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SOAInstitute.org to Focus on APIs

 As businesses turn digital and ecosystems become increasingly open, the nature of integration is changing. SOA helped us connect IT transactions and systems within a controlled environment. APIs will help us turn legacy into advantage, exposing assets to be consumed by innovators outside your own team. The transformative power of APIs will last twice as long and have many times the impact of the web. Whether you goal is to drive innovation, become a mobile business, or navigate a hybrid cloud, APIs are part and parcel of your strategy.

In principle, the acronym API stands for Application Programming Interfaces, but the notion of what API means has evolved significantly. APIs today are quite different from the application programming interfaces of old, and the transition from SOA to API centric systems is a very natural one. Enterprises that embark on this journey will continue to leverage the engineering practices embraced by SOA, but will extend their ecosystem in new ways through APIs. Experiencing the power of APIs involves much more than simply data monetization. The power of APIs can be successfully applied to business challenges ranging from changing business models to embracing a world of devices and sensors.
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Out-SOA-cing - The Challenge of Outsourcing SOA

Contributed by:John Moe,  Principal Consultant,  J Moe Associates
By: John Moe, Head of Business Integration, TORI Global

With the current hard times continuing to challenge IT budgets, I fear that all the good effort that is going into SOA currently could be squandered by ill-conceived or rushed outsourcing of the wrong services and wrong responsibilities at the wrong time to the few remaining IT service companies.

It is worth pointing out that the analyst community have consistently promoted SOA and outsourcing as being good bedfellows. There are two main models here:

The Hybrid SDLC

Contributed by:Larry Goldberg,  Managing Partner,  Knowledge Partners International LLP
By: Mark Monteleone, President, Monteleone Consulting, LLC

The purpose of this article is to provide project managers and business analysts an example of a hybrid system development life cycle (i.e., combination of agile and waterfall). Much discussion has transpired on the virtues of agile and waterfall approaches. Successes and failures can be claimed on both sides. Depending on the conditions of the project, advantages of one approach can be cited over the other. So enters the Hybrid SDLC that considers both approaches for all or portions of the project.

Three Secrets to Engaging Business and IT in Business Process Management

Contributed by:Shelley Sweet,  Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and President,  i4 Process
By: Shelley Sweet, President, I4 Process Consulting

BPM is unique in offering so much promise while being so generally ignored. Even among companies that actively pursue some level of process improvement, only a few have a process based management structure. At least one reason for our tepid impact is our failure to model an enterprise-wide perspective in the initial launch of process improvement efforts. Gartner Inc. reports that in North America IT leads 42% of the BPM efforts and the Business leads 58% of the efforts.

Modeling a Net-Centric Department of Defense (DoD) Enterprise using BPMN 2.0

Contributed by:Sumeet Vij,  Assistant Vice President/ Chief Engineer,  Alion Science and Technology
By: Sumeet Vij, AIS Chief SOA Engineer at SAIC

If a picture is a worth a thousand words, a standardized model is definitely worth multiple pages of a requirement specification. Business and IT have long used tabular descriptions, flowcharts and other means to capture and describe how their business processes are run, but if a modeling format has to go beyond being just a sketch, it requires a standardized, non-proprietary notation which can be uniformly understood by all.

Making Financial Services More Responsive

This webinar will discuss how to make your financial service organization more responsive to customers, opportunities and threats through event-driven processes in business process management (BPM). This will include the importance and meaning of events relative to a business process and the links between BPM and complex event process (CEP).

The Service Oriented Architecture Enterprise Architecture Framework (SOA~EAF)

By: Rick Sweeney, Enterprise Architecture Consultant

Enterprise Architecture as a practice has been around for some time now. Many companies have reached a level of sophistication and maturity within their EA practices. They are well established with EA policies and governance institutionalized throughout the company.

Opening Keynote: How Cloud Computing Will Change Business Process Management

As cloud computing becomes more and more mainstream BPM systems will be offered in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model as well as being delivered in on-premise service appliances behind the firewall. Mr. Barlow will explore these topics and provide a glimpse into one of the next significant new business technologies to be delivered “in the cloud.”

4 Keys to Unlocking Operational Performance

Contributed by:Claye Greene,  Managing Director,  Technology Blue, Inc.
By: Claye Greene, Managing Director, Technology Blue, Inc.

Operational performance has become widely accepted as a critical success factor for companies across many industries. It is best described as the level at which all business units in an organization work together to achieve core business goals.

There are understandably many articles and texts dedicated to operational performance management. Many companies have created departments and job functions focused on translating the value of business assets into higher performance. However for those who are just beginning the journey there are undoubtedly more questions than answers.

SOA and Service Management

Contributed by:John Moe,  Principal Consultant,  J Moe Associates
By: John Moe, Head of Business Integration, TORI Global

Within the world of SOA the term service management usually refers to the control and orchestration of the invoked service (web. Business, composite, etc.), usually called SOA governance.

Being Intelligent with SOA: Using SOA to Lay the Foundation of your Business Intelligence (BI) Initiatives

Contributed by:Sumeet Vij,  Assistant Vice President/ Chief Engineer,  Alion Science and Technology
Sumeet Vij, AIS Chief SOA Engineer at SAIC

SOA purists might scoff at using SOA for integration [1], but for many enterprises, Service Oriented Integration (SOI) remains one of the prime motivations for embarking on the SOA journey. Agreed SOI by itself doesn’t achieve the avowed goals of agility or elimination of redundant IT infrastructure, but it helps the enterprise address real concerns, now. The SOA Manifesto [2] states that Business value is of higher priority over technical strategy; hence easier integration with SOA is a valid goal of a SOA initiative.

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