Maintaining integrity within an adaptive value chain involving cross enterprise interactions
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1. A method for maintaining transactional integrity in a cross-enterprise business process management system, the method comprising the steps of:
- managing business transformation operations among cross-enterprise interactions to produce an adaptive value chain; and
, enforcing atomicity among said business transformation operations and said cross-enterprise interactions.
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Abstract
The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for maintaining transactional integrity within an adaptive value chain involving cross enterprise interactions. In the present invention, transactional integrity can be maintained in a cross-enterprise business process management system by managing business transformation operations among cross-enterprise interactions to produce an adaptive value chain. At the same time, atomicity can be enforced among the business transformation operations and the cross-enterprise interactions.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for maintaining transactional integrity in a cross-enterprise business process management system, the method comprising the steps of:
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managing business transformation operations among cross-enterprise interactions to produce an adaptive value chain; and
,enforcing atomicity among said business transformation operations and said cross-enterprise interactions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A cross-enterprise business process management system configured for maintaining transactional integrity comprising:
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a business process specification document processing engine configured to process business process specification documents, each of said documents describing a business process having a plurality of business protocols defined within said business process;
a deployment service coupled to said engine and programmed to generate and deploy service instances supporting corresponding ones of said business protocols defined in said business process;
a business transformation engine coupled to said business process specification document processing engine and configured to process transformation scripts for changing said business process by activating and deactivating selected ones of said business protocols in said business process according to registered event personas and business transformation operatives; and
,an extension to said business transformation engine, said extension comprising a business activity configured to coordinate business transformations to maintain transactional integrity among said business protocols and said business transformations. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A machine readable storage having stored thereon a computer program for maintaining transactional integrity in a cross-enterprise business process management system, the computer program comprising a routine set of instructions which when executed by a machine cause the machine to perform the steps of:
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managing business transformation operations among cross-enterprise interactions to produce an adaptive value chain; and
,enforcing atomicity among said business transformation operations and said cross-enterprise interactions. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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