Make Your Business More Flexible with Scalable Business Process Management Solutions
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The document discusses the architecture and implementation of scalable Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, emphasizing the integration of legacy applications and the importance of a cohesive strategy. It highlights the challenges posed by fragmented data and silos within organizations, while introducing the concept of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and the role of Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) in enhancing BPM. Additionally, it explores Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and Complex Event Processing (CEP) as methodologies to improve responsiveness and operational efficiency in business processes.
Make Your Business More Flexible with Scalable Business Process Management Solutions
- 1. Make Your Business More Flexible with Scalable Business Process Management Solutions
- 2. Agenda • Architecture for scalable BPM solutions – Introduction – The role and shortcomings of SOA – Integrating legacy applications with the BPMS – Building high-performance BPM solutions – The role of a business rules management system in your architecture – Architecture to support event-driven business processes to reduce latency in business processes and the company as a whole 2
- 3. Our Speaker Eric Roch • GM and Chief Technologist for Perficient’s Enterprise Application Integration practice • 25+ years of experience in Information Technology • Previous roles include: executive level management, technical architect, and software development in top tier technology organizations including TIBCO Software and Deloitte Consulting. • Strategic planning and commercialization of methodologies and software • Technical architecture for multi-platform application and systems integration at organizations. • Guest speaker and author Find this and other free webinars and presentations at www.Perficient.com/webinars 3
- 4. Architecture Consistency Accidental Layered Rigid Extensible Silo-Oriented Service-Oriented Value in reusable services and also architecture consistency 4
- 5. Barriers to the goal • Information throughout the enterprise • Silos of data • Decentralized control • No one single solution • No cohesive strategy • Legacy systems difficult to make part of the strategy 5 5
- 6. SOA Facts • SOA is about architecture • Does not implicitly improve governance, IT strategy, or business alignment • In practice is often lead by IT architects with little business input or impact • Top-down, strategic SOA has been disappointing • There is more to building modern application than SOA • Total modern architecture includes SOA, BPM, data management, EDA, legacy modernization and Web 2.0 technologies
- 7. SOA Entry Points • Process innovation and optimization via BPM • SOA for application integration • SOA as enabling infrastructure – portals, information management, reusable software components • SOA connectivity – B2B, portal, multi-channel • Information management – information as a service, business intelligence, master data management Pick the path to quick wins and ROI 7
- 8. Enterprise Service Bus Services Backbone • Connect • Mediate Enterprise Service Bus • Transport • Event notification (ESB) • Route • Exception Handling Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) SOAP/HTTP SOAP/JMS EMS/JMS HTTP/S SMTP HTTP FTP EDI Check Check Alert Place Credit Process Notify Issue Customer Quantit Large Order Check Order Customer Invoice Account y Order Abstract the data format and the behavior of legacy systems 8
- 9. The SOA Information Gap ―SOA by itself does nothing to address the question of how data should be managed within this architecture. ... data remains fragmented despite the best efforts to rationalize it. This issue is motivating the creation of a new class of middleware that Forrester calls the information fabric.‖ The Forrester Report Information Fabric: Enterprise Data Virtualization "You will waste your investment in SOA unless you have enterprise information that SOA can exploit." Gartner 9
- 10. Data Virtualization Layer Create Quote Create Estimate Process Flow Process Flow Trigger Trigger Information as a Service (Shared Metadata) Legacy Packaged Application Application Data Warehouse • Data federation for consistent packaging of data • Leverages understanding of metadata relationships • Applies consistent rules to data • Centralized control and maintenance • Flexibility to change information sources and formats
- 11. Business Process Management and Workflow • The term Business Process Management refers to activities performed by businesses to optimize and adapt their processes. • Although it can be said that organizations have always been using BPM, a new impetus based on the advent of software tools which allow for • Direct execution of the business processes without a costly and time intensive development of the required software. • In addition, these tools can also monitor the execution of the business processes, providing managers of an organization with the means to analyze their performance and make changes to the original processes in real-time • BPM has a tight link to componentized and service oriented IT architecture 11
- 12. BPM and Services Human Task Human Task D C Human Task Human Task Workflow Invoke A Invoke F Invoke Human Task Invoke B Service Service Service Service X Y Z U • Workflows implement business processes • Workflow engine navigates the network of activities • Typically invoking automatic (service choreography) or manual activities • Mostly visual programming/modeling 12
- 13. Process Orchestration Layer - BPMS • Designer and repository • Execution engine • Database – case state • Database – case history Execution Engine • Case history reporting – KPIs, task timings, timings by role • Starting a new case is Design State Process resource intensive Repository Management History 13
- 14. Scaling BPM Application Architecture • Does not burden BPMS engine with complex business logic • Does not add business data to BPMS state database • Application and presentation layers are needed • The application layer manages events and transaction state 14
- 15. BRMS Architecture • Manages the lifecycle of the rules • Author rules • Execute stateless rules • Statistical reports about rule execution • Rule execution is embedded in business applications – e.g. a decision service 15
- 16. Using BRMS in BPMS BPMS • Lifecycle of rules are external to the BPMS • Business processes “call” rules e.g. via services Rule • Rules make a stateless Authoring Rule Engine decision • Rules have to have a driving workflow or application Rule Repository
- 17. Event-driven Architecture • Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software architecture pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events • Complex event processing (CEP) consists in processing many events happening across all the layers of an organization, identifying the most meaningful events within the event cloud, analyzing their impact, and taking subsequent action in real time. 17
- 18. CEP Architecture Fine-grain • Consistent operational CEP Business Events Engine rules applied to business events Concept State • Declarative rules and implicit state management Rule • Event driven, non-linear, Bases closed-loop, agile business Logical Events – Notifications, Consequences Actions BPMS ESB processes Event Channel(s) • Component failure (fine grain) – outage (logical /predictive) Flexible Workflows Integration and SOA Business Components System(s) of Record Business Applications 18
- 19. CEP High-level Architecture Patterns • Situation awareness is about "knowing" the state of the product, person, document, or entity of interest at any point in time. • Sense and respond is about detecting some significant fact about the product, person, document or entity of interest, and responding accordingly • Track and trace is about tracking the product, person, document or entity of interest over time and tracing pertinent facts
- 20. CEP Benefits • CEP will manage events, state transitions, and event correlation reducing code in the application layer – Control logic – Persistence logic – Business Rules • Correlated events will drive business processes • The same events can drive operational efficiencies and longer- term strategic decision support • Rules are less complex with the event driven concepts – Persistent business objects – Known context of the event 20
- 21. Business Events and BPM Roadmap • Target critical business events • Identify candidate business (sub)process to automate – benefits/pain-points • Inventory relevant events, rules and concepts • Project LoE(s) and Roadmap • Integrate systems used in key business processes – event enable • Define process activities • Mine candidate rules • Model events, rules and concepts • Iterate through business processes
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