Business Modeling Taxonomy & Ontology: Domain Objects, Lifec. Strategies for Dealing With IT Complexity - CIO.com - Business T. CIO — It’s called Moore’s Flaw, the flip side of the famous axiom that has driven the furious pace of IT innovation for several decades. Moore’s Law (in one of its many formulations) states that computing capability increases 1 percent per week.
Moore’s Flaw posits that keeping up with this flood tide of innovation quickly becomes too difficult (and too costly) for anyone to manage. “IT complexity acts as a significant tax on IT value,” says Bob Zukis, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. It’s those organizations that “have managed complexity out of their environments that are reaping the value from their IT spends.” Even more important, businesses that successfully address complexity can be more agile because their systems don’t get in the way of business process change. “When you reduce complexity, you increase your ability to implement new solutions,” says André Mendes, CIO of the Special Olympics. “Complexity leads to brittleness and high costs,” notes Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture. SOA Patterns. Lessons Learned from our first SOA implementation - Part 1. Inside Architecture : SOA and the CISR Operating Models. I'm begining a new series on Integration. Five parts. Clear up some of the noise on SOA.
This series will refer to the set of four Operating Models described in the excellent book, "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy" from the great minds at MIT's Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), Jeanne Ross and Peter Weill. If you have not read the book, that's OK. Working Paper 359 on the CISR site will provide the right level of depth (there is a free registration on the site). To quote from the working paper: Companies make two important choices in the design of their operations: (1) How standardized their business processes should be across operational units (business units, region, function, market segment) and (2) how integrated their business processes should be across those units. That's two variables. I've illustrated these models in this way. Many folks now believe that SOA and EA will gradually combine, so that they are two parts of the same message.
Why do this? That is my goal. Sum of the Parts: Combining SOA and BPM. A technology that has gained increased attention in recent years, business process management (BPM), is starting to look a lot like another technology gaining momentum, service-oriented architecture (SOA). And this similarity is leading some CIOs to apply the techniques in concert, using SOA approaches as the delivery platform and BPM approaches as the “business smarts” platform.
Both BPM and SOA require you to map out business processes and figure out how they should interact with each other, with other applications, and with data sources. “You can’t do SOA without business processes,” said Judith Hurwitz, president of the Hurwitz Associates consultancy. Yet many organizations have created an artificial separation by thinking of services as just IT functions and business processes as just business workflow functions. “BPM is going to be the most important part of SOA in that it lets you combine the services as your needs change. Page 1 of 2. Q&A: The Role of BPM in an SOA Strategy. Sandy Carter, Vice President, SOA Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM was kind enough to talk to Developer.com and Gamelan.com about how BPM (Business Process Management) fits into an SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Strategy.
Q: Business Process Management (BPM) appears to be moving to the forefront in IT circles; can you please explain the growing interest? A: There are two key drivers to the increased interest in BPM within IT circles. First, there have been many advances in BPM-related IT products in everything from modeling tools to process choreography and workflow technologies. The recent popularity of service oriented architecture (SOA) within IT circles has also helped drive increased interest in BPM. Q: Is BPM new? A: No! Q: How does BPM complement an SOA strategy?
A: BPM and SOA are really two sides of the same coin and they derive many benefits when brought together. Q: Can you do BPM without SOA? Q: How should an organization approach a BPM strategy? BPM versus SOA. SOA bogged down by spend-happy worst practices. San Francisco – Analysts practically wear themselves out saying "service-oriented architecture is something you do, not something you buy," but during last week's Burton Group Catalyst Conference it became clear too When you register, you'll begin receiving targeted emails from my team of award-winning writers.
Our goal is to keep you informed on recent service-oriented architecture (SOA) and SOA-related topics such as integration, governance, Web services, Cloud and more. many users are trying to take a shortcut to SOA by buying the latest got-to-have-it software package. Burton analysts stressed that you don't need to chase after some enterprise service bus with every possible widget or try to support the latest chic Web services standards in order to achieve service orientation. "SOA is an enterprise architecture style, not an application architecture style," said Anne Thomas Manes, Burton Group vice president and research director. Increased flexibility and agility. Application Development Trends - BPM: Is It SOA's Reason fo. BPM: Is It SOA's Reason for Being? By Kurt Mackie07/02/2007 A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is supposed to bring flexibility to IT resources and lower costs by letting IT personnel reuse software components instead of coding from scratch.
However, some experts have suggested that reuse -- the principal justification in most cost-benefit analyses for SOA -- might amount to just 10 percent . Other analysts, such as Bill Rosser, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, have said that "I think the variation is much larger than that. [But] it takes a lot of energy, experience, background and foundation to get to significant savings.
" For companies setting up SOAs, those savings may come sometime further down the line, in the longer term, he suggested. SOA is just an architectural approach. A common complaint by business management when it comes to IT resources is that management wants an agile IT infrastructure that will meet the changing needs of the business. Bad Technical Implementations and Lack of Governance Increase Ri. Egham, UK, June 26, 2007 View All Press Releases Organisations that embark on service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives aimed at enterprise wide deployment must pay equal attention to technical and governance issues.
Gartner today said that although the risks of SOA project failure are initially associated with bad technical implementations, risks of failure due to insufficient governance are becoming increasingly significant, as SOA scope expands. “Actual implementations are showing that SOA requires more investment in service design governance and application integration best practice than current levels in most organisations,” said Paolo Malinverno, research vice-president at Gartner. “At the beginning, risks of project failures are small but as the SOA project develops the risk curve increases. For this reason, organisations should never think of SOA without establishing a set of governance processes around service definition, implementation and maintenance.” Contacts. Projects - Innovation for Demanding Change. "SOA and BPM Converging"...Duh | By Dave Linthicum.
Experts Weigh In on 2007 IT Trends. » Applying Web 2.0 in the enterprise: News from the trenches | E. Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend I finally had time to compile my notes on a significant new Web 2.0 in the enterprise story that emerged earlier this month from the Web 2.0 Summit. At the same time, one of the inevitable recurring debates about Web 2.0 made its rounds on the blogosphere. Both pieces of news seem to be hallmarks of important and connected emerging trends on the Internet and are worth a closer look. Taking the second one first, the term Web 2.0 itself took its latest bashing from Bill Thompson in a new article at The Register that subsequently got some good play in the blogosphere, with probably the most level-headed by our very own Dan Farber.
Interestingly, while rich user experiences are indeed an important facet of the Web as it has become a true platform in its own right, Web 2.0 has fundamentally been about those exact things that Bill Thompson recommends focusing on. Web 2.0 and SOA Combined: Three Resulting Aspects 2) Community and Collaboration. SOA in enterprises or Hype 2.0. If dot com in enterprises was hype 1.0 then surely SOA in enterprises is coming very close to becoming hype 2.0 . The way SOA has been touted as next best thing to happen to mankind since sliced bread brings it closer to that dubious distinction. The vendors are promising all kinds of things from flexibility, adaptability, re-use to lower costs if you use their merchandise to do SOA.
SOA is good as long as decision makers can seperate hype from reality. I for one will be very saddened if SOA goes the some way as dot com hype. Following discussion is to seperate hype from reality so that decision makers have correct expectation, to enable them to move along the path of sustainable SOA. 1. I) I can build it as a composite service composed of more granualar services for customer detail and holding detail.II) I can build a monolithic service for providing both customer and holding details Now remember the lesson we learnt in managing the data. 2. So is SOA a BIG hype about nothing. 2. » Survey: large enterprises expect less than 30 percent SOA reus. Reuse is the most important metric by which large companies will be measuring the success of their SOA efforts – but most don’t expect high levels of reuse to happen any time soon. A new survey commissioned by BEA Systems finds that a majority of the largest global organizations (61%) expect no more than 30 percent of their SOA services to be eventually reused or shared across business units.
In fact, only five percent expect to see more than half of their services to be reused. (Survey available from BEA here.) In previous posts, I surfaced arguments for and against (and against) relying on reuse as an SOA value driver. However, by an 84% majority, these same respondents consider service reuse is one of their most critical metrics for SOA success. But, perhaps it’s too early to tell. It appears that most of these large enterprises have signed off on the SOA concept overall. What is the SOA vision discussed here? Cost savings is a primary driver for SOA at 30%. [poll id=4] Live from webMethods - Fabric 7 - The New Face of BPM. I am attending webMethods Integration World this week (ebizQ is a media sponsor) and blogging live from the sessions. Next up for me was Susan Ganeshan of webMethods talking about the Business Process Management capabilities of Fabric 7.
Processes have evolved over time with lots of patchwork systems with data and process steps moving around between systems creating a "Patchwork Process". Lots of different kinds of processes with wide variation between them in terms of what kind of data is involved, people to people v system to system etc. However, almost always has both people and systems interacting in processes. Susan discussed some key themes and features for Fabric 7 and here is my dump of the ones that caught my eye: Fabric 7 is trying to bring all the features you need around BPM/BAM/BRMS on an well-governed SOA-based and integration-rich platform. Recorded demos: SOA/BPM. Recommended reading list: Service-Oriented Architecture and WebS. IBM Launches Initiative of SOA Products, Services. Hewlett-Packard will apparently need close to two months to start fulfilling backorders for the (temporarily) revived TouchPad tablet.
"It will take 6-8 weeks to build enough HP TouchPads to meet our current commitments, during which time your order will then ship from this stock with free ground shipping," read an email sent to customers and reprinted in a Sept. 7 posting on the Precentral.net blog. "You will receive a shipping notification with a tracking number once your order has shipped. "That would place the new TouchPads in consumers' hands sometime in either late October or early November. The reduced-price devices are not returnable, according to the email. HP originally acquired webOS as part of its takeover of Palm in 2010.
Nicholas Kolakowski is a staff editor at eWEEK, covering Microsoft and other companies in the enterprise space, as well as evolving technology such as tablet PCs. David Chappell :: Opinari. Not too long ago, I spoke at a Gartner event where the keynote speaker posed a question to the audience. "How many of you work for a company that once had a large-scale object reuse program? " he asked. In a room with several hundred IT managers from the largest American firms, nearly every hand went up. He then made a follow-up request: "Please keep your hand up if your firm still has a large-scale object reuse program". Only one hand remained in the air. I don’t think anybody in the room was surprised by this, least of all the speaker. I’ve spent much of the last two years flying around the world talking with people about SOA. And sometimes it does. It’s also clear that some organizations are able to achieve significant reuse of business services.
Reuse and SOA’s Benefits Some people argue that service reuse isn’t the only advantage of SOA, and they’re right. Creating services that can be reused requires predicting the future. What about business agility? Elemental links: Office 2.0 Podcast Jam "Transcript": Friday, I was visiting an enterprise client to review their architectural plan and discuss a business architecture initiative. During our conversation, we touched on the need for business users to simulate a proposed business change, without a big IT effort to provision the information and provide a front-end. In this scenario, a flexible front-end is crucial, because the business users are really experimenting with different models. This got us to talking about Excel, and as luck would have it, I had just recorded a related podcast for Anne's excellent Office 2.0 Podcast Jam .
The client asked for a transcript of the podcast, and it occurred to me I should probably post it. Here it is: For my contribution to the Office 2.0 Podcast Jam , I want share a simple idea that mixes “2.0” concepts with service-oriented architecture to solve a common and often contentious IT problem, that of end-user, excel based, computing. First, a little about the problem. 1. 2. So here it is. Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Processes, Composite Apps Put P. The layering of an interesting mix of service-oriented architecture, composite applications and business process management possibilities on top of the portal platform may just bring back some of the portal's pizzazz.
Much of the feature fanfare and pioneering pizzazz seems to have drained out of the portal market in recent years as it's been largely consolidated into the hands of top players including IBM, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and BEA. But some of the spark is back this year as an interesting mix of service-oriented architecture (SOA), composite applications and business process management (BPM) possibilities is being layered on top of the portal platform. In announcing its WebSphere Portal Server last week, for example, IBM put a great deal of emphasis on "new collaborative capabilities with templates built on a Service-Oriented Architecture that can be used... to deploy role-based composite applications.
" IBM's vision sounds like a portal-flavored version of SAP's xApps game plan. Inside Architecture : Third attempt - definition of an applicati. BPM and SOA - Distinct, but Synergistic. SOA 2.0 : Why a Revision is Really Necessary - Manageability. SOA Technology Adoption Reaches 90 Percent in 2006: AberdeenGrou. Analysts point to JEE complexity drag for SOA, but SOA ain' Analysts see Java EE dying in an SOA world. BPM inside the belly of the SOA whale. SOA, Matrix. Solving Classic Problems Using SOA. InfoQ - Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise softwar. Know Your Service Patterns. Event-Driven Architecture Overview. Survey: SOA In, Vista Out. Observations from the Field – The Hard Part of SOA. SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook.
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