Slide 1 Enabling SOA Implementation with an Integrated Process & Technology Framework George Brown, Program Manager IT Research, Intel Corporation Michael.

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Enabling SOA ImplementationEnabling SOA Implementationwith an Integrated Process & Technology with an Integrated Process & Technology

FrameworkFramework

George Brown, Program ManagerIT Research, Intel CorporationMichael Goul, ProfessorArizona State UniversityJason Nichols, Mark Keith, Haluk DemirkanArizona State University

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Operational Definition of Value Chain

Value Chain = A network of highly structured organizational processes and partners to create, produce, and deliver a product or service satisfying customer and market demands.

Companies are producing a constantly changing mix of increasingly complex products, while global competition demands ever shorter cycle times and shorter product life cycles. Market conditions and requirements change every day. This results in frequent new product introductions and constant adjustment of the value proposition of all products in the portfolio.

Value Chain responsiveness becomes a primary differentiator.

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Distributors & Resellers

Increased Competition

Partner NetworkGetting More

Complex

Accelerated Quoting

DistributedProduct Design

Multiple Sales & Support

Channels

Reducedtime-to-market

Shorter ProductLife Cycles

Outsourced manufacturing &

fragmented inventory

Support / Retention

Customized Solutions & Consignment

Contractors

Component Suppliers

OEMs

AcceleratedTechnology

Advancement

Focus Shiftingto End

Customers

Globalization

PoliticalIntegration/

Disintegration

Regulationand Activism

NaturalResource

Availability

WildcardsLow Probability/

High Impact

Flexibility and agility to respond to changing

business needs and to harness resources across

global value chain partners

Challenges

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The Pressing Need

• Companies are producing a constantly changing mix of increasingly complex products, while global competition demands ever shorter cycle times and shorter product life cycles

• Market conditions and requirements change every day. This results in constant adjustment of the value chains of all products in the portfolio

Value chain responsiveness becomes a primary differentiator

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VCOR and FERA are the Key Parts of the Integrated Process and Technology Framework

BPM (business process modeling):- reference models (VCOR)

- benchmarking and requirements analysis- simulation and use case analysis

Conceptual Architecture:- information model

- deployment framework (FERA)- integration modes

• Business is represented by business processes defined in terms of value chain reference models

• An architectural representation that allows mapping collaborative process models to components of the conceptual architecture and to required resources

Two independent but reconciled process representations that facilitate the mapping of business process to core collaboration capabilities for accurate, fast and flexible implementations of the process models in a federation

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Tier 1:

Unified and broadly adopted, open standard business process framework for value chain management and implementation. The Value Chain Operations Reference-model (VCOR) is the cornerstone model of the Value Chain Group

Supports value chain management for multiple centers

of excellence

www.value-chain.org

Defines use cases and collaborative process patterns for FERA mapping

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Macro Processes

Level 1

Process Classifications

Level 2

Process Groupings

Level 3

Metrics Best Practices

Input / Output

Technologies

VCOR Database Structure

Configurations

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Phases

Milestones

Many to One

Marco Processes

Stage-Gate Process Structure

Process Classifications

Deliverables

Many to One

Input / OutputMany to Many Many to Many

Process Groupings

Many to One

Many to One

Metric

Best Practice

Technology

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Is being added to the VCOR database schema

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The LNS Use caseThis use case will focus on improving productivity, on-time delivery,

cycle times, and delivery SLA’s within a dynamic supply network

The Value Chain is taken from the PD4SC project as an example of supporting LNS for a configurable product: a Gas grill

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Level 3 Flow in VCOR

RFQResponse

Process Level 3: Retail Store Order Process

WarehouseWarehouse

Retailer- Lead -

Retailer- Lead -

RetailStore

RetailStore

Supplier(s)Supplier(s)

Carrier(s)Carrier(s)

PurchaseOrder

Load Planning Pick, Pack, & ShipOrder Promise

InventoryAvailability

Lookup

F7Verify Receipt

FM5Manage Assets

PF4Create Plan

F2Enter Order

B4Place Order

ForecastUpdateRequest

ForecastUpdate

SoftAllocation

B1Issue RFQ / RFP

F3Plan Load

SoftAllocation

TransportationRouting

F6Fill Order

LoadTender

F1Process Inquiry

B4Place Order

B2Evaluate Proposal

AcceptedProposal

F4Enter Order

PurchaseOrder

OrderConfirmation

OrderConfirmation

PlannedLoads

F6Ship Order

PickedOrder

DeliveredGoods

ProofOf

Delivery

F9Invoice

B5Receive Order

ShipManifest

ProofOf

Delivery

B8Authorize Payment

Invoice

InvoicePayment

Bill of Lading

FM5Manage Assets

InventoryAdjustment

FM4Manage Financials

F7Ship Order

Order Shipment

FM7Manage Network

Network Plan

Versioning

Selectivity

Time Constrained

Order Trigger

Ship Documents

Bill of Lading

ASN

ProofOf

Delivery

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Tier 2:

An architectural framework that defines principles and provides guidelines for implementing service-oriented solutions for essential value chain collaborations

Federation Server

Gateway

Collaborative Services

Event Management

Agent Framework

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Federation Server

Gateway

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Event Management

Agent Framework

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Federation Server

Gateway

Collaborative Services

Event Management

Agent Framework

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federatedadministrators

federatedsystems

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Enables accurate, fast and flexible

implementations of in SOA environment

ebSOA

Is the basis for new standards for SOA that drive convergence

Thanks to Collaborative Product Development Associates and ebXMLsoft for their contribution to this research.

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Collaborative Semantics

• Business semantics– Using terminology applicable to describing process

flows in practice

– Has to be widely applicable (sequential transactions as well as iterative decision based flows)

• Technology semantics– Complete set of instructions for run-time execution

– Component functions and interfaces definition

• ebSOA IM and ebSOA semantics is a FERA based standard proposal to OASIS

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FERA IM in BPM Meta-schema

Automating Generation of CP

A1 A2

A3 D1 A4

E2

E3

E1

process definition documentsCPID, CPP, CPA, …

Federation Server Solution for deployment

BPM model with FERA content, context and associations

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Mapping BP Requirements to the SOI

Service-Oriented Infrastructure(Server, Client,

Network, Storage, Sensors, etc)

Service-Oriented Business and

Applications as Services

(ERP, CRM, Collaboration, Biz Process, Workflow

Reporting, etc)

Msg Service

Federated Enterprise

(Global Business Collaboration , Cross-

Domain Assertion Mapping, etc)

Composite Systems

(Contractual Coarse Grain elements, IMS, SOI artifact utilization, Fine Grain Services)

Service-Oriented Application

and InfrastructureManagement

(Security, SLA, Workload, CMDB, Policy Mgmt, etc)

Shared Services Management and Security

Standards-based Connectivity

Shared Application and Business Services

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Model for Mapping SOA to SOIContext-awareness and Ontology Replenishment

SOA

SOI

Mapping Engine

Business Process

Business Process

Business Process

Service Service Service Service Service

Resource

Resource

Resource Resource

Resource

Resource

Resource

Resource

Resource

Service CharacteristicsOntology

Process Pattern Ontology

Context Agent

Examines

Replenishes

SOI

SOA

Historical Performance Repository

Maps to

Uses

Uses

Business Process

Business Process

Generic Process Pattern

Generic Process Pattern

Context AgentExamines Replenishes

Context Agent

Examines

Produces

Uses