Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Ways to Leverage Existing Applications to Improve Business Processes

Ways to Leverage Existing Applications to Improve Business Processes

With processes serving as the backbone of SOA-based composite applications, orchestrating those services has become a fundamental requirement of Business Process Management.Attend this informative eSeminar and hear from Connie Moore, Vice President, Research Director for Forrester, on how SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is being used in the real-world and gain insight on the most appropriate ways to leverage this powerful technology. In this eSeminar, you will learn:
  • How processes serve as the central-nervous system for SOA
  • How to identify BPM technologies that maximize SOA capabilities
  • What latest technologies are available for rapid SOA deployment and real-time agility in a dynamic environment.
  • What you can do to reduce custom programming effort while achieving faster deployment
This eSeminar is ideal for IT teams that are looking for ways to leverage existing applications to improve business processes, speed development time, and discover and adjust dynamic processes where IT provides a supporting role to manage infrastructure . Ultimately, it's about improving the bottom line.

Register now, and bring your SOA and BPM questions as we'll have an interactive Q&A session following the presentation. Don't miss this chance to find out how BPM can alleviate your SOA burden.

Featured Speakers:
- Chan Preston, VP of Professional Services - Ultimus
- Connie Moore, Vice President, Research Director - Forrester Research Inc
- Michael Krieger, VP, Market Experts Group - Ziff Davis Media

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IT, technology, SOA, BPM, SDLC, development strategy, rapid prototyping

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Thursday, February 08, 2007

SOA Advances Despite Confusion

SOA Advances Despite Confusion

A recent report from Saugatuck Technology asserts that SOA continues to be technology-led, rather than business-led, and this may prove to be a barrier to its broad deployment. It may take as much as a decade for SOA deployments to dominate the IT landscape, but steady progress is being made. According to Oracle, while SOA is well understood at a high level, there is considerable confusion about actual implementation. Oracle's approach: Focus on building the link between business modeling and application development and enabling bi-direction communication between the two. Respected consultant Judith Hurwitz says that Microsoft "has some good pieces" in the SOA space, and "a lot on the server side," but the company is lacking when it comes to metadata and an overall strategy.

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