SOA Gartner Summit 2008 Review, Tokyo – Platforms aren’t what they used to be
Posted by Joerg Klueckmann on Jul 21, 2008
I am at the Gartner SOA Summit in Tokyo in the Session held by Mr. Phifer from Gartner. He is talking about the application platform trends of the next years. Here is his message in a few sentences: Good times in economy are over for a while. IT budgets are being cut. Focus is on cost savings. Cloud computing and virtualization should help to lower the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and that’s about it for the trend of the next years.
ARIS for Microsoft BizTalk
Posted by Peter Müller on Jul 17, 2008
Many analysts and customers wonder how Microsoft’s SOA strategy will evolve in the coming months and years. I cannot tell you how Microsoft’s implementation of SOA will look like in general, but I would like to share some details with you concerning the combined SOA approach of Microsoft and IDS Scheer.
What is SOA?
Posted by Sebastian Stein on Jun 18, 2008
If I am not live blogging from ARIS ProcessWorld, you can find me at the SOA booth in the exhibition area, where we demo our SOA product. It seems the interest in SOA is growing. Many people are passing by who have read about it and who want to see what’s behind. One common question is about a very short introduction to SOA. So let’s try that here as well…
SOA and Business Rules Hands-on
Posted by Sebastian Stein on Jun 16, 2008
One of the key feature of ARIS UserDay is the many hands-on sessions where users can try the latest version of the different ARIS products. Today in the morning, the hands-on for ARIS SOA Architect and ARIS Business Rules Designer took place…
SOA – A is for Architecture
Posted by Olaf Geyer on Jun 3, 2008
Olaf Geyer
Head of Center of Excellence for EA and SOA
In my last post I have covered the basics of EAM. We also have established that you need and EA or EAM for BPM. BPM comes in two forms: Business BPM and Technical BPM. Business BPM uses business lingo to describe business architecture – activities, processes, organizations, products and all sorts of resources etc. Technical BPM describes the execution of business processes; usually what we understand as workflow or SOA.
Review: Business Integration Forum Wiesbaden, Germany - Day 2:
Posted by Joerg Klueckmann on Apr 18, 2008
by Joerg Klueckmann,
ARIS Product Marketing
The second day at the Business Integration Forum in Wiesbaden came up with some interesting discussions and presentations. I was also able to join a presentation by Google at the Web 2.0 Congress which took place at the same conference center.
Review: Business Integration Forum Wiesbaden, Germany - Day 1:
Posted by Joerg Klueckmann on Apr 16, 2008
by Joerg Klueckmann,
ARIS Product Marketing
Today Business Integration Forum in Wiesbaden started with a keynote from Dr. Martin. An interesting chapter of his presentation was the result of the ‘SOA Check 2008’ survey. 60 companies in Germany where asked about the maturity and structure of their SOA strategies. Here just some findings, which were interesting to me.
SOA is Business (again)
Posted by Sebastian Stein on Apr 13, 2008
by Sebastian Stein,ARIS Development
The upcoming ARIS Business Performance Edition release will also ship a new version of ARIS SOA Architect. The product was extended heavily compared to the previous version. The old version included many features to design and implement executable business processes. The most important feature of the old version is the automated EPC to BPEL transformation generating an executable process out of a business process. Those features are of course preserved and extended in the new version, but there is much more to discover!
