Business Ecology Initiative & Service-Oriented Solution

Recently Tim Huenemann started a series titled "What vs. How" (see BLOGs in ebizQ). The first post is definitely worth an attentive reading. I write this post because (I think) I have some answers to Tim's questions. First, the... Read More..
Does TOGAF have a business process? Certainly, because it is is a framework that provides an approach for designing, planning, implementation, and governance of an enterprise information architecture. A framework must have a process to address its "work" part. Many... Read More..
Common opinion about the purpose of architecture says that the major contribution that an architecture could make into an enterprise life is making its business simpler and more unified. I, personally, disagree with such an explanation of the mission of... Read More..
For the last several years SOA experts agreed to disagree what SOA stands for. I do not mean the extension of the abbreviation but what is it about. Some people believed that the words have to be understood following a... Read More..
Imagine that you invite a consulting company to assess your enterprise architecture and they propose you to deliver recommendations on how to construct a Business Process Architecture for your organisation. What would be your reaction to such proposal? You know... Read More..
Today, InfoQ published "Virtual Panel: Cloud Services Governance", which I certainly recommend to read because such experts as David Linthicum, Thomas Erl and Steve Jones shared their opinions on several topics of Cloud Governance. Unfortunately, one of the topics was... Read More..
In the beginning of this year, SAP AG has released a set of specifications under the common name Unified Service Description Language (USDL), which is an input into the Unified Service Description Language Incubator Group of W3C. While I certainly... Read More..
Today, OASIS SOA Reference Model TC has released the 3rd Public Review Draft of Reference Architecture Foundation for SOA Version 1.0 (SOA RAF). This is the long-time expected standard-draft, which has been recognised by OMG and The Open Group Standard... Read More..
Recently, I presented my work at the 7th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications, ECMFA 2011, and I'd like to share the essence of my presentation with those who were not there. As we know, to stand a chance... Read More..
Let's assume that a SOA Worker is an entity that delivers the result or Real World Effect to those who are in need for it. Are we talking about SOA service? Not exactly. In the company A, we have a... Read More..

In this blog, Michael Poulin writes about business and technology ideas, concepts, methodologies and solutions leading to service-oriented enterprise, the primary instrument for obtaining business objectives in fast-changing environments.

Michael Poulin

Michael Poulin is an enterprise-level solution architect working in the financial industry in the U.K. and the United States.

He specializes in building bridges between business needs and technology capabilities with emphasis on business and technical efficiency, scalability, robustness and manageability. He writes about service orientation, application security and use of modern technologies for solving business problems. He contributes to OASIS SOA standards as an independent member and is listed in the the international "Who's Who of Information Technology" for 2001. View more

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