System and method for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution

• US 20050080609A1
• Filed: 10/10/2003
• Published: 04/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bhaskaran, Kumar, Zhu, Jun, Huang, Ying, Nandi, Prabir, Tian, Zhong, Kumaran, Santhosh, Wang, Jian
• Granted Patent: US 7,890,309 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A system for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution includes an assembler which assembles a plurality of solution artifacts to form a platform independent solution template, a simulator which simulates an execution of a BPIM solution based on the platform independent solution template, and an analyzer for analyzing a performance of the BPIM solution.

Claims

1. A system for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution, comprising:

an assembler which assembles a plurality of solution artifacts to form a platform independent solution template;

a simulator which simulates an execution of a BPIM solution based on said platform independent solution template; and

an analyzer for analyzing a performance of said BPIM solution.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator simulates a quality of said BPIM solution using a component compatibility check.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator simulates a quality of said BPIM solution using potential conflict discovery and resolution.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator simulates a quality of said BPIM solution using business metrics results.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said assembler, simulator and analyzer comprise a common processor.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein said platform independent solution template comprises a composition model.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein said analyzer analyzes a performance of said BPIM solution during a generation of said BPIM solution.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein said analyzer analyzes a performance of individual BPIM solution components, a performance of said BPIM solution, and a performance bottleneck of said BPIM solution.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein said BPIM solution comprises a consistent BPIM solution.

10. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a consistency model which detects an inconsistency between component interfaces, underlying models and applicable policies for said BPIM solution.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein said consistency model provides a suggested resolution for said inconsistency.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein a result from said consistency model is fed back to said platform-independent solution template to generate a consistent BPIM solution, a result from said simulator is fed back to said platform independent solution template to generate a pre-tested BPIM solution, and a result from said analyzer is fed back to said platform independent solution template to generate an analyzed BPIM solution.

13. The system according to claim 10, wherein said consistency model, said simulator, and said analyzer operate based on a common data model within a BPIM solution development environment.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator pre-tests a BPIM solution in a simulated environment.

15. The system according to claim 1, wherein a simulation of said simulator and a performance analysis of said analyzer are platform-specific.

16. The system according to claim 1, wherein said platform independent solution template comprises a plurality of solution artifacts.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein said plurality of solution artifacts comprises one of a business object solution artifact, adaptive business object solution artifact, application microflow solution artifact, adapter solution artifact, process flow solution artifact and screenflow solution artifact.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein said platform independent solution template comprises links between said solution artifacts, said links comprising at least one of directLink and eventLink.

19. The system according to claim 16, wherein said plurality of solution artifacts comprises a service description and interface descriptions.

20. The system according to claim 1, wherein said platform independent solution template comprises a common service definition.

21. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator generates a simulation for a solution artifact based on a model of said solution artifact.

22. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator generates a simulation for solution execution based on a common service policy.

23. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator and analyzer implement said platform independent solution template using an extensible mark-up language (XML) schema.

24. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a computer network for deploying said BPIM solution.

25. The system according to claim 24, wherein said computer network comprises one of a local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) and the Internet.

26. The system according to claim 1, wherein said assembler inputs said solution artifacts from a BPIM solution generator.

27. The system according to claim 1, wherein said platform independent solution template comprises at least one of an extensible mark-up language (XML) schema, and a unified modeling language (UML) profile.

28. A method of analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution, comprising:

assembling a plurality of solution artifacts to form a platform independent solution template;

simulating an execution of a BPIM solution based on said platform independent solution template; and

analyzing a performance of said BPIM solution.

29. A programmable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution, said method comprising:

assembling a plurality of solution artifacts to form a platform independent solution template;

simulating an execution of a BPIM solution based on said platform independent solution template; and

analyzing a performance of said BPIM solution.

30. A method for deploying computing infrastructure in which computer-readable code is integrated into a computing system, and combines with said computing system to perform a method for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution, said method for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution comprising:

assembling a plurality of solution artifacts to form a platform independent solution template;

simulating an execution of a BPIM solution based on said platform independent solution template; and

analyzing a performance of said BPIM solution.