Enterprise Architecture Model Real-Time Conformity Dashboard
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current operation centers lack the ability to monitor enterprise architecture models in real-time, leading to difficulties in identifying potential impacts on operational systems and synchronizing design requirements with operational environments, resulting in inadequate reaction to performance issues.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that enable real-time operational environment conformity to an enterprise architecture model by using an operations management engine to synchronize the model with the operational environment, presenting differences between model entities and operational elements within an interactive dashboard, and persisting the enterprise architecture model or dashboard configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional rules-based discovery processes are used to build and update dashboards, then the operational environment can be viewed as a reflection of the running environment, but there is no mechanism to monitor enterprise architecture models against real-time operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the enterprise architecture model monitoring functionality with the existing operational dashboard system. The architecture model conformity monitoring is integrated into the dashboard, allowing simultaneous visualization of both operational metrics and architecture compliance status without requiring separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an architecture model conformity monitoring mechanism as an intermediary layer between the operational environment and the dashboard. This intermediary captures architecture model definitions, compares them with actual operational states, and presents conformity information through the dashboard interface.
2Reliability
If no real-time monitoring mechanism is implemented, then the system remains simple, but the ability to identify potential impacts on operational systems when NFRs change is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the architecture model conformity monitoring continuously compares operational environment data against architecture model definitions and non-functional requirements. When deviations are detected, the system provides immediate feedback through the dashboard, enabling real-time identification of potential performance issues and their impacts on operational systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables preliminary action by monitoring architecture model conformity in real-time, allowing the system to identify potential performance issues before they manifest as actual problems. The dashboard presents architecture compliance status and potential impacts, enabling proactive adjustments to prevent performance degradation.
3Ease of operation
If architecture model monitoring is added to the dashboard, then real-time conformity can be presented, but the dashboard complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enhances the dashboard's universality by making it multi-functional. The same dashboard infrastructure that displays operational metrics is extended to also display architecture model conformity information, non-functional requirement compliance status, and potential impact analysis, eliminating the need for separate specialized tools.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the architecture model conformity monitoring information into distinct, manageable components within the dashboard. The monitoring system divides complexity by separating architecture model definitions, conformity checking logic, and presentation layers, allowing each component to be independently managed and updated.
Data Source
AI summary
An enterprise model associated with an operational environment within an operational dashboard can be identified. The model can include an entity which can be an operational node, an architecture component node, a resource, a goal, or a constraint of an enterprise organization. The environment can include element which can be a computing resource and a computing resource state associated with the organization. An operational state change within the operational environment can be performed. A result of the change can be presented within an architectural view of the model within the dashboard. The result can include a context, a policy, a function, or a relationship affecting the model.