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May 2007 - Posts

OSF 9: How do you start building an OBA? (aka Introduction to Spiking)

[OBA Solution Framework Index] Let us say that you've decided to build an Enterprise Architecture that supports all five layers of the architecture that I laid out earlier - presentation, collaboration, process, services, and data. Let us next say that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:26 AM by Atanu | 1 Comments

OSF 8: Building a People-Ready SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) via OBAs

[OBA Solution Framework Index] I'm posting this from Singapore where I did a couple of sessions at their Strategic Architect Forum yesterday on Office Business Applications, composite business solutions, and how to build them. Lately a number of folks Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 5:58 AM by Atanu | 1 Comments

OSF 7: What does composition mean for Office Client applications?

[OBA Solution Framework Index] Consider composition of information in the Office Client. People are used to thinking of Word, Excel and Outlook as desktop productivity tools, but they can now serve as containers for data coming from back end servers (e.g. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 10:45 AM by Atanu | 1 Comments

OSF 6: OBAs, Composite Applications,and Steve Ballmer

[OBA Solution Framework Index] What is a composite application? In the simplest sense, it is a cross-functional solution assembled from pre-existing building blocks. These building blocks could be services, workflows and activities, documents, application Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 2:51 PM by Atanu | 1 Comments

OSF 5: Different types of Office Business Applications

[OBA Solution Framework Index] [ UPDATE : For more info on the "OBA RAP for Price Management" (OBA type #5 below) announced yesterday, read the blog posting by Moin here .] Traditional business applications have mostly either provided collaboration (focus: Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:09 AM by Atanu | 1 Comments

OSF 4: How to handle Users and Roles in an OBA

[OBA Solution Framework Index] Consider a team that is trying to deliver an OBA for a particular business process (e.g. to manage procurement). This could be an internal in-house IT development team building a standardized business process for enterprise-wide Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:00 AM by Atanu | 0 Comments

OSF 3: ANATOMY OF A BUSINESS SOLUTION

[OBA Solution Framework Index] Office Business Applications (or OBAs) represent a good way to provide solutions for cross-functional business processes. Office Client applications allow users to interact with systems from using familiar interfaces. Office Read More...
Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 1:12 PM by Atanu | 1 Comments

OSF 2: What makes architecture for an OBA different?

[OBA Solution Framework Index] An OBA is an emerging class of business application that bridges the gap between productivity tools like MS Office, and back-office systems such as ERP and other line-of-business applications. My colleague Mike Walker discusses Read More...
Posted Friday, May 04, 2007 3:51 AM by Atanu | 2 Comments

OSF 1: Introduction to the OBA Solutions Framework

[OBA Solution Framework Index] The set of blog postings tagged OSF will provide architectural guidance on how to build / package / deploy / deliver business applications on the Microsoft Platform, using Microsoft Office (Client / Server) and other platform Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 5:29 PM by Atanu | 0 Comments
 
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