ICWS/SERVICES 2008
Tutorial 1 & 2:
Common Business Components and Services toward More Agile and Flexible Industry Solutions and Assets

Min Luo, Ge Jin, Jia Tan, Lei Zhang
Global Business Solution Center
IBM Global Business Services

Abstract:
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In many decades, many organizations, especially large consulting companies, have been designing, implementing and managing business solutions for every industry around the globe.. But due to numerous limitations in process, tooling and skills, most of those solutions were made very specific to individual industry and client needs at its early design stage. Therefore, reuse and more importantly, managing the ever changing business requirements, become almost impossible.

Service-orientation and architecture, model-driven business development provides us a new and powerful approach to facilitate asset based industry solution design and development. To further accelerate this, this tutorial will discuss an innovative approach that take advantage of many proven best software engineering practices, from object/component based technology, meta-data driven architecture types (archetypes) that are used to model the common structural and in some cases non-structural business entities such as Customer, Product, Payment, etc. In order to address the consequences introduced by abstracting those common elements out of the specific industry model and be able to enable easy and meta-data based transformation, we properly decompose business components/services into a multi-layered business architecture.

Therefore, process/components/services can be decomposed accordingly to facilitate the decomposition and abstraction, while maintaining certain level of necessary traceability across various artifacts. In the realization phase, existing assets/operational systems will be mapped and transformed to the required business components and services to best leverage those existing valuable industry/client investments.

To support such a SOA based, model and business driven development process, existing tooling, especially the necessary transformation and integration capability, needs to be significantly enhanced. This tutorial will also present some recommendation based on some recent design and implementation，and they could be used to guide future tooling alignment and integration effort across software modeling, implementation and solution products.

In addition, we will present how to leverage existing internal or external assets or product offerings and the open industry reference models and standards (such as ACCORD, ebXML, ARTS/IxRetail…) .

This work is based on authors’ collective experience in leading the large end-to-end client engagements across many industries, while promoting various industry leading software engineering best practices.

Speaker Short Bio:
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Dr. Min Luo is currently an Executive Certified Architect for IBM SWG’s
Strategy and Technology。He has over 18 years of IT industry experience
with more than 10 years of managing large-scale, whole life cycle of
software application design and development. He fully understands the
impact of various technologies on business, and knows how to effectively
and efficiently apply them to solve large scale and complex real world
problems. He is an early adopter, advocator and educator of object-oriented
analysis and design, component-based, and service-oriented computing and
incremental development methodology. He has successfully designed and
implemented solutions for transportation, financial, manufacturing
industries and large-scale government social services projects. He also has
expertise in designing and developing integrated data warehouses with
on-line analytical processing and data mining, application of various
operations research and management science techniques.

He served as the Chief Architect for IBM’s Global Business Solution Center
– Greater China Area and also worked in IBM Global Services’ Center of
Excellence for Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services as a founding
member. He also worked as an Executive Architect for IBM SWG’s Application
Integration and Middleware, responsible for establishing industry solutions
and frameworks for the distribution industry. He also served in the GBS’s
Enterprise Architecture and Technology as Sr. Certified Architect for over
5 years. Before joining IBM, he served two Fortune 500 transportation
companies as Manager, Sr. Manager, and Director, responsible for
transportation network planning and technology.

As a full time or part time faculty member at several universities, he also
has taught undergraduate and graduate Computer Science courses for over 8
years.