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Applied SOA with ESB, BPM, and BRM – Architecture Enhancement by Using a Decision Framework

Authors:
Andreas Hausotter
Arne Koschel
Malte Zuch
Johannes Busch
Alexander Hödicke
Richard Pump
Juri Seewald
Lina Varonina

Keywords: Business Process Management (BPM); Business Rules Management (BRM); Business Rules Management System (BRMS); Enterprise Service Bus (ESB); Service-oriented Architecture (SOA); Workflow Management System (WfMS)

Abstract:
To keep their competitive edge, enterprises need to change their operational processes in a flexible and agile manner. A Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) may help to meet these needs. One key feature of a SOA is the externalization of business process logic. However, process logic is often complex, hard to understand and difficult to adapt. This issue is due to a mingling of process and decision logic. In order to ensure flexibility and agility, decision logic should be moved to a separate service. In a previous work, we provided a decision framework, which recommends an approach to actually realize such a ”rule service” conceptually. As the key contribution of this paper, we now apply our framework in particular to the German insurance domain. We show the resulting SOA architecture, which has an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a Business Process Management (BPM) / Workflow Management System (WfMS), and a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) / rules engine as key components. Moreover, we apply a standardized insurance process scenario working within this architecture.

Pages: 20 to 27

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: March 20, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-459-6

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 20, 2016 to March 24, 2016