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Business Collaborations
‘A Better Way’
David Welsh
Collaborative Domain, Inc.
http://www.collaborativedomain.com
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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
BDV
BRV
BTV
BSV
Syntax & Semantic Rules Grammar
Transformation Rules
UML
Metamodel
IFV
Defined According To
Business Domain View
Industry Domain Experts
Used By
Proces
s
Areas
Business
Areas
Business
Process
Business
Operations
Map
Business
Ontology
Business Process View
Business Collaboration View
Business Persons
Economic
Ontology
Business Transaction/Service View
Business Analyst & Developers
Business
Transaction
Ontology
Business Collaboration: A better way
XML Europe 2002, Barcelona
Economic Model for e-Business
Economic Contract
Offers
Accepts
Reciprocal Commitments
Reciprocal Commitments
The conduct of business process and
generation of business events occur
within the collaboration.
Business Events fulfill
commitments.
Initiator
Responder
Resp
Business
Activity
Business Transaction
Business Transactions View
Biz Doc
Definition of document exchange
occurs at the BSV level.
:
:
OriginatingServi
ce
RespondingSer vi
ce
1.
request(Business Action
)
Business Service View
1.1.
signal(ReceiptAcknowledgement)
1.2.
signal(AcceptanceAcknowledgement)
Syste
m
Technology
Transport
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
Business Collaboration: A better way
XML Europe 2002, Barcelona
Thank you
For information on ebXML Business Collaboration standards:
http://www.ebtwg.org
http://www.collaborativedomain.com/standards
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