Why a Business Architecture?

The main goal of a Business Architecture is to enable the business to improve customer service quality through a better transparency, flexibility and adaptability of business operations. The market environment changes more rapidly and the use of technology by customers dramatically influences how a business can operate. Financial services calculation processes, marketing programs, business rules [...]

Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide

Product Description Design and build Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with the Oracle SOA Suite 10gR3

A hands-on guide to using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite in the delivery of real-world SOA applications.
Detailed coverage of the Oracle Service Bus, BPEL Process Manager, Web Service Manager, Rules, Human Workflow, and Business Activity Monitoring.
Master the best way to [...]

BPMN 2.0 – A Step Sideways!

I have just taken a further look at the BPMN 2.0 proposal to see if we could use some of its standard graphic modeling concepts for our process visualization in our Papyrus Platform. I was very disappointed. The enhanced and additional definitions create ambiguous models. An ‘Activity’ can still represent any number of different functions and [...]

Build Service Oriented Composite Applications with new Book on Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 is a new book from Packt that helps develop service-oriented composite application using the much anticipated Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Written by Oracle SOA Suite Product Management team members, this book walks the reader through the development of a services-oriented applications based on a real-life scenario.
Oracle’s SOA [...]

Model SOA Business Processes Using Bpmn

Modeling business processes for SOA and developing end-to-end IT support has become one of the top IT priorities. The SOA approach is based on services and on processes. Processes are focused on composition of services and in that sense services become process activities.

Experience has shown that the implementation and optimization of processes are the most [...]

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