Transcript The Model Driven (R)evolution

Better, Faster, Cheaper ACH:
An MDA Approach
Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D.
Chairman and CEO
Object Management Group, Inc.
That’s the Great Thing about Standards
• The financial payments world is a mess.
• “Old” protocols: SWIFT FIN, FEDwire, Visa,
Mastercard, dozens of ACH protocols
• “New” protocols: SWIFTnet and the rest of the
XML family: TWIST, IFX, FIX, etc.
• Are we replacing a mess of proprietary protocols
with a mess of proprietary standards?
• Aren’t all of these payments and ACH standards
special cases of a general concept: secure,
reliable financial information transfer
XML Changes Everything!
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Throw out those pesky objects!
Everything old is boring!
All problems are now solved!
All your software pain gone forever!
It’s a REVOLUTION!
Everything Old is New Again
• Unfortunately I’m old enough to remember
– Artificial Intelligence
– Object Technology
– Distributed Computing
– XML
– Web Services
– Enterprise Service Bus
– Service Oriented Architecture
• This technology does everything! It makes
miracles, changes water to wine…
OK, Calm Down
• Got that out of your system?
• Have we seen this before?
OMG’s Vision
The Global Information Appliance
Not too bad for electrical power
…but a mess for telephony!
OMG’s Mission Since 1989
• Develop an architecture, using object
technology, for distributed application
integration, guaranteeing:
– reusability of components
– interoperability & portability
– basis in commercially available software
• Specifications freely available
• Implementations exist
• Member-controlled not-for-profit
Who Are OMG?
ArtinSoft
Fujitsu
John Deere
Bank of America
GSA
Lockheed Martin Oracle
BEA Systems
Hewlett Packard MITRE
Sandia Labs
Borland
Hitachi
Motorola
SAP
Boeing
Hyperion
NASA
SAS Institute
CA
IBM
Sun Microsystems
Compuware
IONA
National
Archives
DaimlerChrysler
io Software
EDS
Kabira
Eurocontrol
Kennedy Carter
NATO
Nokia
NUWC
NTT DoCoMo
OASIS
SWIFT
Unisys
VISA
W3C
What is the Priority?
Analysis, Design, Development,
Test & Deployment: 10%
Maintenance & Integration: 90%
Lesson: Software lifecycle costs are in the back end.
What is the Point?
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Reuse
Interoperability
Portability
Maintainability
Productivity
Business Alignment
Because Otherwise We’re All Just…
…roadkill on
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highway!!
We Must Be Able To…
• Capture enduring design
• Separate capture of process from
engineering of implementation
• Automate the latter as much as possible
• Design-in agility
• The key ideas: enduring, automated and
more importantly agility
The Model Driven Architecture
• OMG’s Model Driven Architecture (MDATM)
initiative is aimed precisely at this problem
• You have an opportunity to increase your bottom
line by integrating your assets
• Industry standards support that goal by futureproofing your application design
• The MDA will help you integrate the mix you have
today, and give you an architecture to support the
unexpected
• Focus on integrating legacy applications
• Ensure smooth integration of COTS applications
• Models are testable and simulatable
• The aim: a 20-year software architecture
Model Driven Architecture
http://www.omg.org/mda/
Model Driven Architecture
• An initiative of the Object Management
Group (OMG)
• A brand for tools based on OMG’s UML
and MOF open standards
• A set of specifications defined by OMG’s
open, worldwide process.
MDA Adoption in Verticals
• Vertical market groups are thriving on MDA
approach, both within OMG and other groups:
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Financial Services
Electronic Commerce
Healthcare
Life Sciences Research
Manufacturing
Space & Ground Systems
Telecommunications
Legacy Integration
ISO 20022, UN/CEFACT
MDA is Proven in Software Development
• Many excellent proofs-of-concept:
– Banks, railroads, trading, insurance,
manufacturing, healthcare, etc.
– Adopted by UN/CEFACT, SWIFT, ACORD,
HL7 and other key standards players
• Careful studies prove the point
– The Middleware Company (TMC)
– Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
MDA: More than Software
• In the last year, MDA has been used to
apply UML to a growing number of new
digital infrastructures:
– Systems engineering
– Business process modeling
– Business rules modeling
– Data/information modeling
– Process definitions in patents
• Software was just the first application
UML Modeling is Widespread
• Even outside OMG’s own 18 verticalmarket standardization groups, MDA is
being used to leverage UML process
description in many other settings:
– ACORD: insurance industry standards
– HL7: healthcare standards
– SWIFT: financial payments interoperability
SWIFT: Major Financial Player
• Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication established in 1973 by 239 banks in
15 countries
• Now serving 7,650 institutions in 200 countries, peaking
at almost 10 million transactions a day and totaling 2
trillion transactions a year, with 99.99% uptime;
upgrading in 2004 to worldwide IP-based SWIFTNet
• Through automation, reduces members costs for
Payments, Securities, Foreign Exchange, Treasury and
Trade
• Owned by financial industry members
• Based on open standards
• Global financial community’s foremost messaging
infrastructure
SWIFT Leverage of UML
• SWIFT now uses a three-layered approach to
defining standards, with processes defined in
UML and (currently) delivered as XML Schemas
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Business-oriented approach to definition
Formal involvement of all transaction parties
Involvment of industry experts
Implementation-neutral
Defined in UML and automatically translated
Allows rapid changes to infrastructure and agile
response to changing business requirements
SWIFT Standards Process
Understand the
business
Business Analysis
What is the
communication
problem
Requirements Analysis
Define the
Logical
solution
Refine the
solution
Logical
Technical
Analysis
Design
Design
Physical
implementation
(automated) Technical Implementation
Effect on ACH
• How is all this relevant to ACH?
– SWIFT’s SWIFTnet protocols are an example
of a protocol generated from business models
– A general definition of financial transfer can
be used as a “Rosetta Stone” for all of the
“old” and “new” protocols
– In the face of constant infrastructure change,
it’s the only hope
– We can’t keep rebuilding all of our systems
every time some technology has a good idea!
OMG Compliance Consortium
• The fastest-growing problem in IT
– Regulatory compliance grows more
complicated by the day
– Example: Sarbanes-Oxley in the US
• Standard models to ensure compliance
• Standardized best practices
• Newsletter, workshops, webinars,
seminars, research, support,…
UML/MDA are Transforming
• Not only are UML and MDA about
transformation, but they are transforming
business processes in the digital
infrastructure
• For more information:
– MDA: http://www.omg.org/mda/
– OMG: http://www.omg.org/
– Soley: [email protected]