ZapThink » FileNet http://www.zapthink.com Sharpening Your Vision of the Future of IT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:12:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 From Wall Street, a Call to Services http://www.zapthink.com/2005/05/16/from-wall-street-a-call-to-services/ http://www.zapthink.com/2005/05/16/from-wall-street-a-call-to-services/#comments Mon, 16 May 2005 00:05:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=1447

Read more at: Securities Industry News]]> “Financial services is the leading vertical industry in terms of early adoption of SOA,” says
ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg. According to Bloomberg, SOA offers long-term reductions
in integration costs, more reuse of IT assets, more visibility and control leading to less
compliance risk, and greater business ability. “Regulatory compliance is especially critical,” says
Bloomberg. “SOA provides an approach for dealing with issues like Sarbanes-Oxley in complex,
heterogeneous environments like those found at equities firms.”

Read more at: Securities Industry News

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/17/service-oriented-process-2/feed/ 0 Service-Oriented Process http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/16/service-oriented-process-3/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/16/service-oriented-process-3/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:04:00 +0000 Ronald Schmelzer http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTR-WS108 However, automating business processes has historically been a difficult-to-achieve goal for most enterprises due to the flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Fortunately, businesses have a solution in Service-Oriented Process: a separate abstraction layer for business process definition and execution that leverages the capabilities of Service-oriented Architectures. Service-Oriented Process provides businesses an approach to tying business requirements to the Service model represented in the SOA metamodel, thereby providing a flexible approach towards implementing architectures that promote business agility.]]> Key Findings:
  • Service-Oriented Process is Key to Meeting Business Agility Requirements
  • Service-oriented process includes orchestration, choreography, composition, workflow, transactions, and collaboration of Web Services.
  • The market for Service-Oriented Process solutions will grow from $120 Million in 2003 to over $8.3 Billion by 2008.
  • The standards landscape will converge on a single choreography, orchestration, and process flow specification in the next 12-18 months.
  • By 2005, over 70% of Web Services implementations will be process-driven.
  • Services must be developed devoid of process in order that they can participate in an SOA that meets the goals of business agility
  • Service-Oriented Management techniques can assist in managing discrete services as well as end-to-end business processes.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. The Context for Service-Oriented Process
    • 2.1. What are Business Processes?
    • 2.2. Why is Process Important to the Enterprise?
    • 2.3. Connecting Business Requirements to IT Capabilities Through Process
    • 2.4. Organizational Roles and Business Process
  • III. Fundamentals of Business Process
    • 3.1. Business Process Terms and Concepts
    • 3.2. Business Process Definition
    • 3.3. Process Execution
    • 3.4. Transactions and Exception Handling
    • 3.5. Process Monitoring and Management
    • 3.6. A History of Business Process Management and Workflow Solutions
  • IV. Applying SOA to Business Process: Service-Oriented Process
    • 4.1. Web Services and SOA Approaches for Process Definition and Execution
    • 4.2. Workflow
    • 4.3. Transactions
    • 4.4. Reliability
    • 4.5. Guidance on the Specifications
  • V. Connecting the Dots: Process, Management, and Integration
    • 5.1. Proper Mindset for SOA: Process-Orientation
    • 5.2. Asynchrony and Coarse-Granularity: Enabled by Process
    • 5.3. Fulfilling the Requirements for Loose Coupling with Service-Oriented Management
  • VI. Market Opportunity for Service-Oriented Process
  • VII. Future Trends for Service-Oriented Process
    • 7.1. Smarter Invocation of Services
    • 7.2. Portals and Processes
    • 7.3. Enterprise Applications and Processes
    • 7.4. Processes and Peer-to-Peer Implementations
  • VIII. Conclusions
    • 8.1. Key Notes
    • 8.2. Decision Points
    • 8.3. Figures
    • 8.4. Tables
  • IX. Glossary
  • X. Profiled Vendors

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2003/01/29/zapnote-arbortext/feed/ 0 Service-Oriented Process http://www.zapthink.com/2002/08/23/service-oriented-process/ http://www.zapthink.com/2002/08/23/service-oriented-process/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:08:00 +0000 Ronald Schmelzer http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTB-0111 However, automating business processes has historically been a difficult-to-achieve goal for most enterprises due to the flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Fortunately, businesses have a solution in Service-Oriented Process: a separate abstraction layer for business process definition and execution that leverages the capabilities of Service-oriented Architectures. Service-Oriented Process provides businesses an approach to tying business requirements to the Service model represented in the SOA metamodel, thereby providing a flexible approach towards implementing architectures that promote business agility.]]> Business processes have always been an important, if understated, asset of enterprises. The nature and methods by which a company runs its business changes on a daily basis at various different levels in the company — from high-level strategic changes to lower-level implementation details. As a result of these changes, enterprises constantly struggle to make their businesses more responsive to business changes by connecting their business requirements to their IT and human capabilities.

However, automating business processes has historically been a difficult-to-achieve goal for most enterprises due to the flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Fortunately, businesses have a solution in Service-Oriented Process: a separate abstraction layer for business process definition and execution that leverages the capabilities of Service-oriented Architectures. Service-Oriented Process provides businesses an approach to tying business requirements to the Service model represented in the SOA metamodel, thereby providing a flexible approach towards implementing architectures that promote business agility. Download File

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