System Factory: Integrating Tools for System Integration, Analysis, and Management

摘要

Large-scale integrated computer systems, such enterprise systems, E-commerce and E-service systems, are becoming quite complex to be build, modified, and used with trust and convenience. To meet this new level of the system complexity (systems of systems) and to deliver systems much better tailored to customers needs, an advanced system integration technology with customization as an important market differentiator is needed. This paper advocates a holistic approach to system integration that supports an end-to-end systematic design: Business Process ->Workload Pattern ->Virtual System-> Configuration -> Data and Application Deployment. This approach is implemented as a System Factory, an integrated environment that incorporates and consolidates matching system analysis technique. The functionality and structure of a System Factory prototype that is under development at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories is described in the paper. The base of the factory is Repository that accumulates system solutions, patterns, and templates for specific business segments. The common modeling, optimization, and analysis tools form the Factory's Brain ware. Specialized Shops provide convenient means to find customized solutions.