Mauro Isaja (ENGINEERING) Jesus Benedicto (ATOS)

1. Welcome to the
FITMAN Specific Enabler Webinar on
Collaborative Business Process Management
3rd December 2013
Mauro Isaja – mauro.isaja@eng.it
Jesus Benedicto – jesus.benedicto@atos.net

2. Introduction
• The FITMAN "Collaborative Business Process
Management" Specific Enabler (FITMAN‐BPM) is
a platform for the semantically‐enhanced design
and execution of Business Processes in complex
or distributed organizations
• Targeted at the Virtual Factory manufacturing
domain or at Large Enterprises
• Entirely web‐based: no software to be installed
locally by users, access from anywhere
• Based on the “Light Semantic Composition”
Generic Enabler from ATOS Spain (COMPEL)
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3. Feature highlights
• Model a business process by composing existing
services within a graphical, standard based
development environment
• Select existing web services from a catalogue to match
process tasks, using semantics (i.e., annotations) in the
scope of a reference ontology
• Bind process tasks to web services, to automate their
execution at runtime
• Assign responsibility for human tasks to specific users
and/or roles
• Run your business processes on the platform, interact
with human tasks through a web UI, monitor and
manage your process instances
• Seamless integration with corporate IT environment
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4. Benefits
• The development of business process in a
formal notation requires multi‐disciplinary
teams, to share the domain‐specific and ICT
knowledge required to implement them.
• FITMAN‐BPM simplifies this collaboration:
– Allows a clear separation of concerns
– Applies user profiling
– Provides user‐friendly tools
– It is universally accessible
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5. Technologies
• Base software assets
– Liferay Portal Server [www.liferay.com]
– Activiti BPM Platform [www.activiti.org]
– Sesame2 Ontology Server [www.openrdf.org]
– Jasig Central Authentication Service [www.jasig.org/cas]
• Leveraged open standards
– Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0
[www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0]
– Resource Description Framework (RDF)
[www.w3.org/RDF]
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6. Architectural overview
Federated SSO
Corporate Users
Web Portal
Collaboration
Web Tools
Wiki
Forum
Doc Mgmt
Active Directory
COMPEL GE
LDAP
Persistence Layer
Portal Users
Web Portal DB
BPM DB
Semantic KB
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7. Provisioning
• As a Virtual Machine image
– KVM version: deploy on any 64bit Linux system
– VirtualBox version: deploy on any Linux, Windows,
MacOS system
• As a service (SaaS)
– Single, shared instance as an experimentation
playground ‐ TBD
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8. Terms and conditions
• Within the scope of the FI‐PPP Programme
– Free use of the software for members till the end
of the Programme
– FITMAN provides free support to members till the
end of the Programme
• Out of FI‐PPP Programme scope
– All software assets are free and Open Source
– COMPEL is licensed by ATOS under GPL v3 terms
– Non‐COMPEL components have various OS
licensing terms, but GPL v3 still applies to the
overall product
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9. COMPEL GE Presentation

10. COMPEL Motivation
Multidisciplinary teams (gap)
• Roles
• Business Analysts
vs
• Service Integrators
• Disperse Knowledge
• Domain specific business
processes and conceptualisations
vs
• SOA-based technologies: WS*,
WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, XML/XSD,
JAX-WS APIs, etc

11. COMPEL BPM limitations
Technical limitations
• Discoverability/Advertising
• Very limited uptake of IoS
• Obsolete service registries (UDDI)
• Incorporating new trends in SoC/IoS: ROA, REST,
Mashups, etc.
• BPM vs SOA composition
languages
• BPMN vs BPEL
• Standard graphical
notation
• Technology and
tooling complexity

12. COMPEL Challenges
Scaling to the Web of Services (IoS)
Web 2.0 Crowd-sourcing
Assisted (automated) BPM at design and run time
• Automating discovery:
• Exact vs approximate
matchmaking
• Automating work and data
flow
• Dynamic runtime
• Late binding, rebinding, self*
capabilities (healing,
compensation, etc)

13. COMPEL The solution
• COMPEL is an open and multiplatform solution
to design business processes (BPMN, BPEL) by
aggregation of SOA based services.
• Processes are designed by business analysts. The
processes and their tasks are defined using their
domain vocabulary (process semantics).
• For each task, Light Semantic Composition
suggests the most matching services as far as
description is concerned and the user makes his
choice.
• The services are located in a centralised
repository where providers register and describe
them semantically
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14. COMPEL The editor
• Coarse‐grain light semantics for
– Task description, Process description, requirements,
preferences, context
• Domain ontology based annotations
• Exact and approximate dynamic discovery
• Semi‐automatic late binding
• Automated data flow generation and executable BPMN
generation
• Registry for process annotations and service descriptions
• Execution of the business process (through GUI & REST
API)
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15. COMPEL GE Demo
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16. Q & A
Mauro Isaja – mauro.isaja@eng.it
Jesus Benedicto – jesus.benedicto@atos.net
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17. Thank you!
Mauro Isaja – mauro.isaja@eng.it
Jesus Benedicto – jesus.benedicto@atos.net