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Creating Open Wide Area Workflow and eFolder standards
June 2006
David RR Webber
Joint Initiative Project Planning
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Envisioning Statement
World is facing new challenges that require rapid response capabilities at new levels and scale – environmental, health, food distribution, citizen services, military support logistics
Existing systems have challenge of supporting end-to-end tracking and collaborative workflow
Who is taking leadership role in this arena?
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Envisioning Key Factors
Interoperability – need end-to-end support, not fragments along pathways
Rapidly adaptable / deployable components for business users process support
Based on trusted proven open standards approach
Auditability and accountability
Process Metrics
Support for “dashboard” visibility tools, not just local view
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Opportunity Assessment
Existing events and response needs bring together national and international focus
Existing initiatives need better coordination and resources
Leverage open standards community work
Build from existing best-practice work on processes and information exchanges –
Lessons learned over past 15 years of workflow and business process need to be leveraged (eFolders + pre-cut process library)
Use of XML is entering a third phase
Increasing importance of open standards and open source to collaborative environments
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Transport
XML
Security
MoU/
Agreement
XML
Context
XMLContext
XML
Vocabulary
Alignment
eFolder
Collaboration
XML
State
Management
Core Technology - 12 Alignment Needs
Workflow
Process
XML
Transaction
Structure XML
(XSD)
Access Point API Content Process
Rules
PROCESS (how)
INFORMATION
(what)
How does this fit to Navy
needs?Potential areas of
interest
What is driving the need?
If not now, when?
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Collaboration Roles and Steps
? How does this get done?
What are the overarching standards
that allow collaboration between the
disparate parts of the process not
just point operations?
http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/wawf/
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WAWF Use Cases?
From: https://wawf.eb.mil/
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Navy Merge (ERP project) - Use Cases?
http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d05858high.pdf
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Navy / CNIC - RAPID Use Cases?
CHRIMP workflow:
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Goals
Understand and enable core use case needs
Develop open public standards foundation
Provide clear direction for vendors and implementers
Create Community-of-Practice foundation
Provide focused deliverables over next 6 to 12 months
Develop formal specifications as OASIS and then ISO standards
Create real re-usable templates and examples
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What Does This Take?
Tasks / Level of Effort (LOE) estimates: Manage and support OASIS TC process – 1FTE for 4 months ( 10 hours a week for one year)
Phase 1 – Use case definition / scope / positioning Elapsed time - 3 months
Phase 2 – Specification Development – 2FTE for 4 months
Elapsed time 6 months
Phase 2 – Operational Pilots – TBD – each ~ 3FTE for 6 months.
Elapsed time 6 months (concurrently)
DeliverablesUse cases
Specifications
Working re-usable templates and components
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Some Candidate Deliverable Examples RAPID –
STARS-FL XML connector and workflow support
Packaging of standard interfacing (OASIS CAM) APIs - specify documentation Operational toolset Mapping to the UBL financial transactions
standards TBD ???
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Community of Interest
US Navy WAWF team
US Navy DON CIO team
OASIS BCM TC and EPR working group
OASIS BPM work on ebBP/BPSS and BPEL
Norway TOSS project team
Norway NIA involvement + Baltic area
Bravera – RAPID project tool vendor
DoD DFAS accounting services
IHE/XDS NIST work on secure document exchanges
ISO and CEN/ISSS
Approach
Next Steps
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Action Items
Refine vision statement
Form action committee and support from Navy DON CIO
Establish DFAS commitment / support
Coordinate with OASIS and Norway
Coordinate initial meetings and public call through OASIS BCM TC infrastructure
Create Community of Interest site area (GSA resources?)
Create bi-weekly teleconference coordination
Define doable scope and XML needed and avoid “ocean boiling”
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Resources
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/bcm
http://www.eprforum.no
http://www.eprforum.no/product.php/PSQA-Limited-
conferance-N/6/
http://www.eprforum.org
http://www.bravera.com
https://rapid.cnic.navy.mil