Business Object Model for Heterogeneous System Interface Standardization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current business interfaces are not consistent across industries and departments, leading to difficulties in exchanging information between heterogeneous business entities, requiring manual human interaction and lacking standardization.
Innovation Solution
The development of a business object model that generates consistent interfaces for message-based services, allowing for the creation of standardized business documents and messages across different business entities, facilitating seamless communication and transaction processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If heterogeneous business entities use their own proprietary programs and semantics, then each business entity can maintain its own business logic and data formats, but information exchange between different business entities becomes difficult and requires manual human interaction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a message broker as an intermediary component that receives messages from heterogeneous business entities, routes them to appropriate destinations, and manages message flow. This mediator enables communication between systems with different proprietary formats without requiring manual intervention, thus maintaining business entity autonomy while improving information exchange efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal message structure that can accommodate various business message types (orders, shipments, invoices, etc.) from different business entities. This universal message format serves multiple functions by standardizing the exchange protocol while allowing customization for specific business needs, thereby enabling efficient automated communication across heterogeneous systems
2Adaptability or versatility
If different business entities use different data formats and semantics, then each entity can optimize its internal systems, but standardization and consistency in information exchange are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing each business entity to maintain its own data format specifications and semantic definitions locally, while the message broker performs localized transformation and adaptation at the point of communication. This enables system customization at the source while achieving data format consistency during exchange through localized standardization processes
3Reliability
If manual human interaction is used to facilitate transactions between heterogeneous businesses, then information exchange can occur, but the process becomes time-consuming and less efficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling business entities to autonomously send and receive messages through the standardized protocol without requiring manual human intervention. The message broker automatically routes messages, manages acknowledgments, and handles errors, allowing transactions to proceed autonomously while maintaining accuracy through built-in validation and confirmation mechanisms, thereby significantly improving processing speed
Data Source
AI summary
A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a retail allocation and/or a retail event business object.