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With SOA, BPM and MBM
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By
Fred Cummins, EDS Fellow
Description
In the last ten years IT has brought fundamental changes to the way the world works. Not only has it increased the speed of operations
and communications, but it has also undermined basic assumptions of traditional business models and increased the number of variables.
Today, the survival of major corporations is challenged by a world-wide marketplace, international operations, outsourcing, global communities,
a changing workforce, security threats, business continuity, web visibility, and customer expectations. Enterprises must constantly
adapt or they will be unable to compete.
Fred Cummins, an EDS Fellow, presents IT as a key enabler of the agile enterprise. He
demonstrates how the convergence of key technologies--including SOA, BPM and emerging enterprise and data models--can be harnessed to
transform the enterprise. Cummins mines his 25 years experience to provide IT leaders, as well as enterprise architects and management
consultants, with the critical information, skills, and insights they need to partner with management and redesign the enterprise for
continuous change. No other book puts IT at the center of this transformation, nor integrates these technologies for this purpose.
"Building the Agile Enterprise not only covers many corner stones of enterprise agility, it delivers an integrated view of how
agility is enabled by policies and a business awareness supported by technology architecture/design patterns. Fred Cummins has hit the
mark by aggregating the many tributaries of agility instead of picking one pattern and/or technology. This is a sophisticated and integrated
atlas that is a challenge for IT professionals to implement, but a must for flourishing organizations."
~Jim Sinur, Vice President,
Gartner
"Never before has technology been so close to the business. In fact, technology is becoming more and more embedded
in the business. This means that change has to go hand in hand on both at the business and the technology side, – or that technology
has to at least support the high demands of business change. In particular, enterprise agility is a major requirement for those organizations
that want to succeed in this new world dominated by rapid change. Business are increasingly asked to change and to react quickly to changes
in market conditions – look at what?s happening currently in the car manufacturing space with the increases in petrol prices or in the
financial community with the sub-prime crises as just two examples. This book provides a marvelous, clear, and comprehensive road map
of how key technologies such as service-oriented architecture, business process management, and model-based management are instrumental
and key in realizing a truly agile enterprise. It explains why and how a structured and strategic approach to SOA, along with the adoption
of other available paradigms and technologies, can enable future enterprise agility. As Fred suggests, this is a must-read for CIOs,
enterprise architects, and IT management in general that is embracing transformation and innovation programs; I would go further and
say that some key chapters will make great reading for CxOs outside IT and in the driving seat of the enterprise."
~Diego Lo
Giudice, Principal, Forrester Research
"The author, Mr. Cummins, has already made a tremendous contribution to the discipline
of Enterprise Business Management through his leadership in the development of business modeling standards as a co-chair of the Object
Management Group's Business Modeling and Integration Domain Task Force. This book breathes life into those standards, with simple and
clear explanations of how to apply these and other information technology standards in what is described as the Agile Enterprise, incorporating
and expounding upon the most important trends in the advancement of information technology, such as Service Oriented Architecture and
Business Process Management, culminating in a what he defines and explains as the discipline of Model Based Management. The authors level
of experience is obvious from the generous use of industry examples and analogies. A must read for business leaders that need to demystify
these technologies and standards, and other agents of enterprise transformation and adaptation!"
~George Thomas, Enterprise
Chief Architect, US General Services Administration (GSA)
Audience
IT leaders, including CIOs and CTOs; enterprise architects and information systems architects; business modelers and business process
modeling professionals in IT and in business management consulting.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
1. The Agile Enterprise
Common business challenges
The modern ecosystem
A new way of thinking
Agility enablers
SOA
Maturity Model
CSFs on the journey to agility
2. Service Oriented Architecture
Business services
SOA infrastructure
Defining services
Enterprise transformation
SOA Challenges
3. Business Processes in a SOA
Process concepts
Process modeling
Operating modes
Processes
in SOA
Choreography
4. Business Rules
Types of Rules
Implications of SOA
Rules management
5. Enterprise Information Management
Agile
enterprise requirements
Logical data model
Data exchange
Business intelligence services
Master data management
Knowledge management
6.
SOA Security
What makes SOA different?
Encryption and signatures
Identification and authentication
Authorization
Role-based access control
(RBAC)
XACML Policies
Access control administration
Federation of trust domains
Accountability and non-repudiation
Monitoring, logging,
alerts and audits
Vulnerability scanning and intrusion detection
7. The SOA Organization Structure
How is SOA different?
Service unit
types
Hierarchy design factors
Organization specifications
Organizational transformation
8. Event Driven Agility
Event resolution business
framework
Origins of events
Identification of events of interest
Sources of Event notices
Event notification infrastructure
Event resolution
processes
9. Governance
Benefits
SOA Governance Framework
Strategic Planning
Enterprise intelligence
Business Architecture
Audit and
Risk Assessment
Enterprise Transformation
Standards and technology
Information Technology services
Finance & Accounting services
Purchasing
services
Human resource management services
Product Value Chains
10. Business Models
Business modeling viewpoints
Modeling tool standards
Enhanced modeling capabilities
Tactical solutions
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 336 pages, publication date: SEP-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374445-6
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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