A Pragmatic approach to rolling out SOA is to provide Business Value early. A Data Services Layer provides a Unified, Standards based access to different data sources. I don't believe that SOA is an all or nothing approach as evidenced in this blog
http://apsblog.burtongroup.com/2008/12/soa-vs-...read more
I agree with the sentiment in the blog post - using services to implement integration is not SOA as such, but Service Oriented Integration. Having said that, I think you are right to suggest that...read more
A question that may have many answers: What parts of a transformational Business Architecture would you show to the following people and why: The sponsoring business executive; A business analyst who is working with you; An executive of a business unit that will benefit from the transformation...read more
For each type of audience (stakeholder), we will have to take into cognizance the scope, view and the level of abstraction of the Business Architecture. Scope will not change with audience as it...read more
Michael Porter defines value proposition in his article on the Six Principles of Strategic Positioning:
A company's strategy must enable it to deliver a value proposition, or set of benefits, different from those that competitors offer. Strategy, then, is neither a quest for the universally best...read more
JD / Bambimnoti It has never been a secret that the OMG produces metamodel based exchange standards for vendors and does not produce methodologies. The BASIG, however, is not a standards producing...read more
I also fully agree with your views on BPM. It is much ,kore than technology and IT tools, if fact to me this is only a pretty small part of it, In the very first row, to me it ia a Management...read more
The April issue of the BDM Bulletin addresses Best Practices for Requirements Gathering. Larry Goldberg and Barbara von Halle from Knowledge Partners, Inc. offer up a six step process. Share your tips. What methodologies or best practices do you currently use?
Read the article here: http://www....read more
couple of thoughts... adding business value to the requirement description itself improves the quality of requirement and allows the business to prioritize the requirement much more effectively...read more
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Originally published on April 26 2010 | 3 total posts
Attaining superior efficiency, high visibility and customer satisfaction across the entire supply/demand chain is essential for all organizations in today’s competitive markets. The strategic promise of SOA and BPM is to replace the current supply chain software foundation over time with a...read more
We recently posted a white paper which promotes a common understanding of business architecture. The white paper is called "Defining Requirements for a Business Architecture Standard" and can be downloaded by using this link - http://brainstorm.leveragesoftware.com/group_file.aspx?FileID=884ae5b82f...read more
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Originally published on March 18 2010 | 0 total posts
We recently posted a white paper which promotes a common understanding of business architecture. The white paper is called "Defining Requirements for a Business Architecture Standard" and can be downloaded by using this link - http://brainstorm.leveragesoftware.com/group_file.aspx?FileID=884ae5b82f...read more
JD - I hope no one implied that BPMN should be a business architecture model. As you said, it is too detailed. The metamodel is overloaded on purpose because there are certain aspects of detail...read more
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Originally published on March 18 2010 | 13 total posts
We recently posted a white paper which promotes a common understanding of business architecture. The white paper is called "Defining Requirements for a Business Architecture Standard" and can be downloaded by using this link - http://brainstorm.leveragesoftware.com/group_file.aspx?FileID=884ae5b82f...read more
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Originally published on March 18 2010 | 0 total posts
We recently posted a white paper which promotes a common understanding of business architecture. The white paper is called "Defining Requirements for a Business Architecture Standard" and can be downloaded by using this link - http://brainstorm.leveragesoftware.com/group_file.aspx?FileID=884ae5b82f...read more
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This special report asks the question: “Is it possible for both the business process and Business Architecture Modeling approaches to share a common modeling language and might BPMN 2.0 satisfy...
The availability of highly functional, open source business process management systems (BPMS) and business rules management systems (BRMS) are bringing the benefits of process automation...
Organizations have access to more data than ever before. However, this data is of little value if one is unable to extract intelligent information from this data .Today, what everyone needs is...
About the Report As more and more organizations embrace Business Process Management (BPM) for the design of enterprise organizational and information systems, the demand...
