tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67891195893511807802012-02-16T18:39:33.802-05:00Thoughts and Observations on Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, and Service Oriented ArchitectureRenee Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08102140720293486623noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789119589351180780.post-75799762015678425422009-04-02T12:44:00.001-04:002009-04-02T12:46:23.741-04:00

Bullets from March 31, 2009 Software Engineering Institute and IBM Conference “Embracing Change: New Technical Approaches to Federal IT” Washington DCOn March 31, 2009, in Washington DC (well, actually, in Arlington, Virginia), I attended yet another SOA-related conference. I am finding it is too easy to get bogged down in conferences, symposiums, workshops, seminars, communities of practice,

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On March 25 and 26, 2009, in Washington DC (well, actually, in Crystal City, Virginia), I attended the first SOA Consortium conference for the year 2009. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Consortium is an advocacy group. When the group formed, to expedite and gain infrastructure efficiencies, , the group’s founding sponsors and members decided that it made fiscal sense to be managed by

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https://www.redhat.com/apps/webform.html?event_type=simple_form&eid=1361

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http://littletutorials.com/2008/05/15/13-reasons-for-umls-descent-into-darkness

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Grid computing is a fairly all encompassing concept and as you probably know, can be generally defined as: "a system that uses open, general purpose protocols to federate distributed resources and to deliver nontrivial qualities of service." Or in other words, it uses standard "stuff" to make many distinct systems work together in a way that makes them useful.Utility computing or on-demand

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SaaS platforms and marketplaces will begin to proliferate, becoming a significant channel opportunity for vendors, as well as a key means by which users will gain access to SaaS solution capabilities. During the past several years, SaaS marketplaces and platforms have evolved well beyond their initial capabilities, offering customisation, integration, data pipes for BI or data sharing, data

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I recently attended a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) conference hosted by Computerworld, in Santa Clara, CA. While I started out being skeptical as to how this might apply to the federal govt (there were a lot of representation by small to medium sized businesses) I left with the impression that SaaS, while still young, will grow considerably in the near future. Government has been a bit reserved

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http://findability.org

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I attended the SOA Consortium in Crystal City, Virginia on March 12 and 13. This group of people are identifying the major business-driven SOA activities and drafting advice on how to plan and execute those activities. The framework will be a publicly available, online resource. Their intent is to iterate content delivery over the course of 2008. The initial launch was targeted for March

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“Canonical” is a typical IT industry buzzword - it is an overloaded term with multiple meanings and no clear agreement on its definition. There appears to be at least three uses for canonical modeling. -- Canonical Data Modeling -- Canonical Interchange Modeling -- Canonical Physical Formats One of the challenges at most large corporations is to achieve efficient information exchanges in a

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I attended a presentation on IBM's Data Power product. One of the three speakers gave a brief on GCSS-AF, which the speaker credited for being the largest IT structure within DoD with one million users and 120+ different locations, and how it is using DataPower. I was introduced to some new heuristics and reminded that XML was introduced in 1995 and web services were introduced two years later.

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I learned of another markup language that I just need to be aware of although not much seems to be going on with it as of yet: Architecture Description Markup Language (AMDL) or Architecture Description Language (ADL). This language -- if/when developed -- will provide a common interchange format for exchanging data among architecture design tools and/or a foundation for the development of new

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Too many times, we’re engaging in SOA for SOA’s sake. There are many situations were SOA may simply not be necessary. A mainframe system that rapidly processes transactions may be well enough left alone. You’re not going to increase the speed of systems by putting a layer on top of it. SOA success means applying SOA where needed. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Last month I was at a DoD

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On January 7th, Joe McKendrick posted an interesting question on his blog on zdnet. He asked what an economic downturn might mean for SOA. His post is at: ( http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1036 ). He says that with the recent hysteria of doom and gloom over the state of the economy, and while he believes that the economy is resilient, it’s only natural to see ups and downs in

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There is a great deal of debate and confusion around SOA and ESB products, so evaluating them for purchase is a challenging proposition. Many vendors, for example, argue that ESB is a product and others an architecture. Some vendors also argue that ESB is not product at all but is a marketing term. ESB is certainly a marketing term, but it does imply a set of functionality to expect, so the term

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For some light humor, see: http://soafacts.com

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The American Council for Technology (ACT) / Industry Advisory Council (IAC) Enterprise Architecture (EA) Special Interest Group (SIG) (referred to as ACT/IAC EA SIG) just completed an internal review of the "Practical Guide for Federal Service Oriented Architecture (PGFSOA)", part of an IAC initiative. This document will be a product of the Federal CIO Council’s Architecture and Infrastructure

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I am going to be brief on my notes from the conference as I will share all of the presentations with the team once they are available. Some assorted notes I captured are listed below.Processes are the muscles; business rules are the nerves (quote by Ron Ross, Co-Founder and Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC, recognized internationally as being the "father of business rules”).Applications

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Yesterday I was reminded of an article I had passed on to my team members months ago and subsequently forgot. Its on msdn and is titled “A Comparison of the Top Four Enterprise Architecture Methodologies” and was written by Roger Sessions. Sessions is the CTO of ObjectWatch Inc. and author of six books and dozens of articles and white papers. He serves on the Board of Directors of the

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I have been quiet because my head has been buried in a proposal. The Federal Government decided to give us only two weeks to respond to its RFP which we have been chasing for two years. We did a lot of work in advance but unfortunately its contents did not match the RFP and pretty much everything had to be thrown out. Then I made a short trip to see my mom in beautiful Hilton Head Island,

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I am feeling tired... This past weekend was Labor Day -- a 3 or 4 day holiday for most folks... I was supposed to go visit my mother. But we are sitting waiting for the federal govt to release an RFP and we expect to be given only about a week since the govt has to award the contract THIS MONTH due to their fiscal budget. So I worked all 3 days... And today is Wednesday and still no RFP. :-(

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I have been busy doing some major off-line writing but wanted to share an article that I thought was kind of interesting..CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia editsRandall MikkelsenAugust 17, 2007 (Reuters) People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program. The

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From June 10 to June 15, I attended two consecutive Gartner conferences in Nashville. In the paragraphs that follow I attempt to share some of my observances in the areas of (a) application architecture, development and integration, and (b) enterprise architecture. The contents below can be grouped into the following topics:• General overview• Web Oriented Architecture• Web 2.0• Web 3.0 and

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This is a co-worker's brother-in-law (see article below). He is all over the place, including at last week's Gartner's SOA conference that I attended. I will be writing a trip report as time permits although perhaps not as lengthy as my last trip report as time is becoming a bit of a luxury. The conference was very interesting, not least of which they predict that SOA is already becoming

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Blogging may witness its peak time in the year 2007, with the number of blogs leveling out at 100 million. According to technology predictions by analysts at the research company Gartner, almost 200 million people have already stopped writing their blogs. Daryl Plummer, chief Gartner fellow, said that although some people who make a blog get bored and forget about maintaining it, others love it

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This video was also published by TIBCO. Good to see someone has a sense of humor. *smile*

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I just spent a week at two Gartner conferences, which I will blog about later. But I was shown this cute little video:

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I am back from a wonderful vacation to the Black Hills! Anyway, I thought I would share this information concerning software piracy.From IDC Worldwide Software Piracy Rate Holds Steady at 35%, Global Losses Up 15% 15 May 2007 Piracy Rate in China Drops 10% in Three YearsWASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2007 — A new study reveals that 35% of the software installed in 2006 on personal computers (PCs)

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Well, after having worked in IT for some 25 years, I finally broke down and went to see what a Macintosh computer looked like. What I like about it is that it runs on top of a variant of a Unix-based OS. What I don't like about it is its UI. I know that is one of the selling features of the Mac. I just didn't care for how on its current OS version all of the icons are on the bottom and if you

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I attended a free 3-day class (free for IBM partners) titled “Designing SOA Solutions with the IBM Foundation” from April 30 to May 2, 2007. I found the class very useful. Although the class somewhat deviated from the planned agenda, I found the dialog quite intriguing. All of the participants had SOA experience and knowledge and came with plenty of questions and offered valuable feedback and

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This is part of an e-mail I sent when asked about attending yet another conference on SOA and BPM. I said I was more interested in just one of their pre-conference sessions than the conference itself. The pre-conference is basically a tutorial on BPMN, XPDL, and BPEL. BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) is easy enough to pick up. As long as you know good practices when it comes to

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The Myth of High-Tech OutsourcingBy Catherine Holahan April 24, 2007 9:57AM There is so much global demand for employees proficient in programming languages, engineering, and other skills demanding higher level technology knowledge that outsourcing can't meet all U.S. needs. "There would have been a lot more than 147,000 jobs created here, but our companies are having difficulty finding

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Rashid Khan, the man who started the company Ultimus and has written a book titled Business Process Management identifies 20 features that he feels are key to any BPM product:• Robust business rules• Role-based routing • Relationship routing• Relative routing • Parallel routing • Ad hoc routing • Queues and groups• Process rollback• Support for sub-processes• Escalations and exceptions• Flexible

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BackgroundApplications are frequently degraded or otherwise inaccessible to users. It is hard to find out in any kind of timely manner that there have been application problems. Indeed, sometimes one does not learn that an application has been down until a significant amount of time has passed. This indicates a need for a tool or a set of tools that are able to indicate a high-level status of

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On Thursday, March 2, 2006, I attended the IBM SOA Architecture Summit at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington DC. The following paragraphs summarize some of the ideas that were presented as well as some of my thoughts. I have made no effort to consolidate these thoughts as time has not permitted. I do not explain acronyms as I expect people who might read this to already know the acronyms.

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[Note: some of this material comes from presentations I attended given by various Gartner analysts]Background Material on BPM TechnologyA Business Process Management System (BPMS) is: • A development and runtime environment that enables process modeling and design, development and execution, and ongoing management and optimization;• Automates and manages the end-to-end flow of work as it

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This post is dated but still relevant. I found this while looking for some other stuff... Following are my thoughts and perceptions from the 2006 Gartner BPM conference held in Nashville Tennessee March 26-29. The official days were March 27-29 but there were some meetings on the 26th and so I am including the 26th as a conference day. My first observation was that Gartner’s first BPM

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I remember in the 1990s a plethora of databases were springing up that claimed to be object-oriented. The truth is however other than attend some vendor presentations and demos, I have hardly ever encountered actual use of any of these products. From wikipedia, object database management systems grew out of research during the early to mid-1970s into having intrinsic database management support

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Okay, this is not a complete list (and its not in any specific order)...I could actually never re-create a full list of all of the languages, hardware platforms, and operating systems I have worked on (there has just been too many) but its a near complete list other than a few assorted academic-purpose languages and a couple of completely obscure languages used just in bar-coding etc.

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I guess because I am reading this book called "In Search of Stupidity: 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters", I have been experiencing a lot of memories from Computer Yesteryear. I found the story below that describes my Dad's first (and only--since he passed away at such a young age) home computer. My son came home today and asked me if I knew Moore's Law. He was surprised when I

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This is definitely NOT one of my first computers to ever touch but I do remember one of these computers. I took my first Pascal course on this computer. You had to boot the operating system from a floppy and store your data on another floppy. Life has improved! :-) If you get really bored or need to take a short break, check out: http://www.old-computers.com

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I just finished reading Why Software Sucks and am now reading In Search of Excellence (pun on the classic book In Search of Excellence). The subtitle is Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters. So far I have enjoyed the book. (I just started it 2 days ago). The basic argument presented in the book is: "Remember: The race goes not to the strong, nor swift, nor more intelligent but to the

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Pegasystems is in Gartner's magic quadrant for both rules management and BPMS. I found this article that does okay describing the 5.1 version of their SmartBPM product. (They have just released their 5.2 product.) And they have been in the "rules" business for 25 years. This is an eternity in the IT world. I have read stuff by this guy before, as well as hear him speak at BPM conferences.

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Here is a good piece on instructional design:http://educationnew.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/sweller/clt

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This comes from wikipedia:One major source of criticism of PowerPoint comes from Yale professor of statistics and graphic design Edward Tufte, who criticizes many emergent properties of the software:Its use to guide and reassure a presenter, rather than to enlighten the audience; Unhelpfully simplistic tables and charts, resulting from the low resolution of computer displays; The outliner causing

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In a couple of my last posts I discussed the IT jobs that are moving to India. I am close to wrapping up two very intense weeks of training in this software produced by Pegasystems. Hence, I have spent the past 2 weeks in the area across the street from MIT in Cambridge MA, 5 miles from Boston. The observation is just that several (half) of the class is Indian, with some Asian mix. When I

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I was in a Service Oriented Architecture class last week and the instructor told us that as he got out of a taxi the taxi driver looked up at the building and said "oh yeah, I remember that building. I programmed a lot of Fortran in that building". My instructor said that he was surprised to hear this coming from this guy. Yesterday, a coworker sent me a picture that he had said someone had taken

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Apparently there are a lot of t-shirts being sold that says "My job just moved to India and all I got was this lousy shirt". (see next post about book with similar title) Apparently, Yamini Narayanan, an Indian-born 35-year-old with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oklahoma was interviewed by a newspaper reporter. After graduation, she had worked for a U.S. computer company in Virginia

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Here is an excerpt from this excellent book:I awoke to an odd smell. Where am I? I asked (aloud, I think). I was in Bangalore, India’s Garden City. That odd smell was the remarkably foreign combination of pollution, ultraspicy food from the hotel’s kitchen, and something else that I could never quite put my finger on. It was my first morning there, and I was late for work. I didn’t feel bad about

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I spent a little time this weekend looking at aspects of web 2.0 and 3.0 and how these can be relevant to the business world. Of course in NG we are using such ideas as wiki. Its amazing how helpful the wikipedia site has become to me. Anyway, sites such as myspace are interesting if nothing else than just to note that this site is now the 6th most popularly accessed site in the entire WORLD. We

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Jess is a rule engine for the Java platform, and is a superset of CLIPS programming language, developed by Ernest Friedman-Hill of Sandia National Labs. In at least one (possibly two) of my expert systems classes I actually wrote some programs in the CLIPS language. Jess provides rule-based programming suitable for automating an expert system, and is often referred to as an expert system shell.

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Legacy integration aims to revitalize and extend the reach and lifetime of legacy systems by exposing existing functionality through the use of wrapping. It adds a front-end software layer to hide unwanted complexity and exposes modern interfaces to ease interoperability. The options for integrating legacy systems are:User-interface wrapping or screen scraping, where legacy screens are mapped

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Research efforts and commercial providers have proposed various approaches to address the pain points of legacy systems. However, the major problem remains: the identification of useful legacy functionality that can be exposed for collaborating applications at an optimal level of granularity. Additionally it is important to estimate and analyze the consequences of service-enablement decisions on

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Wikipedia states: “Humans are capable of using the Web to carry out tasks such as finding the Swedish word for "car", to reserve a library book, or to search for the cheapest DVD and buy it. However, a computer cannot accomplish the same tasks without human direction because web pages are designed to be read by people, not machines. The semantic web is a vision of web pages that are

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What is Architecture?ANSI/IEEE Std 1471-2000, Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems, provides the following definition for architecture:Architecture is defined by the recommended practice as the fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design

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This is what I desire to grow into one day: ;-DArchitect’s Personality and Other TraitsNo empirical studies have been done to determine the best character traits that define a successful architect. But it’s reasonable to derive the following traits based on the duties of an architect.An architect is a human filter that process complexities and outputs an abstract high level model of a system.

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This was a definition I found somewhere.... I was trying to figure out what it meant when people called me an architect. ;-D (I guess I am a wannabe architect)A software architect is responsible for creating or selecting the most appropriate architecture for a system (or systems), such that it suits the business needs, satisfies user requirements, and achieves the desired results under given

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I had to fill out some goals for an employee evaluation. I asked my HR director what my job description was according to my "job code". He told me that he really couldn't tell me what my job was -- that it was between me and my boss. (LOL) So I googled the definition of architect to see what I could find out about potential responsibilities for the title. This is just part of what I found:

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Gartner BPM SummitFebruary 26-28, San Diego CaliforniaOn February 26-28, 2007, I attended the BPM Summit in San Diego, California, along with approximately 1100 other attendees. I attended the conference as a guest of Singularity. In addition, I spent altogether about a full day at the BPM Technology Showcase. I made a short appearance at the BPM Summit’s Hospitality Suites. I spent a short

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