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Mauro Isaja (ENGINEERING) Jesus Benedicto (ATOS)
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Welcome to theFITMAN Specific Enabler Webinar on
Collaborative Business Process Management3rd December 2013
Mauro Isaja –[email protected] Benedicto – [email protected]
Introduction• The FITMAN "Collaborative Business Process Management" Specific Enabler (FITMAN‐BPM) is a platform for the semantically‐enhanced design and execution of Business Processes in complex or distributed organizations
• Targeted at the Virtual Factorymanufacturing 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 3
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.
• FITMAN‐BPM 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
Wiki
Forum
Doc Mgm
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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– VirtualBox version: deploy on any Linux, Windows, MacOS system
• As a service (SaaS) – Single, shared instance as an experimentation playground ‐ TBD
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
