Composite Service Accounting Infrastructure for Resource Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
As the complexity of IT systems and software integration increases, it becomes challenging to accurately evaluate the individual contribution and impact of services within a composite service structure, leading to operational costs and stability issues due to the complexity of links between processes and systems.
Innovation Solution
An accounting infrastructure is implemented to track and monitor resource consumption of individual services and components within a composite service, using object-oriented programming to build statistics objects and provide reports in a tree format, allowing for the identification of poor-performing components and optimization opportunities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If integration of processes and systems increases to provide end-to-end composite services, then service functionality and automation capability are improved, but system complexity and operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the composite service system into individual measurable services and components, allowing each to be evaluated separately through accounting infrastructure while maintaining their integrated functionality. This enables tracking of resource consumption at granular levels without losing the benefits of system integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an accounting infrastructure as an intermediary layer between the integrated services and the evaluation process. This mediator captures and reports resource consumption data from individual services within the composite structure, enabling assessment without disrupting the integrated service flow.
2Productivity
If more services and components are integrated into composite services, then process automation and workflow streamlining are improved, but stability of the IT environment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms through accounting infrastructure that continuously monitors and reports resource consumption and performance metrics of individual services within composite services. This feedback enables proactive identification of stability issues before they propagate through the integrated system.
3Productivity
If individual service evaluation is implemented within composite services, then resource optimization and performance improvement are achieved, but measurement and detection complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal accounting infrastructure that can measure and evaluate multiple services and components through a unified approach. This multi-functional system handles diverse service types using consistent measurement principles, reducing the complexity that would otherwise arise from evaluating each service individually.
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AI summary
A system for an accounting infrastructure, including monitoring and reporting, for individual services within a composite service. An accounting engine integrates with the composite service to monitor components and parameters of at least one service in the composite service, to provide reporting on the measurements and statistics associated therewith over time. The accounting engine aggregates data for components and services. One example provides the accounting infrastructure as an object-oriented program model, instantiating statistics as objects. The reporting distinguishes each statistic allowing analysis and optimization of processes and services.