Component business modeling (CBM).

Modeling enterprise architecture based on common software mythologies to split the enterprise into business component which relate to IT solution in the end.

Business component is logical view of part of enterprise, its building block to build IT solution. Each block contains business needs, data, people, tools etc’.

You define Business Component(BC) the same as you define them in software industry. After you got BC with their services and inner data there’s a need to define relations and interactions between them. After we have the logical graph of CB you can start to convert it to physical one.

Legacy systems builds by products constraint (MF) but nowadays we need to build system by user constraints. Therefore the business flexibility depends on the IT flexibility.

CBM as opposed to BPM deal with business components that expose services and not mapping of al business processes. Therefore it match SOA better then BPM and helps us to archive better IT flexibility due to the fact that you can compose several BC to serve a new solution.

Well it’s IBM initiative, so here’s the link : http://www-1.ibm.com/industries/financialservices/doc/content/news/newsletter/1061216103.html