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New from the Zoo - Business Integration

Perceptive - (Plutonic Zoo shares a perspective on a topical subject)

Business Freedom!
There has been an evolving trend in the IT industry to focus on the value proposition of "Business Integration". On the surface the various approaches appear to be distinct and unique. A few examples:

Many organisations are incorporating intelligence into the IT infrastructure connecting their applications to rationalise and standardise the messaging and processing environment. As an example an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) provides a common infrastructure that 'knows' about all the applications and their locations on the network, and how they communicate with each other.

To monitor, change and control processes, Business Process Management (BPM) is increasingly being used to decouple IT components into agile service components that can be centrally coordinated and orchestrated. A BPM implementation provides end-to-end visibility and control over all parts of short and long-lived, multi-step information requests or transactions that span multiple applications, processes and people in one or more organisations.

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) techniques, approaches, methodologies, standards, and technologies are being used to gain a new and more flexible view of underlying business applications. This allows an enterprise to share information, processes, and applications in support of the integrated business.

We are now also starting to be able to understand data independently of the application which created it. Data Semantics is being used to decouple the meaning and context of data from its format and structure so that other applications can use it without the constraints of predefinition.

These approaches have strengths and weaknesses depending on each individual business situation. Their commonality is the underlying demand for an organisation to have freedom to act and pursue its business objectives without impediments from the information technology involved.

Whatever organisations do with their Information technology it should be agile enough to maintain "business freedom".

Resourceful - (interactive section on Plutonic Zoo suggestions)

• SOA Workshop facilitated by Plutonic Zoo's Managing Director Technology on Thursday 23rd February, 2006, in Brisbane. The workshops will run from 08:30 AM to 1:00 PM.
  In this workshop we will share practical information and considerations on implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Participants will be able to discuss tools and methods and receive impartial advice. Costs will be only $250 per person including morning tea and a light lunch.

  For a detailed agenda click here.

  Future SOA workshops are also being planned in Canberra (March) and Melbourne (April). Contact us to register interest in the workshops in these cities, or to discuss a customised in-house version.

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Impartial - (Links to vendor and research community views for comparison)

Defined: Application Integration versus Business Integration, Judith Hurwitz

Evolution : Integration Evolution, Christopher Koch

Strategy: Integrations new strategy, Christopher Koch

Methodology: Total Business Integration methodology, Integration Consortium

Architecture: Building a Better Mousetrap: The Business-Time Information Architecture, Jane Griffin

Standards: Enterprise Integration Standards, Renee Boucher Ferguson

Case Study: Case Study, Vodafone

BPM: BPM steps into the light, Rodney Gedda

SOI: Service-Oriented Java Business Integration (Interview), Ron Ten-Hove

Whitepaper: Mainframe Integration, Steve Craggs

Research: ROI Case Study: Alcan, Nucleus Research

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