Re: [regrep] Re: 'BCM Mapping with ebXMLRegistry'

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

Chiusano Joseph wrote:

>In the interim, here are some high-level points and registry references
>that I've extracted from the BCM spec.
>
>Thanks,
>Joe
>
>HIGH-LEVEL POINTS:
>
>- The Business-Centric Methodology (BCM) for Enterprise Agility and
>Interoperability is a roadmap for the development and implementation of
>procedures that produces effective, efficient, and sustainable
>interoperability mechanisms. 
>
>- The methodology emphasizes ‘Business First’; shifting power and
>responsibility to the users -- customers and business domain experts. 
>
>- The BCM task is to provide an overall roadmap for developing
>interactions between collaboration partners and within Communities of
>Interest (CoI). The roadmap can be used for new development, provid ing
>guidance in defining requirements for the procurement of products, and
>for providing the structure for interfacing to extend legacy application
>and services. 
>
>- The BCM offers an approach for managers facing the problem of tying 
>together disparate systems and services. The approach extends the
>traditional Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) model which only
>provides internal viewpoints and reengineering of an organization’s
>processes. 
>
>- The intent of the BCM is to provide flexible guidance to those
>tackling the difficult challenge of interoperability at both tactical
>and strategic levels. For instance, alignment of financial events 
>between organizations take prime importance when developing an
>enterprise accounting architecture, whereas ‘verbs’ or services take
>center stage when developing a series of shared core capabilities for an
>advanced logistics distributed solution. 
>
>- The BCM provides template prompts for a prescribed set of views, with
>the business manager determining the applicability of each such view to
>the specific business requirements. 
>
>REGISTRY REFERENCES:
>
>- The BCM promotes an architecture that supports the idea of global
>knowledge. 
>
>- Architectures such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) may read
>and/or write to common registry/database(s). 
>
>- Business knowledge is captured in a registry and forms the business
>library above [see spec p.40 for reference]. 
>
>- The registry contains data, process, and other business artifact
>definitions including relationships and cross-references as expressed in
>business terminology. 
>
>- The registry is the bridge between the specific business or industry
>language and the knowledge expressed by the organization’s models in a 
>more generalized industry neutral language. 
>
>  
>
Am I correct to assume then, that BCM will never produce a normative 
spec. Instead they will produce reccomendations and establish processes 
(not to be confused with BP) for automating B2B. To use an analogy is 
BCM like MBA while ebXML Registry is like an MSCS. Apologies in advance 
for the silly analogy but all I am trying to do is to understand the 
concept behind BCM. Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Farrukh


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