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Business Rules and Process FlowIn a recent post, A Model of an Organization’s Control Function using IDEF0 Model, The OODA Loop, and Enterprise Architecture, I briefly described the Governance and the Policy Management processes within the context of t…
Don’t you believe it! For many larger organizations SOA is only now becoming central to key business strategies. Whilst SOA has been around for almost a decade, few companies have achieved real maturity. Governance issues in particular have allowed f…
Don’t you believe it! For many larger organizations SOA is only now becoming central to key business strategies. Whilst SOA has been around for almost a decade, few companies have achieved real maturity. Governance issues in particular have allowed f…
A good friend of mine was in town this week to visit one of his clients. When we got together for dinner (and, yes, drinks) one of the topics (inevitably) was architecture. Lately he has been working with some very large international comp…
A good friend of mine was in town this week to visit one of his clients. When we got together for dinner (and, yes, drinks) one of the topics (inevitably) was architecture. Lately he has been working with some very large international companies re-architecting their public web sites to flexibly deliver localized content. The solution was to combine Service-Oriented Architecture with Web Content Management.
In a nutshell, the architecture includes a web front end that is composed from portlets where each portlet requests content from WCM system(s) using WSRP. The front end is de-coupled from the WCM systems via a service bus where the service bus is responsible for routing the content request to the appropriate WCM system. (I’m using the term “service bus” here in the most generic sense, not to denote a specific product. My friend prefers the term “service fabric”.)
This has an obvious advantage for localized content. The service bus routes the request to the correct WCM system based on the chosen local. This allows each division, country, or geography to manage its own content yet the corporate web presence is still unified.
Another advantage my friend pointed out is that this architecture simplifies previewing of new or modified content. The service bus can route content requests to a staging WCM system for users that are responsible for reviewing new or modified content. The new/modified content can be viewed directly in the production web site before being “published”.
It figures that I’d have this conversation *after* writing the ORA User Interaction document (a part of ITSO). Nonetheless the ORA User Interaction document does cover these topics albeit not this specific usage. This architecture is a specific example of what is denoted generically as “federation” (e.g. section 4.2.3) in the document.
Merely putting SOA into your proposal or as a stated capability is no longer going to be a “deal clincher” or a key “business differentiator”. The counterview I hear practitioners in SOA will say is that SOA is not just the standardized service…
When Cloud reaches its fully adopted level, it will influence application architectures by driving them to be more componentized and service-oriented to support agility, commoditization and choice. Continue reading →
As the IT media is dominated by stories on Cloud and cyber-security, it will be refreshing to debate these in an open environment at The Open Group Conference, London, and discuss the many challenges we all face in navigating an increasingly complex IT…
In her IT Business Edge blog titled Enterprise Architecture Paying off at Del Monte, Loraine Lawson writes: Enterprise architecture (EA) befuddles me. As far as I can ascertain, it began as an IT function, but at some point, it was decided that EA is bigger than IT and really needs to work with the business […]
I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected with EA and Applic…
I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected with EA and Applic…
When The Open Group develops a new standard, we take an end-to-end view of the ecosystem all the way through from customer requirements, developing consensus standards to certification and procurement. We aim to deliver standards that meet a need in th…