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Are your business processes dynamic and agile?

April 23rd, 2009

This morning I was talking to a customer about how to build dynamic business processes that can adapt to rapid changes in the business without having to re-implement the whole process. The answer is: WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition (WDPE), released in June of 2008, now in it's latest release (WDPE version 6.2 to match up with the rest of the WebSphere SOA tooling) is an excellent tool for businesses that are implementing business processes that are dynamic in nature. Dynamic processes are built so that the process can adapt to rapid changes in the business.

In this economy, if you want to be competitive, business change is imminent and so is the need for agility in your business processes. WebSphere Dynamic Business Process Edition provides an excellent insight into your enterprise process contents or assets (EPC) and thereby empowering you to continuously optimize your business by dynamically reacting to the changes.

Can u change the business process, without changing the underlying enterprise process assets or content that were built by IT? Yes, if you have implemented those process assets using the WebSphere Dynamic Business Process Edition.

WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition includes these products to help you with the agile process implementation:

More on Business space soon! I am going to enjoy the glorious weather in Michigan today. It's going to be around 80 next couple of days. Yey!

Cheers,
Steve Lokam

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Tags: Business Space powered by WebSphere SOA WBSF WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition

SOA Entry Points

November 29th, 2006

New to SOA?? Dont know where to start? Then IBM’s SOA entry points is the best place to start with to read more about how you should start with SOA. Remember SOA is not just for the big guys but also for the small and medium sized companies. Actually, I look at SOA as one of the best things ever that could happen to the SMB companies. There is no better time to jump into this, if you have not already gotten into this in some form or fashion. Jump in..

SOA entry points talks about the 5 entry points into SOA. Any one of IBM’s five entry points can provide an effective and efficient way to get started with SOA. Read more about that here.

Cheers,
Steve Lokam

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Tags: SOA WebSphere

Top of Mind SOA Governance Products

November 20th, 2006

I have recently been to the webMethods integration world 2006 and I saw the demo of the Infravio product there. You heard the news about Infravio being acquired by webMethods. I think that is one of the best things that they have done in the recent past. Infravio is one of the best vendors that I have seen for SOA governance. They are a pure-play SOA governance vendors. They flagship product "X-Registry" is a great tool for Design-Time and Run-Time management of your SOA environment. Now, webMethods has a complete offering of SOA development and governance tools.

IBM’s WebSphere Services Registry and Repository (WSRR) is the WebSphere’s version of the product to govern your SOA environment. I have not seen this in action myself, but heard some good stuff about this. I dont know why IBM always makes our life complicated, but we have to use a varied set of tools for the entire SOA governance. The best part with IBM of course is the broader coverage in terms of SOA governance, that no other software vendor could match. Not only that, these tools integrate very well with their SOA offerings: WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Process Server products.

Pure-play vendors like Infravio, Systinet, Amber Point are doing so well because of the very reason that they focus mainly on the governance aspect of it and they do it very well. I am sure TIBCO also offers a SOA goveranance tool, but it is not on top of my mind as of now. I have figure what it is though.

Well, these are the products that are on top of mind for me in terms of SOA governance. I foresee a lot more consolidation of these vendors.

Cheers,
Steve Lokam

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Tags: "WebSphere Services Registry and Repository" Amber Point Governance Infravio Process Server SOA Systinet WSRR

SOI – Services Oriented Integration and the Role of an ESB in SOI

August 11th, 2006

I get this question all the time from some of my sales teams: If it is all about SOA, Web Services and the likes, what will happen to all the integration tools? The tools are still there, but a slight shift in the paradigm happened, forcing vendors to come up with new tools to support that shift.

Organizations are looking for web-services based connectivity and service-oriented integration between their applications. For such organizations, IBM came up with a solution: the WebSphere ESB. WebSphere ESB is based on open standards and SOA and is built on the robust WebSphere Application Server platform.

Now there is a the WebSphere Message Broker a.k.a WebSphere Advance ESB. Now how different is this from the regular ESB. Question that all us face all the time from the customers. Like I mentioned above, if it is all about SOI and Web Services based integration, then all you need is a WebSphere ESB, but if you need any-to-any tranformations to be done and you want universal connectivity and highly scalable routing, then you go for the Advanced ESB (WMB). Basically, Advanced ESB does all that the WebSphere ESB does, but also has additional functionality as well.

So, for more information, click on this linke: WebSphere ESB.

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