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Enterprise Architecture, BPM, SOA and Master Data Management (MDM)

http://entarch.blogspot.com/2008/08/enterprise-architecture-bpm-soa-and.html

Yogish Pai: One of the best practices for Enterprise Architecture teams to redo the enterprise road map on a periodic basis. It is typically reviewed and updated during the yearly budgeting cycle and my preference is to perform this activity every 18 months. The best practices (and the traditional approach) is to first document the as-is, next develop the target or future state (architecture) and finally develop a short term (6 months), mid term (12 months) and long term (18 months) road map. Preferable an actionable road map that ties back to the business initiatives.
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Testing Service-Oriented Architectures: A Primer for the Real World

http://www.cio.com/article/print/440413

Matthew Heusser, July 31, 2008: How to test service-oriented architectures is no idle question. A failure in a SOA system at Heathrow Airport's $8.6 Billion Terminal 5 caused 1.6 British Pounds (about 3.2 million U.S. dollars) of losses in one week. The error? Simply that a filter put in to ensure that the baggage handler was tested in isolation was never removed - so event messages were never passed on to other, dependent systems.
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Implementing Service Oriented Architecture at the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

http://ea.typepad.com/enterprise_abstraction/2008/07/my-paper---implementing-soa-at-cisti.html

Anthony, Stephen K. The Serials Librarian, 55(01-02), pp. 235 - 253. As they seek new roles in the digital realm, libraries are finding it increasingly difficult to manage the complexity of technology implementation while continuing to cost-effectively meet their mandates as information providers. Many organizations find themselves dealing with legacy, isolated, duplicated and ineffective information systems. The practices of enterprise architecture and service oriented architecture hold much promise as methodologies to reduce complexity, to encourage and enable collaborations, and finally to rein in the beast of technology. Even libraries under budgetary constraints can benefit from knowledge of enterprise architecture and service oriented architecture best practices.
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Businesses aren't machines, and enterprise architecture can't make them so

http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/softwareinfrastructure/2008/07/businesses_arent_machines_and.php

Neil Ward-Dutton, July 24, 2008: Via Service Oriented Enterprise, I recently picked up an Infoworld blog post by SOA journeyman David Linthicum, where he makes a couple of very strange points about SOA and ESBs. It may be, of course, that the post is pure link bait: certainly, David appears to have said some relatively sane things in the past, so that might be it. If it is link bait, I'm going to fall for it now.
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The Open Group's SOA ontology

http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa-ontology/doc.tpl?gdid=16940

Draft 2.0 of The Open Group's SOA ontology. This draft is being exposed for comment outside The Open Group prior to formal Open Group company review. Interested parties are invited to sent comments, and those comments will be addressed in the version submitted to formal review by The Open Group. A PDF file contains the textual description of the ontology, and an OWL file contains the ontology itself.
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About SOA at SAP

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/10144

Stephan de Haas: In a nutshell, SAP's SOA Middleware and Application Infrastructure is promising. SAP has a very advanced business process platform providing Enterprise Services upon which clients can leverage the benefits of SOA to create the 20% of innovative processes, also integrating non-SAP applications, to increase their market share. Furthermore, SAP's process platform and its approach to co-innovation is positive, inceasing the opportunity for customers to source further innovative processes from ISVs that deliver on SAP's platform. The integrated portfolio minimizes complexities and help to run the remaining 80% of standard processes most efficiently. Last but not least, SAP offers a evolutionary migration path to Enterprise SOA for customers.
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Kshemendra Paul Podcast

http://www.soa-consortium.org/podcasts-webcasts/podcast-DC2008-kp.htm

Kshemendra Paul presented an overview on the Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture (PGFSOA) to a packed SOA Consortium meeting in March. He began with an overview on why SOA is important to the Federal government, key issues and success criteria. He briefly touched on two areas where standards are making an impact, including the Federal Transition Framework and the Records Management standards, both collaborations between the OMG and various government agencies. Kshemendra mostly talks about the PGFSOA and the challenges, opportunities and benefits of Federal SOA. He discusses the benefits including the ability to share solutions, services, best practices and acquisition power across organizations and says that SOA is the key from moving from a vertical to a horizontal viewpoint. During his overview on Federal enterprise architecture, he stresses the need to view the use of IT from a business perspective and to expand the concept of reuse beyond components to entire architectures and solutions. He also talks about the need for bottom-up change and the goal of building a community, which is part of the rationale behind the PGFSOA wiki. Kshemendra concludes his presentation with a tour of the PGFSOA wiki.
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When SOAs rule the world

http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2005/ndc1/022105qa.html

Author Geoffrey Moore explains how SOAs will become the underlying force of the new data center.
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Build a Reuse Framework for SOA

http://www.esj.com/news/article.aspx?EditorialsID=3042

Some say the benefits of reuse are exaggerated. Prove them wrong by implementing a plan of action. Service oriented architecture (SOA) is often touted as the key to code reuse, which experts say is easier said than done. The idea is that you benefit from cost reductions with code reuse, but even enthusiasts agree that it won't happen without careful planning. The topic was popular at the Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, held in San Francisco at the end of January.
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Managing Batch Processing in an SOA

http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9580

Most enterprise IT operations rely heavily on batch processing operations. The reliance doesn't go away when you move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), yet SOA just means online transaction processing to many people. Sridhar Sudarsan has met this problem head on. As an executive IT architect with IBM's Software Lab Services, he has led enterprise architecture solutions for several customers worldwide, including major enterprises in the finance, public sector and automobile industries. For Sudarsan's clients, batch processing remains a big question mark as clients migrate toward SOAs.
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RESTful SOA using XML

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-restfulsoa/

Service Oriented Architecture usually implies heavyweight technology for large enterprises. The advantages of the SOA architectural pattern also apply to smaller environments. To follow SOA principles, you don't necessarily need all the overhead that is useful in larger environments. You can use lightweight principles like REST to do so. This article describes how.
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SOA spend up despite unclear benefits

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/25/news-soa-adoption_1.html

The number of companies investing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) has doubled over the past year in every part of the world, with a typical annual spend of nearly $1.4 million, according to a new research report from the analyst firm AMR Research that surveyed 405 companies in the U.S., Germany and China.
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Build a Reuse Framework for SOA

http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=22096

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is touted by many as the key to code reuse, which, practically speaking, is easier said than done, according to experts. The idea is that you get cost reductions with code reuse, but even enthusiasts agree that it won't happen without careful planning. The topic was a popular one at the Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, held in San Francisco at the end of January. At the event, Srikanth Inaganti, a lead consultant with Wipro Technologies, spoke in a session on building a reuse framework for SOA. He has spent the last two and a half years at a client site, working on promoting reuse across divisions. So he speaks from the trenches. And he's part of the Wipro team that's developing SOA frameworks and consulting toolkits. In this presentation, Inaganti discussed the importance of reuse in the context of SOA transformation, issues involved in promoting a reuse culture inside the enterprise and what he modestly referred to as "tentative solutions."
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Villages, Cities and Whether SOA Is Hype?

http://thestewscope.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/villages-cities-and-whether-soa-is-hype/

Stew Welbourne: Yet more circular debate about whether SOA is just hype or whether it offers anything of value. It's addictive reading, not that I expect anyone to reach a definitive answer, but moreso to observe the correlation between the debating individual, the scope of his/her problem-space, and his/her corresponding position on whether SOA is hype or not. The relationship between Enterprise Architecture and SOA (and here I have just detatched a seprate thread about EA and Hype!!) is significant in my opinion as a result of the hugely important question of scope. The good old example of the difference between an Enterprise Architect and a System or Application Architect is the analogy with Town Planners and Building Planners. In simple terms Enterprise Architects are focusing at the optimal arrangement of buildings and utilities over a large area, whereas System/Application architects are focusing on the optimal construction of a small number of buildings and their optimal interfacing with the utilities they assume will be there at some point.
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Exploring the fundamentals of architecture and services in an SOA: Part 3: Service-oriented solutions and enterprise architecture

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ar-archserv3/index.html

In this article we look at what makes an IT solution service-oriented. We find out what this looks like in the deployment and runtime views, and talk about various important aspects to taking an enterprise view to SOA. Draws on CBM, Component Business Modeling, in using business components in a business architecture map.
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SOA's Perfect Mate?

http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206100656

Virtualization 2.0 will go beyond server consolidation, making applications more agile and scalable to fit a service-oriented architecture. They're two of today's hottest technologies, and for good reason. Server virtualization provides cost savings on top of flexibility, while a service-oriented architecture affords application reuse and fast response to business needs. But the benefits of combining them can be less obvious. SOA helps with virtualization by breaking applications into smaller chunks that are more easily spread across multiple servers or CPUs, even off-loaded to outside service providers. Through common runtimes like Java and XML standards, SOA shields APIs from the underlying hardware or operating system. In return, virtualization simplifies SOA by easing provisioning of new hardware resources. By Andy Dornan, InformationWeek, February 2, 2008
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Using a model-driven transformational approach and service-oriented architecture for service delivery management

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/463/kumaran.html

S. Kumaran et al in IBM Systems Journal Volume 46, Number 3, 2007. IT (information technology) service providers often assume that efficient and effective service delivery can be achieved by migrating to a standard set of tools. This assumption is true only if the service provider has monolithic control over the scope and architecture of the customer environment. The trend, however, is toward selective outsourcing, customer control over the architecture of IT solutions, and retention of legacy tools. Target environments are extremely heterogeneous, and the ability of the service provider to control them is diminishing. Consequently, there is a need for a new approach to IT service workflow automation and a new generation of service-delivery management systems that support heterogeneity and collaboration. This paper introduces a new approach to automating complex and variable workflows, applies this approach to IT service delivery management (SDM), presents an SDM architecture based on this approach, and discusses an SDM implementation driven by this architecture. Our implementation architecture leverages service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles by defining loosely coupled service components and a service fulfillment pattern that dynamically integrates them. We discuss the modeling of performance metrics for service delivery and describe how the monitoring and management of key performance indicators (KPIs) are supported as an integral part of our SDM platform. The solution approach presented in this paper is based on a full life-cycle business-to-technology method developed by IBM Research called model-driven business transformation (MDBT). MDBT is both a business transformation methodology and a set of innovative technologies that allow business strategies to be realized by choreographing workflow tools and human activities.
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B Margolis (2007)
SOA for the Business Developer: Concepts, BPEL, and SCA

http://slashdemocracy.org/book/1583470654

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of organizing software. If your company’s development projects adhere to the principles of SOA, the outcome will be an inventory of modular units called "services," which allow for a quick response to change. This book tells the SOA story in a simple, straightforward manner that will help you understand not only the buzzwords and benefits, but also the technologies that underlie SOA: XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL, SCA, and SDO. And through it all, the authors provide business examples and illustrations, giving a practical meaning to abstract ideas.
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Nicolai M. Josuttis (2007)
SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design

http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0596529554

This book demonstrates service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a concrete discipline rather than a hopeful collection of cloud charts. Built upon the author's firsthand experience rolling out a SOA at a major corporation, SOA in Practice explains how SOA can simplify the creation and maintenance of large-scale applications. Whether your project involves a large set of Web Services-based components, or connects legacy applications to modern business processes, this book clarifies how -- and whether -- SOA fits your needs.
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Paul C. Brown (2007)
Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture

http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0321508912

Today, business processes and information systems are so tightly intertwined that they must be designed together, as parts of a total architecture, to realize enterprise goals. In Succeeding with SOA, Paul Brown shows how service-oriented architectures (SOAs) provide the best structure for such integration: clean, well-defined interfaces between collaborating entities. But even SOAs need to be correctly understood and implemented to avoid common failures. Drawing on decades of experience, Dr. Brown explains what business managers and IT architects absolutely need to know--including critical success factors--to undertake this essential work.
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Dan Woods, Thomas Mattern (2006)
Enterprise SOA

http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0596102380

Information Technology professionals can use this book to move beyond the excitement of web services and service oriented architecture (SOA) and begin the process of finding actionable ideas to innovate and create business value. In Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work is analyzed from top to bottom. In addition to design, development, and architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture are also explored. This comprehensive perspective reduces risk as IT departments implement ESA, a sound, flexible architecture for adapting business processes in response to changing market conditions. Based on extensive research with experts from the German software company SAP, this definitive book is ideal for architects, developers, and other IT professionals who want to understand the technology and business relevance of ESA in a detailed way - especially those who want to move on the technology now, rather than in the next year or two.
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Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture, Part 3: How do they work together?

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soa-enterprise3/index.html

Dr. Mamdouh Ibrahim, Gil Long. IBM developerWorks, 30 August 2007. If you're adopting a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and developing an Enterprise Architecture (EA) simultaneously - or planning to - you'll benefit from this article. The first two parts in this series compared and contrasted SOA and EA and covered problems that can result from not coordinating EA and SOA activities within an enterprise. The authors came face to face with these issues while working on a US$1.6 billion client engagement where both SOA and EA were under development. In this final installment of the series, learn from their experience as they provide guidance to help you address these challenges, and hopefully avoid costly setbacks.
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What type of SOA Adoption path did you take?

http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/steviebennett/archive/2007/08/what_type_of_so.html

Steve Bennett's Blog, 25 August 2007. There are a great many number of SOA Maturity Models in the marketplace which assists an organization to know where they currently reside in their SOA efforts but does not give any indication on the types of challenges they will probably encounter. A while back I decided to look how BEA customers were adopting SOA and the types of challenges they were "generally" encountering. This year I was the host of the Arch2Arch conferences in San Diego and Boston and I opened up the conference with the following diagram.
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Sandy Carter (2007)
The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2.0

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In The New Language of Business, senior IBM executive Sandy Carter demonstrates how to leverage SOA, Web 2.0, and related technologies to drive new levels of operational excellence and business innovation. Writing for executives and business leaders inside and outside IT, Carter explains why flexibility and responsiveness are now even more crucial to success–and why services-based strategies offer the greatest promise for achieving them. You’ll learn how to organize your business into reusable process components–and support them with cost-effective IT services that adapt quickly and easily to change. Then, using extensive examples - including a detailed case study describing IBM’s own experience - Carter identifies best practices, pitfalls, and practical starting points for success.
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Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, Dirk Slama (2004)
Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices

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This book spells out guidelines and strategies for successfully using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in large-scale projects. SOA represents the latest paradigm in distributed computing and middleware development. However,SOA is not a revolution, but rather an evolution in software architecture. SOA is a collection of best practice software construction principles accompanied by proven methodologies in development and project management. This book is unique in that it offers a pragmatic approach to the topic. The authors borrow from their more than forty years of collective enterprise experience, and offer a frank discussion of the challenges associated with adopting SOA. They also help readers ensure that their organization does not become too closely tied to a specific technology. The result is a detailed introduction to the topic and an architectural blueprint for implementing SOA.
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