Prior to the hybrid cloud, IT determined how an enterprise infrastructure grew. With the introduction of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), lines of business, such as marketing, sales and logistics, can expand the enterprise infrastructure without involving IT by directly purchasing SaaS. Beware of the “accidental SOA cloud architecture.”
According to AIIM & Accenture Surveys report – in the next few years’ volume of information produced by our civilization will be doubled. Report also points, that arrangement will be split into 20% of structured data and...
Contributed by: Mike Rosen, Editorial Director, SOAInstitute.org
The cloud is all the rage this year, so not to be left out, I thought I better write something about it. Once you get past the ‘cheaper, faster, better’ hype, one of the common themes is the apparent synergy between the...
Contributed by: John Moe, Principal Consultant, J Moe Associates
A recent survey suggests that two thirds of large organisations are looking to implement a service catalogue in the next few months. However, the same survey also stated that less than half could articulate what...
The details include search engine core components that work under the hood in tandem to generate the search results based on user requirements. Who are these core components? What’s their purpose in Search and answers to all...
This document emphasis on the variety of frameworks development approaches and their categorization and then walks thro’ the Visual Studio framework creating process. At the end it contains a case study of framework targeted...
Contributed by: John Moe, Principal Consultant, J Moe Associates
Being an ardent advocate of most things BPM and SOA, I am constantly disappointed, but not surprised, to find IT departments investing in development and integration tooling to support SOA that stop short of anything that...
Contributed by: John Moe, Principal Consultant, J Moe Associates
One of the realities of SOA is that even in the most enthusiastic organisations not all services can or will be delivered by discrete services written in .NET or Java. For historical or pragmatic reasons, some of the...
Software firms like to tout their solutions as game changers. Few are. Most make only a modest impact on an organization’s business. Some don’t make any. The introduction of Smart BPM? 6 last March left many wondering about...
Companies worldwide have for generations sought to better manage their key business processes to improve efficiency, insight into their impact, and to achieve greater business flexibility. The introduction of new technology consistently provides new ways to achieve these benefits yet each new technology also imposes constraints, or barriers, in the path of success.
Is your enterprise defining a business transformation led by value chain analysis or a balanced scorecard? Are you having trouble finding data to serve as measures? Are you having a problem communicating the transformation details? These are symptoms of a missing business information architecture. Business information architecture is an aspect of business architecture that defines the terms that business people use to talk about business information, and relates those terms to business strategy, processes, capabilities and organization aspects of the blueprint.
Governments and companies worldwide have for generations sought to better manage the processes that are key to their constituencies and business by managing them to improve efficiency, insight...
Organizations are constantly being pushed to create leaner organizations while maintaining productivity and profitability.To address this situation, Fujitsu is now offering complete process...
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real results in difficult economic times by uncovering process waste, reducing non-value adding activity, and increasing productivity. Business process management (...
The challenges faced by today’s government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied—and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must...
Business process management (BPM) is in a period of transition. For the past several years, companies have been getting familiar with BPM, undertaking specific projects to address “burning process...
Although "doing more with less" is a common mantra these days, delivering improved business efficiency is necessary, but not sufficient, to put organisations in strong competitive positions....
Nearly 55 million people depend on the French National Health Insurance Fund, CNAMTS. Learn how CNAMTS leverages case management to reduce paper and processing times while improving service...