Smart Process Apps on Interstage BOP

Editor's Notes

• #3: Our mission is to improve business operations with world-class process-oriented software that allows customers to change and innovate and get to market much more quickly. And we do this by achieving significantly shorter development cycles, with significantly lower costs.
• #4: Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
• #5: Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
• #6: Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
• #7: Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
• #8: Here I wanted to illustrate differences in change cycles in a typical business. At the top of the slide, you can view the relative frequency of change cycles to the business side. Business strategy changes frequenly – you have competitive pressures, there is globalization. And internal staff reorganizations can occur with even more frequency. Markets and business conditions and opportunities change dynamically, and at a rapid rate. To exploit changing markets, the business has to respond with agility and speed.At the bottom of the slide, you see that IT infrastructure and supporting business applications tend to change after several years. There is some variance, but once implemented and put into production, these systems are used for years. The problem is that technology cannot accommodate or address business change cycles. This is where Interstage BOP comes in. Our technology reconciles the variances between these two types of cycles. With Interstage BOP, through a Web Services layer you can talk to existing systems and orchestrate and create new systems to respond to the change cycles at the top. Interstage BOP is the technology and composition layer that lets you: connect disparate legacy systems add new functionality and flexibility to existing IT infrastructure improve operations continuously to respond to changing business needsHow does Interstage BOP help your business become more agile? In three ways:First, business users are empowered to collaborate with IT in process design, increasing the speed and accuracy of new systems to support the business.Second, Interstage BOP is a truly flexibile, adaptable platform – designed for change.Last, BOP is easy-to-use – by business and technical end users.
• #9: ERP Agility is a Fujitsu software solution category that uses Interstage Business Operations Platform (BOP) in combination with ERP systems to integrate, customize, and extend the reach and value of your ERP investments. It has a number of different use cases that we will discuss later, but all of them are grouped under the solution name ERP Agility.
• #11: This view of the technology stack provides a bit more detail on the elements of Interstage BOP: At the SOA layer, it includes Master Data Management for data governance and quality At the business process layer, it includes capabilities for Case Management of unstructured and dynamic processes, as well as Rules Management and Business Activity Monitoring And the Composite Application Framework includes tooling to address user interface and task development and managementAdditional technical detail from Jaideep:SOA Grid aka Smart Services Grid - This is the platform that ensures that all of the services provided by and/or deployed in BOP are accessible and available for usage at all times. It leverages the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for actually routing the messages/requests to and from the various components within the BOP. The SOA Grid makes available the deployed web services for building applications as well as allows management of the services. The "smartness" in the grid comes from its knowledge of - what and where all the application connectors are in BOP- leverage the load balancing logic of the various "nodes" within the BOP- automatic detection of failed nodes and rerouting their requests- leverage MDM for automatic reconciliation and synchronization of shared data  Collaborative Workspace - Collaborative Workspace (CWS) enables a “Compose and Assemble” paradigm by bringing together all the necessary logic into a single solution development environment. It simplifies the development and deployment of Web Services using a model driven approach.It provides seamless collaboration between business experts and IT users in a unified working environment to build, test, and package up the applications for deployment.  Master Data ManagementThe MDM component of BOP provides the single consolidated view of the master data ensuring that the source from which this data was derived is a trusted and reliable source. It also ensures that the processes that rely on this data continue to work efficiently and effectively even in the wake of changes to the underlying data. MDM facilitates management of the complete lifecycle of the shared data within BOP as well as implement strong governance to ensure appropriate access to the data. It supports the creation of the common representation of the data that can be shared across multiple systems as well as the availability of reusable services to access and manipulate this data. Business Services - A Business Service is a business-level building block representing a specific business function that is aligned with an end user's view of the business and capabilities it provides. It encapsulates processes and Web Services whose behavior is adapted at run-time, based on the business context and service request of the user or system making that request. Business Services help decouple or abstract business logic from multiple locations into a centralized location, so that changes—and their impact—can be more easily understood and executed.
• #12: What makes Interstage BOP different?First, the product is a unified, single, platform for integration, business process management, and composite application development. This is our drumbeat.Our Collaborative Workspace allows IT and the business side to collaborate in process initiatives – this is a big advantage.In our BPM layer, we support any form of workflow – including Case Management and instances of hybrid processes.We are truly multi-tenant, truly scalable. And Interstage BOP can be deployed over the Cloud in just a few hours, providing a rapid application development environment. Interstage BOP has been benchmark tested in very high-volume transaction processing environments like commercial banking and has performed flawlessly.Finally, our architecture is highly secure and available, and comforms to all industry standards for an open platform.
• #14: As markets change, information for making decisions needs to change. Companies need to combine existing data and system assets in new ways with new systems and capabilities, and they need to do it quickly and easily.Interstage BOP lets you leverage existing and new assets in exciting, innovative ways. At its Composite Application Framework layer, business users are enabled to self-assemble business mash-ups using all manner of information, whether sourced internally or externally. Mix and match structured data from an internal system like ERP with external data, say, from Google Maps. It all provides a rich way of delivering new, actionable information to business consumers and providing renewed value to existing IT investments.
• #15: Now, to drill down a bit more into the different capabilities of Interstage BOP, let’s start with Dynamic Case Management.Not every process in a business setting are completely structured and repeatable. Some are, and these are good targets for traditional business process management. Others, however, involve knowledge work, judgment, and collaboration; these processes cannot be reliably modeled in advance. To streamline these processes types, case management is required.Interstage BOP includes Case Management to address business processes like claims processing, customer service, legal, and healthcare scenarios that involve flexible decision-making and process changes, some of them ad hoc.So in addition to its core capabilities to support traditional BPM automation, Interstage BOP also can handle this new, emerging form of process automation and improvement.
• #16: Over time, many businesses make organic and significant investments in their IT infrastructure. Adding to this complexity, different corporate locations may invest in different systems, and at the corporate level, merger and acquisition activities may take place regularly. What can result is a massive investment in IT systems that don’t talk to each other.Interstage BOP addresses this with its enterprise-scale Service-Oriented Architecture. The platform includes a SOA grid to deliver connectivity, advanced integration, and business services to help increase the value of existing IT investments.This is essential to initiatives such as legacy system modernization, extensions to ERP systems, and orchestrating new processes across legacy or hybrid applications. This means you have the means to adapt rapidly to changing business needs while saving the costs of custom application developmentand abandoning your exiting infrastructure.
• #17: Master Data Management in BOP ensures data quality, consistency, and governance in your business operations. It reduces the complexity of data access and aggregation, and by improving data quality, Master Data Management provides better, more complete information for your key business processes, such as customer service, cross-selling and up-selling initiatives.
• #18: Interstage BOP is available to you as on-premise, private cloud, public cloud, or as a hybrid solution. You get choice – use the cloud, don’t use the cloud, or move to the cloud when it makes business sense. Interstage BOP gives you the best of all worlds – make use of innovative cloud applications or application extensions in combination with traditional, secured behind the firewall applications and legacy systems.
• #19: Siemens, Tata Motors, and Wipro are three large enterprises that have deployed Business Operations Platform to extend the business logic and data in their SAP systems to trading partners and customers – doing it quickly, flexibly, and cost-effectively. They use BOP as the layer for building solutions for their extended enterprises.
• #20: Over time, the data that populates your ERP systems grows into a valuable information store that holds potential value for a broader audience within your enterprise than just your ERP users. Embraer, Li-Ning, and Nongfu Spring are three companies that have used BOP to build flexible, mobile, and process-driven applications on top of SAP, thereby disseminating valuable information and functionality to new users within the enterprise.
• #21: Schneider Electric, Tata Steel, and Essar use BOP to integrate diversified IT environments that include SAP. Like many organizations, they have a multitude of disparate systems that support their businesses, and they understand the leverage they can gain through better information sharing – across systems. They use BOP to effect these integrations because it is a much more flexible, easy-to-use, and cost-effective alternative to customizing SAP using its native development tools.