Providing Operational Business Intelligence

• US 20130191306A1
• Filed: 10/14/2010
• Published: 07/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Simitsis, Alkiviadis, Dayal, Umeshwar, Castellanos, Maria G., Wilkinson, William K.
• Application Number:
  US13/825,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20130191306A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/348
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Embodiments described herein can be used to provide business intelligence. For example, a tangible, computer-readable medium may include code configured to direct a processor to create a conceptual model of an business process. The code may be configured to direct the processor to parse the conceptual model to create a logical model of the business process, and to parse the logical model to create a physical model of the business process.

Claims

1. A system for providing operational business intelligence, comprising:

a processor; and

a storage system, wherein the storage system comprises a plurality of functional data structures that may be accessed by the processor, wherein the plurality of functional data structures comprise;

a conceptual model comprising a view of a business process configured to realize a business view defined in a business requirements model (BRM);

a logical model created from the conceptual model; and

a physical model created from the logical model, wherein the physical model is linked to an extract-transform-load (ETL) engine, and wherein the ETL engine is configured to obtain data from an operational business process.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the business view comprises data from the operational business process.

3. The computer system of claim 1, wherein he conceptual model is created from a business requirements model.

4. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the conceptual model is in business process modeling notation (BPMN).

5. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the conceptual model is configured to utilize quality objectives (QoX) stored in a QoX document to control an ETL process.

6. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the conceptual model is configured to receive a message from a probe in an operational business process linked to a local data source.

7. The computer system of claim 6, wherein the local data source is an order system, or warehouse database, or both.

8. The computer system of claim 6, wherein the operational business process operates comprises a delivery process, a shopping process, a checkout process, or any combinations thereof.

9. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the logical model is created by parsing the conceptual model into XML process definition language (XPDL).

10. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the storage system comprises code to direct the processor to manipulate a model, wherein the code comprises:

a business process modeling notation graphical user interface (BPMN GUI) to manipulate the conceptual model; and

an xLM graphical user interface (xLM GUI) to manipulate the logical model.

11. A method of providing operational business intelligence, comprising generating a multi-layer extract-transform-load (ETL) process by:

creating a conceptual model comprising a view of a business process configured to provide a business view defined in a business requirements model (BRM), wherein the conceptual model is a data structure configured to be utilized by a processor;

creating a logical model by parsing the conceptual model; and

creating a physical model by parsing the logical model.

12. The method of claim 11, comprising optimizing the logical model by fitting the logical model to a quality metric (QoX metrics).

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the QoX metric comprises performance, recoverability, reliability, freshness, maintainability, scalability, availability, flexibility, robustness, affordability, consistency, traceability, or auditability, or any combinations thereof.

14. A tangible, computer-readable medium, comprising code configured to direct a processor to:

create a conceptual model of a business process;

parse the conceptual model to create a logical model of the business process; and

parse the logical model to create a physical model of the business process.

15. The tangible, computer-readable medium of claim 14, comprising code configured to direct the processor to:

edit the conceptual model; and

edit the logical model.