Solution Architecture Co-Pilot Platform (SACP²)

Why?

Digital Solutions are getting more complex, because the number of different technologies and products that need to exchange data is growing. As an example, for the implementation of a business solution using Digital Twins. it is not an exception to have a 2-digit number of different software products from many different vendors used, that spread across Edge, Cloud. On-Premise and On-Asset.

What?

The Solution Architecture Co-Pilot Platform can help organizations to accelerate their solution design and implementation by up to 50% and improve the solution quality by up to 40%. These numbers are on research, for example:

Evaluating the Benefits of Model-Driven Development
Universidad San Jorge, SVIT Research Group https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341834755_Evaluating_the_Benefits_of_Model-Driven_Development_Empirical_Evaluation_Paper

The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot  
MIT Sloan School of Management
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06590

Evaluating the benefits of empowering model-driven development with a machine learning classifier
Wiley
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.3133

How?

The SCAP² combines use case blueprints and reference models created by the INOVIA Consulting with Mega’s HOPEX modeling tool with the Solution Architecture Co-Pilot created by INOVIA Software, part of INOVIA Solutions. The Solution Architecture Co-Pilot is a genAI tool, supporting an solution architect in his work. It uses the use case blueprints and information about the enterprise architecture of a firm to create an initial design of the solution architecture and then collaboration with the solution architect to finish the architecture design. Once this is done it has the capability to generate code and configurations in the development environments of the systems required to implement the use case. More details on the SACP can be found here.

The use case blueprint library contains also use cases from Catena-X and other X-Initiatives and all use cases have reference implementations. The platform also uses the Solution Building Block Library of the Sustainable Supply Chain Framework, so organization have guidance what software products can be used to implement different parts of the use case. The Sustainable Supply Chain Framework is a collaboration of a collaboration between the MIT Alumni Energy, Environment and Sustainability Network and INOVIA Solutions.

The use case blueprints and the Solution Architecture Co-Pilot are designed and implemented in a way to support other modeling tools that have an API that allows an interaction with the model in the tool and support ArchMate, BPMN and UML as standard modeling notations.