Loosely Coupled Thinking : Compliance

SOA and Business Process Conference 2007

jevdemon — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:04:00 GMT

The 2007 Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference will be held from October 29th through November 2nd, 2007 at the Microsoft Conference Center on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA. Customers and partners can learn about Microsoft’s current and...(read more)

Managing Services....

jevdemon — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:04:00 GMT

Dave just told me that the work he and others have been doing on Service Management is finally publicly available. Lots of good stuff here, including a slick little Flash-based demo .

You are highly encouraged to take a look.

HL7 Advanced Web Services Profiles

jevdemon — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:58:00 GMT

HL7 is an ANSI-accredited Standards Organization that develops interface requirements for health care organizations. Last September the following profiles were submitted by Microsoft to HL7:

Security Profile as DSTU: based on WS-Security (pdf), WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust and WS-Policy
Addressing as DSTU: based on WS-Addressing
Reliable Messaging as draft: based on WS-ReliableMessaging

If you work in Healthcare you are probably already aware of these profiles. If you don't work in Healthcare you should still take a look - these profile serve as excellent guidelines for using some of the advanced Web Services specifications.

Conngratulations to Roberto Ruggeri, Chris Kaler, Felipe Cabrera and Mauro Regio!

Thinking about SOA (again)

jevdemon — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:29:00 GMT

Eventually we’ll stop talking about SOA and go back to talking about Architecture. When we stop talking about SOA it will finally become a reality (who talks about 3-tier architectures anymore?). Thanks to Harry for this one!
SOAs are like snowflakes – no two will be the same.
SOAs will most likely be built using web services (but building web services will not necessarily result in a SOA).
The most valuable services will be used in ways in which their original architects never intended or expected.
A specification without an implementation is a hypothesis and should be treated as such.
SOA is not new. CORBA, DCE, DCOM and EDI were all early examples.
EDI may have provided the first example of SOA principles (e.g. document-centric, loosely coupled, etc).
SOA is not web services
SOA is a design philosophy, not a technology or a methodology
SOA does not enable or ensure the alignment of IT and business. The IT industry has been promising this for decades –there is no silver bullet for aligning IT and business. Alignment of IT and business is an organizational issue that will not be resolved by an architectural design philosophy alone.
Service Orientation (SO) will happen in your organization in one of two possible ways: chaotically (typical approach) or in a disciplined manner. The path your organization takes (and the cost of later fixing that path) is up to you.
Companies that fail to adopt SOA will be less competitive in the marketplace,
SOA is a means for realizing loosely coupled business processes. Loosely coupled business processes (not services) are the key to an agile organization.
SOA is a means, not an end. Opportunity emerges when a SOA is used.
A service’s value is equivalent to the number of business processes in which it appears.
Services are not Distributed Objects
Business Processes are not Distributed Objects
Distributed Objects and Legacy Systems should be cleaved into services
If you set out to “do SOA” you will fail. All IT projects have the objective of improving the performance of the enterprise – there is no point for the IT project to exist otherwise.

Upcoming webcast: Governance and Compliance in Service-Oriented Solutions

jevdemon — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:37:00 GMT

To be presented on Frday (12/3) morning. Sign up here.

Here is the abstract:

Myriad regulatory compliance challenges such as the Sarbanes-Oxley act, HIPAA, the Basel II accords, and the USA PATRIOT act now face enterprises around the world. As agencies and legislation introduces new information capture and reporting requirements, organizations must retrofit their business processes to comply. Because of the complexity of modifying existing business solutions, compliance can be costly to implement and execute. This webcast will examine the Compliance Architectural Theme as a means of developing a conceptual and logical architecture for modeling, capturing, communicating, and mining compliance metadata in a service-oriented enterprise technology portfolio.

Important Disclaimer: Although I'm listed as the presenter this may/should be presented by Mike Burner instead. Mike did a lot of thinking around the controls framework and really deserves the credit for it.

Another WS-ReliableMessaging implementation on WSE 2.0

jevdemon — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:58:00 GMT

Andrés G Vettori just posted another WS-ReliableMessaging implementation on WSE 2.0. He's also made the code available to anyone that wants it.

Have a look - just be aware that the spec on which this was built is still subject to change.

New Webcast: Patterns for SOA

jevdemon — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:58:00 GMT

I did a webcast this morning with Ron Jacobs (PAG), Alex Weinert (Indigo) and Ted Neward (Author, Speaker, All Around Geek). The topic was "Patterns for SOA" and used an informal "talk show" format. Here is the description of the session:

"Service Oriented Architecture represents a new style of architecture, design and implementation. In this webcast we will cover 4 principles which guide the architecture, 3 patterns for SOA and 2 anti-patterns which represent common mistakes that you should avoid."

You can view a recording of this webcast here. I've uploaded a slightly modified version of the presentation here (ppt format, natch).

This webcast also served as a launch for the "SOA Architectural Theme". There are a number of deliverables and activities planned for this theme. In the short term we will be delivering a few papers on SOA Patterns and Anti-Patterns (including sample code). A paper on understanding and implementing an FEA compliant solution is also under development. I'll post early looks at these works in progress here for your feedback and flames.

And now for something completely different:

Which File Extension are You?

A Bad Movie, ebXML and The Emperor's New Clothes

jevdemon — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:47:00 GMT

Aside from the fact that this story uses the title of one of the single worst films I have ever seen, the story prompted me to reflect on the current state of affairs.

When was the last time you saw a headline like "FAST, FURIOUS ebXML SPENDING EXPECTED"? Ask yourself this the next time you come across FUD regarding ebXML and web services.

Here's the story in question:

FAST, FURIOUS WEB SERVICES SPENDING EXPECTED | SearchWebServices.com

Market research firm Radicati Group predicts web services spending toreach $6.2 billion by 2008 as companies invest heavily in development tools and security.

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1009864,00.html?track=NL-110&ad=492731

Bangalore Bound

jevdemon — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:44:00 GMT

I'm going to Bangalore next month to speak at Microsoft's India Regional Architect Forum (RAF). I'm looking forward to going, even though Gurpreet (yes, that Gurpreet) warned me that this is the longest flight in the world. I guess that means hours and hours of bad Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan movies (somehow that sounds a bit redundant).

Are you familiar with Bangalore? Post your tips and recommendations here. I'll post my presentations once they are completed.

"Compliance works like Death" says AMR Research

jevdemon — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:36:00 GMT

Now that I have your attention...John Hagerty, vice president of AMR Research is quoted in a recent article in Compliance Pipeline:

"Compliance works like death - the first emotions felt are shock and anger, and then those feelings move on to ones of acceptance."

Darkly humorous, but disturbingly true. Many regulatory compliance issues manifest themselves as a set of unfunded mandates that businesses must implement and support, regardless of expense.

Web Services can help businesses better manage the expense of implementing and maintaining support for regulatory compliance issues like Sarbanes-Oxley and the Patriot Act.

How? Stay tuned...