Transforming a legacy IT infrastructure into an on-demand operating environment

• US 8,775,232 B2
• Filed: 08/11/2005
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Holloway, Christopher J., Chetwood, Mark K., Dawkes, Martyn J., Onoufriou, Michael O., Parmar, Rashik
• Primary Examiner(s): FEENEY, BRETT A
• Application Number:
  US11/201,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20070038648A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,253 Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06395 Quality analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A transformation engine for transforming a legacy IT infrastructure into an on-demand IT infrastructure in a financial services enterprise, the transformation engine comprising: a determiner component for determining a current status of the legacy IT infrastructure; a comparator component for comparing the determined current status to an idealised set of outcome parameters to determine a set of deviation parameters; and the determiner component determining at least one control point within the set of deviation parameters which require enterprise wide governance.

Claims

1. A system for transforming a legacy IT infrastructure including at least one of legacy IT hardware or legacy IT software into an on-demand IT infrastructure including at least one of on-demand IT hardware or on-demand IT software in a financial services enterprise, the system comprising:

at least one computing device configured to form;

a determiner component that determines a current status of the legacy IT infrastructure, the determiner component including a parsing component that parses at least one set of input data, that categorises the at least one set of input data into enterprise domains, and that applies a respective specific rule set to each enterprise domain;

a comparator component that compares the determined current status to the idealised set of outcome parameters to determine a set of deviation parameters;

the determiner component determining at least one control point within the set of deviation parameters which require enterprise wide governance, each of the at least one control point including information as to what on-demand IT infrastructure capability should be included to achieve the on-demand IT infrastructure, all of the at least one control point combining to provide an on-demand operating architectural model of an on-demand operating environment that provides desired characteristics on a variable basis as requested by clients;

an enterprise infrastructure management domain that ensures the on-demand operating environment will deliver the desired characteristics on a variable basis and including at least an IT management software layer, the IT management software layer including at least a virtualisation and grid services control point; and

an enterprise information domain that includes;

a data integration services control point providing access to semantically structured data from internal and external sources, providing an integrated view of any defined entity, and providing consistent updates of information across a set of repositories under a single instruction from an application;

a content management services control point providing for management of metadata that describes unstructured data contact including at least one of photographs, voice or video, and providing for management of storage and retrieval of content belonging to the metadata;

an operational information repository control point storing semantically structured data including at least one of database records or metadata records, the semantically structured data required to be maintained current and being capable of retrieval and updating on an individual record basis;

an unstructured data repository control point capturing and managing a range of data assets, the range of data assets being without an internal semantic structure;

an analytical information repository control point storing semantically structured data that are not maintained current, the semantically structured data not maintained current representing at least one of a historical record of activity or a moment-in-time view across a number of records, the analytical information repository control point enabling analysis across a set of information that remains consistent during the analysis and being updated at regular intervals to create a new point-in-time position; and

an analysis and modeling control point analyzing and modeling the metadata managed by the content management services control point.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to form a change extraction component for monitoring a level of adoption of the at least one control point in the on-demand operating infrastructure.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the virtualisation and grid service control point comprises details of a set of operations to be performed that enable at least one of management of virtualised processing power, management of virtualised storage capacity, and management of virtualised networks.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each control point details a set of operations to be performed that enable indication of aspects of on-demand IT infrastructure capability needed to achieve an on-demand infrastructure, the aspects of on-demand IT infrastructure capability including at least on-demand user IT infrastructure, on-demand process IT infrastructure, on-demand development IT infrastructure, on-demand information IT infrastructure, and on-demand management IT infrastructure.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an enterprise development domain that includes at least one of a business process modeling control point, a requirement/architecture/design tools control point, an integrated development environment control point, a test tools control point, and a development process/life cycle management control point.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a control point further comprises sub control points.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an enterprise process domain that includes at least one of a business process services control point, an external gateway services control point, a component integration services control point, a message transformation services control point, an a discovery services control point.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to form a storing component that builds an enterprise specific taxonomy categorised by enterprise domains.

9. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a user domain that includes at least one of a portal services control point, a collaboration services control point, a pervasive access services control point, a user access services control point, and a server managed client control point, the server managed client control point including at least one of a web client and a hybrid client.

10. A method for transforming a legacy IT infrastructure including at least one of legacy IT hardware or legacy IT software into an on-demand IT infrastructure including at least one of on-demand IT hardware or on-demand IT software, the method comprising:

determining by at least one computer a current status of the legacy IT infrastructure, including, responsive to receiving at least one set of input data, parsing the at least one set of input data;

categorising by the at least one computer the at least one set of input data into enterprise domains;

applying by the at least one computer a respective rule set specific to a respective enterprise domain;

comparing by the at least one computer the determined current status to an idealised set of outcome parameters to determine a set of deviation parameters;

determining by the at least one computer at least one control point within the set of deviation parameters which require enterprise wide governance, the at least one control point including information as to what on-demand IT infrastructure capability should be included to achieve the on-demand IT infrastructure, all of the at least one control point combining to provide an on-demand operating architectural model of an on-demand operating environment that provides desired characteristics on a variable basis as requested by clients; and

ensuring by the at least one computer and an enterprise infrastructure management domain that the on-demand operating environment will deliver the desired characteristics on a variable basis, the enterprise infrastructure management domain including at least an IT management software layer, the IT management software layer including at least a virtualisation and grid services control point,

wherein the enterprise domains include an enterprise information domain that includes;

a data integration services control point providing access to semantically structured data from internal and external sources, providing an integrated view of any defined entity, and providing consistent updates of information across a set of repositories under a single instruction from an application;

a content management services control point providing for management of metadata that describes unstructured data contact including at least one of photographs, voice or video, and providing for management of storage and retrieval of content belonging to the metadata;

an operational information repository control point storing semantically structured data including at least one of database records or metadata records, the semantically structured data required to be maintained current and being capable of retrieval and updating on an individual record basis;

an unstructured data repository control point capturing and managing a range of data assets, the range of data assets being without an internal semantic structure;

an analytical information repository control point storing semantically structured data that are not maintained current, the semantically structured data not maintained current representing at least one of a historical record of activity or a moment-in-time view across a number of records, the analytical information repository control point enabling analysis across a set of information that remains consistent during the analysis and being updated at regular intervals to create a new point-in-time position; and

an analysis and modeling control point analyzing and modeling the metadata managed by the content management services control point.

11. A method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising monitoring by the at least one computer the level of adoption of the at least one control point in the on-demand operating infrastructure.

12. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the virtualisation and grid service control point further comprises details of a set of operations to be performed that enable at least one of management of virtualised processing power, management of virtualised storage capacity, and management of virtualised networks.

13. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein each control point details a set of operations to be performed that enable indication of aspects of on-demand IT infrastructure capability needed to achieve an on-demand infrastructure, the aspects of on-demand IT infrastructure capability including at least on-demand user IT infrastructure, on-demand process IT infrastructure, on-demand development IT infrastructure, on-demand information IT infrastructure, and on-demand management IT infrastructure.

14. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the enterprise domains include an enterprise development domain that includes at least one of a business process modeling control point, a requirement/architecture/design tools control point, an integrated development environment control point, a test tools control point, and a development process/life cycle management control point.

15. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein a control point further comprises sub control points.

16. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the enterprise domains include an enterprise process domain that includes at least one of a business process services control point, an external gateway services control point, a component integration services control point, a message transformation services control point, an a discovery services control point.

17. A method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising building by the at least one computer an enterprise specific taxonomy categorised by enterprise domains.

18. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the enterprise domains include a user domain that includes at least one of a portal services control point, a collaboration services control point, a pervasive access services control point, a user access services control point, and a server managed client control point, the server managed client control point including at least one of a web client and a hybrid client.

19. A computer program product including instructions in the form of computer executable code stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and loadable into the internal memory of a digital computer configured for performing, when said product is run on a computer, a process of transforming a legacy IT infrastructure including at least one of legacy IT hardware or legacy IT software into an on-demand IT infrastructure including at least one of on-demand IT hardware or on-demand IT software, the computer program product comprising:

program code configured for determining a current status of the legacy IT infrastructure, including parsing at least one set of input data, categorising the at least one set of input data into enterprise domains, and applying a specific rule set to a respective enterprise domain;

program code configured for comparing the determined current status to an idealised set of outcome parameters to determine a set of deviation parameters;

program code configured for determining at least one control point within the set of deviation parameters which require enterprise wide governance, the at least one control point including information as to what on-demand IT infrastructure capability should be included to achieve the on-demand IT infrastructure, all of the at least one control point combining to provide an on-demand operating architectural model of an on-demand operating environment that provides desired characteristics on a variable basis as requested by clients; and

program code configured for ensuring, with an enterprise infrastructure management domain, that the on-demand operating environment will deliver the desired characteristics on a variable basis, the enterprise infrastructure management domain including at least an IT management software layer, the IT management software layer including at least a virtualisation and grid services control point,

wherein the enterprise domains include an enterprise information domain that includes;

a data integration services control point providing access to semantically structured data from internal and external sources, providing an integrated view of any defined entity, and providing consistent updates of information across a set of repositories under a single instruction from an application;

a content management services control point providing for management of metadata that describes unstructured data contact including at least one of photographs, voice or video, and providing for management of storage and retrieval of content belonging to the metadata;

an operational information repository control point storing semantically structured data including at least one of database records or metadata records, the semantically structured data required to be maintained current and being capable of retrieval and updating on an individual record basis;

an unstructured data repository control point capturing and managing a range of data assets, the range of data assets being without an internal semantic structure;

an analytical information repository control point storing semantically structured data that are not maintained current, the semantically structured data not maintained current representing at least one of a historical record of activity or a moment-in-time view across a number of records, the analytical information repository control point enabling analysis across a set of information that remains consistent during the analysis and being updated at regular intervals to create a new point-in-time position; and

an analysis and modeling control point analyzing and modeling the metadata managed by the content management services control point.

20. A computer program product as claimed in claim 19, further comprising program code configured for forming a monitoring component that monitors a level of adoption of the at least one control point in the on-demand operating infrastructure.

21. A computer program product as claimed in claim 19, wherein the virtualisation and grid service control point further comprises details of a set of operations to be performed that enable at least one of management of virtualised processing power, management of virtualised storage capacity, and management of virtualised networks.

22. A computer program product as claimed in claim 19, wherein each control point details a set of operations to be performed that enable indication of aspects of on-demand IT infrastructure capability needed to achieve an on-demand infrastructure, the aspects of on-demand IT infrastructure capability including at least on-demand user IT infrastructure, on-demand process IT infrastructure, on-demand development IT infrastructure, on-demand information IT infrastructure, and on-demand management IT infrastructure.

23. A computer program product as claimed in claim 19, wherein the enterprise domains include an enterprise development domain that includes at least one of a business process modeling control point, a requirement/architecture/design tools control point, an integrated development environment control point, a test tools control point, and a development process/life cycle management control point.

24. A computer program product as claimed in claim 19, wherein a control point further comprises sub control points.

25. A computer program product as claimed in claim 19, wherein the enterprise domains include an enterprise process domain that includes at least one of a business process services control point, an external gateway services control point, a component integration services control point, a message transformation services control point, an a discovery services-control point.

26. A computer program product as claimed in claim 19, further comprising program code configured for building an enterprise specific taxonomy categorised by enterprise domains.

27. A computer program product as claimed in claim 19, wherein the enterprise domains include a user domain that includes at least one of a portal services control point, a collaboration services control point, a pervasive access services control point, a user access services control point, and a server managed client control point, the server managed client control point including at least one of a web client and a hybrid client.