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OAGIS Project Definition
• Virtual Business Object (VBO)
• WG Chair; Frank Heinrich – iBASEt
• February 2014
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Agenda
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Problem Statement
Proposed Scope
Key Deliverables Summary
Scenario Diagrams & Business Workflow
Analysis of existing and new attributes, example
business processes
BOD’s/Nouns to be added
BODs to be changed
Project Team
Planned Schedule
Assumptions, Dependencies, and Issues
Outside Resources
Questions
Next Steps
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Problem Statement
Virtual Business Object WG
• Virtual Business Object
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Object that has multiple parts owned by different owners
Single Master Repository solutions do not address all the issues
• Need to identify which properties of an object are the
responsibility of which owning or originating systems
• Need to identify what use or operations are allowable on the
properties by non-owner systems.
• Need to identify business process or usage patterns that are of
interest
• Some aspects may be addressable by the current *_agency
attributes
• Some additional attributes or elements may be needed
• The WG will also look at something to help control/explain the
relations between different BODs
• For example, update the Item Master before processing the
PO or
• What do I do if I get an update to the BOM and the Item
does not exist yet
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Proposed Scope Virtual Business Object WG
• Focus on identifying example business requirements, processes,
and use patterns, identifying Object attributes or elements
needed to support the processes.
• Analyze OAGIS Objects existing capability to support identified
business requirements and processes
• Identify new attributes or elements needed to support identified
business requirements and processes
• Target limited examples of existing OAGIS Objects
• Look at addressing the relationship between BODs
• Does the solution need to be instance specific or some other
method not yet defined?
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Key Deliverables Summary
• Narrative Problem Statement with example
application
• Scenario diagrams with narrative illustrating
requirements
• Analysis of existing OAGIS capability
• Proposed enhancements - added attributes
and/or elements, (to be backward compatible)
• Could possibly be a new object but may be a
new BOD
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Scenario Diagrams
• Scenario diagrams with additional narrative
will be developed to illustrate the Business
Context, and related business processes
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May be expressed in either UML or BPMN
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Analysis of existing and new attributes
and example business processes
• Existing and proposed attributes will be
analyzed in the context of the identified
business processes.
• Note: Scenario Diagrams and narrative will be
developed to illustrate business process use
of the existing and new proposed attributes.
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Nouns and Verbs to be added
• None anticipated at this time
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BODs to be changed
• Attributes proposed to be added
• Initially target as examples
- ItemMaster
- BillofMaterial
- Other?
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Workgroup Members
OAGIS VBO WG
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Frank Heinrich – iBASEt - Workgroup Leader
Michael Rowell - Oracle
Serm – NIST
Others
- TBD
• OAGi Staff
- Ralph Hertlein
- Jim Wilson
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Planned Schedule
• Begin meetings on March 14, 2014
• Meet bi-weekly on Friday at 11 AM
Eastern Time
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Start on March 14 Friday 11 EST
Will share time slot with the Next Meeting which
will move to bi-weekly
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Assumptions, Dependencies and Issues
• OAGIS 10.1 candidate, will not affect
backward compatibility
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Availability of OAGi Members time
Availability of OAGi Staff time
• Dependencies
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None known at this time
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Outside Resources Required
• None known at this time
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Next Steps
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Get Policy Board approval
Call for additional Team Members
Set up Google Drive
Obtain member signatures
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Questions?
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OAGi - Architecture Council – OAGIS VBO Work
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