scholarly journals SOA REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE BLUEPRINT

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
. Edison ◽  
Virginia Tulenan ◽  
Ford Lumban Gaol
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Business Process Analysis ◽  
Service Oriented

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a framework for integrating business processes and supporting IT infrastructure as secure, standardized components services that can be reused and combined to address changing business priorities. Services are the building blocks of SOA and new applications can be constructed through consuming these services and orchestrating services within a business process. In SOA, services is map to the business functions that are identified during business process analysis. Upon a successful implementation of SOA, the enterprise gain benefit by reducing development time, utilizing flexibility and responsive application structure, and following dynamic connectivity of application logics between business partners. This paper presents SOA reference architecture blueprint as the building blocks of SOA which is services, service components and flows that together support enterprise business processes and the business goals. Layanan Berorientasi Arsitektur (SOA) merupakan framework untuk mengintegrasikan proses bisnis dan mendukung infrastruktur TI secara aman, layanan komponen standar yang dapat digunakan kembali dan dikombinasikan untuk mengatasi perubahan prioritas bisnis. Layanan merupakan blok bangunan SOA, di mana aplikasi baru dapat dibangun melalui konsumsi layanan ini dan merancang layanan dalam proses bisnis. Dalam SOA, layanan dipetakan ke fungsi bisnis yang diidentifikasi selama analisis proses bisnis. Setelah keberhasilan implementasi SOA, perusahaan memperoleh keuntungan diantaranya mengurangi waktu pengembangan, memanfaatkan fleksibilitas dan struktur aplikasi responsif, dan mengikuti konektivitas dinamis dari logika aplikasi antara mitra bisnis. Paper ini menyajikan cetak biru referensi arsitektur SOA sebagai blok bangunan SOA yang merupakan komponen pelayanan jasa, dan arus yang bersama-sama mendukung proses bisnis perusahaan dan tujuan bisnis.

scholarly journals PLANNING AND DESIGN SOA ARCHITECTURE BLUEPRINT

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Tulenan
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Business Process Analysis ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
New Applications

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a framework for integrating business processes and supporting IT infrastructure as secure, standardized components-services-that can be reused and combined to address changing business priorities. Services are the building blocks of SOA and new applications can be constructed through consuming these services and orchestrating services within a business process. In SOA, services map to the business functions that are identified during business process analysis. Upon a successful implementation of SOA, the enterprise gain benefit by reducing development time, utilizing flexible and responsive application structure, and following dynamic connectivity of application logics between business partners. This paper presents SOA reference architecture blueprint as the building blocks of SOA which is services, service components and flows that together support enterprise business processes and the business goals.Keywords: Service Oriented Architecture, SOA Reference Architecture

scholarly journals Design of Decision Service Using Cause-and-Effect Business Process Analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Olga Levina
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Process Variations ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Business Process Analysis ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Design of Decision Service Using Cause-and-Effect Business Process AnalysisBusiness processes are executed according to a specific business logic that can be formulated as business rules. Often decisions are taken during the course of the process to fulfill conditions or exceptions leading to process variations. These decisions are meant to support business process operations and are composed of a set of business rules, additionally being based on a solid process relevant knowledge and know-how. These processes are here referred to as decision knowledge intensive processes. In this paper the question of how business rules and consequently operational decisions can be derived from the business process model is addressed. The therefore necessary business process analysis and decision identification are performed using the cause-and-effect approach. Service-oriented implementation of the found decisions is suggested and outlined.

Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures for E-Business

2010 ◽  
pp. 952-962
Author(s):  
Olga Levina ◽  
Vladimir Stantchev
Keyword(s):  
Distributed System ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Application Systems ◽  
Event Driven ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Definition Of

E-Business research and practice can be situated on following multiple levels: applications, technological issues, support and implementation (Ngai and Wat 2002). Here we consider technological components for realizing business processes and discuss their foundation architecture for technological enabling. The article provides an introduction to the terms, techniques and realization issues for eventdriven and service-oriented architectures. We begin with a definition of terms and propose a reference architecture for an event-driven service-oriented architecture (EDSOA). Possible applications in the area of E-Business and solution guidelines are considered in the second part of the article. Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) have gained momentum since their introduction in the last years. Seen as an approach to integrate heterogeneous applications within an enterprise architecture they are also used to design flexible and adaptable business processes. An SOA is designed as a distributed system architecture providing a good integration possibility of already existing application systems. Furthermore, SOA is mostly suitable for complex and large system landscapes.

scholarly journals Smart Process Optimization and Adaptive Execution with Semantic Services in Cloud Manufacturing ‡

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Mazzola ◽  
Philipp Waibel ◽  
Patrick Kaphanke ◽  
Matthias Klusch
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Time Service ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Service Oriented

A new requirement for the manufacturing companies in Industry 4.0 is to be flexible with respect to changes in demands, requiring them to react rapidly and efficiently on the production capacities. Together with the trend to use Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), this requirement induces a need for agile collaboration among supply chain partners, but also between different divisions or branches of the same company. In order to address this collaboration challenge, we~propose a novel pragmatic approach for the process analysis, implementation and execution. This~is achieved through sets of semantic annotations of business process models encoded into BPMN 2.0 extensions. Building blocks for such manufacturing processes are the individual available services, which are also semantically annotated according to the Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) principles and stored into a common marketplace. The optimization of such manufacturing processes combines pattern-based semantic composition of services with their non-functional aspects. This is achieved by means of Quality-of-Service (QoS)-based Constraint Optimization Problem (COP) solving, resulting in an automatic implementation of service-based manufacturing processes. The produced solution is mapped back to the BPMN 2.0 standard formalism by means of the introduced extension elements, fully detailing the enactable optimal process service plan produced. This approach allows enacting a process instance, using just-in-time service leasing, allocation of resources and dynamic replanning in the case of failures. This proposition provides the best compromise between external visibility, control and flexibility. In this way, it provides an optimal approach for business process models' implementation, with a full service-oriented taste, by implementing user-defined QoS metrics, just-in-time execution and basic dynamic repairing capabilities. This paper presents the described approach and the technical architecture and depicts one initial industrial application in the manufacturing domain of aluminum forging for bicycle hull body forming, where the advantages stemming from the main capabilities of this approach are sketched.

scholarly journals No Longer Out of Sight, No Longer Out of Mind? How Organizations Engage with Process Mining-Induced Transparency to Achieve Increased Process Awareness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Eggers ◽  
Andreas Hein ◽  
Markus Böhm ◽  
Helmut Krcmar
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Business Process Analysis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Shared Awareness ◽  
Induced Transparency

AbstractIn recent years, process mining has emerged as the leading big data technology for business process analysis. By extracting knowledge from event logs in information systems, process mining provides unprecedented transparency of business processes while being independent of the source system. However, despite its practical relevance, there is still a limited understanding of how organizations act upon the pervasive transparency created by process mining and how they leverage it to benefit from increased process awareness. Addressing this gap, this study conducts a multiple case study to explore how four organizations achieved increased process awareness by using process mining. Drawing on data from 24 semi-structured interviews and archival sources, this study reveals seven sociotechnical mechanisms based on process mining that enable organizations to create either standardized or shared awareness of sub-processes, end-to-end processes, and the firm’s process landscape. Thereby, this study contributes to research on business process management by revealing how process mining facilitates mechanisms that serve as a new, data-driven way of creating process awareness. In addition, the findings indicate that these mechanisms are influenced by the governance approach chosen to conduct process mining, i.e., a top-down or bottom-up driven implementation approach. Last, this study also points to the importance of balancing the social complications of increased process transparency and awareness. These results serve as a valuable starting point for practitioners to reflect on measures to increase organizational process awareness through process mining.

Behavioral Attestation for Web Services Based Business Processes

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoom Alam ◽  
Mohammad Nauman ◽  
Xinwen Zhang ◽  
Tamleek Ali ◽  
Patrick C. K. Hung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Trust Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Trusted Computing ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Dynamic Composition ◽  
Open Set ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Root Of Trust

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural paradigm that enables dynamic composition of heterogeneous, independent, multi-vendor business services. A prerequisite for such inter-organizational workflows is the establishment of trustworthiness, which is mostly achieved through non-technical measures, such as legislation, and/or social consent that businesses or organizations pledge themselves to adhere. A business process can only be trustworthy if the behavior of all services in it is trustworthy. Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has defined an open set of specifications for the establishment of trustworthiness through a hardware root-of-trust. This paper has three objectives: firstly, the behavior of individual services in a business process is formally specified. Secondly, to overcome the inherent weaknesses of trust management through software alone, a hardware root of-trust devised by the TCG, is used for the measurement of the behavior of individual services in a business process. Finally, a verification mechanism is detailed through which the trustworthiness of a business process can be verified.

Business Process Modeling with Services

2013 ◽  
pp. 177-200
Author(s):  
Youcef Baghdadi ◽  
Naoufel Kraiem
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Engineering ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Legacy Systems ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Business Functions ◽  
Maintenance Process

Reverse engineering techniques have become very important within the maintenance process providing several benefits. They retrieve abstract representations that not only facilitate the comprehension of legacy systems but also refactor these representations. Business process archaeology has emerged as a set of techniques and tools to recover business processes from source code and to preserve the existing business functions and rules buried in legacy source code. This chapter presents a reverse engineering process and a tool to retrieve services from running databases. These services are further reused in composing business processes with respect to Service-Oriented Architecture, a new architectural style that promotes agility.

Behavioral Attestation for Web Services Based Business Processes

2012 ◽  
pp. 308-329
Author(s):  
Masoom Alam ◽  
Mohammad Nauman ◽  
Xinwen Zhang ◽  
Tamleek Ali ◽  
Patrick Hung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Trust Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Trusted Computing ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Dynamic Composition ◽  
Open Set ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Root Of Trust

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural paradigm that enables dynamic composition of heterogeneous, independent, multi-vendor business services. A prerequisite for such inter-organizational workflows is the establishment of trustworthiness, which is mostly achieved through non-technical measures, such as legislation, and/or social consent that businesses or organizations pledge themselves to adhere. A business process can only be trustworthy if the behavior of all services in it is trustworthy. Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has defined an open set of specifications for the establishment of trustworthiness through a hardware root-of-trust. This paper has three objectives: firstly, the behavior of individual services in a business process is formally specified. Secondly, to overcome the inherent weaknesses of trust management through software alone, a hardware root of-trust devised by the TCG, is used for the measurement of the behavior of individual services in a business process. Finally, a verification mechanism is detailed through which the trustworthiness of a business process can be verified.

The problem of effective deployment architecture in SOA

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (9/2019) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Nowicki ◽  
Adrian Woźniak
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Process Step ◽  
System Environment ◽  
Optimization Task ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Runtime Environments

Service Oriented Architecture is popular in many organizations. In particular, it has already deeply rooted in large corporations that need to automate entire business processes and implement them in many systems. It has a unique feature that allows unambiguously indicate service that is to realise business process step. That indication is possible to show directly in BPMN diagram. Thus, it is possible to trace which server has used resources to implement the service and how much of those resources were needed. Therefore, it is possible to build an optimization task that, with limited and unreliable resources, will determine such allocation of components to servers and such an algorithm for assigning tasks to them, so that the processes will work as well as possible. The article presents a model of such an optimization task. This model consists of four layers. The Organization Layer describes the system environment – the types and frequency of initiating business process instances. The Integration Layer describes the business processes and indicates the services that should be performed at every step. The Component Layer describes component characteristics and what services they provide. In Server Layer both: server characteristics and runtime environments necessary for the component to run are described. Finally, the optimization task and evaluation criteria are formulated.

A Novel Framework of Using Petri Net to Timed Service Business Process Modeling

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (04) ◽  
pp. 633-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoxian Yang ◽  
Tao Yu ◽  
Huahu Xu
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Petri Net ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Distributed Services ◽  
Service Business ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Time Requirements

In open and changeful Internet, the enterprise business process needs to be organized or restructured dynamically in order to adapt to environment changes and business logic updates. The solution of Web service and service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a promising approach. The business processes working as a temporary workflow can be composed by distributed services. However, the cross-organizational service feature of business process requires considering not only the functional requirements but also the timed constraints. The timed property plays an important role in service interactions between business processes, such as timed activity, timeout and timed deadlock. Thus, if time requirements cannot be guaranteed, the new created business process will not be acceptable. In this paper, it proposes a framework of using Petri Net to model timed service business process. First, it defines the behavior model of service business process and gives process composition patterns for different structural forms. Second, service model is extended with time specifications, describing timed constraints among business activity interactions. Third, to support further verifications, it introduces a method for the automatic timed properties generation in the form of temporal logic formulae. Our framework gives a reference in practice to formalize service business process into timed service model.

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