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Getting Business Value from Semantic Models
12 March, 2012
Pete Rivett, CTO Adaptive, OMG Board and Architecture Board [email protected]
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Adaptive
Leader in Enterprise Repository Technology
Leader in MDA and OMG standards
Selected by EDMC to manage FIBO
In use by blue chip companies in information-intensive industries: – Banking – Insurance – Medical – Telecoms
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Motivation
New capabilities are great but people will not throw away existing investments
Need a solution that will add value to what people are using today
Value regardless of whether the platform is traditional or semantics-based
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Model Driven Architecture MDA Distilled
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
MOF/XMI Facilities for defining, interchanging, transformation
and managing All models and metamodels
Bus
ines
s M
odel
ing
(mot
ivat
ion,
Inte
nt..)
Proc
ess
Mod
elin
g
Appl
icat
ion,
Ser
vice
, E
vent
Mod
elin
g
Other.. In
form
atio
n M
odel
ing
Secu
rity,
Per
form
ance
, T
estin
g, C
ompl
ianc
e M
odel
ing
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mapping mapping
Models Across the Enterprise
Data Quality
Process Models
Physical Models
Transformation mappings
Reports
OLAP
XML
Record
OO
RDBMS
Business Terms
Logical / Physical Models
BI
Application Portfolio
Business Rules
Glossary
Stewardship
Change
Metrics
Versioning
Security Reports
Import Export
Collaboration
Visualization
Physical Schemas
Strategic Planning Policies
Data Rules
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Enable Different Roles
Conceptual Model /
Ontology Business Glossary,
Rules
Logical Data Model
(LDM)
Relational Model
Business Glossary <> Information Models
Dimensional Model
XML Schema Model
DDL
XSD
DDL
Traceability
Producers and Consumers of a Business Glossary
Subject Matter Experts
Define the P&C Concepts,
Rules Business Glossary,
Rules
Business Process Modelers
Business Analysts, Data Modelers,
DBAs, Data Integration, Data Quality,
ETL Users Vendors, System
Integrators, Partners..
Legal, Compliance
Application, Service Developers
XMI OWL, RDF…
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Steps You Can Start Today
Import FIBO - or any semantic model
Use as basis of business vocabulary – Extend with or map to local dictionaries
Harvest existing models and technology – Operational Databases – Data warehouses – Applications – Data models – Data movement – Message formats (XML Schemas) – Business reports
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
Views – Role-based
Visualization – A model tells a thousand pictures
Collaboration
Versioning and workspaces
Access control
Workflow for governance
Events with subscription
Auditing
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
Add semantic dimension to existing technology
Make it easy to understand and integrate – While retaining technical rigor
Enable collaboration and governance
Reconcile silo’d definitions in departments, XML Schemas, data models – and even different standards
Data quality defined in one place
Ability to flag data movement issues
Regulatory compliance (your definition is the regulator’s)
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Summary
You don’t need to wait
Using OMG standards, including ODM, you can integrate ontologies with existing enterprise technologies
And manage it in one place
Provide stability as technology changes over time