Helping bridge the business-IT gap The ODIS Model-Driven Business Transformation (MDBT) micropractice focuses on closing the gap between business initiatives and their IT-based solutions. It does so by facilitating the convergence of separate trends in the business domain and the software domain — componentization and modeling.
Designed to improve the connection among people, information, applications and systems, MDBT brings a more reliable, repeatable and systematic approach to the important task of creating business-driven IT solutions. Such an approach can help reduce costs, speed time to development and more effectively address business requirements.
The secret lies in the use of formal models — both business and IT — and in their structured, partially automatic transformation and linkages.
Current applications include enhancing the value of the powerful IBM Component Business ModelTM (CBM) analysis technique, accelerating business process transformation, and standardizing business services and common components for business transformation outsourcing.
As technologies mature, models are expected to become valuable, reusable and competitive assets that can help accelerate the deployment of new composite applications. Models are also expected to help increase the visibility of enterprise performance, improve the manageability of business operations and increase return on investment.
Model-Driven Business Transformation solutions can help companies bridge the business-IT gap in a systematic manner, and rapidly and cost-effectively adapt to changing conditions.
- For a nationwide healthcare insurance company, this meant creating and implementing a flexible provider credentialing process.
- For a pharmaceutical company, this meant modeling and prototyping how it could industrialize its drug discovery process.
- For an IBM business unit, this meant getting a franchisee servicing business designed, implemented and running is less than six months.
- For an international bank, this meant bringing a cross-region money transfer product to market in less than six months.
Specialties
- Component Business Model is a proprietary tool that employs advanced analytical techniques to create and reuse component-based transformation roadmaps and associated processes, metrics and American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) benchmarks.
- Artifact-centric Operation Modeling is a differentiated, value-added technique designed to help optimize business processes by complementing traditional activity-based analysis with business-level information-based analysis.
- Component Business Model – Service-Oriented Architecture (CBM-SOA) (model-driven) is a structured approach and tool set designed to help connect component modeling to downstream process models (e.g., IBM WebSphereŽ Business Integration Modeler) through business service modeling at business and IT levels informed by Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) and other techniques.
- Business Process Transformation is a collection of novel techniques that employ linked business and IT models to help generate automation and integration code directly from structured models of the business intent.
- Business Transformation Outsourcing/Business Performance Transformation Services Enablement (BTO/BPTS Enablement) is a flexible, IT-intensive service that helps in such areas as business process design, rapid application integration (RAI), model-driven methods, tools and runtime technologies
- Performance Monitoring employs modeling, analysis and monitoring techniques to help instrument the automation systems of a business and correlate the results with strategic objectives.
These specialties do not represent all the capabilities within this micropractice, but are among the many areas in which ODIS can assist with collaboration. Business leaders with ideas or custom solutions in mind may contact ODIS or schedule a Think Tank Session with IBM researchers.
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