Newview’s Network Business Process Architecture was designed from the ground up to manage key components of a network business process solution, including roles, relationships, resources (parts, materials, capacities, operations) and information.

Newview’s Network Business Process Architecture™

Our Process Management solutions are organized by a series of application building blocks enabling a business user to quickly assemble and deploy across business platforms. Physical assets. People. Organizations. Companies. Systems. Technology.

We are unique in our ability to correlate complex attributes to people and various systems engaging in a process. By introducing scalable transaction management to the sophistication of standards-based process management — Newview provides companies the means to execute plans.

Overall Architecture

Newview’s Process Management Technology solutions are constructed with discrete architectural goals to enable rapid customization and expansion.

The essential quality of the design is to build no assumptions into the core platform about the structure and content of the data or the workflows that execute in support of the network business processes of the sponsor. This affords a high degree of flexibility because the platform acts as a high-order execution engine for these processes. On the other hand, this flexibility must be balanced by the need to layer the customizations on top of the core platform, producing an indirection that is financed by performance. Newview solutions achieve this balance while still being scalable for high performance.

From an infrastructure perspective, the platform design yields:

  • A component-based architecture that may be deployed on a variety of equipment under a variety of Operating Systems
  • A scalable deployment such that the actual platform may be hosted on any number of computers, depending on requirements for throughput or availability
  • A flexible deployment that may utilize different infrastructure packages such as a variety of application servers, Web servers, or database servers.

In addition to these, the platform features the following attributes:

Visual off-platform modeling for key business network entities, producing a portable meta-model that is used by the platform during execution

  • A discrete component model that allows for a wide variety of deployment options for scalability and fault-tolerance
  • An intermediary registry for loading the meta-model into the platform
  • A meta-model processing component for all key entities
  • A Schema Manager to retrofit dynamic changes to data in the relational database
  • A plug-in transformation and integration layer for flexible inbound and outbound data mappings
  • A flexible data access component with fine granularity on access permissions by role

Business Network Modeling

Business processes are different from company to company. Recognizing this, the Newview platform provides the capabilities of defining a complete meta-model of Business Network entities. This meta-model is described visually off-platform using a graphical tool called a Network Configurator. Off-platform means that meta-models may be prepared in absence of the platform very much like a text document may be prepared with a text editor and then imported into a word processor for formatting.

Each meta-model contains the definitions that exactly represent the business processes in use by a company, including:

  • Roles
  • Access permissions
  • Business units
  • Locations
  • Materials (either raw, processed, or finished-goods)
  • Documents (with their attributes and fields)
  • Document views
  • Document workflows
  • Application workflows

The network configurator validates the model to make sure there are no irregularities or errors and allows the entire meta-model to be exported for usage by the Platform. Further, the meta-model may be modified over time as the sponsor’s business processes change. In support of this, the configurator allows portions of the meta-model to be in draft and published states.