http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/ 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. en Copyright 2012 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:48:04 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2012/02/what_and_how_in_the_business_strategy_business_architecture_and_business_processes.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2012/02/what_and_how_in_the_business_strategy_business_architecture_and_business_processes.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:48:04 -0500 mpoulin 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2012/01/business_process_of_togaf.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2012/01/business_process_of_togaf.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:46:39 -0500 mpoulin 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/12/christmas_tip_u-tern_of_simplification.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/12/christmas_tip_u-tern_of_simplification.php Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:48:48 -0500 mpoulin 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/12/soa_gives_an_example_to_bpm.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/12/soa_gives_an_example_to_bpm.php Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:00:10 -0500 mpoulin 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/11/a_magic_of_business_process_architecture_-_a_thanksgiving_story.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/11/a_magic_of_business_process_architecture_-_a_thanksgiving_story.php Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:00:00 -0500 mpoulin 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/11/what_skipped_from_virtual_panel_cloud_services_governance.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/11/what_skipped_from_virtual_panel_cloud_services_governance.php Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:21:16 -0500 mpoulin 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/10/service_templates_and_resources.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/10/service_templates_and_resources.php Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:20:13 -0500 mpoulin 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/08/oasis_has_released_the_3rd_draft_of_reference_architecture_foundation_for_soa_for_the_public_review.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/08/oasis_has_released_the_3rd_draft_of_reference_architecture_foundation_for_soa_for_the_public_review.php Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:32:14 -0500 mpoulin 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/06/why_we_dont_recommend_ws-cdl_for_soa_and_what_is_the_alternative.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/06/why_we_dont_recommend_ws-cdl_for_soa_and_what_is_the_alternative.php Sat, 11 Jun 2011 06:25:00 -0500 mpoulin 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/05/what_is_the_soa_worker.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/05/what_is_the_soa_worker.php Fri, 27 May 2011 15:19:32 -0500 mpoulin Security service as any another service consists of the business goal, business functionality, interfaces and body, i.e. implementation. As we know, business goal, business functionality, and interfaces are specified in the Service Description for the service consumers - if you... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/05/why_we_ran_after_bin_laden_so_long.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/05/why_we_ran_after_bin_laden_so_long.php Mon, 16 May 2011 18:33:57 -0500 mpoulin The authors of Twilio explain the fact that their systems have not been affected by the AWS failure on 21 April by the principles they put into the use of Cloud. Their design of Cloud solution is based on avoidance... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/04/business_value_of_redundancy_in_soa_has_been_proved.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/04/business_value_of_redundancy_in_soa_has_been_proved.php Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:00:00 -0500 mpoulin On 21 April, Amazon Web Services went down for hours torpedoing many Web Sites and companies at once. Amazon Web Services had a great reputation as one of "the largest, most secure and most trusted Web services in the world".... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/04/on_21_april_amazon_web.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/04/on_21_april_amazon_web.php Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:58:10 -0500 mpoulin In the last publication "Cloud Brokering: Building a Cloud of Clouds", ZapThink concludes that Cloud brokering creates a Cloud of Clouds. The Cloud brokering is explained as "A Cloud broker provides Cloud service intermediation, aggregation, and arbitrage across a set... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/04/is_cloud_of_cloud_the_same_as_cloud_brokerage.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/04/is_cloud_of_cloud_the_same_as_cloud_brokerage.php Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:14:55 -0500 mpoulin We used to think that SOA allows only loose-coupling according to one of the SO Principles. I do not object this but when looked a bit deeper, have found a few areas where coupling in service orientation is the "rule... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/03/coupling_in_soa.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2011/03/coupling_in_soa.php Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:57:25 -0500 mpoulin