Method and apparatus of model driven business solution monitoring and control

• US 20060106626A1
• Filed: 11/16/2004
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bhaskaran, Kumar, Chang, Hung-yang (Henry), Yu, Tao, Jeng, Jun-Jang (JJ)
• Application Number:
  US10/988,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20060106626A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A model-driven approach is used in Business Solution Monitoring and Control environment. The solution is first described by the high level abstract Platform Independent Model (PIM), which is independent from platform and implementation technologies. This PIM is presented as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) that is constructed by a series of models described in XML. Then the PIM is decomposed into several sub-processes that can be easily transformed into an executable representation, such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) or JAVA. BPEL is used as the example to show the model transformation.

Claims

1. A model-driven method for Business Solution Monitoring and Control environments comprising the steps of:

describing business-level monitoring and control requirements by a high level abstract model, which is independent from platform and implementation technologies;

presenting the high level abstract model as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) that is constructed by a series of models described as logical expressions; and

decomposing the high level abstract model into several sub-processes that can be easily transformed into an executable representation that is deployed at runtime.

2. The model-driven method recited in claim 1, wherein the series of models is described in a markup language.

3. The model-driven method recited in claim 2, wherein the markup language is XML (eXtensible Markup Language).

4. The model-driven method recited in claim 1, wherein the executable representation is BPEL (Business Process Execution Language).

5. The model-driven method recited in claim 1, wherein the executable representation is JAVA

6. An apparatus of business solution monitoring and control systems (BSMC) using model-integrated approach comprising:

one or more BSMC servers on which are described business-level monitoring and control requirements by a high level abstract model, which is independent from platform and implementation technologies;

means connected to said servers for presenting the high level abstract model as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) that is constructed by a series of models described as logical expressions; and

means in said servers for decomposing the high level abstract model into several sub-processes that can be easily transformed into an executable representation that is deployed at runtime

7. The apparatus recited in claim 6, further comprising:

an event bus providing asynchronous communication among a plurality of BSMC servers; and

source systems connected to said event bus and accessed by said BSMC servers.

8. A machine readable product containing computer code which implements the method comprising the steps of:

describing business-level monitoring and control requirements by a high level abstract model, which is independent from platform and implementation technologies;

presenting the high level abstract model as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) that is constructed by a series of models described in a programming language; and

decomposing the high level abstract model into several sub-processes that can be easily transformed into an executable representation that is deployed at runtime.

9. The machine readable product recited in claim 8, wherein the series of models is described in a markup language.

10. The machine readable product recited in claim 9, wherein the markup language is XML (extensible Markup Language).

11. The machine readable product recited in claim 8, wherein the executable representation is BPEL (Business Process Execution Language).

12. The machine readable product recited in claim 8, wherein the executable representation is JAVA.