MDA-Business Transformer - Details
Evolutionary IT Systems
Making the right decision has turned into the main challenge today's IT departments are facing. The market provides numerous tools and technologies, and systems need to be integrated in order to protect investments. Technology lock-in is a major problem, because once you have opted for a specific technology platform the migration to a different middleware system incurs high cost and risk. The IT architecture must account for all these factors. The integration of ARIS Toolset and ArcStyler enables the evolutionary development of IT systems on the basis of a process description. The differentiated business and IT models are coupled in such a way that when technological or process improvements are made to one model, these modifications are automatically reflected in the other - there is no need for time-consuming adaptations. The business process models created with ARIS Toolset can be directly processed by ArcStyler - for the first time it is possible to automatically convert the business logic into an implementation-oriented modeling language, bridging the gap between business dimension and implementation. This enables the automatic generation of optimized code for the target implementation platform (e.g. BEA WebLogic or IBM WebSphere) for applications that are ready to run right away.
Comprehensive Solution Concept
The integration of ARIS Toolset and ArcStyler provides a comprehensive solution for corporate business process management and the efficient development of software systems designed to support these business processes. This innovative solution bridges the gap between management and organization departments on the one hand and the corporate IT departments on the other. Managers, process owners and organization professionals can analyze, design and optimize business processes. IT specialists can use the corresponding models for the design and development of software systems - a seamless and tool-supported process. Business requirements are transformed into software systems without information loss by means of a full-coverage chain of tools within the framework of a consistent architectural style.
Investment Protection
How do corporations proceed in the safe conversion of business and IT? The process starts with ARIS Toolset which allows you to describe your business logic - fully independent of any specific implementation technology. Then you generate the application for the target technology. If you need to accommodate extended or new business processes, you can extend the models and then generate the extended applications. If you need to account for new technologies, you take the existing models and generate the existing application for the new target technology. By decoupling the process and the technology dimensions, your company reduces the complexity of the system development and enables the reusability of your most important asset: your know-how as to the way your organization operates. This allows companies to develop their software in compliance with the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) - the Object Management Group (OMG) standard for future-safe system development.
How it works -
From the Process Model to the Executable Application
The processes are mapped to Business Components which are implemented as Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) - largely automated. ArcStyler supports the convergent transformation of the process model into scalable, Internet-centric software systems. The model-based, generative approach allows developers to fully focus on the business logic instead of having to struggle with the details and the complexity of the technological implementation platform.