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Business Collaborations

‘A Better Way’

David WelshCollaborative Domain, Inc.

http://www.collaborativedomain.com

Business Collaboration: A better way XML Europe 2002, Barcelona

Presentation Overview

• E-Business Problem

• Critical Success Factors

• Business Collaboration Architecture

• Economic Model

• Overview of ebTWG(ebXML-2) activities

Business Collaboration: A better way XML Europe 2002, Barcelona

Business Problems / Solutions

• Looking for solutions in the right place !!

• Business problems are solved with business solutions.– So, why are we looking in technical places ?– Business defined by Technologists ?

• Decouple definition of business (it’s meaning) from the underlying technology.

Business Collaboration: A better way XML Europe 2002, Barcelona

E-Business Requirements

• Facilitate a structure and environment that permits business to conduct business that is familiar and trusted – a “safe harbor”

• Conduct of business does not require a level of sophistication beyond the skill set of the normal business person – convenient

• Conduct of business is profitable – reduces cost or increases opportunities (execution)

Business Collaboration: A better way XML Europe 2002, Barcelona

Four Critical Success Factors

• Familiar– Activity being conducted is as crucial to business as the

conducting of business itself.

• Trust– Assurance that what they meant to do, is what they did and that it

was done accurately, respecting privacy for information and process

• Convenient– In specification and usage; simplicity

• Profitable– In cost savings or increase opportunity– In conducing business as prescribed

Business Collaboration: A better way XML Europe 2002, Barcelona

Embrace and Deploy Business Solutions

• If a business solution is both familiar and trusted, then business will embrace the solution as viable and useful.

• If a business solution is profitable and convenient, then business will deploy the solution.

Business Collaboration: A better way XML Europe 2002, Barcelona

Prescription, Precision & Reification

• Prescriptive methodology yields predictable results

• Uniformity of notation and precision of semantics provide concise and unambiguous business process definitions

• Reification provides the rigor and precision necessary for high-fidelity transformation between business definitions and technology definitions – no loss of semantics or context

• Technology and Protocol unbiased is the key to easy adaptation and shared solutions.

Business Collaboration: A better way XML Europe 2002, Barcelona

UMM Architectural Structure

Business Domain ViewIndustry Domain Experts

BDV BRV BTV BSV

UMLMetamodel

IFV

RequestingRole RespondingRole

<<description>>

Commercial Transaction Activity

<<CommercialTransactionActivity>>

ActivityName

<<RespondingBusinessActivity>>

ActivityNameDocumentRequest

DocumentResponse

[CONTRACTFAIL]

[SUCCESS]

[CONTROLFAIL]

Business Collaboration ViewBusiness Persons

Business Transaction/Service ViewBusiness Analyst & Developers

Business Transaction

Ontology

EconomicOntology

BusinessOntologyBusiness

Process

Process Areas

Business Areas Business

Operations Map

Business Process View

Transformation Rules

Syntax & Semantic Rules Grammar

Defined According To

Used By

Business Collaboration: A better way XML Europe 2002, Barcelona

Economic Model for e-Business

Economic Contract

Reciprocal Commitments

Reciprocal Commitments

Offers Accepts

System

:

OriginatingService

:

RespondingService

1. request(BusinessAction)

1.1. signal(ReceiptAcknowledgement)

1.2. signal(AcceptanceAcknowledgement)

TechnologyTransport

Initiator

Business Transaction

ResponderResp

Biz Doc

BusinessActivity

Business Events fulfill

commitments.

Definition of document exchange occurs at the BSV level.

Business Transactions View

Business Service View

The conduct of business process and generation of business events occur within the collaboration.

Implementation View

Business Collaboration: A better way XML Europe 2002, Barcelona

Appendix - References

– The Commercial use of Electronic Data Interchange, Section of Business Law American Bar Association, A report and model trading partner agreement, http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/catalog/5070258.html.

– The Commercial use of Electronic Data Interchange, Section of Business Law American Bar Association, A report and model trading partner agreement: http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/catalog/5070258.html

– PART 2 UNIFORM RULES OF CONDUCT FOR INTERCHANGE OF TRADE DATA BY TELETRANSMISSION (UNCID), CHAPTER 2 - Text of the Uniform Rules of Conduct: http://www.unece.org/trade/untdid/texts/d220_d.htm

– UN/ECE RECOMMENDATION No.26, THE COMMERCIAL USE OF INTERCHANGE AGREEMENTS FOR ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE, http://www.unece.org/trade/untdid/texts/d240_d.htm

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Thank you

For information on ebXML Business Collaboration standards:

http://www.ebtwg.orghttp://www.collaborativedomain.com/standards