Increasing Business and IT agility with SOA and Microsoft by Kris Horrocks, who went into offerings by Microsoft on SOA. Here are some blurts from this session.
Focus business and technology model and its friction points. These points are:
Focus document exchange in the business and inward technology driven view like EAI (contract and messages by different systems) that deliver solutions that impose constraints to the business and business siloed IT.
Reducing friction by soften up boundaries. Shared semantics, definitions in technology and business model through service model. Business focus on service and technology focus on contract. Business services compose processes and technology deliver services.
Portfolio on
SOA to succeed:
Start with business need;
– Now the it here and now
Key benefit is business agility;
– Service reuse is upside
Focus on time to value;
– Plan, but don’t boil the ocean
Deliver business value in iterations;
– Grow your capabilities
Expect and design for change;
Microsoft Resources:
Business architecture
– Microsoft Services Business Architecture (MSBA)(previously motion) See also channel 9!!!
IT architecture and strategy
– Application Platform Optimization
– Core Infrastructure
– Assessments & Roadmaps
– Reference Architecture
Solution architecture and delivery
– Application Platform
– Patterns and Practices
– Industry frameworks
– Business Process Alliance
Kris went into some of these resources. First off MSBA then technical reference architecture (service implementation, service consumption and service administration) and SOA platform capability model.
SOA for transaction and interation
A)
Expose : Existing systems
Compose: BP integration, Automation and optimization, information integration
(SOA as mechanism to transact)
Compliance and evolution, cost justified, CFO/CIO driven
Between A and B : Standards based interoperability
B)
Compose: User experience and interaction, people using content, BI, Collaboration and Communication
Consume: User directed
(SOA as mechanism to interact)
Business innovation, value justified, LOB Manager driven
Plotting product portfolio as services on model expose/compose/consume
Application platform for compose:
A)
SharePoint Services, .NET CF, ASP.NET/AJAX, Silverlight, WPF
SharePoint Server & Live Communication Server
SharePoint Server, WF, CAB
B)
BizTalk Server, WF
SQL Server
BizTalk Server Windows WCF
BizTalk Server WCF
Across model:
Active Directory
System Center, MOF, Patterns
Visual Studio, Patterns & Practices, MSF
Summary
Key value of SOA
Create Roadmaps
– Business strategy
– IT strategy
– Solution Delivery
Solutions deliver business value
SOA capabilities
So a bit blurry, but if one views the slides which hopefully will be available soon, it will all be very clear.
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