Getting Business Value from
Semantic Models
12 March, 2012
Pete Rivett, CTO Adaptive, OMG Board and Architecture Board
pete.rivett@adaptive.com
Adaptive
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Leader in Enterprise Repository Technology
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Leader in MDA and OMG standards
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Selected by EDMC to manage FIBO
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In use by blue chip companies in information-intensive
industries:
– Banking
– Insurance
– Medical
– Telecoms
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Motivation
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New capabilities are great but people will not throw
away existing investments
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Need a solution that will add value to what people are
using today
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Value regardless of whether the platform is traditional
or semantics-based
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Model Driven Architecture
MDA Distilled
Security, Performance,
Testing, Compliance
Modeling
Application, Service,
Event Modeling
Information Modeling
Process Modeling
Business Modeling
(motivation, Intent..)
 MDA is an approach not a standard
 Coalesces best modeling practices with
a unifying model framework
 Code generation is not essential
 Advocates investment in models not
code
Other.
.
MOF/XMI
Facilities for defining, interchanging, transformation
and managing
All models and metamodels
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Models Across the Enterprise
Stewardship
Visualization
Strategic
Planning
Change
Business
Terms
Business Rules
mapping
Logical / Physical
Models
Import
Export
Glossary
Policies
Data Rules
mapping
Process
Models
Application
Portfolio
Metrics
RDBMS
XML
OO Record
Physical
Physical
Schemas
Models
Data Quality
Transformation mappings
Security
Reports
Reports
OLAP
BI
Versioning
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Collaboration
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Enable Different Roles
Producers and Consumers of a Business Glossary
Legal,
Compliance
Subject Matter
Experts
Define the
P&C Concepts,
Rules
Vendors,
System
Integrators, Partners..
Business
Glossary,
Rules
Business Process
Modelers
Business Analysts,
Data Modelers,
DBAs, Data Integration,
Data Quality,
ETL Users
Application,
Service Developers
Business Glossary <> Information Models
Business
Glossary,
Rules
Conceptual
Model /
Ontology
OWL,
RDF…
Logical
Data Model
(LDM)
XMI
Relational
Model
DDL
Dimensional
Model
DDL
XML Schema
Model
XSD
Traceability
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Steps You Can Start Today
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Import FIBO - or any semantic model
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Use as basis of business vocabulary
– Extend with or map to local dictionaries
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Harvest existing models and technology
– Operational Databases
– Data warehouses
– Applications
– Data models
– Data movement
– Message formats (XML Schemas)
– Business reports
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Map models to FIBO according to business priority
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Enterprise IT Landscape
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How does a Risk Officer Benefit?
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Adaptive Management Capabilities
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Views
– Role-based
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Visualization
–
A model tells a thousand pictures
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Collaboration
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Versioning and workspaces
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Access control
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Workflow for governance
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Events with subscription
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Auditing
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Integration
– Proprietary and standard-based
– Harvesting and generation
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FIBO Repository Environment
(from FIBO standard)
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Overall Solution
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Benefits
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Add semantic dimension to existing technology
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Make it easy to understand and integrate
– While retaining technical rigor
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Enable collaboration and governance
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Reconcile silo’d definitions in departments, XML
Schemas, data models – and even different standards
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Data quality defined in one place
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Ability to flag data movement issues
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Regulatory compliance (your definition is the
regulator’s)
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Summary
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You don’t need to wait
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Using OMG standards, including ODM, you can
integrate ontologies with existing enterprise
technologies
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And manage it in one place
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Provide stability as technology changes over time
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