Business Ecology Initiative & Service-Oriented Solution

Business Organization for Dealing with Clouds

mpoulin — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 -0500

I could not omit Hollis Tibbetts' BLOG "Cloud should be "top down", SaaS "bottom up"? Huh?" because it reflects on the idea of Cloud adoption top to bottom. It is not clear, however, from this BLOG or from the referred...

The road that is paved with good intentions...

mpoulin — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:24 -0500

"Oracle CloudWorld 2013 - London" in May was a great event. It was great in organisation and the content of presentations - everyone could learn something new. For example, I listened to majority of presentations regarding security and interactions/integration between...

A dream of continuous deployment for Web User Experience/Process

mpoulin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:50:08 -0500

I have looked at "Continuous Deployment: The Dirty Details" by Mike Brittain in SideShare posted on Jan 29, 2013, and found 3 nonsense cases in this overall good presentation. 1. Presentation states, "Architecture largely does not matter" while deployments a...

Business Process' Going Self-Distracting

mpoulin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:01:32 -0500

Lessons from History. Manufacturing The first, a manufacturing production has formed contemporary concept of a business process. People did what the technology required and nobody objected to the process. Business Process was defined a repeatable ordered set of activities that...

A key rule for business process: When crossing a street, worry about the last step, not about the first one

mpoulin — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:01:12 -0500

I've read a brilliant white paper "As-is and To-Be Process Modelling: a Flawed and Failed Paradigm," authored by John Owens, which I highly recommend for your reading. John finally uncovers the argument that modeling a business process "as-is" does not...

A dead-end for the cloud federation business process

mpoulin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:42:32 -0500

According to different cloud computing experts, a cloud federation is the practice of two or more service providers interconnecting for the purpose of load balancing traffic and accommodating spikes in cloud consumer demand. Cloud federation allows one provider to wholesale...

IT split in line with Business Process

mpoulin — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:06:30 -0500

First is first! Please, accept the warmest greetings in New 13 Year! I believe that you sacred plans will realise and you will come up with even more advanced ideas. I wish you happiness and prosperity if you need it...

A Business view on Middleware as a Service

mpoulin — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 06:58:41 -0500

Oracle Corporation offers one of the first standard-based solution that allows standards-based applications, particularly, in Java with .NET, C++ and REST clients, to be deployed and executed with no modifications (at all) on in-house platform and in Clouds. It is...

The value of business process documentation

mpoulin — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:04:48 -0500

"We didn't know what our process was until IT implemented it wrong." --Common business complaint "When you get to 'business process' documentation, you aren't documenting business processes, you are recording business activities." --Common business saying In my practice, I haven't...

What a business service is

mpoulin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:42:51 -0500

Each business process is a business service. If you do not take me at my word, or do not take BPM expert Dr. A. Samarin at his word, try to ask any consumer (not a worker) of a business process...

Cloud Process, Part 3: Tips for a business process of hiring Cloud

mpoulin — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:20:07 -0500

I continue describing Cloud Process in this post. In a random search of jobs for Architects, I have found that about 15-20% of job specifications contain references to Cloud Computing in different forms: • "Design cloud solutions based on customer,...

Cloud Process, Part 2: Tips for a business process of hiring Cloud

mpoulin — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:00:58 -0500

IT departments have lost their exceptional right of dealing with technology - nowadays corporate business has figured out that Cloud providers are businesses themselves and, therefore, they may be hired as suppliers directly, with not even informing IT about such...

Cloud Process, Part 1

mpoulin — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:13:58 -0500

A dualism of 'Cloud Process' may be understood as a 'process of Cloud' and as 'muggy/cloudy process'. With regard to Cloud Computing (Cloud for short) both interpretations are correct. Cloud's march slows down and its fanfares lower the noise -...

Two Views from IT on Business Process

mpoulin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:05:59 -0500

Business used and uses business process for an implementation of its functionality. This fact is not a secret to people working on a business side of any enterprise. Nonetheless, IT departments of the same enterprises may be divided into two...

I worried "about everything going to the cloud" in 2009 - Apple's Steve Wozniak is worried only now

mpoulin — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:09:59 -0500

I cannot resist a temptation to admit that I worried "about everything going to the cloud" in 2009 while it was published only on 05 August 2012 that Apple's Steve Wozniak said, "I really worry about everything going to the...