SOA, BPM & Cloud Computing: What Comes Next?

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1 SOA, BPM & Cloud Computing: What Comes Next? Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D. Chairman and CEO

2 A Story from My Hometown Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 Response from Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Virginia, Atlantic City hundreds of firefighters Burned two days, 60 hectares (140 acres)

3 Standards Are Important Sometimes they have life-or-death consequences Successful standards start, maintain and build ecosystems & businesses Standards are product differentiators: Marks of quality Expertise (certification, validation) Interoperability, Portability & Reuse

4 Heterogeneity is Permanent Programming languages ~3 million COBOL programmers ~1.6 million VB programmers ~1.1 million C/C++ programmers Operating systems Unix, MVS, VMS, MacOS, Windows (all 8!), PalmOS Windows 3.1: it s still out there! Embedded devices (mobile, set-top, etc.) Networks Ethernet, ATM, IP, SS7, Firewire, USB Bluetooth, b, HomeRF

5 The integration picture is always changing Executive decisions, mergers & acquisitions have a way of surprising us

6 Bringing Down Cost of Adaptation

7 OMG s Mission Since 1989 Develop an architecture, using appropriate technology, for modeling & distributed application integration, guaranteeing: reusability of components interoperability & portability basis in commercially available software Specifications freely available Implementations exist Member-controlled not-for-profit

8 Who Are OMG? Adaptive AIST Alion Science Atego Borland Boeing CA CSC EADS Deloitte Ericsson Fujitsu Harris Hewlett-Packard Hitachi IBM IHI Heavy Ind. JARA Microsoft MITRE Mitsubishi Electric NEC NIST Selex No Magic Siemens NTT Data Soluta.net NTT DoCoMo Technologic Arts Northrop GrummanToshiba OASIS Toyo U. Oracle UMTP PRISM Unisys Progress View5 SAP Visumpoint Sapiens W3C

9 Liaison Relationships

10 OMG s Best-Known Successes Common Object Request Broker Architecture CORBA (and the DDS TM Publish/Subscribe model) remains the only language- and platform-neutral interoperability standard Unified Modeling Language UML the world s mostly widely adopted standard modeling language Common Warehouse Metamodel CWM TM, the integration of the last two data warehousing initiatives Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN TM widely adopted for business analysis Meta-Object Facility MOF TM, the language-defining language XML Metadata Interchange XMI TM, the XML-UML standard

11 Going Up The Stack OMG s history has been to address the technology stack from the bottom up: Object orientation Distributed middleware Modeling Vertical market models Business management: process & rules

12 Modeling is the Focus Modeling, especially graphical modeling is A natural human approach to design Thousands of years old Allows expression of design separate from implementation, as implementations change Allows for long-term maintenance & integration Is an accelerator of implementation Is technology-independent 18 th century B.C. multiplication table

13 Shared Languages are Important The Unified Modeling Language is the successor to the dozens of OO A&D notations of the early 90s UML is broadly adopted, as are other key OMG modeling languages: BPMN, SysML, CWM, MOF, XMI Initial UML 1.x standardized in 1997 Vendor-neutral worldwide certification easily available Standardization primed the market Hundreds of books Dozens of commercial tools Widely available training Supported by an open process UML 2.0 updates came from 54 companies

14 What About SOA & BPM? Gartner 2009 worldwide CIO survey: top three CIO priorities are Business process improvement Reducing enterprise costs Improving enterprise workplace effectiveness SOA & BPM are the enablers By 2013, graphical models of processes, data, services, user experiences and workflow will be used in more than 80% of new compositions. Big Breakthrough: Model-Driven Business Janelle Hill, Gartner (February 2009)

15 Not Just Technical Standards Standards enable process improvement Replicatable models ITIL, Lean, Six Sigma Open vertical-market standards Company standards Consistent, portable processes Knowledge management across the enterprise allows us to minimize waste

16 How Do We Transition?

17 OMG s Breadth of Standards Besides key modeling, distributed computing & realtime/embedded standards, OMG develops standards in Healthcare Financial Services Telecommunications Government Military Logistics Manufacturing Robotics Systems Engineering Military Comms 25 in all, with new areas including energy systems coming

18 Some Examples Cloud computing Cofounded cloudstandards.org; focused on portable deployment to support many business models Enterprise Architecture DoDAF/MODAF architecture frameworks Languages for interoperability Military systems Both communications and C4I command/control Civil Government Electronic records management Skills management (Japanese-led) Robotics, Healthcare, Manufacturing, etc. Software Quality

19 Cloud Standards Mess

20 The Cloud Decision Key idea: get the decision down to a simple rent vs. buy calculation Get standards in place rapidly and we win Portable, interoperable services Cybersecurity built in Supporting a fast-growing market for services with standardized SLA s Provide the foundation for innovation

21 Getting it Wrong

22 A New Joint Resource Cloud-standards.org is a new joint resource to find out what s going on in the industry, available from vendors and among end-users about cloud computing standards: What standards exist or are under development What products implement those standards Who has used those products How well they have worked (success & failure stories)

23 Cloud Standards Collaboration The leading Standards Development Organizations (SDO s) are collaborating to coordinate and communicate standards for Cloud computing and storage; working group established this year Many SDO s are already collaborating, more are welcome Committed to development of a joint resource on cloud computing strategies, standards and implementations Different SDO s are bringing together different but complementary abilities: storage, execution models, deployment models, service level agreements, security, authentication, privacy

24 Cloud Standards Clarity

25 Standardization Areas Security (e.g. authentication, authorization) Interfaces to IaaS (e.g., compute, storage) PaaS & deployment model formats for Cloud applications Resource descriptions (Required, Available) Service & SLA models Management Frameworks Governance and Policy Enforcement Regulatory agreements (e.g. Data location and security) SLA formats (e.g. Performance, Availability) Portable component descriptions (e.g. VM s) Data exchange formats (to and from Clouds) Cloud Taxonomies and Reference Models

26 OMG s Focus Variation of Capital versus Expense Models Product Agnostic Description UML profile for Cloud provides the same value as the soaml provides for SOA Service Level Agreement modeling supports portable SLA Initial specification through provisioning Multi-cloud vendor support Integrated, and trusted Cloud Cyber Security Cloud-specific Threats and Attack patterns Advanced Forensic specifications Non-signature as well as signature-based Inter-cloud trusted protocol(s) Leveraging OMG Systems Assurance efforts Focus on other Service Level Agreement as well: performance, uptime SaaS HaaS IaaS PaaS BPaaS

27 Cloud Computing Builds on BPM/SOA and Perhaps UML Broad array of BPM Standards from OMG Final BPMN 2.0 out now SBVR for business vocabulary & rules BPMM for organization maturity modeling BMM for motivation modeling PRR production rules New Activity in Business Architecture UML 3.0 activity underway to build on UML s industry-wide success and integrate what we ve learned from other modeling domains

28 Certification Helps the Market OMG and UTI have developed and fielded a broad array of certification tests UML (OMG-Certified UML Professional) Realtime (OMG-Certified Realtime and Embedded Systems Specialist) Business Modeling (OMG-Certified Expert in BPM) Systems Engineering (OMG-Certified Systems Modeling Professional) For experts, and for companies too

29 For further information General OMG information Contact the author