The research relates to the problem of creating digital platform ecosystems in relation to the development directions of the national program "Digital economy". The object of research is a database of configuration management in the ecosystem of an interdisciplinary digital platform created for research and development in the direction of development of new production technologies. The scientific task of the research presented in the article is to find a methodological approach to ensuring interoperability with a new business entity - an organizational system of production, scientific, educational, financial, innovative or other profile introduced into the ecosystem of the digital platform. A new method is proposed for generating project scenarios in the configuration management database to ensure interoperability with the new organizational system. The method is developed based on the results of an analysis of the experience of using it concepts for managing it services - IT Service Management, data processing and transformation - Information Centric Network, data transmission - IntentBased Networking. The scientific novelty of the method is to provide automatic generation of records about the configuration elements of a new business entity in the database of the digital platform ecosystem. The practical significance of the research is to reduce the time needed to build up the competencies and resources of the digital platform ecosystem by introducing new organizational systems.
an environment that creates conditions for the development of platforms and technologies and for the effective interaction of market participants, economic sectors, spheres of activity and that covers regulatory regulation, information infrastructure, personnel and information security.
The research relates to the solution of the scientific problem of economic development in the direction of "new production technologies" based on the creation of ecosystems of digital software platforms [1, p. 3].
Conditions for conducting research:
based on the digital platform, an ecosystem of economic entities is organized, which
includes industrial enterprises, innovation centers, scientific institutions, educational
organizations and other organizational systems that work towards the development
of new production technologies. Platform support of business entities is carried out
taking into account the boundary conditions of stable functioning of computing
resources of the digital platform [
The article uses the following terms and definitions related to digital platforms that
meet the above conditions:
"new production technologies" refers to a complex set of multidisciplinary
knowledge, advanced knowledge-intensive technologies and systems of intellectual
know-how formed on the basis of the results of fundamental and applied scientific
research [
The object of research is a database of configuration management in the ecosystem of a digital platform.
In accordance with the Glossary [
The goal of this research is to develop a new method for generating project scenarios in the configuration management database to ensure interoperability with a new business entity being introduced into the digital platform ecosystem. The Russian Foundation for basic research (projects 18-29-03091 and 18-29-03100) supports this research. 2 2.1
Because of the analysis of information about the practice of applying the concept of IT
Service Management in organizational systems of various industries [
It is obvious that these properties apply to the object under study – the configuration management database in the digital platform ecosystem, and to the processes reproduced in the digital platform ecosystem as a whole. Therefore, the configuration management database is essentially a universal component that can methodically ensure the functioning of organizational systems in digital platform ecosystems, regardless of their number and types of organizational systems' activities.
The analysis of the experience of using other information concepts and technologies in
information systems is carried out:
Information Centric Network and Intent-Based Networking [
Because of the analysis, the possibility of applying these concepts and technologies to automate processes that are reproduced in the ecosystem of an interdisciplinary digital platform in the direction of developing new production technologies was determined. 2.2
The analysis of known research and development (R & d), start-UPS and intellectual
property, which precedes the technical and work projects towards the development of
"new production technologies" identified the following factors a fairly wide spread of
projects dedicated to highly intelligent digital technologies in this area.
1. A wide range of technological areas in which R & D is implemented includes: robotic
systems, complexes and objects; virtual and augmented reality; artificial intelligence
and big data; video analytics; blockchain; industrial Internet of things and wearable
devices, 3D printing, etc. The scope of such R & D includes all key business areas, for
example, "Gazprom Neft Corporation" – from exploration and production to Finance
and HR [
IQS is a platform for interaction be- Performs automation of geoinformation tween citizens, government and Busi- management processes based on proness. Portal "Decide together". cessing incoming information messages. (http://d-russia.ru/v-yaroslavle-zapustili-interaktivnyj-portal-reshaem-vmeste.html) TEKO is a distributed processing plat- Provides information support for cash and form. TEKO company. non-cash payment acceptance processes using distributed Ledger technologies.
(http://sk.ru/news/b/pressreleases/archive/2018/03/14/novym-rezidentom-skolkovo-stala-kompaniya-_1c20_teko_1d20_--razrabotchik-raspredelennoy-platezhnoy-platformy.aspx) Hardware and software platform for Provides information support for integraautomation of production of enter- tion processes of non-standard equipment prises of precision and medium engi- and related operating systems processes in neering. "Industrial Internet of a single technological chain of operations. things». 3. The availability of patent information support of activities of the organizational system (method, systems, centers), a brief description of which is given in table 2.
1. Method of supporting operation of organizational system.
This improves the efficiency of information support by automatically executing scenarios for evaluating the performance of configuration elements and automatically managing they based on the completed evaluation.
(https://new.fips.ru/Archive/PAT/2014FULL/2014.11.10/DOC/RUNWC2/000/000/002/532/723/DOCU MENT.PDF)
The efficiency of the decision support process is improved by automated development of scenarios for solving problem situations.
(https://new.fips.ru/Archive/PAT/2014FULL/2014.11.20/DOC/RUNWC2/000/000/002/533/090/DOCU
MENT.PDF) 3. Organizational systems manage- It improves the reliability of management scement system, model. narios when preventing threats to organizational systems at various levels of the hierarchy.
(https://new.fips.ru/Archive4/PAT/2016FULL/2016.08.27/DOC/RUNWC1/000/000/002/595/335/DOCU
MENT.PDF) 4. Management Center of Organi- It reduces the number of problem situations zational system, model. and reduces the time to resolve them, if they have already occurred, by centrally developing scenarios for solving problem situations.
(https://new.fips.ru/Archive/PAT/2013FULL/2013.04.27/DOC/RUNWU1/000/000/000/127/493/DOCU
MENT.PDF) 5. Monitoring Center for sustaina- Extend the management functionality by aubility information systems, model. tomatically generating, saving, displaying, and transmitting incident scenarios to their intended destination.
(https://new.fips.ru/Archive/PAT/2013FULL/2013.07.10/DOC/RUNWU1/000/000/000/130/109/DOCU
MENT.PDF) 6. Stability of information systems Extend management functionality by autosupport center, model. matically generating, saving, displaying, and transmitting problem scenarios to their intended destination.
(https://new.fips.ru/Archive/PAT/2013FULL/2013.09.10/DOC/RUNWU1/000/000/000/132/227/DOCU
MENT.PDF) The informational nature of business process support that is inherent in these methods, systems and centers (table 2) allowed us to apply it service management processes in accordance with the concept of IT Service Management to prove their industrial feasibility. Information about these processes is provided in the patent descriptions (table 2).
A special case of information support is ensuring the interoperability of management systems, information systems. Summary of patents for interoperability (methods, system, devices) are shown in the table 3.
1. Method of transmission of Interoperability is achieved by converting data control commands. about the control command team to data about its Title Purpose function and converting it back to the no in other codes. (https://www1.fips.ru/ofpstorage/Doc/IZPM/RUNWC1/000/000/002/631/147/ИЗ02631147-00001/document.pdf) 2. Integrated control system. This system implements the method of information transmission (point 1). (https://www1.fips.ru/ofpstorage/Doc/IZPM/RUNWC1/000/000/002/630/393/ИЗ02630393-00001/document.pdf) 3. Method of information Interoperability is provided on the transmitting side transmission. by converting data about the information to data about its destination, on the receiving side by reverse conversion, but in other codes. (https://www1.fips.ru/ofpstorage/Doc/IZPM/RUNWC1/000/000/002/618/366/ИЗ02618366-00001/document.pdf) 4. Control device. Interoperability is provided for remote object management, regardless of whether the data codes for the control command match the data codes in the objects. (https://www1.fips.ru/ofpstorage/Doc/IZPM/RUNWU1/000/000/000/167/247/ПМ00167247-00001/document.pdf) 5. Complex of information in- This complex implements the method of inforteraction. mation transmission (point 3).
(https://new.fips.ru/Archive4/PAT/2016FULL/2016.03.10/DOC/RUNWU1/000/000/000/160/257/DOCU
MENT.PDF) 6. Data transmitter. This transmitter implements the operations of method of transmission of control commands (point 1) on the transmitting side.
(https://new.fips.ru/Archive4/PAT/2016FULL/2016.11.10/DOC/RUNWU1/000/000/000/165/924/DOCU
MENT.PDF) 7. Data receiver. This receiver implements the operations of method of transmission of control commands (point 1) on the receiving side.
(https://new.fips.ru/Archive4/PAT/2016FULL/2016.11.10/DOC/RUNWU1/000/000/000/165/993/DOCU
MENT.PDF) Based on the results of the analysis of innovative solutions – digital platforms (table 1), methods, systems, centers and device (table 2 and table 3), we can note the following: the source of data used in the corresponding collection, processing, conversion, and transmit-receive processes is the configuration management databases or their analogues; the objects used in process execution, including project scenarios, are configuration items that are described in configuration management databases as configuration records; processes for ensuring interoperability in methods and models, in essence, can be classified as processes that use configuration records – project scenarios about configuration elements of interacting control systems, information systems. 3
Based on the results of the analysis of innovative methods and models with the
development of project scenarios, and taking into account the assumption that the
configuration record is represented as a project scenario, a formal model for describing the
interoperability segment in the configuration management database of the digital
platform ecosystem is developed. When developing the model, the possibilities of
wellknown methodological approaches were taken into account, including:
transferring integrated indicators to the data center for accumulation in a
multidimensional storage for data mining and knowledge acquisition [
The first level is the system level, in which
S = {S1, S2 ... SN} is a set of configuration records about configuration elements S1, S2 ... SN represent organizational systems, where N is the number of organizational systems in the ecosystem of the digital platform.
With each of the subsets S1, S2 ... SN correlates the configuration elements of the internal information infrastructure and the configuration elements of the external environment – data transmission networks, engineering structures, etc. When you place configuration records of these elements in the configuration management database, the digital platform ecosystem converts them to exclude duplicate records. These are usually records about elements of the external environment.
The second level is individual, in which
V = {V1, V2 ... VM} is a set of configuration records about subsets V1, V2 ... VM configuration elements, each of which represents a class of objects for ensuring interoperability in the digital platform ecosystem, where M is the number of classes. (1) (2)
V = {V1, V2, V3, V4}.
V1 = {V11, V12 ... V1M1} V2 = {V21, V22 ... V2M2} V3 = {V31, V32 ... V3M3}
V4 = {V41, V42 ... V4M4} it is a subset of configuration records about configuration elements that represent objects for ensuring interoperability by class V1, where M1 is the number of objects in this class; it is a subset of configuration records about configuration elements that represent objects for ensuring interoperability by class V2, where M2 is the number of objects in this class; it is a subset of configuration records about configuration elements that represent objects for ensuring interoperability by class V3, where M3 is the number of objects in this class; Taking into account the factor of heterogeneity of hardware and software products in information systems, as an example for clarity, we will distinguish the following classes of objects to ensure interoperability: a class of objects for ensuring the interoperability of information systems that differ in component indexing systems (V1); a class of objects for ensuring the interoperability of information systems that have differences in the program codes of components (V2); a class of objects for ensuring the interoperability of information systems that have differences in data encoding systems (V3); a class of objects for ensuring the interoperability of information systems that differ in information encryption systems (V4).
So, virtually reducing the number of classes in the set (2), we get
it is a subset of configuration records about configuration elements that represent objects for ensuring interoperability by class V4, where M4 is the number of objects in this class.
Configuration records in sets (4) – (7) are disjoint. Configuration records are entered into the configuration management database of the digital platform ecosystem.
A set of the third level
UDPE = {UOS, UDP} (8) it is a set of non-repeating configuration records about UOS configuration elements used for reproducing organizational system processes from the ecosystem and about UDP configuration elements used for reproducing digital platform processes. Thus, the configuration management database of the digital platform ecosystem contains non-repeating configuration records from sets (3) and (8). These records are used for reproducing processes for ensuring interoperability between information infrastructures of organizational systems from the ecosystem. (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) When a new organizational system is introduced into the ecosystem, the formal model of interoperability in the configuration management database of the digital platform ecosystem should be extended by placing new configuration records about the configuration elements of this organizational system in the configuration management database.
This property of the model is fundamentally important for operations to update the ecosystem of the digital platform by entering a new SN+1 organizational system into it, while ensuring interoperability with other S1, S2 ... SN organizational systems. 4
The structure of the description of the interoperability model in the configuration management database and the project nature of the digital platform ecosystem updating activity allow us to make the following assumption: within the framework of the ecosystem-updating project, the term "project scenario" is identical to the term "configuration record». This condition was used when developing the method for generating project scenario data in the configuration management database.
The purpose of this method is to reduce the time for conducting innovative projects to introduce new organizational systems – economic entities-into the ecosystem of the digital platform.
The method uses the following data: project scenarios – configuration records from sets (3) and (8) already hosted in the digital platform ecosystem configuration management database; project scenarios that are planned to be placed in the same database for managing the configuration of the digital platform ecosystem.
Additional restrictions are accepted:
configuration records of the new organizational system exist and are located in its
configuration management database;
all the tools that are needed to use these records in an ecosystem update project are
available;
for example, well-known process automation software applications can be used as
working tools in this project: Change Management, Configuration Management,
Release Management, Configuration Administration, Capacity Management и другие
в соответствии с концепцией IT Service Management.
the executors of this project can be providers of leading global or domestic vendors
of IT Service Management software products, for example, a fairly complete list of
them is presented in [
Fig. 1 shows, as an example, the Change Management Process diagram, which is licensed by BMC Software, Inc. in 2007. The Change Management Process (see Fig. 1) consists of eight procedures and has inputs and outputs for receiving development management from other processes and transmitting the necessary information to these processes.
The method for generating data about the project scenario in the configuration management database is characterized by the fact that it contains stages at which the following operations are performed for each new project scenario: accept and store data on the project scenarios of the digital platform ecosystem and data on the project scenarios of the new organizational system; perform a comparative analysis of data on the project scenario in turn with data on the project scenarios of the digital platform ecosystem; check the condition that the compared data is identical; if the condition is not met, generate and store data about the project scenario of the new organizational system as data that is recorded in the digital platform ecosystem configuration management database, and transmit this data to the project office for execution; if the condition is met, a decision is made to link the comparable project scenario of the digital platform ecosystem to the new organizational system.
Fig. 2 shows the scheme of the model for generating data on the project inventory. The peculiarity of this scheme is to refine the structure of project scenarios to their elements, which is due to the intention to show the complexity of the structure of configuration records in real databases. The novelty of this method is to provide automatic generation of configuration records about the configuration elements of a new business entity in the database of the digital platform ecosystem. The practical significance of its applicability is due to the shortened terms of work on building the competencies and resources of the digital platform ecosystem in the field of ensuring interoperability in the digital platform ecosystem. 5
The article deals with topical issues of solving the problem of economic development based on the creation of digital platform ecosystems in the direction of the development of new production technologies. This problem is considered in relation to the directions of development of the national program "Digital economy".
The article examines the solution of the scientific problem of finding a methodological approach to ensuring interoperability with a new business entity – an organizational system of production, scientific, educational, financial, innovative or other profile introduced into the ecosystem of the digital platform. The object of research is a configuration management database in the ecosystem of a digital platform, classified as an interdisciplinary one intended for information support of research and industrial development.
The subject area is computing complexes and computer networks in the ecosystem of a digital platform with devices for processing and transmitting data with an impact on the order of data arrangement and on their content, which reproduce the processes of filling the control object with configuration records about the configuration elements of new economic entities.
Based on the results of the analysis of experience in the application of concepts and technologies for managing it services – IT Service Management, data processing and transformation – Information Centric Network, data transmission – Intent-Based Networking, a method for forming project scenarios in the configuration management database to ensure interoperability with the new organizational system is developed and presented in the article.
The scientific novelty of the method is to provide automatic generation of records about the configuration elements of a new business entity in the configuration management database of the digital platform ecosystem.
The practical significance of the research is to reduce the time needed to build up the competencies and resources of the digital platform ecosystem by introducing new organizational systems.
Acknowledgments. The research is partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, projects 18-29-03091, 18-29-03100. The authors express their gratitude to the reviewers for their objective comments and specific recommendations. Working on them made it possible to improve the structure of the article and the quality of the material presented in it on the study of the problem of creating digital platform ecosystems in the direction of developing new production technologies. We hope that the new version of the article will be useful to our colleagues who are working in this direction.