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- An Introduction to ISO 15926
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What is ISO 15926
- How Information Exchange is Supposed to Work
- How Information Exchange Actually Works
- How Information Exchange Works with ISO 15926
- How ISO 15926 Works
- A Bit of History
- Long Tail
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Areas of Current Work
- Norwegian Continental Shelf
- MIMOSA
- JORD
- iRING
- Development of Standards
- Educational Material
- Getting Started With ISO 15926
- Other ISO 15926 Resources
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Introduction to ''An Introduction to ISO 15926''
- ISO 15926 is Like a Babel Fish
- ISO 15926 is Like HTML
- ISO 15926 is Like English on Your Cell Phone
- About the Author
- ISO15926Primer_DiagnosticPage
Business Processes
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Contents
- Abstract
- Business Processes
- Doing it the ISO 15926 Way
- A Metaphor: We Need a Babel Fish
- A Metaphor: We Need a Babel Fish
- Next
Abstract
The barrier to interoperablitiy between software applicaitons is not technololgy. The barrier is business processes.
[Note 2008.10.27. This page has material from two pages. I will clean it us as soon as possible. GPR]
Business Processes
Up till now we have been focusing on technology
[TO DO: Robin Benjamin's slide "The Problem Space"]
Fig X - Problem Space
We have lots of technology
Excel Oracle Databases Java Other stuff
We need to focus on our Business Processes
[TO DO: Robin Benjamin's slide "A New Approach"]
Fig Y - A New Approach
Doing it the ISO 15926 Way
[TO DO: diagrams on Babel Fish]
[To DO: information exchange diagram with yellow dots, representing facades]
A Metaphor: We Need a Babel Fish
Remember our earlier metaphor about how ISO 15926 acts like a Babel Fish?
* ISO 15926 is like a Babel fish
We need a Babel fish to translate from one company's data sheets to those of another.
Figure 5: Everyone Needs a Babel fish
Fortunately, ISO 15926 acts very much like a Babel fish.
- Each company creates what is known as a facade and makes it publicly available on the Internet.
- Each company maps its own database (or at any rate, those portions of its database that it wishes to publish) to the ISO 15926 standard.
- Each company creates an application which can access the facades of its business partners.
After that, the only question you have to ask of a supplier (or engineer, or constructor) is "What is the URL of your facade?"
Figure 6: The Same Project Using ISO 15926 Facades
Using ISO 15926 Facades, these same 18 players would only need 18 facades, one each. But the best thing is that they would not have to create a new set of connections with each project. They would only have to do it once, ever. The colored lines, from each company to its facade, is all most organizations would have to do. The black lines between facades represent functions built into commercial software.
A Metaphor: We Need a Babel Fish
In the Hitchiker's Guide, intergalactic travellers used a Babel fish to translate alien languages. We need a Babel fish to translate from one company's datasheets to those of another.
* ISO 15926 is like a Babelfish
Figure 5: Everyone Needs a Babel fish
Fortunatly, ISO 15926 acts very much like a Babel fish.
- Each company creates what is known as a facade and makes it publicaly available on the Internet.
- Each company maps its own database (or at any rate, those portions of its database that it wishes to publish) to the ISO 15926 standard.
- Each company creates an application which can access the facades of its business partners.
After that, the only question you have to ask of a supplier (or engineer, or constructor) is "What is the URL of your facade?"
Figure 6: The Same Project Using ISO 15926 Facades
Using ISO 15926 Facades, these same 18 players would only need 18 facades, one each. But the best thing is that they would not have to create a new set of connections with each project. They would only have to do it once, ever. The colored lines, from each company to its facade, is all most organizations would have to do. The black lines between facades represents functions built into commercial software.
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