rapidly to changing business needs while saving the costs of custom application developmentand abandoning your exiting infrastructure.
Master Data Management in BOP ensures data quality, consistency, and governance in your business operations. It reduces the complexity of data access and aggregation, and by improving data quality, Master Data Management provides better, more complete information for your key business processes, such as customer service, cross-selling and up-selling initiatives.
Interstage BOP is available to you as on-premise, private cloud, public cloud, or as a hybrid solution. You get choice – use the cloud, don’t use the cloud, or move to the cloud when it makes business sense. Interstage BOP gives you the best of all worlds – make use of innovative cloud applications or application extensions in combination with traditional, secured behind the firewall applications and legacy systems.
Siemens, Tata Motors, and Wipro are three large enterprises that have deployed Business Operations Platform to extend the business logic and data in their SAP systems to trading partners and customers – doing it quickly, flexibly, and cost-effectively. They use BOP as the layer for building solutions for their extended enterprises.
Over time, the data that populates your ERP systems grows into a valuable information store that holds potential value for a broader audience within your enterprise than just your ERP users. Embraer, Li-Ning, and Nongfu Spring are three companies that have used BOP to build flexible, mobile, and process-driven applications on top of SAP, thereby disseminating valuable information and functionality to new users within the enterprise.
Schneider Electric, Tata Steel, and Essar use BOP to integrate diversified IT environments that include SAP. Like many organizations, they have a multitude of disparate systems that support their businesses, and they understand the leverage they can gain through better information sharing – across systems. They use BOP to effect these integrations because it is a much more flexible, easy-to-use, and cost-effective alternative to customizing SAP using its native development tools.