Open Group EA conference, Brussels, 22nd April 2004Track #4A: Enterprise Architecture and Technology
Operational Enterprise Architecture
European Research ContributionsPresentation by
Frank Lillehagen, Helge G. Solheim and Einar Dehli
Computas
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Contents
Contributing projects
Industrial challenges
EA role today – TOGAF, DoDAF, Zachman etc.
EA Vision and Objectives
Perspective Views: SE, KM, Bus., etc.
Layered Operational Enterprise Architecture
Role of the Enterprise Knowledge Architecture (EKA)
Core supporting AKM technology concepts
Work ahead – challenges
Conclusions – Q and A
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Contributing projects
UE
LM
Extended Enterprise Research Networking and Learning: www.EXTERNAL-IST.org
UEML (Unified Enterprise Modelling Language)www.UEML.org
Interoperability Development for Enterprise
Application and Software – Roadmaps
www.IDEAS-roadmap.net
Advanced Technologies for Interoperability
of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and
their Application www.ATHENA-IST.org
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Industrial Challenges
• Unfullfilled promises – some 20 challenges:• ”Do-it-right-first –time” – originated in 1986 – ICAM project• ”Doers plan and Planners do!” – integrating modeling and execution?
• Legacy Systems and Legacy thinking• The introduction of the Application System• Process Engineering requires at least three functional views of process• Lack of understanding of Enterprise Knowledge Architecture
• From KM to KP to KC• True KM Systems requires an integrated modeling and execution platform
and many kinds and types of services (sw, task, script, agent)
• The interoperable On-demand Enterprise• Platform and Services to rapidly build an opportunistic solution
• Systems Engineering Evolution• System of Systems Nd Total Systems thinking – • Need continuous User Interaction with Enterprise Knowledge
• New approach to Work Management• The key to Concurrent Engineering and Networked Organizations
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EA role today – a methodology
System Design A
System Design B
Knowledge Arch.Enterprise Knowledge Repository
Must be createdfrom common architecture
Partial Models
Frameworks
Metamodels
Enterprise Models
IT Infrastructure
Interoperable,aligned withbusiness
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EA Vision and Objectives
Model-driven Customized Platforms
Enterprise models(POPS, generic EKA)
Platform-specificModels
Dynamic Mapping
Configuration
PlatformIndependent Models
PlatformSpecific Models
EnterpriseDeployment Models
Configuration
Model composition
Dynamic Mapping
Metis TeamRepository
Model Designed Operational Solutions
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Enterprise Model(EM, CIM)
PlatformindependentModel (PIM)
PlatformSpecificModel
AKM iiEM execution
platform
PIM execution platform(UML virtual machine +
local services developed from PSM)
PSM execution platform(web services, bpml, bpel, .net, J2EE)
Program code
Model
Executionplatform(includescode and
model-drivenservices from
the levelbelow)
Programming andcode generation.
PSM services that are coded becomepart of the PIM execution platform,
implemented PIM servicesbecome part of the AKMii.
Ad-hoc, unique processes(partial automation)
Repetitive, adaptive routine processes
Standard, repetitive, static processes
Processes executed by platformEnd user
Processdesigner
Systemdesigner
Systems Engineering View
R
R
R
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Repository
Many more views of the same structures and meta-data!!
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Layered Operational Enterprise Architecture
Integrated by Intelligent InfrastructuresInter-related reflective views of key roles – replacing frameworks as mosaics of static kinds and types of views (the knowledge legacy from paper carriers)
Business layer:Meth. model, operations, strategy, governance,..
Enterprise Knowledge Arch., EKA layer:POPS meth. , EIS templates, UEML +++
ICT Architecture, UEPS, services as reusable tasks, servers and AKM repositories
Law, rules, principles, agreed practices and norms, day to day routines
Userviews (types and kinds), Enterprise-models and sub-models, Meta-models: Languages, Structures and Type-hierarchies
Access services, capabilities to integrate legacy systems, extract data, handle parameterised sub-models
EKA-POPS
Layers, aspects: Logic and content:
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The role of the Enterprise Knowledge Arch. Enterprise Information Portal – from 1995
• From Newspaper publishing to Advanced Information Management
Enterprise Integration Portals – from 1999• From Application Integration to Web-services Integration
Enterprise Design and Development Platforms• Model Designed Solutions
Customizing Portal-based Project Engineering Management Platforms.
The portal layout and capabilities will be model-designed and the contents will be model-generated and
managed.
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Core supporting AKM technology concepts Enterprise Knowledge Spaces implemented using POPS to
build the EKA and design/generate Enterprise Visual Scenes
AMIS
Scene of Action
Each step is a set of operational and descriptive, reflective views
PPPCPOPS
SSFT
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Work ahead - challenges
Control and manage the core knowledge of any enterprise, knowledge models built on Enterprise Knowledge Architectures (EKA) must be supported using languages implementing the POPS methodology !
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Web Component
(Portlet)
PEME
Model
Model-generated Workplaces
Model RepositoryOrganization Products SystemsProcesses
AKMii is a configurable web platform where solutions are model-designed, and the user environment is dynamically model-generated.
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AKM platforms – some KM/KC conclusions Knowledge development and capture is
holistic modeling of enterprise aspects and views,
Knowledge creation is executing meta-modeling tasks and services, extending the contents of the EKA,
Knowledge use and value creation is performing model interrogations, analyses, and work (task and method) execution,
Knowledge management is developing and managing meta-models and architectures, and supporting governance views.
Cognitive and Generative Learning prepares knowledge for practical use as Competence, Skill and Attitude profiles,
Experiences and Wisdom of new ways of working drive new methods and change.
Custom.EKA
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Conclusions
Model-driven architecture is a reality
Model-generated workplaces have been prototyped
Model–designed web-solutions are targetted for 2005
Model-integrated enterprises will soon be a reality
Model-produced software components …..
Model-managed knowledge and web-services ….
Model-performed integrated analysis …….
These models must be Active Knowledge Models !!
shaping the knowledge communities of the future
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