Architecture of Business for Business by Business

Published in 2017 on organicbusinessdesign.com The enterprise element that is missed, but suspected by many This article continues our publications about united architectural and operational viewpoints on the corporate business. EVERY FORMAL BUSINESS organisation has its intrinsic architecture [1]. This is the fundamental outcome from the Theory of Systems. It is not about an architecture …

An API Economy under the Business radar

Published on November 8, 2017 While business is more or less familiar with the imperatives of global market and government regulation for different industries, new options and trends appearing via technology revolution are “new boys in the town” and require a special attention. We can anticipate that more and more resources will become available to …

“Cloud first” vs. “All eggs in one basket”

Published on August 5, 2017, on LinkedIn Enthusiasts of ‘digital revolution’ run between two slogans – “Cloud first” vs. “Digital first”. I personally think that both slogans are rather a buzz because in the market economy the first was and is the business. I’d agree with “Digital first” because it is a general statement about …

No Need to Sell Business Architecture to Executives

2015 Currently, there is a lot of discussions in the industries about Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Architecture (BA). An Enterprise Architecture rooting from IT is fairly denied by the corporate business as not competitive yet. However, we know multiple cases where IT Enterprise Architects (EAs) were held aside from the business concerns of the …

Basic Check-list for Cloud Consumers

Recent OVUM Cloud Forum 2012 as well as other events and publications demonstrate a shift in Cloud’s consumer’s attention (What is Happening to Clouds and Who is at Fault?) from technical to business aspects of Cloud Computing (hereinafter, Cloud), particularly, to  its usability from business perspectives. It seems that 2012 will be the year of …

Re-thinking Hybrid Cloud

2014 What’s a Hybrid Cloud for? The answer to this question depends on who you ask. A Cloud provider would say that this type of Cloud expands its customer base and increases the revenue. A Cloud consumer would say that she does not care about the type but Hybrid Cloud promises more reliability for the …

A shift in Understanding of Private and Public Cloud

2014 For the first half of 2014, I heard more and more frequently that of Private Cloud was interpreted as a Shared Cloud hosted outside of the consumer company. For example, this was articulated by people in the OVUN Cloud Workshop and in the 6th Annual World Cloud Forum. The executives I’ve talked to in …

Do we really need identity propagation in SOA and Clouds?

2012 IT developers and, especially IT Security specialists struggled for years trying to create an identity control at the enterprise level. The most known initiative and model in this area is Single Sign On (SSO) where an identity of an end-user can be propagated between systems and can be recognized across an enterprise. In today’s …

#Updated #Principles of #Service #Orientation

2014 Motivation Current Principles of Service Orientation (SO) were formulated about 15 years ago when Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) fought its way up into the mainstream of enterprise IT. They are widely known from publications of Thomas Erl 1,2 where the vocabulary of SO was compromised for the sake of mass adoption of Web Service technology. …

#Purpose #Case #Management and #Solution #Flexibility #Estimate

2012 Preamble After many years of process-dominating approach to our work, we have collectively “discovered” that the process is not the only way of doing things. There are many unstructured activities and even social activities that have to be governed and managed. These activities affect our daily productivity and, at the end, an efficiency of …

#Patterns In The #Context of #SOA #Business #Services

2010 Introduction Along the evolutionary path through centuries, the Mankind  has found that we need some things stable, immutable, and even ‘untouchable’ to grasp the other constantly changing things. The examples of such immutable things include religion postulate, mathematical axioms and the Earth shape.  Nonetheless, sometimes, the knowledge acquired in the evolution pushed us to …

5 BLOGs posted for the BPMCM Summit 2015

2015 All BLOGs may be found in the same place: BLOG 1:  Organic Business Architecture and its Mission in the Business Organization BLOG 2:  SOA on a Rescue Mission to Business Architecture BLOG 3:  Where the Strategic Business Solutions come from? BLOG 4:  How to Sell Business Architecture to Corporate Executives? BLOG 5:  Anti-Pattern for the Modern …

Internet of Things is premature for our current culture

2015 This blog has been sparked by a small information in the London’s Evening Standard newspaper – “London Bridge chaos continues with fare glitch”. For those who are distant from London, let me explain – one of the most busy and central train stations – London Bridge – has been moved under reconstruction a few …

What Business Architecture Needs: Value Streams or Activity Streams?

2015 I think you have noticed that when you are seriously looking into many familiar things, especially in the business world, you find yourself, your line of thoughts and language occupied by stereotypes. They help to communicate, but they also obfuscate the core of things. The most illustrative examples of stereotypical thinking we can find …

UML between Top-Down and Bottom-Up

2014 During holidays very strange and different thoughts come to mind. For example, when we use UML in project design for development, what is the difference between a top-down and bottom-up design? Ok, let’s start with the simple case. As we know, traditional UML operates with Class as the basis element. The latest 2.4 and …

Does a Web Service Make a Service for SOA?

cloudcomputingexpo.com , 2006 Neither SOAP WebServices nor HTTP REST interfaces constitute services defined in SOA What could be easier than to take your application, wrap it with a Web Service, announce it or register it in the UDDI and get a SOA Service? Even better – take a data warehouse, cover a SQL executing code …

SOA Strategy and Spline Tactics

2010 First things first: ‘SOA Strategy’ in the title of the article stands for ‘Service-Oriented Agile Strategy’,’ and we will talk about how to transform IT to make it agile to Market. ‘Spline’ is a term unusual to non-mathematicians. In simple words, spline is an interpolation function that balances between the smoothing and closeness to …

Logging for SOA – an enterprise-level solution

SOA & WOA, 2008 Reads: 13,996 What could be the problem with logging in SOA in the presence of such wonderful tools like log4j, Java’s logging library and similar? Why might we need something special for SOA and why aren’t existing techniques enough? The answer is simple and complex simultaneously – in SOA we are …

RIA-SOA Collaboration Pattern

J2EE Journal, 2008 Reads: 28,812 Resolving RIA-SOA Conflict A friend of mine said, when we discussed the RIA-SOA topic, that he was fully entitled to have a service that provided a merchant’s price to his RIA. The price was assumed to be taken from a back-end data store. I agreed with him but thought that …

Service Reuse and Entitlement

J2EE Journal, 2008 READS: 12,417 At a glance the reuse of a service and entitlement to those service results have nothing in common. But on the second thought, the more a service gets reused the greater the chance of serving users with different access rights to the service results. We’ll discuss two models of reuse …