It has been said that one picture is worth a thousand words, but the veracity of this ancient maxim is radically understated when it comes to modeling the business architecture. Indeed, a well-modeled business architecture is worth its weight in gold, not to mention market share.
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Working directly on SOA projects, as an independent, I’m exposed to many more organizations than when I was building technology. As such, I see some common patterns or issues emerging.
The largest and most disturbing issue is the fact that there seems to be a huge chasm between the traditional enterprise architecture crowd and those looking at the value of SOA. Indeed, enterprise architecture, as a notion, has morphed from an approach for the betterment of corporate IT to a management practice, at least for some.
Many corporations have successfully completed one or more Business Process Management (BPM) initiatives.
This article is about getting started on a development project. In a way, it is about problem finding. In particular, it is about deciding what is of concern and what is not, and what aspects of policy are important in setting a course toward a plan.
But before I get into that, I have to get something off my chest. It is becoming a real peeve, but it is highly relevant to this article and so worth talking about up front.
SOA Institute is aligned with the BPM Institute and with the Business Architecture conference. This is more than just a convenient coincidence. It’s a recognition that an organization needs to address all of these skills and approaches to truly align business and IT in an agile and flexible manner.
And, it takes more than just addressing these issues. They must be addressed in a coordinated and integrated fashion where one aspect feeds into the next aspect of the system development process. In other words, defining business processes alone will not affect alignment.
Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) coupled with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications are prevalent today. Together and separately, they provide rapid and satisfactory solutions to particular problems in specific business areas. In fact, the most common use of BRMS today is for self-contained point solutions in a functional area of a business.
BPM provides more than just a new way of measuring and understanding your business. It also delivers a new technology platform that is critical to realizing the innovation, efficiency, compliance, and agility that BPM promises. That platform, called a BPM Suite (BPMS), supports the complete process implementation lifecycle, from modeling to implementation design, execution, and business activity monitoring, with feedback to modeling for continuous performance improvement.
BPMS offerings have matured greatly in the past year or two. Today most provide a unified design
The services sector of business is different than the industrial manufacturing models that have been the primary references for the last century or so. Treating services businesses as if they were just a version of a manufacturer - just substituting the word “service”...
Here are some news headlines that the governor of any state would like to trumpet: The state has slashed its wireless telephone costs by 25 percent. A new purchasing process has saved the state $62,000 in the acquisition of public-safety and police vehicles....
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