BPM and SOA Tool Linkage
I’ve been invited to participate in SearchSOA.com’s “Ask the Expert” series and will be fielding questions primarily on BPM technologies in the context of SOA, but I hope to see some EA related questions as well. My first response was posted on November 3rd, answering the question, “What is a key characteristic I should look for in BPM modeling tools, especially when looking to pair them with SOA?” You can read my response at SearchSOA.com.

Oracle OpenWorld: Larry Ellison Keynote
Full disclosure: I’m attending Oracle OpenWorld courtesy of Oracle. Larry is now on stage, starting out talking about Linux. Announcing Exadata 2, built in collaboration with Sun. He will then introduce the new product support system that will discover problems in our systems before we do. Linux: Uptake of Oracle Enterprise Linux has been better than anticipated. Designed to be compatible with RedHat. We then developed our own VM, which is also open source and used by lots and lots of customers. Oracle’s belief is that eventually the VM and the operating system must work exceptionally well together, and must be engineered together. It is extremely

Oracle OpenWorld: Seven Game Changing Trends: How Prepared Are You?
Full disclosure: I’m attending Oracle OpenWorld courtesy of Oracle. The keynote speaker is Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and CEO of InfoSys, talking about the future of IT and innovation. He is stating that employee focus and IT focus is necessary for innovation, and must funded by efficiencies in operational processes. The 7 game changing trends of IT led innovation are: Simplification of complex business systems. Simplifying organizational complexity reduces business risks, frees up cash. Architecting an adaptive organization: Integrating processes, systems and metrics. Moving from value chains to value webs. The concept of exis

Oracle OpenWorld: SOA-Enabled BPM Adoption, Reference Architecture and Methodology Aspects
Full disclosure: I’m attending Oracle OpenWorld courtesy of Oracle. The speakers for this session were Manas Deb, Sr. Director, SOA/BPM/Governance Product Management from Oracle and Mark Wilkins, Enterprise Architect, EAP, from Oracle. They framed up the session as a discussion based on best practices from their EA practice, focused on companies who have a goal to adopt to BPM, built on a foundation of services. They began with a quick recap on what they feel SOA and BPM are, with SOA being focused on encapsulation and loose coupling, and BPM being focused on improved efficiency. I’m not going to debate those definitions here, just repeated them to un

Oracle OpenWorld: The Big BPEL-ESB-OSB cook-off
Full disclosure: I am attending Oracle OpenWorld courtesy of Oracle. The speaker in this session is Andreas Chatziantoniou from Accenture.  He’s discussing the overlap between Oracle’s BPEL, ESB (legacy Oracle), and OSB (BEA ESB) products.  First up is BPEL.  His slide states that BPEL should be used for system to system or service orchestration, when human workflow is needed, and when there are parallel request-response patterns.  The next slide says that BPEL should not be used for complex data transformations, it should not be used to program, and should not be used as a business modeling tool.  At first glance, this may s