Dynamic policy management on business performance management architecture

Abstract

Business performance management (BPM) is a new approach for an enterprise to improve their capabilities for sensing and responding to business situations. In a diverse and fast-changing business environment, an enterprise needs to adapt itself to any unexpected changes. For BPM, such changes imply changes of the models and services that support BPM. This paper discusses an implementation of BPM with the focus on dynamically adapting its services. We will present the motivation, concept and architecture of the dynamic change mechanisms. First we define a set of configurations as a policy, and also define its consistency through an application context. Then we propose an architectural overview including a policy management service as an implementation of consistency management. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.