Some Remarks for Introducing the Expert Metting

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Some Remarks for Introducing the Expert Metting
BPM/BAM/CEP/SOA/EDA

• What BPM/BAM/CEP means and what is special from
  the perspective of CEP
• Rainer v. Ammon

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Now remember the whole picture and what it really
meansMonitoring Business Processes and
Activities
event cloud with thousands of events per sec
passwdchange
account login
event patterns and complex event processing
new auto pay
account login
withdrawal
deposit
new auto pay
transfer
logout
account login
enquiry
deposit
Sensor 1
activity history
account balance
logout
enquiry
passwdchange
account login
new auto pay
enquiry
account login
withdrawal
deposit
new auto pay
account login
transfer
logout
enquiry
deposit
Sensor 2
activity history
logout
e.g. above a bank
The first steps 1. Redesign your business
processes for SOA and BPM 2. Make a SOA,
identify services, build WSDL-interfaces3.
Precise description of patterns of events 4.
Detecting patterns in the event cloud 5.
Abstraction of complex event pattern instances to
higher level events
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The Event Cloud, the IT-Blindness and the Event
Tornado
startedService_6
startedService_4
startedService_7
Todays existing event cloud and the IT-blindness
exitService_4
startedService_5
exitService_5
exitService_6
startedService_8
exitService_8
startedService_1
exitService_7
Low level events without semantics
exitService_1
startedService_2
exitService_2

BusinessProcess1
startedService_3
exitService_3
genCBE (start,service1)
genCBE (start,service2)
genCBE (exit,service1)
genCBE (exit,service2)
genCBE (start,service3)
genCBE (exit,service3)
Visualization of the sucked up events via
Business Activity Monitoring

BusinessProcessn

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The Technology Challenge and the Principle of
BPM/BAM/CEP, e.g. for Next Generation
InstantCredit Systems
calculate pott, offer rates, profit
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The Multichanneling Challengesame process for
each channel and real time processing
Initiative
After Sales
Consulting
Sales
typical bank-customer process in Retail Banking
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The SOA ChallengeDesign horizontal and vertical
coupling of services Example Consumer credit
process
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The standardized confusionWhy does it seem so
bewildering for the (early) adopters today?
WebServicesOrchestration
!
Workflow-Modeling
Rational
ARIS Toolkit
CITT reality lab
AptSoft
eEPK IDS ARIS199x
UML 2.0Activity DiagramOMG 2004/5
VIP Tool Petrinet-Model-Verif. RD / Uni
Visual Studio
e.g. Arc-Styler
IDS
XLANGMS 2001
Abstract Executable Workflows
IDS
iQgen
WSADIE
BPEL 1.12002/May 2003
JSR207 / BPEL-JJCP 2003
JPDBEA 2003
XPDL 1.0WfMC Aug. 2002
And 50 more tools
Systar
WSFLIBM 2001
IDS
Nearly all UML tools
IDS
Workshop
Deficits(e.g. human interactions)
Standardization takes too much time, said BEA
BEA anticipated BPEL-J standard for beeing able
to deliver a tool platform
StreamBase
BEA?
Aut. migrated
Apama
WS-BPEL 2.0Draft June 2004, OASIS final
approved ??? 2005
XPDL 2.0WfMC Sept. 2005
JSR207 / BPEL-JJCP ??? 2005
BEA IBM MS et al.
IBM Process Server
Weblogic
WebLogic Workshop - 1. Java IDE vs. MS Visual
Studio
Tibco BE,
WebSphere
BPM-Systeme as Eclipse-plugins, just announced
JBoss
??? BPEL-Extensions ???
BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, SeeBeyond, open source
Coral8
??? No standards yet ???
ARIS PPM
iSpheres
BAM-Tools, no standards presently for
IBM Monitor

• Common Base Event CBE

• generic BAM sensors

• Common Event Infrastructure CEI etcpp

• classification schema for tools

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What we and our PhD-students will do in the
future in cooperation with e.g.