Publishing an industry business architecture model

• US 8,954,342 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2010
• Issued: 02/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bhandari, Muthulakshmi, Botros, Allison Baines, Harishankar, Raman, Mungi, Ashish, Purohit, Siddharth N., Sanz, Jorge L. C., Singh, Aditya
• Primary Examiner(s): Singh, Gurkanwaljit
• Application Number:
  US12/945,319
• Publication Number:
  US 20120124104A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/7.29
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data

Abstract

A data-driven mechanism of business rules is used to form associations between business sectors, industries, solutions, solution offerings, and industry business architecture models. The system and method includes use of a navigation hierarchy, and entity diagram to facilitate use by business consultants for access, viewing, navigation, publishing, and updating.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for publishing industry business architecture models (IBAMs) having a component business model, a process model, a service model an information model and knowledge assets and collateral, to a network having a client system, a server, and data storage, each of said IBAMs having a version and a corresponding maturity level, comprising the steps of:

defining, using said client system, a plurality of sectors, each said sector having multiple industries having industry solutions, each of said industry solutions having multiple solution offerings;

associating, using said client system, each of said IBAMs with a plurality of said industries, said industry solutions, and said multiple solution offerings to form associations of logical data entities of said IBAMs, wherein said each of said IBAMs having a component business model includes a heat map produced by having components selected by filtering according to competitive level, or cost, or revenue;

storing said IBAMs with the respective associations in a database included in the data storage, and

selecting data from said data storage in accordance with said associations to form an industry solution map.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said IBAMs has a plurality of versions at differing maturity levels.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said database includes a role-based access mechanism for viewing, navigating, publishing, or updating the content of said IBAMs.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of forming associations between said sectors, said industries, said industry solutions, said solution offerings, and said IBAMs, using a data-driven mechanism of business rules and roles to capture, depict, and publish said associations in said database.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said IBAMs and their respective associations are captured and depicted using a data model schema.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising the step of storing said data model schema in said database.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of storing a navigation hierarchy in said database.

8. A computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium that includes computer-executable instructions for publishing industry business architecture models (IBAMs) having a component business model, a process mode, a service model, an information model, and knowledge assets and collateral, to a network, said computer-executable instructions comprising:

first instructions for defining a plurality of sectors, each of said plurality of sectors having multiple industries, each of said multiple industries having industry solutions, each of said industry solutions having multiple solution offerings;

second instructions for associating each of said IBAMs with a plurality of said multiple solution offerings, said industry solutions, and said multiple solution offerings, forming associations of logical data entities in said IBAMs, wherein each of said IBAMs having a component business model includes a heat map produced by having components selected by filtering according to competitive level, or cost, or revenue,

third instructions for storing said IBAMs in a database, and

fourth instructions for selecting data from said database to form an industry solution map.

9. The storage medium of claim 8, wherein said IBAMs and their respective associations are captured and depicted using a data model schema.

10. The storage medium of claim 8, wherein said third instructions further include instructions for storing a navigation hierarchy in said database.

11. a method of publishing industry business architecture models (IBAMs) having a component business model, a process model, a service model an information model and knowledge assets and collateral, to a network having a client system, a server, and data storage, each of said IBAMs having a version and a corresponding maturity level, comprising the steps of:

configuring said client system to define a plurality of sectors, each said sector having multiple industries having industry solutions, each of said industry solutions having multiple solution offerings;

configuring said client system to associate each of said IBAMs with a plurality of said industries, said industry solutions, and said multiple solution offerings to form associations of logical data entities of said IBAMs, wherein said each of said IBAMs having a component business model includes a heat map produced by having components selected by filtering according to competitive level, or cost, or revenue is produced;

configuring said client system for storing said IBAMs with the respective associations in a database included in the data storage; and

configuring said client system to select data from said data storage in accordance with said associations to form an industry solution map.