Architecture Business Agility through Standards

This presentation explores the growing impact of cloud delivery, mobile computing and social business collaboration on enterprise Information Technology (IT), and Business Process Management (BPM) software specifically. It also examines how enterprises can tap the power of these emerging - and inevitable - technology models to drive high-value process improvement across the enterprise, through the supply chain, and out to customers.

TOGAF is a widely adopted framework for EA which provides a comprehensive approach to the design, planning, implementation, and governance of an enterprise information architecture.

TOGAF defines a large number of artifacts to be produced during an enterprise architecture realization, and recommends the usage of OMG modeling standards such as typically UML or BPMN. Yet, TOGAF is a generic framework, and does not provide a precise way of using modeling standards. Practitioners have to define their own way of implementing TOGAF.

This presentation will show how standard modeling languages, such as UML, BPMN, BPMM and SysML, can be combined and extended in order to support TOGAF, and will present which and how artifacts will be realized using these techniques. It will express how a generic UML/BPMN modeling tool can support TOGAF and support the enterprise repository and continuum.

The ability to create, share, innovate and execute business process models is a key enabler of Business Agility. To achieve such agility process models need to be easily understandable by various stakeholders including business specialists, analysts, IT professionals as well as the software executing them. A general process language was needed. BPMN has been created to be that language.

Since 2004, BPMN's popularity has been rising consistently. It is now regarded as the linga franca of process modeling. In March 2011 a major new version of this standard was released, BPMN 2.0.

Through this tutorial you will acquire a good understanding of BPMN 2.0 expression capacities as well as general tips and best practices on how to use it efficiently.

Phast's Standard Terminology Service (STS) is an implementation of the HL7 Common Terminology Services Release 2 - Service Functional Model Specification (HL7 CTS2 SFM) based on HL7 v3 RIM and the HL7 Data Types R2 (HL7-ISO Data Types). The Mayo Clinic has developed CTS 2 implementation specifications adopted as an international OMG standard. Phast and Mayo clinic have joined efforts in order to contribute from two different standpoints to the HL7 and OMG CTS2 normative implementation specifications.

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