BUSINESS INFLUENCED PART EXTRACTION METHOD AND BUSINESS INFLUENCED PART EXTRACTION DEVICE BASED ON BUSINESS VARIATION

• US 20160224918A1
• Filed: 01/28/2016
• Published: 08/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: AZUSHIMA, Hidenori, TAIRA, Shigeaki, HIRAYAMA, Yasutaka, SHIGENO, Takahiro, ARAKI, Masataka, NISHIYAMA, Haruhiko, KANUKA, Hideyuki, KATAOKA, Yoshihiro
• Application Number:
  US15/008,822
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work

Abstract

The method and system include the following steps: storing in advance a logical relation between sets of business information used for a task in the business process, receiving a revision of the business process, extracting a difference between pre-revision business process information and post-revision business process information based on the pre-stored business process information, storing the difference information as revision history information of the business process to be revised, analyzing a processing category as a processing type of the business information of a pair of task and business information as constituent elements of the post-revision business process, storing the information in a storage device, extracting influenced business processes from the business process information based on an XOR relation between the sets of business information or an XOR relation of the series of tasks, receiving a selection of a business process among the influenced business processes, and displaying the results.

Claims

1. A business influenced part extraction method based on a business variation related to a business process, the business influenced part extraction method comprising the steps of:

associating in advance a logical relation between sets of business information used for a task in the business process;

receiving a revision of the business process;

extracting a difference between pre-revision business process information and post-revision business process information based on the received revision;

storing the difference information as revision history information of the business process to be revised;

identifying a processing category as a processing type of the business information of a pair of task and business information as constituent elements of the post-revision business process;

extracting influenced business processes from the business process information by using the revision history information, the processing category and the logical relation between the sets of business information; and

outputting the business process information of the selected business process among the extracted influenced business processes and the revision history information of the business process to be revised.

2. The business influenced part extraction method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

extracting business information in which the logical relation is undefined; and

receiving an input of a logical relation of the extracted business information, and

storing the business information which has been associated with the logical relation.

3. The business influenced part extraction method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

extracting a difference for each constituent element of the business process including task, branch, business information, department/actor and task order in a process of comparing and extracting a difference between the pre-revision business process information and the post-revision business process information; and

extracting a pre-revision attribute value and a post-revision attribute value of the constituent elements as the revision history information with regard to each of the extracted differences.

4. The business influenced part extraction method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

determining the processing category as “

Read”

when an I/O relation of a pair of the task of the business process and the business information is an input relation; and

determining the processing category as “

Create”

, “

Update”

, or “

Delete”

from processing name list information storing a correspondence relation of a processing name and the processing category of the task in advance when the I/O relation is an output relation.

5. The business influenced part extraction method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

receiving a business process to be revised, and identifying business information to be used in the business process;

extracting business information having a predetermined logical relation with the identified business information or business information to be used in a task having a predetermined logical relation with the series of tasks using the identified business information;

extracting a business process and a business variation to utilize the extracted business information;

determining whether the processing category of the extracted business process is the processing category including the pair of task and business information; and

extracting and outputting the influenced business processes by associating the influenced business processes with business process, business information, and processing category of a utilization business as the business purpose.

6. A business influenced part extraction device, comprising:

means of storing task information, business information information, business information dictionary, department/actor list information, branch information, and connection information as business process information;

means of associating in advance a logical relation between sets of business information used for a task in the business process;

means of receiving a revision of the business process, and extracting a difference between pre-revision business process information and post-revision business process information based pre-stored business process information;

means of storing the difference information as revision history information of the business process to be revised;

means of analyzing a processing category as a processing type of the business information of a pair of task and business information as constituent elements of the post-revision business process;

an influence extraction unit for extracting influenced business processes from the business process information based on the predetermined logical relation between the sets of business information or the predetermined logical relation of the series of tasks;

means of storing influenced business process information;

an input device for receiving a selection of a business process among the influenced business processes; and

means of outputting the business process information and the revision history information of the business process to be revised.

7. The business influenced part extraction device according to claim 6, further comprising:

means of extracting business information in which the logical relation is undefined based on the business information information including the logical relation between the sets of business information used in a predetermined task.

8. The business influenced part extraction device according to claim 6, further comprising:

means of extracting a difference for each constituent element of the business process including task, branch, business information, department/actor and task order in a process of comparing and extracting a difference between the pre-revision business process information and the post-revision business process information.

9. The business influenced part extraction device according to claim 6, further comprising:

means of determining the processing category as “

Read”

when an I/O relation of a pair of the task of the business process and the business information is an input relation for both, and determining the processing category as “

Create”

, “

Update”

, or “

Delete”

from processing name list information storing a correspondence relation of a processing name and the processing category of the task in advance when the I/O relation is an output relation.

10. The business influenced part extraction device according to claim 6, further comprising:

means of receiving a business process to be revised, and identifying business information to be used in the business process;

means of extracting business information having a predetermined logical relation with the identified business information or business information to be used in a task having a predetermined logical relation with the series of tasks using the identified business information;

means of extracting a business process and a business variation to utilize the extracted business information;

means of automatically determining the processing category of the extracted business process from the processing category including the pair of task and business information; and

means of extracting and outputting the influenced business processes by associating the influenced business processes with business process, business information, and processing category of a utilization business as the business purpose.