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I dragged myself to Redmond last night to attend Microsoft’s Fifth annual SOA and Business Process Management (BMP) conference. First, Microsoft states that it will not be designing and announcing its own enterprise service bus but will in fact allow customers to leverage whatever service bus(s) they already have. This sounds the same as HP’s philosphy towards ESBs. Second, the world of technology is based on a federated model (I agree). Given this philosophy, Microsoft is now talking about the Internet Service Bus — a publish/subscribe model for interoperability that leverages existing middleware. This is being offered as part of BizTalk Server and is being offered as a hosted cloud service by Microsoft. Third, Microsoft is making two big bets: a service orientation to creating applications by expanding and exploiting existing technology and providing hosted services via a set of cloud services that act as an integration framework. If customers want, they can move hosted services back to their enterprise. Providing shared models that can go across. Fourth, Microsoft is making its entire plaform model driven that is backed up by a SQlServer based repository. This becomes a general purpose modeling platform with a set of tooling.
Microsoft Announces Major SOA Initiative, And a Whole New Wave of Innovation
Brian Loesgen
| Link to this blogEvery once in a while an announcement happens that has the capacity to profoundly change the rules. I still remember clearly reading the initial press release in 1999 about this new thing from Microsoft called “BizTalk”, and, I remember telling a co-worker that I was going to keep an eye on this new BizTalk thing. Here I am, 8 years later, still deeply immersed in the world of BizTalk. I would rate Microsoft’s Oslo announcement today as being equally important. It is an ambitious undertaking, one that changes the rules for .NET developers. For me, this is déjŕ vue all-over-again with that 1999 press release, with the significant difference that this is an evolutionary change, and the reach will be far greater, touching most .NET developers.
James Taylor reacted to a posting about the importance of good Requirements. He sees process as something else than requirements. And he advocates a clear seperation of the concept of Rule and Requirement. First on the process part vs requirements. I see a process as a specific concept in requirements. It can be requirements towards a business: (1) This is the way I want our people to perform this process (a business requirement) Or it can form part of the requirements to a system (a software requirement) (2) This is the process I want the system to follow when processing claims. Or a mix of course. So, is a process definition a software requirement? Sometimes.
A lot of speculation and considerable confusion surrounds the ITIL Refresh. I feel this is good because discussion promotes understanding. A friend of mine sent me a Computer World article discussing some of these changes, "ITIL Starts Making Sense in v3" which provides a very good perspective on the value of the changes to the ITIL framework. The ideas expressed are excellent and right on target. Another set of insights on each of the books comes from the ITSM International Portal. If you're interested, follow the thread of updates through all the books. I'll not restate what these authors have already expressed.
Enterprise-quality. Enterprise-level. These days the word “Enterprise” has a lot of cachet, and it has nothing to do with the reputation of a certain starship, either. Once upon a time, “enterprise solutions” were industrial-strength, scalable, highly reliable solutions for the largest organizations. Lately, though, “enterprise solutions” have, in my mind, come to mirror the worst features of large corporations, rather than the best. In short, they’ve become bloated, slow, clumsy, bureaucratic and needlessly complex. Not to mention “if you’ve got to ask you can’t afford it” expensive. Slap the word “enterprise” in front of something and it becomes an instant calmative for worried managers who are looking for “guidance” and “best practices”. But so often it’s nothing more than a word...
Antony Satyadas (Chief Competitive Marketing Officer IBM Software Group-Lotus, IBM Senior Certified Executive Architect, IEEE Senior Member) leads strategic competitive initiatives for IBM WPLC and Lotus. He has 22 years of worldwide consulting, marketing, and research experience with expertise on intelligent systems, knowledge innovation, workplace solutions, and enterprise service oriented architecture. He has 50+ publications and is a member/program chair for 30+ international scientific/advisory committees and IBM business partner advisory boards/architecture boards. His education is in marketing, computer/cognitive science, and electrical engineering. This blog focuses on the technical value, and dispels the myths and FUD introduced by Microsoft around IBM software products. Email FUD alerts to antony_satyadas@us.ibm.com
eFunds and IBM Partner to Deliver Enterprise Payments & Fraud ...
Arizona Venture Capital
| Link to this blogeFunds Corporation (NYSE: EFD), the company that delivers innovative payment processing and information intelligence solutions, today announced the availability of an integrated solution for enterprise payments, transaction data insight and fraud management. Delivered through the recently signed IBM® Banking Industry Alliance, the solution will enable global banking and financial services customers to improve the efficiency of enterprise payments and fraud management on a single IBM System z deployment.
