Towards Utilizing Model-Driven Engineering of Composite Applications for Business Performance Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Mathias Fritzsche;Wasif Gilani;Christoph Fritzsche;Ivor Spence;Peter Kilpatrick;John Brown

  • Affiliations:
  • SAP Research CEC Belfast, , Newtownabbey, United Kingdom BT370QB;SAP Research CEC Belfast, , Newtownabbey, United Kingdom BT370QB;SAP Research CEC Belfast, , Newtownabbey, United Kingdom BT370QB;Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom BT39DT;Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom BT39DT;Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom BT39DT

  • Venue:
  • ECMDA-FA '08 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Model Driven Architecture: Foundations and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Composite Applications on top of SAPs implementation of SOA (Enterprise SOA) enable the extension of already existing business logic. In this paper we show, based on a case study, how Model-Driven Engineering concepts are applied in the development of such Composite Applications. Our Case Study extends a back-end business process which is required for the specific needs of a demo company selling wine. We use this to describe how the business centric models specifying the modified business behaviour of our case study can be utilized for business performance analysis where most of the actions are performed by humans. In particular, we apply a refined version of Model-Driven Performance Engineering that we proposed in our previous work and motivate which business domain specifics have to be taken into account for business performance analysis. We additionally motivate the need for performance related decision support for domain experts, who generally lack performance related skills. Such a support should offer visual guidance about what should be changed in the design and resource mapping to get improved results with respect to modification constraints and performance objectives, or objectives for time.