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CITTCENTRUM FÜR INFORMATIONS- TECHNOLOGIE TRANSFER GMBH

Teaching event processing

Proposal for Master degree in Event-Driven BPM and

discussion about academic courses related to event processing

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Agenda

(1)Why a new and special course of study „ED-BPM“

(2) A proposal for a curriculum

(3) Which university would like to host the course?

(4) Teams for developing the course / eLearning units

(5) How to finance the development of the course?

(6) Course development schedule

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Why a new and special course of study „ED-BPM“

The forecast of David Luckham…

… we need skilled people at least up to 2050…

… we are only at the end of the period of Simple CEP

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Why a new and special course of study „ED-BPM“

The warning of Roy Schulte/Gartner since 2006…

…we won‘t have enough skilled people who would be able to do all the jobs and projects

The statement of Mani Chandy/CalTech at the Gartner Event Processing Summit 2007…

…The work of IT during the next twenty years will be to complete the evolution of business processes from sequences of slow-moving, disjointed applications to more responsive end-to-end, event-based straight-through flows of action.

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monitoring of time-critical bottleneck factors

and transaction control

transparency over integrated represented

processes

representation of the effects of system availabilities and

-disturbances

process and system-linked emergency and

disturbance management

monitoring of SLA-compliance

WorkflowManagement

BusinessProcess

Monitoring

Managing and monitoring of processes mean ...

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event cloud with thousands of events per sec…

…e.g. above a bank

The whole picture and what it really means:Monitoring Business Processes and Activities

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event patterns and complex event processing…

The important steps: 1. Redesign the business processes for SOA and BPM 2. Make a SOA, identify services, build WSDL-interfaces…3. Precise description of patterns of events4. Detecting patterns in the event cloud5. Abstraction of complex event pattern instances to higher level events

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The Pain Point: The Event Cloud, the IT-Blindness and the „Event Tornado“Often even additional events are needed for BAM and a better Business Insight

Today‘s existing event cloud and the IT-blindness

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BusinessProcess1

BusinessProcessn …

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Low level events without semantics

Visualization of the processed/correlated events via Business Activity Monitoring

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AppServer

Monitor / Analyze / Act

WorkflowModeler

EventModeler

Enterprise cockpit

EventStore

realize scenarioprocess instances

set parameters

analysehistory…

Low Level Event Clouds / Streams

Adapterse.g. RFID, topics of Pub/Sub, …

Normalized events,build business level events

Workflow Enginebased on BPEL

Rules Engine

„special“ SQLresp. other languages

IF …AND …FOLLOWED BY…WITHIN…ACTION

Model ^=Scenario

e.g. credit offers (completed)e.g. payments calculate

pott, offer rates, profit…

workflows

The Challenge and the Principle of BPM/BAM/CEP

Domain specific reference models for event patterns

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A proposal for a curriculum

Master-Course

Event-Driven Business Process Management

 

Draft V0.1

1. Description: Curriculum together with required credits and examinations

Certificate: Master of Science

Programme Duration: Four Semesters (120 credits/cr)

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A proposal for a curriculum

Concept:

The course consists of the fields of study Business Process Management, Complex Event Processing, Business Activity Montoring included Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Computer Networks, Messaging as well as several application disciplines like Algorithmic Trading, Supply Chain Management in the retail domain, fraud detection in the banking and insurance domain etc. All courses are completed with course-related tests and Credits (cr) according to European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) are awarded. All courses are given in English and are designed as distance learning/eLearning courses.

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A proposal for a curriculum

Concept:

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In the first three semesters, 30 cr per semester have to be earned and 18 cred h are to be taken.

The fourth semester is dedicated the master thesis (30 cr).

Courses: Basics of Event-Driven Business Process Management (30 cr)

Five Seminaristic Lectures (5 x SeL 2 cred h + Lab 4 cred h + PS/Pr 6 cred h) 30 cr

Application disciplines of Event-Driven BPM (60 cr) 10 Seminaristic Lectures (10 x SeL 2 cred h + Lab 4 cred h

+ PS/Pr 6 cred h) 60 cr Basics of Application Domains and Scientific Working (?? cr)

??10?? Seminaristic Lectures (??10?? x SeL 1 cred h + Lab 1 cred h + PS/Pr 6 cred h) ??20?? cr

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A proposal for a curriculum

For more details see:

Mastercourse-EDBPM-v01.doc

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downloadable / applicable for all universities of the world

for instance:Freie Universität Berlin

Which university would like to host the course?

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Teams for developing the course / eLearning units

Potential team members who could contribute materials and/or work as editors, see table on page 3:

Mastercourse-EDBPM-v01.doc

You could add, delete or move your name wherever you want of course

Some have already confirmed!

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How to finance the development of the course?

We asked the BIBBNationale Agentur Bildung für Europa beim Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung

Curriculum as part of our EU project proposal DoReMoPat? but in the best case we could start 2010

Financed/sponsored by the industries, vendors, adopters…? …

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Course development schedule

First next step until

„8th Expert Meeting BPM/BAM/CEP/SOA/EDA“Runtinger Säle, Regensburg/Germany

December 8-9, 2008

Full catalogue of course modulesaccording to this templatehttp://www3.fh-swf.de/fbin/cpt_messtechnik_cpt.htm

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FINALE

Suggestions welcome!Please send to:

Dr. Rainer v. AmmonCentrum für Informations-Technologie-Transfer (CITT) GmbHKonrad-Adenauerallee 30D-93051 Regensburg+49 171 756 4557tel: +49 941 8 97 94 72fax: +49 941 8 97 94 73rainer.ammon@citt-online.comwww.citt-online.com