The purpose of this note is to give some background on OMG's Business Motivation Model (BMM) for use in the HSSP SFM refresh sub project. This note is divided into 5 parts.
1. a high level definition,
2. a link to a 2-page summary of BMM,
3. a link to a short article on how BMM applies to SoaML and by extension to HSSP SSF
4. a link to the OMG spec itself,
5. and a link to a web site that talks about the standard from a business rule perspective.
1. What follows is a brief definition of the OMG's Business Motivation Model (BMM) copied from Wikipedia:
The Business Motivation Model (BMM) in enterprise architecture provides a scheme and structure for developing, communicating, and managing business plans in an organized manner. Specifically, the Business Motivation Model does all of the following:
· identifies factors that motivate the establishing of business plans;
· identifies and defines the elements of business plans; and
· indicates how all these factors and elements inter-relate.
Among these elements are those that provide governance for and guidance to the business — Business Policies and Business Rules.
2 This link provides a good 2-page summary of BMM and which requires that the copyright be acknowledged as: © Model Systems (www.modelsys.com) 2008
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omg.org%2Foceb%2FBMM_Overview-Core_Concepts_%255B081208%255D.pdf&ei=Q6T4Sd_qHoPhtgf937G_Dw&usg=AFQjCNHY4myOeHF7oTyGCizSRY1XiaTmqQ
3. The following link gives a good review of BMM's relevance to SoaML to the Service Specification Framework (SSF) and by extension to the template used to capture services. at: http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_11/column6/ (Note that this document is referred to in the base document as: Birol Berkem: "From The Business Motivation Model (BMM) To Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)" Journal of Object Technology, vol. 7, no. 8, November-December, pp. 57-70 http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_11/column6/ )
4. The standard source for BMM information is at the OMG site and is named: “dtc/07-08-03 (Business Motivation Model Specification)” -- this is the current Beta 3 version This is at: http://www.omg.org/docs/dtc/07-08-03.pdf
5. A good second source for follow-up investigation is at: http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/bmm.shtml
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