Presentation I made at the Business Process & Case Management Summit 2015

1. Digital Enterprise Graph
powering Trisotech Digital Enterprise Suite
Where strategies come to life!
Denis Gagné
Chair BPSWG at WfMC
XPDL Co-Editor at WfMC
Chair BPMN MIWG at OMG
BPMN 2.1 RTF Member at OMG
CMMN 1.1 RTF Member at OMG
DMN 1.1 RTF Member at OMG

2. Mobile Cloud Social IoT
Big Data &
Analytics
Semantic
Technology
Customer Centricity
Knowledge Centricity
Process Centricity
Innovation Centricity
The Digital Enterprise

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Velocity
Variety
How to integrate and translate all this data into relevant knowledge

4. Business Executives
LOB Managers
Enterprise Architects
Business Architects
Process Analysts
Business Analysts
Stakeholders
perspectives

5. Business
Executives
 Create plans
 Outline strategies, tactics and goals
 Assign responsibilities
Growth

6. Enterprise
Architects
 Document the conceptual blueprint
of the organization
 Structure enterprise capabilities,
information and technological
infrastructures
Value Creation

7. Business
Architects
 Ensure effectiveness in realising
the transformation and innovation
 Promote a common understanding
 Ensure alignment between
business model and operating
model
Alignment

8. Process
Analysts
 Create process and case
models for documentation and
guidance or for automation
 Analyse how things are done
 Reduce non-value efforts
Efficiency

9. Terminology
Methodology
Tools
Standards
Current standards only allow formal structured exchanges within a particular group

10. In Technology and in Business
“The only thing that is
constant is change”
― Heraclitus

11. Business wants the
benefits of a good
architecture not the
blueprint itself
Enterprise
Architects
Business
Architects
Architecture is a
mean to an end….
not an end of its own

12. Principle Based
Simple, direct statements to
define how things ought to be
and form the basis for making
future decisions
Pragmatic
Just in time and just enough
architecture
The need for
emergent
Enterprise
Architecture

13. To provide a bird’s eye view
To provide insight into
interrelationship and structure
To provide a common
understanding of how business
processes align with the exiting
enterprise
The need for
a
“Blueprint”

14. and more on
business outcomes
Enterprise
Architects
Business
Architects
Architects need to
focus less on
compliance issues

15. From inefficient hierarchies to
self-organizing structure

16. not a set of neatly aligned tables or
strict taxonomies
Complex relationships
and interconnections
The Real World

17. Simple yet powerful node-links
structures
Loose coupling enables agile
continuous evolution
Provides meaningful connections
of business entities
Graphs

18. Social Graph Knowledge Graph Office Graph
Digital Enterprise Graph

19. What is the Digital Enterprise Graph
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20. Global Unified Business Context
Semantical layer powering the intelligence fabric
Agility Innovation Transformation

21. Content and models across the Digital Enterprise are populating the
Digital Enterprise Graph
Frameworks
EA & BA
Tools
BA Tools Ontologies
Accelerators Accelerators Accelerators
Meaningful interconnection of all business artifacts from different application sources

22. FASTER
Accelerators
Frameworks
• APQC
• Panorama360
Architectures
• Casewise
• NoMagic
• SAPPowerDesigner
• SparxEA
Ontologies
• FIBO
• …
ProcessMining
• Fluxicon

23. Trisotech Digital Enterprise Graph
Moving Data Science in the hands of
business users
As the volume velocity and variety of
captured data explodes, uncovering hidden
relationships and connections through
graph analytics will enable breakthroughs in
realizing value from big data.

24. Trisotech Digital Enterprise Graph

25. Trisotech Digital Enterprise Graph

26. Enabling coexistence of
Goal oriented planning
Lean Sigma Sigma Improvement
Process and Case Management coordination
Business Policies and Decision Specification
Responsibility and Accountability Management
Agent based execution

27. Impact Analysis
• Where used
• Not only of Systems but Goals, Actors,
Activities, Artifacts and Events

28. Alignment
• Between Strategy and Execution
• With desired Architecture
• With reference Frameworks

29. Responsibility Analysis
• Perceived vs Existing

30. Power of Digital Enterprise Graph
Provides a global unified Business Context that enables
Agility, Innovation and Transformation
Can be:
Visualized (Serendipity)
Reasoned over
Explored for patterns
Queried
Traversed (Search)
Analyzed (Mining)
Machine Learning

31. Technical Benefits
Single scheme that ease querying
Global identifiers that facilitate integration
Graph approach that ease extensibility
Formal semantic that ensure dependability

32. Where strategies come to life!