SOA filling the Gaps

Ford assembly line, 1913 Source: Wikipedia Are traditional BPM solutions still relevant or new approach is a must? I am not the only one who asks the question above. According to Gartner's analyst, Janet Hill, Traditional BPM is the past and "Improvisational Process" is the future.  "Improvisational Process" is less structured and more Agile than  Traditional BPM. Traditional BPM aims at more Automation and Process improvement and kills Innovation.    Let us try to answer the question above. In order to understand the issue I will use an analogy between Software Development and BPM Software Development. First stage: Automation The Typical Software developed in the 1950s automated simple organizational tasks. For example, instead of calculating profits by adding data manually, the data was entered into the computer and a programed calculation routine was executed.  Another simple example is a report. Instead of writing it manually, including data an...

Capability Analysis Source: English Wikipedia Micro Services is a new architectural style based upon independent Services.  The terms Micro Services and Micro Services Architecture are often used. It is an architecture based on independent relatively small components named  Micro Services . Some people may think that Micro Services Architecture is a new and improved Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It is not. Martin Fowler is the first name mentioned in articles about Micro Services. Fowler is a British Software Engineer specialized in Software development.  I read the article: Microservices in Fowler's Web site. I am more confused about Micro Services characteristics after reading the article. The article was written by James Lewis and Martin Fowler. What Micro Service Architecture is and what Micro Service is? The articles discussed the following characteristics of Micro Service Architecture and Micro Services: 1. It is a new Architectural s...

Complexity was one of the issues presented by Dr. Jimmy Schwarzkopf 's STKI summit Keynote presentation. My Take in a previous post glanced at Complexity and the topic of a comment to my post was Complexity. Pini Cohen's Architecture and Infrastructure EVP & Senior Analyst' s presentation in the STKI Summit included many slides on the same topic.  The key point was that In Israel  2009 was a year with record downtime dew to Complexity. Storage was a major cause for not good enough service due to under staffing. According to Pini's presentation the complexity is driven by three factors: 1.    The total number of entities 2.    Their degree of heterogeneity 3.    Their degree of interconnectedness The solutions to the Complexity problem according to Pini's presentation are: 1.    Industry in a Box is Consolidation which reduces the total number of entities and could also reduce the degree of hete...