Business Ecology Initiative & Service-Oriented Solution

Service use, reuse and... business prohibition

mpoulin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:40:50 -0500

A couple days ago I presented my ideas in "Creating Service-Oriented Enterprise" to the IASA UK meeting. One of the topics that caused a 'hot' discussion was how to deliver the message about services to the business ears and hearts....

Evidence of collaboration between SOA Standard Bodies

mpoulin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:13:38 -0500

A few days ago, the OASIS SOA Reference Architecture Technical Committee announced that it changes its name to 'Reference Architecture Foundation for SOA'. As newly elected TC Chair Dr. Ken Laskey said "For those of you who have not been...

How to prevent doing 'wrong service' easier

mpoulin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:55:55 -0500

A couple days ago, Steve Jones published his BLOG titled "Requirements Landfill - the challenge of central services". As usually, this is very thoughtful and forward-looking post where Steve notices that many IT prefer implementing new requirements by modifying existing...

SOA Manifesto has been Released

mpoulin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:00:20 -0500

On 23 October, 2009, the group of SOA leaders has released so-called SOA Manifesto. It says that the authors "value the items on the right" but "value the items on the left more": Business value over technical strategy Strategic goals...

Go 'Private' until Opposite is Proved

mpoulin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:57:41 -0500

Yes, you've guessed correct - this post is about Cloud Computing or Clouds (hereinafter). It is a couple of years already when IT talks about the Clouds and has reached the point of Clouds classification. Now we can identify infrastructure/utility,...

Navigating the SOA Standards... into the Failure

mpoulin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:59:47 -0500

On 1 October, David Sprott of CBDI has published his observation of 'Navigating the SOA Standards Landscape Around Architecture', under the title "The Failure of SOA Standards!" You have, probably read my report in this topic back in July. The...

Hidden Cost of the Project

mpoulin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:43:45 -0500

IT has a slogan: 'we have time and money to re-do the project three times but we do not have them to do the project one time right'. There is another believe as well saying that IT people should not...

'Business' was the keyword in the IBM SOA Architect Summit in London

mpoulin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:43:25 -0500

Yesterday, on the magic date of 09.09.09, IBM held the SOA Architect Summit in London. I do not know how many architects participated but, to my estimate, there were a few hundred attendees. The Summit ran two tracks, the hands-on...

Decomposition of Business Operations for SOA

mpoulin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:04:02 -0500

Recently I re-read the visionary article "SOA's Business Value" written by Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director, Macehiter Ward-Dutton, back in 2006. Explaining the real value of SOA, Neil said: "You must focus on the problem domain in which SOA can yield...

Does ESB fit with Business Service?

mpoulin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:13:56 -0500

The answer to this question depends the great deal on what ESB is. When I checked just qbizQ on 'ESB', the results came from 43 Articles, 19 Webinars, 42 News Stories, 21 White Papers, 5 Vendor Listings and many pages...

Why Service Orientation is so difficult to Business?

mpoulin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:21:24 -0500

First of all, I have to admit that the question is ambiguous. Why is it difficult and what, actually, 'difficult' means? For the sake of this post, I would define 'difficult' as the absence of massive and almost immediate acceptance...

Questions to Business Architecture

mpoulin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:29:55 -0500

For last few days, I participated in several 'hot' discussions on LinkedIn about Business Architecture, Business Architect role and Business Services. Among others, the questions included: • What are the business imperatives for doing Business Architecture? • How would you...

We still call a "RPC on Web" a service...

mpoulin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:17:29 -0500

Recently I talked to Technical Architects from several international organisations (from the US and Europe), and have found that despite massive efforts of SOA experts, implementation and delivery teams still 'witched' by the word 'Service' in the Web Service technology...

Where Business Architects belong to? Part 2: The Business Architect Challenges

mpoulin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:00:00 -0500

Wikipedia has a relatively extended article about Business Architecture but the article mentions a role of Business Architect no one time. Somebody can suggest that Business Architecture exists on its own and operates by itself, which is not necessary the...

Where Business Architects belong to? Part 1: What is Business Architecture?

mpoulin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:21:59 -0500

A role of Business Architect appears more frequently in out conversations nowadays. There are several discussions running on LinkedIn about definition, business value, positioning and even appropriate remuneration of this role. To answer these questions, I believe we have to...