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A Value Chain Modeling Standard?

An Object Management Group Request for Proposals (RFP) has been drafted by Henk de Man of Cordys and myself to develop a standard for enterprise value chain modeling. There is opposition to moving forward on this. There seems to be a concern that there are too many different views on value chain modeling and analysis to develop a standard. At the same time, there seems to be a belief that there would be no value in a standard.

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Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:46 PM by Fred Cummins | 4 Comments

SOA is a Business Process Architecture

The perceived war between BPM and SOA cited by Christopher Koch, "The New Technology Weapons of Choice in the Continuing War Between IT and the Business," is a competition between specialists. As suggested by Bruce Silver in "The Phony War between BPM and SOA," BPM people and SOA people are not concerned about different things, they are concerned about the same thing from different perspectives. The alignment of these perspectives is a critical opportunity for the business.

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Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 2:06 PM by Fred Cummins | 0 Comments

Security Modeling for Managers

At its March meeting, the Object Management Group (OMG) issued a Request for Information (RFI) for Business Security and Authorization Policy Modeling (http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?bmi/2008-02-09 ). Security, and particularly authorization management, has become increasingly complex. With Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the number of access points to applications is expanding, access to shared services cross organizational boundaries, and the community of potential users is also expanding as companies work to optimize performance and control. In addition, government regulations are making managers personally responsible for accountability and control.

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Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:33 PM by Fred Cummins | 0 Comments

SOA Governance Is Not IT Governance Reborn

There's been a lot of talk about how SOA should be driven by the business, and the need for SOA governance (e.g., Defining SOA Governance). Unfortunately, SOA governance is typically cast as better IT governance-typically getting the enterprise to invest in SOA technology and to support the development of shared application components.

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Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:40 PM by Fred Cummins | 0 Comments
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OASIS BPEL4People: Beating a Dead Horse

OASIS recently announced formation of a new technical committee for BPEL4People. WS-BPEL 2.0 (or BPEL for short), the current version, does not address participation of people in business processes. This is one indication that BPEL isn't designed for business users. It's designed for programmers, and BPEL4People won't change that. A true business process language must be designed to represent business processes that make sense for the business and can be, in some cases, implemented manually, as well with a BPMS (Business Process Management System). A business process language also must support SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). As asserted by Joe McKendrick, "BPM and SOA Need Each Other.".

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Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:09 PM by Fred Cummins | 2 Comments
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Predictions for 2008

This year I’m going to go out on the limb a bit further than in the past, and focus on the positive things that will be coming.

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Posted Saturday, December 29, 2007 10:45 PM by Charlie Bess | 1 Comments

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