System and method for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution

• US 7,890,309 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2003
• Issued: 02/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bhaskaran, Kumar, Huang, Ying, Nandi, Prabir, Tian, Zhong, Kumaran, Santhosh, Zhu, Jun, Wang, Jian
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah; Kamini S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Day; Herng-Der
• Application Number:
  US10/682,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20050080609A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,685 Days
• Field of Search: 703/6, 703/22, 705/8, 709/223, 717/108
• US Class Current: 703/6
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A system for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution includes an assembler which assembles a plurality of solution artifacts to form a platform independent solution template, a simulator which simulates an execution of a BPIM solution based on the platform independent solution template, and an analyzer for analyzing a performance of the BPIM solution.

Claims

1. A system for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution, comprising:

a BPIM solution generator which generates a plurality of solution artifacts;

a BPIM solution developer which develops a BPIM solution from a platform independent solution template, the BPIM solution developer comprising;

an assembler which assembles the plurality of solution artifacts to form the platform independent solution template for said BPIM solution, said template comprising a solution composition model including said plurality of solution artifacts and links between said plurality of solution artifacts;

a simulator which simulates an execution of said BPIM solution based on the platform independent solution template, a result from said simulator being fed back to said solution composition model;

an analyzer for analyzing a performance of said BPIM solution and, analyzing individual performance of the plurality of solution artifacts, a result from said analyzer being fed back to said solution composition model; and

a consistency model which;

detects an inconsistency at an interface between a first solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts and a second solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts, a result from said consistency model being fed back to said solution composition model; and

provides a suggested resolution for said inconsistency and outputs said BPIM solution based on the suggested resolution; and

a display device for displaying said result from said analyzer,

wherein said consistency model, said simulator, and said analyzer operate based on said solution composition model within a BPIM solution development environment, and

wherein said inconsistency comprises inconsistent source and target message formats between said first solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts and said second solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator simulates a quality of said BPIM solution using a component compatibility check.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator simulates a quality of said BPIM solution using potential conflict discovery and resolution.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator simulates a quality of said BPIM solution using business metrics results.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said assembler, simulator and analyzer comprise a common processor.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein said analyzer analyzes a performance bottleneck of said BPIM solution.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator pre-tests said BPIM solution in a simulated environment.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein a simulation of said simulator and a performance analysis of said analyzer are platform-specific.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of solution artifacts comprises one of a business object solution artifact, adaptive business object solution artifact, application microflow solution artifact, adapter solution artifact, process flow solution artifact and screenflow solution artifact.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein said links between said plurality of solution artifacts comprise at least one of directLink and eventLink.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of solution artifacts comprises service description and interface descriptions.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein said platform independent solution template comprises a common service definition.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator generates a simulation for a solution artifact based on a model of said solution artifact.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator generates a simulation for solution execution based on a common service policy.

15. The system according to claim 1, wherein said simulator and analyzer implement said platform independent solution template using an extensible mark-up language (XML) schema.

16. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a computer network for deploying said BPIM solution.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein said computer network comprises one of a local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) and the Internet.

18. The system according to claim 1, wherein said platform independent solution template comprises at least one of an extensible mark-up language (XML) schema, and a unified modeling language (UML) profile.

21. The system according to claim 1, wherein a result of said analyzing said performance of said BPIM solution is used to generate a next BPIM solution, said simulator simulates an execution of said next BPIM solution and said analyzer analyzes a performance of said next BPIM solution.

19. A method of analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution, comprising:

generating a plurality of solution artifacts;

developing a BPIM solution from a platform independent solution template, comprising;

assembling the plurality of solution artifacts to form the platform independent solution template for said BPIM solution, said template comprising a solution composition model including said plurality of solution artifacts and links between said plurality of solution artifacts;

simulating an execution of said BPIM solution based on the platform independent solution template, and feeding a result from said simulating said execution back to said solution composition model;

analyzing a performance of said BPIM solution and analyzing individual performance of the plurality of solution artifacts, a result of said analysis being fed back to said solution composition model;

detecting an inconsistency at an interface between a first solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts and a second solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts, a result from said detecting said inconsistency being fed back to said solution composition model; and

providing a suggested resolution for the inconsistency and outputting said BPIM solution based on the suggested resolution; and

displaying said result from said analysis on a display device,

wherein said detecting of said inconsistency, said simulating of the execution of the BPIM solution, and said analyzing of the performance of the BPIM solution are performed based on said solution composition model within a BPIM solution development environment, and

wherein said inconsistency comprises inconsistent source and target message formats between said first solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts and said second solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts.

20. A programmable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution, said method comprising:

generating a plurality of solution artifacts;

developing a BPIM solution from a platform independent solution template, comprising;

assembling the plurality of solution artifacts to form the platform independent solution template for said BPIM solution, said template comprising a solution composition model including said plurality of solution artifacts and links between said plurality of solution artifacts;

simulating an execution of said BPIM solution based on the platform independent solution template, and feeding a result from said simulating said execution back to said solution composition model;

analyzing a performance of said BPIM solution and analyzing individual performance of the plurality of solution artifacts, a result of said analysis being fed back to said solution composition model;

detecting an inconsistency at an interface between a first solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts and a second solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts, a result from said detecting said inconsistency being fed back to said solution composition model; and

providing a suggested resolution for the inconsistency and outputting said BPIM solution based the suggested resolution; and

displaying said result of said analysis on a display device,

wherein said detecting of said inconsistency, said simulating of the execution of the BPIM solution, and said analyzing of the performance of the BPIM solution are performed based on said solution composition model within a BPIM solution development environment, and

wherein said inconsistency comprises inconsistent source and target message formats between said first solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts and said second solution artifact of the plurality of solution artifacts.