Overview:

The Common Information Model (CIM) is an open standard that defines how managed elements in an IT environment are represented as a common set of objects and relationships between them. This is intended to allow consistent management of these managed elements, independent of their manufacturer or provider. The CIM emphasizes on consistent information model for a business object across the enterprise, this includes standards and processes related to the analysis, definition and implementation of Global Business Objects (GBO) into the EAI solution framework.

The GBO Repository is a Meta data store, which contains some of the artifacts related to the Process and Data Integration. GBO stores Artifacts like:

Process Integration solutions can integrate the resources supporting your business processes, automate the transactions between them and monitor those processes while executing them, making what goes on inside your company visible, measurable and auditable.

Effective Process Integration solutions return control of business processes back to business people from information technology (IT) people. This means that line-of-business managers can change business processes and quickly adapt them to changing economic conditions. Process Integration also provides decision makers with up-to-date business information, allowing them to make better business decisions immediately.

Process Integration can optimize your current business processes by helping you

• Object Definitions (XML Schemas)

• Derived Object Definition

• Data Transformation Components

• Legacy Data Format Definitions

• Standards Definitions

The GBE Repository stores business events generated from business processes / systems that belong to the various lines of business. It has infrastructure components to support the Enterprise Infrastructure Management and support for CEI (Common Event Interface).

• Enterprise Business Events

• System Events / Errors / Warnings

• Application Errors / Warning

• Event Emitter Components

• Event Handlers / Process Flows

The GBS Repository stores Meta data of all the various Enterprise services like:

• Composite Applications (BPEL)

• Web Services (Internal / External / J2EE / .NET / Packaged App Vendors)

• Enterprise Beans (J2EE / .NET Components)

• Stored Procedures

• Cobol Programs

• Others (RPG / ORB)

This repository also needs to be linked to the GBE Repository to define what kinds of events each one of these Business Services Generate and also what kind of business Events these business services (Especially the Composite Service) can consume.