BUSINESS PROCESS RECONSTRUCTION METHOD, AND ITS PROGRAM AND COMPUTER

• US 20080183479A1
• Filed: 09/07/2007
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Nobuyuki, Asaki, Katsutoshi, IWASHITA, MASARU
• Application Number:
  US11/851,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20080183479A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system managing computer communicable with an ESB execution computer has a storage portion for storing deploy information which has service names for designating services constructing a business process and service-deployed ESB execution computers in association with each other. And, it has a processing portion which, based on the deployment information, extracts a combination of plural successive services executable by the ESB execution computers different from the ESB execution computer, defines the extracted combination of the services as a new business process to be deployed on the ESB execution computer, and reconstructs a business process to be deployed on the ESB execution computer as a business process for calling a newly defined business process.

Claims

1. A business process reconstruction method by a computer which is used for a business process management system that a business process processing unit of a subsystem having a single or plurality of computers communicable with the business process processing unit collaborates with a business process processing unit of a different single or plurality of subsystems over a network to perform a processing of a business process and which has a storage portion for storing deployment information having information capable of specifying services constructing the business process in correspondence with a business process processing unit having the deployed services and business process definition information having the business process defined, the method comprising the steps of:

extracting from the business process definition information a combination of a plurality of successive services executable by a business process processing unit different from a business process processing unit belonging to the same subsystem as the computer on the basis of the deployment information, and

defining the extracted combination of the services as a new business process which is deployed on the different business process processing unit, and reconstructing the business process as a business process for calling the new business process.

2. The business process reconstruction method according to claim 1, wherein the storage portion stores a name given to the service as information for specifying the service.

3. The business process reconstruction method according to claim 1, the method further comprising the step of:

after reconstructing the business process, delivering the new business process to a business process processing unit which executes the new business process via the business process processing unit belonging to the same subsystem as the computer.

4. The business process reconstruction method according to claim 3, the method further comprising the step of:

after delivering the new business process, deploying the new business process to the business process processing unit to which the new business process is delivered.

5. The business process reconstruction method according to claim 1, the method further comprising the step of:

after reconstructing the business process, when a business process having the same function as the new business process is extracted by the business process processing unit which executes the new business process, changing the definition of the business process to use the extracted business process instead of the new business process.

6. The business process reconstruction method according to claim 1, the method further comprising the step of:

listing services, which are deployed on the business process processing unit belonging to the same subsystem as the computer, from the business process definition information based on the deployment information,

performing region partitioning of the business process with the listed services determined to have one region between them,

extracting from the business process definition information a combination of a plurality of successive services which are in the region and have the first service and last service therein executable by the same business process processing unit, and

defining the extracted combination of the services as a new business process which is deployed on the different business process processing unit.

7. The business process reconstruction method according to claim 1, the method further comprising the step of:

when the business process includes a variable declaration, notifying the new business process of a value of the variable.

8. The business process reconstruction method according to claim 1, the method further comprising the steps of:

storing information associating a pre-reconstruction business process with a post-reconstruction business process into the storage portion, and

converting the processing having designated the pre-reconstruction business process into the processing having designated the post-reconstruction business process according to the associating information.

9. The business process reconstruction method according to claim 8, wherein the processing having designated the pre-reconstruction business process includes at least one among a processing for deploying the business process to the business process processing unit, a processing for deleting the business process from the business process processing unit and a processing for changing the definition of the business process.

10. A computer, which is used for a business process management system that a business process processing unit of a subsystem having a single or plurality of computers communicable with the business process processing unit collaborates with a business process processing unit of a different single or plurality of subsystems over a network to perform a processing of a business process, comprising:

a storage portion which stores deployment information having information capable of specifying services constructing the business process in correspondence with a business process processing unit having the deployed services and business process definition information having the business process defined, and

a processing portion which processes information, wherein the processing portion;

extracts from the business process definition information a combination of a plurality of successive services executable by a business process processing unit different from a business process processing unit belonging to the same subsystem as the computer on the basis of the deployment information, and

defines the extracted combination of the services as a new business process which is deployed on the different business process processing unit, and reconstructs the business process as a business process for calling the new business process.

11. The computer according to claim 10, wherein the storage portion stores a name given to the service as information for specifying the service.

12. The computer according to claim 10, wherein the processing portion having reconstructed the business process delivers the new business process to a business process processing unit which executes the new business process via the business process processing unit belonging to the same subsystem as the computer.

13. The computer according to claim 12, wherein the processing portion having delivered the new business process deploys the new business process to the business process processing unit to which the new business process is delivered.

14. The computer according to claim 10, wherein the processing portion having reconstructed the business process changes the definition of the business process to use the extracted business process instead of the new business process when a business process having the same function as the new business process is extracted by the business process processing unit which executes the new business process.

15. The computer according to claim 10, wherein the processing portion:

lists services, which are deployed on the business process processing unit belonging to the same subsystem as the computer, from the business process definition information based on the deployment information,

performs region partitioning of the business process with the listed services determined to have one region between them,

extracts from the business process definition information a combination of a plurality of successive services which are in the region and have the first service and last service therein executable by the same business process processing unit, and

defines the extracted combination of the services as a new business process which is deployed on the different business process processing unit.

16. The computer according to claim 10, wherein when the business process includes a variable declaration, the processing portion notifies the new business process of a value of the variable.

17. The computer according to claim 10, wherein:

the storage portion also stores information associating a pre-reconstruction business process with a post-reconstruction business process, and

the processing portion converts the processing having designated the pre-reconstruction business process into the processing having designated the post-reconstruction business process according to the associating information.

18. The computer according to claim 17, wherein the processing portion executes, as the processing having designated the pre-reconstruction business process, at least one among a processing for deploying the business process to the business process processing unit, a processing for deleting the business process from the business process processing unit and a processing for changing the definition of the business process.