Facilitating extraction and discovery of enterprise services

• US 9,189,566 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2010
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Suleiman, Basem, Stollberg, Michael, Roy, Marcus
• Primary Examiner(s): Trujillo, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le, Jessica N
• Application Number:
  US12/961,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20120143867A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,806 Days
• Field of Search: 707/737
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90 Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/903 Querying for retrieval from the web G06F16/953

Abstract

Implementations of the present disclosure include methods for annotating an enterprise service that is electronically stored in an enterprise service repository. In some implementations, methods include generating one or more graphs based on one or more artifacts, the one or more artifacts resulting from a development process of the enterprise service, generating one or more metadata repositories based on the one or more artifacts, each metadata repository comprising instance data corresponding to one of the one or more graphs, storing the one or more graphs and the one or more metadata repositories to a knowledge base provided in a computer-readable medium, determining one or more annotations based on the one or more graphs and the one or more metadata repositories, associating the one or more annotations to the enterprise service, and storing the one or more annotations in the enterprise service repository.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for annotating an enterprise service, the method comprising:

storing the enterprise service in an enterprise service repository, the enterprise service repository storing a plurality of enterprise services, each enterprise service comprising a callable entity that provides business functionality;

generating, by one or more processors, one or more graphs based on one or more artifacts, the one or more artifacts resulting from a development process of the enterprise service;

generating, by the one or more processors, one or more metadata repositories based on the one or more artifacts, each metadata repository comprising instance data that is automatically extracted from various sources and corresponds to one of the one or more graphs;

storing, by the one or more processors, the one or more graphs and the one or more metadata repositories to a knowledge base provided in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium;

querying, by the one or more processors, the knowledge base to determine one or more annotations based on the one or more graphs and the one or more metadata repositories;

annotating, by one or more processors, the enterprise service with the one or more annotations; and

storing the one or more annotations in the enterprise service repository.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein annotating comprises:

receiving a name of the enterprise service;

parsing the name of the enterprise service to provide one or more terms;

querying the knowledge base using the one or more terms; and

receiving a non-empty result based on the querying.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the non-empty results comprises the one or more annotations.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more annotations each correspond to a node of metadata of the one or more metadata repositories.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating an enterprise service signature as a concatenation of terms of one or more nodes of the one or more graphs;

associating the enterprise service signature to the enterprise service; and

storing the enterprise service signature in the enterprise service repository.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a search query comprising one or more search terms;

querying the enterprise service repository using the one or more search terms;

identifying, in response to the querying, one or more enterprise services as relevant to the one or more search terms; and

transmitting a representation of each of the one or more enterprise services for display as a result of the search query.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more metadata repositories is provided in a resource description framework (RDF) data store.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the RDF data store includes one or more RDF triples that correspond to one or more edges between nodes of metadata.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more artifacts each comprise one of a business requirements artifact, a component model taxonomies artifact and a governance conventions artifact.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein an enterprise name is provided in Pascal Case notation.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the development process corresponds to a governance process of an enterprise associated with the enterprise service.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for annotating an enterprise service, the operations comprising:

storing the enterprise service in an enterprise service repository, the enterprise service repository storing a plurality of enterprise services, each enterprise service comprising a callable entity that provides business functionality;

generating, by the one or more processors, one or more graphs based on one or more artifacts, the one or more artifacts resulting from a development process of the enterprise service;

generating, by the one or more processors, one or more metadata repositories based on the one or more artifacts, each metadata repository comprising instance data that is automatically extracted from various sources and corresponds to one of the one or more graphs;

storing, by the one or more processors, the one or more graphs and the one or more metadata repositories to a knowledge base provided in a computer-readable medium;

querying, by the one or more processors, the knowledge base to determine one or more annotations based on the one or more graphs and the one or more metadata repositories;

annotating, by one or more processors, the enterprise service with the one or more annotations; and

storing the one or more annotations in the enterprise service repository.

13. A system, the system comprising:

a computing device comprising one or more processors; and

a computer-readable storage device coupled to the computing device and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations for annotating an enterprise service, the operations comprising;

storing the enterprise service in an enterprise service repository, the enterprise service repository storing a plurality of enterprise services, each enterprise service comprising a callable entity that provides business functionality;

generating, by the one or more processors, one or more graphs based on one or more artifacts, the one or more artifacts resulting from a development process of the enterprise service;

generating, by the one or more processors, one or more metadata repositories based on the one or more artifacts, each metadata repository comprising instance data that is automatically extracted from various sources and corresponds_to one of the one or more graphs;

storing, by the one or more processors, the one or more graphs and the one or more metadata repositories to a knowledge base provided in a non-transitory computer-readable medium;

querying, by the one or more processors, the knowledge base to determine one or more annotations based on the one or more graphs and the one or more metadata repositories;

annotating, by one or more processors, the enterprise service with the one or more annotations; and

storing the one or more annotations in the enterprise service repository.