NEWVIEW’S
NETWORK BUSINESS PROCESS ARCHITECTURE
Newview’s Network Business Process
Architecture was designed from the ground up to manage
key components of a network business process solution,
including roles, relationships, materials and information.
Built upon this platform, Newview’s Process Management
solutions are organized by a series of application building
blocks enabling a business user to quickly assemble
and deploy across business platforms. Physical assets.
People. Organizations. Companies. Systems. Technology.
Newview is unique in its ability to correlate complex
material attributes to people and various systems engaging
in a process. By introducing scalable transaction management
to the sophistication of standards-based process management
— Newview provides companies the means to execute
plans.
Overall Architecture
Newview’s Process Management Technology solutions
are constructed with discrete architectural goals to
enable rapid customization and expansion.
The essential quality of the design is to build no assumptions
into the core platform about the structure and content
of the data or the workflows that execute in support
of the network business processes of the sponsor. This
affords a high degree of flexibility because the platform
acts as a high-order execution engine for these processes.
On the other hand, this flexibility must be balanced
by the need to layer the customizations on top of the
core platform, producing an indirection that is financed
by performance. Newview solutions achieve this balance
while still being scalable for high performance.
From
an infrastructure perspective, the platform design yields:
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A component-based architecture
that may be deployed on a variety of equipment under
a variety of Operating Systems |
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A scalable deployment such that
the actual platform may be hosted on any number
of computers, depending on requirements for throughput
or availability |
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A flexible deployment that may
utilize different infrastructure packages such as
a variety of application servers, Web servers, or
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In addition to these, the
platform features the following attributes:
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Visual off-platform modeling
for key business network entities, producing a portable
meta-model that is used by the platform during execution |
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A discrete component model that
allows for a wide variety of deployment options
for scalability and fault-tolerance |
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An intermediary registry for
loading the meta-model into the platform |
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A meta-model processing component
for all key entities |
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A Schema Manager to retrofit
dynamic changes to data in the relational database |
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A plug-in transformation and
integration layer for flexible inbound and outbound
data mappings |
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A flexible data access component
with fine granularity on access permissions by role |
Business Network Modeling
Business processes are different from company to company.
Recognizing this, the Newview platform provides the capabilities
of defining a complete meta-model of Business Network
entities. This meta-model is described visually off-platform
using a graphical tool called a Network Configurator.
Off-platform means that meta-models may be prepared in
absence of the platform very much like a text document
may be prepared with a text editor and then imported into
a word processor for formatting.
Each meta-model contains the
definitions that exactly represent the business processes
in use by a company, including:
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Roles |
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Access permissions |
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Business units |
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Locations |
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Materials (either raw, processed,
or finished-goods) |
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Documents (with their attributes
and fields) |
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Document views |
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Document workflows |
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Application workflows |
The network configurator validates the model to make sure
there are no irregularities or errors and allows the entire
meta-model to be exported for usage by the Platform. Further,
the meta-model may be modified over time as the sponsor’s
business processes change. In support of this, the configurator
allows portions of the meta-model to be in draft
and published states.
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