24th July 2008, 08:14 am
We are happy to announce the new open source project for UMM 2.0 and the UML modeling tool Enterprise Architect, called UMM 2 Add-In. The project is intended to be open source and licensed under the GNU General Public Licencse v3.
We would like to invite all interested modelers/programmers/users to join the common effort for developing a tool support for UMM 2.0 and the UML modeling tool Enterprise Architect. The project is hosted on Google Code located under http://umm2-addin.googlecode.com/. The project website on Google Code comprises all downloads, an issue tracker (bug tracker), a WiKi (still to be filled), and direct access to the source code via Subversion (SVN). For details regarding the SVN access please follow the instructions on the project website.
Furthermore the first release of the UMM2 Add-In is available for download on the project website. Currently the release contains the UML Profile (MDG file) for import into Enterprise Architect.
As a next release a first version of the UMM 2 validator is scheduled.
Special thanks to Harry Moyer and Thomas Motal for the efforts on creating the MDG and in particular the quick link features.
7th July 2008, 03:27 am
The new and revised UN/TMG website is online, providing the latest version of the standards developed by UN/TMG and further information about upcoming meetings etc.
30th April 2008, 06:49 pm
A new UMM 2.0 model from the Waste Management Domain is available for download in the example model section.
17th April 2008, 11:39 am
The UMM 2.0 specification has finished step 3 of the Open Development Process (Internal Draft) and has now entered phase 4 (Internal Review). Feel free to read through the specification and learn more about the great enhancements the UMM 2.0 standard has in comparision to the UMM 1.0.
The UMM 2.0 internal draft specification can be found on the internal UN/CEFACT collaborative website under the following link:
UMM 2.0 Internal Draft specification
10th April 2008, 03:01 pm
Our new book entitled “UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology (UMM) 1.0” is available in book stores right now.
The book covers the UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology 1.0 and the UMM Add-In and provides an excellent 101 tutorial for new UMM users.
A whole chapter is dedicated to the UMM user guide which helps a novice user to create a valid UMM 1.0 model. Furthermore the different chapters include the Worksheet Editor and the UMM Validator being part of the UMM Add-In. The generation of process specifications from UMM models and the mapping of business information to document formats are also part of the book.
1st April 2008, 08:28 pm
A new UMM 1.0 example model from the Waste Management Domain is available in the example section.
14th March 2008, 08:03 pm
The next UN/CEFACT forum meeting will be held in Mexico City from April 7 - 11. The entire UMM-Dev team will attend the meeting and the release of the first draft of the UMM 2.0 standard is planned for the end of the forum meeting.
See you there!
10th March 2008, 08:00 pm
We are happy to announce, that our book entitled “UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology 1.0 - A Guide to UMM 1.0 and the UMM Add-In” has been accepted for publication. The first issues will be available in about one month.
The second book entitled “UMM cook book” featuring the new UMM 2.0 standard will be released in autumn 2008. Stay tuned!
6th March 2008, 03:41 pm
Our upcoming research project BSopt (Business Semantics on top of Process Technologies) has won an award for the best research project submission in the area of Semantic Systems!
BSopt will start on the 1st of April and is a two year funded research project including partners from the industry and academia. More information about BSopt.
20th February 2008, 04:43 pm
Next week Marco will present our paper “Inter-organizational Systems: From Business Values over Business Processes to Deployment” at the IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies in Phitsanulok (Thailand). More Information about this conference can be found here: http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/index.php
The abstract of the paper:
Inter-organizational systems have significantly been affected by Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web Services - the state-of-the-art technology to implement SOA. SOA is said to enable quick and inexpensive changes of the IT in order to establish new business partnerships or to reflect changes in existing partnerships. However, current approaches to inter-organizational systems focus too much on existing Web Services standards and, thus, on the technology layer. In such an approach the technology drives the business. In this paper we analyze the shortcomings of this bottom-up approach. As an alternative we suggest a top-down methodology where the business requirements drive the technology. This methodology starts off with the business value perspective, leading to a business process perspective and resulting in an IT execution perspective. We do not invent any new approaches on each of these layers, rather we outline how existing approaches are used and combined into a business requirements driven approach to inter-organizational systems.