Business
Modeling & Integration Task Force
The OMG BMI Domain Task Force is
devoted to the development of specifications
for business modeling. BMI specifications in
progress include Semantics of Business
Vocabulary and Business Rules, Production
Rule Representation, Organizational
Structure Metamodel, Business Process
Definition Metamodel, Business Process
Runtime Interface, Business Process Modeling
Notation, Business Motivation Model, and
Business Rule Management Model.
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Digital Business Ecosystem
The DBE is an integrated project of the
European Commission Framework Prrogramme 6.
that
invovles over 100 researchers from industry,
academia, and local government agencies in
five countries. DBE address the technical
middleware, natural language modeling, and
the sociological aspects of uptake of the
technology by prospective users, aiming to
establish a self-organizing infrastructure
for peer to peer transactions, catering
especially to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
An important part of DBE is natural language
modeling and registration by non-technical
SMEs so they can be discovered by other SMEs
and then engage in peer-to-peer
transactions. DBE has adopted SBVR for its
Business Modeling Language, and Hendryx's
Architecture of Business Modeling. Stan
Hendryx is a member of the DBE Strategic
Advisory Board.
Pierfranco Ferronato,
Soluta.net,
Chief Architect of DBE described DBE in this
way:
"The Digital
Business Ecosystem (DBE) project, as a
consequence of non irrelevant political and
sociological requirements, has to build an
Internet-wide open SOA environment where
business services can be modeled, published,
searched, and consumed (this is really an
over simplification of the its capability).
The "open" term in the specification has
meant for us also to try avoiding single
point of failure in the architecture. In SOA
the infrastructure relies on UDDI registries
that, even in version 3, are pretty static
(relation and delegation need to be defined
manually and endpoint addresses need to be
kept updated: what about mobile devices?).
The P2P in the DBE is related to the
implementation technology of the service
registry (implemented by SUN), which is also
able to deliver proxy objects to requestors.
Last but not least, the registry entries are
kept in sync with the availability of the service endpoints;
it's in the nature of a P2P re
implementation of Jini.
"This is not to say that the DBE is a P2P
based SOA project, rather there is some P2P
in the DBE which enables a more resilient
architecture. From the business modelling
and execution perspective the P2P is
completely transparent.
"It might be interesting to notice that
in the healthcare industry, when integrating
health record (HR) of patients the existence
of a centralized (although clustered)
registry is a major concern (NICTIZ, NHS,
EHRS, IHE). A couple of project are actually
moving to P2P based registry for such a SOA
projects (IBIS, Italy). The point IMO is
that SOA as it is actually, is clumsy when
scaling up to inter-enterprise environments
with a highly dynamic network of requestors
and providers. There is also an interesting
aspect related to Scale Free network."
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