The Solution Designed for Your Business

Up ! Virtual Business Machine is the solution to consolidate or to build quickly your information system in order to make it correspond to the uniqueness of your business. This offer is based on:

The business modeling of the firm.
To each atomic activity of the value chain of the firm is defined a dedicated and local modeling as a business interface. The business modeling of the firm results from the juxtaposition of all the business interfaces and of the generalization of ones that are shared.
Banks of business components ready to use.
There is a bank of generic components for any private ou public firms and any administrations. It is enhanced by the banks of business-line-oriented components for banks / insurance, energy, retailing, industry, media, healthcare, public service, services and transports. Another bank of crossing components is dedicated to the business piloting of your firm.

A business interface is independent of:

Any organization.
Hierarchy, responsibility, expertise center, decentralization, etc. The business expertise rules and the business processes are especially out of components.
Any technical resources.
Databases, data interchanges, integration of services, human-machine interfaces, programming languages, fulcrum formats, operating systems, etc.
Any cultural specificities.
Coming from a different ethnical origin - Asian, Arabic, Western or Slavic one, etc. - or from strategic operations such as mergers or acquisitions.

Up ! Application System is the software base allowing operating these business components in order to quickly profit of all the benefits delivered by the application system.

The objective is no to redo the parts of the information system that fit your needs
and that were an important investment for your firm.

Business Process Integration (BPI)

The objective is to adapt and to consolidate the existing of your information systems
through surgical, light and strongly value-added projects.

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

The interest is to offer a business piloting that will secure an efficient and sustainable value
for all the stakeholders.

From Where Are Coming Business Components?

In a client-supplier point of view, the business component delivers its services to clients that are unknown first, services corresponding to the contract that represents the business interface. This last one gathers thus:

Information.
For example, the name of the client, the date of order, the amount of invoice, the speed of rotation of a milling machine, the schedule of a train.
Actions.
For example, calling a client, recording an order, printing an invoice, starting a serie, planning a train.
Diagnostics about flaw information or impossible actions.
For example, the product can be ordered only if it is available in inventory, the second copy of the invoice must have the pro-format notification, the serie can be started only if the tool hanger was already tuned, the train can be planned only if it is not already reserved.

The business component is small software that comes from either:

The existing.
The goal is to isolate a functionality into a existing information system that is fully fitting the need.
This corresponds to 80% of cases since the maturity of information systems of large firms.
A bank of components.
By using a pre-defined component coming from one of the following banks:
- Bank of generic components for any private or public enterprises or any administrations.
  These components behold the best practices of management explained into Up ! Enhanced Management, state of art...
- Business-line-oriented banks:
  A component from a business-line-oriented bank can substitute a component of the generic bank. For example, the definition of telecom client specializes the definition of generic client for the telecom business line.
- Bank of crossing components delivering business services.
  According to the principle of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).

In comparison with the value chain, the repartition of components is the following:

Generic components for the support activities of the firm or for a primary view of the firm.
Dedicated components for the in-bound or out-bound and primary activities of the firm.
Business components for the operational and strategic piloting of the processes of the firm.

The business object is an instance of an business interface created by a particular business component. For example, it is the telecom client - business interface - named Dupont - business object - created by a Siebel's functionality - business component.

The behavior of the business component is fully piloted by the business expertise rules that are modeling your unique know how, which is allowing melting it into your processes and your corporate culture.

How to Recover the Existing?

The technology of Up ! Application System allows exposing the business interfaces in order to easily integrate the business components into the general and logical plan of the information system of the firm. This exposure is handled through the following axis:

Data interchanges.
The data can be encoded according to the following norms:
- Edifact.
- File with private records.
- Private format of generic vertical software leading the market.
  SAP's IDoc for example.
- Xml.
The data interchange means can be encoded according to the following standards:
- Ftp.
- Http.
- Lpr.
- Smtp.
Integration of services.
The procedures and the functions, the methods of business objects are accessed through:
- Corba of Object Management Group.
- Com of Microsoft.
- Soap of World Wide Web Consortium.
- Private middleware of generic vertical software leading the market.
  SAP's ALE / RFC for example.
Common programming languages.
The business components can be used through the following programming languages as if they were natively written:
- Abap.
- C++.
- Java.
- Visual Basic.

How to Recover the Existing?

The technology of Up ! Application System allows recovering the definition of the existing information systems when the ones are written in one of the following standards:

Corba of Object Management Group.
Com of Microsoft.
Private format of generic vertical software leading the market.
SAP's BAPI for example.
Tuxedo.

At worst, it is possible to directly exploit the data of the IT systems with the use of Up ! Workbench, Up ! 5GL and Up ! Compiler.

Once the existing technically recovered, Up ! Workbench allows realizing the matching between the technical definitions and the business definitions of the business interface. The data mapping allows coming back to the business modeling.

How to Proceed with a Project?

Discover the handling of a project with Up ! Application System while consulting the following themes:

The Work Prime Organizer's approach (WPO) to model the firm.
The Work Prime Contractor (WPC) to build the information system - French only.

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