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Business rules based legacy system evolution towards service-oriented architecture.
Enterprises can be empowered to live up to the potential of becoming dynamic, agile and real-time. Service orientation is emerging from the amalgamation of a number of key business, technology and cultural developments. Three essential trends in particular are coming together to create a new revolutionary breed of enterprise, the service-oriented enterprise (SOE): (1) the continuous performance management of the enterprise; (2) the emergence of business process management; and (3) advances in the standards-based service-oriented infrastructures.
This thesis focuses on this emerging three-layered architecture that builds on a service-oriented architecture framework, with a process layer that brings technology and business together, and a corporate performance layer that continually monitors and improves the performance indicators of global enterprises provides a novel framework for the business context in which to apply the important technical idea of service orientation and moves it from being an interesting tool for engineers to a vehicle for business managers to fundamentally improve their businesses
Medical Virtual Public Services
The healthcare enterprises are very disconnected. This paper intends to propose a solution that will provide citizens, businesses and medical enterprises with improved access to medical virtual public services. Referred medical services are based on existing national medical Web services and which support medically required services provided by physicians and supplementary health care practitioners, laboratory services and diagnostic procedures, clinics and hospitals’ services. Requirements and specific rules of these medical services are considered, and personalization of user preferences will to be supported. The architecture is based on adaptable process management technologies, allowing for virtual services which are dynamically combined from existing national medical services. In this way, a comprehensive workflow process is set up, allowing for service-level agreements, an audit trail and explanation of the process to the end user. The process engine operates on top of a virtual repository, providing a high-level semantic view of information retrieved from heterogeneous information sources, such as national sources of medical services. The system relies on a security framework to ensure all high-level security requirements are met. System’s architecture is business oriented: it focuses on Service Oriented Architecture - SOA concepts, asynchronously combining Web services, Business Process Management – BPM rules and BPEL standards.Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture, Application Integration, Web services, information technologies, virtual repository, database.
Assessing IT-business alignment in service-oriented Enterprises
Nowadays, more and more businesses transform into service-oriented enterprises in order to sustain their competitive advantage. To ensure that the underlying information technology (IT) can best support the transformation, we aim to develop an IT-business alignment framework to assess the quality of alignment in the context of service-oriented enterprises. Based upon the existing literature, we propose three components of IT-business alignment: strategic alignment, operational alignment, and social alignment. We study their various contributions to the performance of service-oriented IT projects, together with the interactions with service integration level.Our data were collected from Web questionnaires. The total dataset is derived from 300 selected companies in an on-line technology management forum. Among the returned questionnaires, 104 were found to be complete and usable; this represented a response rate of 34 percent.A Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis is conducted and derives the following three research findings: (1) IT-business alignment plays a significant role in improving the performance of service-oriented IT; (2) the service integration level is an important performance moderator for strategic and operational alignment; (3) the service integration level is an important contributor to social alignment.
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An Integrated Social Actor and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Approach for Improved Electronic Health Record (EHR) Privacy and Confidentiality in the US National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN)
The emerging US National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN) will improve healthcare’s efficacy, efficiency, and safety. The first-generation NHIN being developed has numerous advantages and limitations. One of the most difficult aspects of today’s NHIN is ensuring privacy and confidentiality for personal health data, because family and caregivers have multiple complex legal relationships to a patient. A Social Actor framework is suggested to organize and manage these legal roles, but the Social Actor framework would be very difficult to implement in today’s NHIN. Social Actor Security Management could, however, be effectively implemented using Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), which are rapidly becoming accepted for supporting complex information exchange across heterogeneous information systems fabrics. The Department of Defense is applying SOA to all of its enterprises. It is using customized simulation and modeling tools to achieve security and robustness goals and to reduce the intrinsic design and implementation risks for SOA’s complex Systems of Systems environment. This paper integrates all of these approaches into a next-generation NHIN-2 design based on a specific Air Force SOA named MCSOA. This NHIN-2 design uses MCSOA to create Security Management, Service Discovery, and Presence Management agents to implement Social Actor support for improved confidentiality and privacy
Decision-enabled dynamic process management for networked enterprises
In todays networked economy face numerous information management challenges, both from a process management perspective as well as a decision support perspective. While there have been significant relevant advances in the areas of business process management as well as decision sciences, several open research issues exist. In this paper, we highlight the following key challenges. First, current process modeling and management techniques lack in providing a seamless integration of decision models and tools in existing business processes, which is critical to achieve organizational objectives. Second, given the dynamic nature of business processes in networked enterprises, process management approaches that enable organizations to react to business process changes in an agile manner are required. Third, current state-of-the-art decision model management techniques are not particularly amenable to distributed settings in networked enterprises, which limits the sharing and reuse of models in different contexts, including their utility within managing business processes. In this paper, we present a framework for decision-enabled dynamic process management that addresses these challenges. The framework builds on computational formalisms, including the structured modeling paradigm for representing decision models, and hierarchical task networks from the artificial intelligence (AI) planning area for process modeling. Within the framework, interleaved process planning (modeling), execution and monitoring for dynamic process management throughout the process lifecycle is proposed. A service-oriented architecture combined with advances from the semantic Web field for model management support within business processes is proposed
Cooperative social enterprises: company rules, access to finance and management practice
Objectives: In light of the faster than expected take up of the Community Interest
Company (CIC) in the UK, this paper revisits findings from a study undertaken in
2000 on the impact of asset-locks on the longevity, growth and management styles in
co-operative social enterprises.
Prior Work: The co-operative and employee-ownership movements played a leading
role in the establishment of Social Enterprise London and the Social Enterprise
Coalition. The heritage of the UK co-operative movement, however, differs from its
continental counterpart in placing a much stronger emphasis on common ownership
that inhibits the transfer of capital and assets to private interests.
Approach: This paper is both conceptual and empirical. It examines different worker
co-operative traditions and develops a meta-theory that explains underlying
assumptions in different forms of co-operative social enterprise. Using empirical data
from 5 common ownership co-operatives and 5 equity-based co-operatives, this
exploratory study found differences in management style, access to finance and
growth prospects both within and between the two groups.
Implications: Devolution of management responsibilities was more prevalent in
co-operatives permitting both individual and collective ownership, as opposed to
common ownership. Access to external finance was less problematic for
organisations where individuals had made investments. Despite this, it was not
established that organisations with external equity or loan finance grew quicker or
faired better over the longer term.
Value: The value of the paper lies both in the development of a meta-theoretical
framework for differentiating forms of worker co-operative, as well as empirical
evidence on the impact of asset-locks in the management and development of social
enterprises. The study suggests that the CLS version of the CIC, or abandonment of
the CIC in favour of an appropriately structured CLS or IPS model, may be
appropriate for social enterprises wishing to grow, but makes little difference in small
service oriented social enterprises.</p
The Design of Effective Maintenance Outsourcing Contracts
Recent developments in maintenance planning and
management demonstrate that the establishment of optimized
maintenance policies may drastically improve the
performance and reduce the operating cost of facilities.
However maintenance activities are typically outside of the
core business of production facilities, hence enterprises often
fail to catch the opportunities that may originate by properly
optimized management strategies. A strategic maintenance
management should hence encompass the possibility of
outsourcing maintenance activities to ensure the necessary
perfomance of production systems, while allowing
enterprises to concentrate their resources on their core
activities. In order to be effectively undertaken an
outsourcing strategy must be supported by a proper
performance oriented contract. The present paper aims to
provide an adequate methodology to address such issues and
to define a framework for the definition of the relevant
contract variables such as availability levels, penalty
policies, rewards and service cost. The methodology here
proposed is based upon the evaluation of the expected profit
function of both the outsourcer and the provider, by
performing a trade-off analysis on the basis of the
transaction costs
How to create service innovation in customer-oriented organizations
[[abstract]]In the more and more competition economic prosperity, it appears that innovation is increasingly an important driver of competitive advantage in service firms. How to create service innovation to enhance services competitiveness is the first priority issue for the vendors among the industry. And customer-oriented is an important policy for enterprises to development strategy. This paper wants to devote a better understanding of the role of services in innovation. From a brief introduce of existing approaches (a four-dimensional model) to service innovation and creating customer âoriented organization to retain and reward loyal customers. The paper also reviews present research fields and hope to build a framework for strategic decision making in service innovation. Consider some wider implications of the innovation management and policy that can help to improve the decision making on service innovation to meet the needs of customers.[[sponsorship]]Tamkang University[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencetkucampus]]æ·¡æ°´æ ¡åœ’[[conferencedate]]2015/6/16[[booktype]]紙本[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]Taipe
An Ontological Framework for Context-Aware Collaborative Business Process Formulation
In cross-enterprise collaborative environment, we have dealt with challenges in business process integration for common business goals. Research directions in this domain range from business to business integration (B2Bi) to service-oriented augmentation. Ontologies are used in Business Process Management (BPM) to reduce the gap between the business world and information technology (IT), especially in the context of cross enterprise collaboration. For a dynamic collaboration, virtual enterprises need to establish collaborative processes with appropriate matching levels of tasks. However, the problem of solving the semantics mismatching is still not tackled or even harder in case of querying space between different enterprise profiles as considered as ontologies. This article presents a framework based on the ontological and context awareness during the task integration and matching in order to form collaborative processes in the manner of cross enterprise collaboration
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