Fitman webinar 2015 06 Collaborative Business Process Management (CBPM)

Welcome to theFITMAN Specific Enabler Webinar on

Collaborative Business Process Management16th June 2015

Mauro Isaja – mauro.isaja@eng.itJoaquin Iranzo – joaquin.iranzo@atos.net

Introduction

• The FITMAN "Collaborative Business Process Management" Specific Enabler (CBPM) is a platform for the semantically-enhanced design and execution of Business Processes in complex or distributed organizations

• Targeted at the Virtual Factory manufacturing domain or at Large Enterprises

• Entirely web-based: no software to be installed locally by users, access from anywhere

• Based on the “Light Semantic Composition” Generic Enabler from ATOS Spain (COMPEL)

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Feature highlights

• Model a business process by composing existing services within a graphical, standard based development environment

• Select existing web services from a catalogue to match process tasks, using semantics (i.e., annotations) in the scope of a reference ontology

• Bind process tasks to web services, to automate their execution at runtime

• Assign responsibility for human tasks to specific users and/or roles

• Run your business processes on the platform, interactwith human tasks through a web UI, monitor and manage your process instances

• Seamless integration with corporate IT environment

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Benefits

• The development of business process in a formal notation requires multi-disciplinary teams, to share the domain-specific and ICT knowledge required to implement them.

• CBPM simplifies this collaboration:

– Allows a clear separation of concerns

– Applies user profiling

– Provides user-friendly tools

– It is universally accessible

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Technologies

• Base software assets– Liferay Portal Server [www.liferay.com]

– Activiti BPM Platform [www.activiti.org]

– Sesame2 Ontology Server [www.openrdf.org]

– Jasig Central Authentication Service [www.jasig.org/cas]

• Leveraged open standards– Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0

[www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0]

– Resource Description Framework (RDF)

[www.w3.org/RDF]

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Architectural overview

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Web Portal

Federated SSO

Persistence Layer

COMPEL GECollaborationWeb Tools

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Semantic KBBPM DBWeb Portal DB

LDAP

Active Directory

Corporate Users

Portal Users

Provisioning

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• As a Virtual Machine image

– KVM version: deploy on any 64bit Linux system ftp://repo.nimbus-ware.com/fitman-bpm-qcow2.zip

– VirtualBox version: deploy on any Linux, Windows, MacOS system

ftp://repo.nimbus-ware.com/fitman-bpm-vdi.zip

• As a service (SaaS)

– Single, shared instance as an experimentation playground (coming soon)

Terms and conditions

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• Within the scope of the FI-PPP Programme– Free use of the software for members till the end

of the Programme

– FITMAN provides free support to members till the end of the Programme

• Out of FI-PPP Programme scope– All software assets are free and Open Source

– COMPEL is licensed by ATOS under GPL v3 terms

– Non-COMPEL components have various OS licensing terms, but GPL v3 still applies to the overall product

COMPEL GE Presentation

Multidisciplinary teams (gap)• Roles

• Business Analystsvs

• Service Integrators

• Disperse Knowledge• Domain specific business

processes and conceptualisations vs

• SOA-based technologies: WS*, WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, XML/XSD, JAX-WS APIs, etc

COMPEL Motivation

Technical limitations• Discoverability/Advertising

• Very limited uptake of IoS• Obsolete service registries (UDDI)

• Incorporating new trends in SoC/IoS: ROA, REST, Mashups, etc.

• BPM vs SOA composition languages• BPMN vs BPEL

• Standard graphical notation

• Technology and tooling complexity

COMPEL BPM limitations

Scaling to the Web of Services (IoS)Web 2.0 Crowd-sourcingAssisted (automated) BPM at design and run time

• Automating discovery:• Exact vs approximate

matchmaking• Automating work and data

flow• Dynamic runtime

• Late binding, re-binding, self* capabilities (healing, compensation, etc)

COMPEL Challenges

• COMPEL is an open and multiplatform solution to design business processes (BPMN, BPEL) by aggregation of SOA based services.

• Processes are designed by business analysts. The processes and their tasks are defined using their domain vocabulary (process semantics).

• For each task, Light Semantic Composition suggests the most matching services as far as description is concerned and the user makes his choice.

• The services are located in a centralisedrepository where providers register and describe them semantically

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COMPEL The solution

• Coarse-grain light semantics for

– Task description, Process description, requirements, preferences, context

• Domain ontology based annotations

• Exact and approximate dynamic discovery

• Semi-automatic late binding

• Automated data flow generation and executable BPMN generation

• Registry for process annotations and service descriptions

• Execution of the business process (through GUI & REST API)

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COMPEL The editor

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COMPEL GE Demo

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Q & A

Mauro Isaja – mauro.isaja@eng.itJoaquin Iranzo – joaquin.iranzo@atos.net

Thank you!

Mauro Isaja – mauro.isaja@eng.itJoaquin Iranzo – joaquin.iranzo@atos.net