REPRESENTATION OF BUSINESS INFORMATION FLOW WITH AN EXTENSION FOR UML - From Business Processes to object-orientated Software Engineering

2004 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Business Information

scholarly journals Contextualized Filtering for Shared Cyber Threat Information

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4890
Author(s):  
Athanasios Dimitriadis ◽  
Christos Prassas ◽  
Jose Luis Flores ◽  
Boonserm Kulvatunyou ◽  
Nenad Ivezic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Cyber Threat ◽  
Domain Expertise ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Filtering Approach

Cyber threat information sharing is an imperative process towards achieving collaborative security, but it poses several challenges. One crucial challenge is the plethora of shared threat information. Therefore, there is a need to advance filtering of such information. While the state-of-the-art in filtering relies primarily on keyword- and domain-based searching, these approaches require sizable human involvement and rarely available domain expertise. Recent research revealed the need for harvesting of business information to fill the gap in filtering, albeit it resulted in providing coarse-grained filtering based on the utilization of such information. This paper presents a novel contextualized filtering approach that exploits standardized and multi-level contextual information of business processes. The contextual information describes the conditions under which a given threat information is actionable from an organization perspective. Therefore, it can automate filtering by measuring the equivalence between the context of the shared threat information and the context of the consuming organization. The paper directly contributes to filtering challenge and indirectly to automated customized threat information sharing. Moreover, the paper proposes the architecture of a cyber threat information sharing ecosystem that operates according to the proposed filtering approach and defines the characteristics that are advantageous to filtering approaches. Implementation of the proposed approach can support compliance with the Special Publication 800-150 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

VSM as a Tool for Mini-Audit of Information System

2014 ◽  
Vol 474 ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Jan Vavruška ◽  
František Manlig ◽  
František Koblasa
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Value Stream Mapping ◽  
Value Stream ◽  
Current State

The main focus when improving business processes is on the analysis of material flow. Thorough analysis of the information flow and associated information systems is still undervalued. Working with inaccurate and/or obsolete data leads to incorrect outputs that negatively affect the entire control process. Analysis of the state of material has to go hand in hand with the information analysis. A mini audit of the information flow and information system can be carried out, which follows the classic principles of VSM (Value stream mapping), in order to make an initial analysis of the information flow and information system. Information about the current state of the process together with a measure how well it is represented by the model in the information system can be obtained thanks to this mini-audit. This article focuses on this mini-audit and briefly describes the auditing process. The details of how to create VSM maps is discussed with the main focus on an information flow where the key elements are the inputs and the outputs of the job orders for planning and production management. Attention is also focused on the form of delays in discrete-event recording in the production process which appear in the information system.

scholarly journals IPTEKS PENERAPAN DAN MANFAAT TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI TERHADAP PROSES BISNIS PERBANKAN PADA PT. BANK RAKYAT INDONESIA (PERSERO) TBK. KANTOR CABANG MANADO

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valencia Matthew Anis ◽  
Steven J. Tangkuman
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information System ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Business World ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Banking Business ◽  
Branch Office

The use of information technology plays an important role in the company's business processes. One of the success factors of company performance is the optimal use or application of information technology. Especially in banking business process activities, the use of information technology is one of the weapons in competition in the banking business world. In this article Bank BRI, which is one of the largest banking companies in Indonesia, also relies on information technology in the continuity of its business processes. In this article, we will discuss about the application of the Bank BRI Manado branch office’s Information Technology and its benefits in the continuity of banking business processes. In this case the BRI bank Manado branch office uses a variety of information systems in the banking business processes that will be explained in this article.Keywords : Business Processes, Information Technology, Banking business, Information System, Bank

E-Government Initiatives through Cloud Computing

2016 ◽  
pp. 74-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Anshari ◽  
Mohammad Nabil Almunawar
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Citizen Empowerment ◽  
The Government

The recent development of Web 2.0, cloud computing and its related technologies are contributing towards the tendency to utilize mobile services and e-participation through Web 2.0. It offers users the ability to have greater control of information flow in public spaces, making active participation highly possible. Citizens are empowered in the sense that they control the process of interaction(s), either with the government or with other citizens. This chapter presents a model for empowerment of citizens in e-government systems to enhance e-participation in e-government business processes through the cloud. We believe cloud computing is a platform to implement e-participation using Web 2.0 as many of the existing Web 2.0 applications are deployed in the cloud. The model is derived based on contemporary literature on empowerment and participation in e-government services. This model is expected to fill the gap in identifying a strategy of citizen empowerment in e-participation systems.

Environment for Managing Software Maintenance Projects

2011 ◽  
pp. 255-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Ruiz ◽  
Felix Garcia ◽  
Mario Piattini ◽  
Macario Polo
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Maintenance ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Process Enactment ◽  
Engineering Environment ◽  
Meta Object Facility ◽  
Wide Perspective ◽  
Main Components

A Software Engineering Environment (SEE) is quite useful in order to manage the complexity of SM projects, since it can provide the needed services. Of the different aspects to highlight in these environments, in this chapter we put our main attention on those that are more directly related to the goal of helping in the management of SM complexity: to approach the SMP from a wide perspective of business processes to integrate technological and management aspects; to define a Process-centered Software Engineering Environment (PSEE); and to use a multilevel conceptual architecture based on standards like MOF (Meta-Object Facility). The MANTIS proposal of integral environment for the management of SM projects is also presented, and the main components of this environment are commented: conceptual tools (multilevel architecture, ontologies, software processes models and metamodels); methodological tools (methodology, and interfaces with organizational and managerial processes) and technical tools (horizontal and vertical software tools, repository, and interaction with process enactment software tools).

Application of Software Metrics in EPR Projects

2011 ◽  
pp. 1172-1181
Author(s):  
S. Parthasarathy
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Software Metrics ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Erp Implementation ◽  
Complex Products ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Business Information ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Software Processes

Business information system is an area of the greatest significance in any business enterprise today. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects are a growing segment of this vital area. Software engineering metrics are units of measurement used to characterize the software engineering products and processes. The research about the software process has acquired great importance in the last few years due to the growing interest of software companies in the improvement of their quality. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects are very complex products, and this fact is directly linked to their development and maintenance. One of the major reasons found in the literature for the failure of ERP projects is the poor management of software processes. In this chapter, the authors propose a Software Metrics Plan (SMP) containing different software metrics to manage software processes during ERP implementation. Two hypotheses have been formulated and tested using statistical techniques to validate the SMP. The statistical analysis of the collected data from an ERP project supports the two hypotheses, leading to the conclusion that the software metrics are momentous in ERP projects.

Semantic Synchronization in B2B Transactions

2010 ◽  
pp. 1518-1542
Author(s):  
Janina Fengel ◽  
Heiko Paulheim ◽  
Michael Rebstock
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Ontology Matching ◽  
Ontological Engineering ◽  
Business Information Systems ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Mapping Technology

Despite the development of e-business standards, the integration of business processes and business information systems is still a non-trivial issue if business partners use different e-business standards for formatting and describing information to be processed. Since those standards can be understood as ontologies, ontological engineering technologies can be applied for processing, especially ontology matching for reconciling them. However, as e-business standards tend to be rather large-scale ontologies, scalability is a crucial requirement. To serve this demand, we present our ORBI Ontology Mediator. It is linked with our Malasco system for partition-based ontology matching with currently available matching systems, which so far do not scale well, if at all. In our case study we show how to provide dynamic semantic synchronization between business partners using different e-business standards without initial ramp-up effort, based on ontological mapping technology combined with interactive user participation.

Semi-Automated Lifecycles for Eliciting Requirements for Service-Oriented Environments

2013 ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
M. Brian Blake
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Future Application ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Requirements Specifications ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Enterprise Modernization ◽  
Development Applications

Service-based tools are beginning to mature, but there is a cognitive gap between the understanding of what currently exists within an organization and how to use that knowledge in planning an overall enterprise modernization effort that realizes a service-oriented architecture. Traditional and contemporary software engineering lifecycles use incremental approaches to extract business information from stakeholders in developing features and constraints in a future application. In traditional environments, this information is captured as requirements specifications, use cases, or storyboards. Here, we address the evolution of traditional software engineering approaches to support the conceptualization of abstract services that overlap multiple organizations. Traditional software engineering lifecycles must be enhanced with emerging processes related to the development applications for service-oriented environments. The chapter discusses state-of-the-art approaches that elicit information about the requirements for service-oriented architectures. These approaches tend to leverage existing requirements engineering approaches to suggest aggregate service-based capabilities that might be most effective for a particular environment.

Improvement of Software Engineering by Modeling Knowledge-Intensive Business Processes

2009 ◽  
pp. 2528-2546
Author(s):  
Jane Fröming ◽  
Norbert Gronau ◽  
Simone Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Knowledge Modeling ◽  
Description Language ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

The Knowledge Modeling and Description Language (KMDL®) allows analysts to identify process patterns, which leads to improvements in knowledge-intensive processes. After modeling the business processes, knowledge and process potentials in daily business processes can be unleashed. The following contribution presents a specification of KMDL® for software engineering (KMDL®-SE). A real-life example is used to explain KMDL®-SE.

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