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The Emerging Role of the Cloud-Oriented Business Analyst (COBA)

You knew that this had to happen. As we move from the enterprise to multi-enterprise architecture the Business Analyst must understand business processes across the cloud. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Business Analysis in a SOA World - BA Collective

Applying the principles and best practices of business analysis into a SOA world is not trivial. At the same time, it’s not rocket surgery either. It simply requires a disciplined approach and willingness to learn about and adapt to the new perspectives and priorities that a service oriented enterprise emphasizes. The benefits for organizations that take the time to do the upfront analysis and truly understand and document the services from a business perspective are significant. It can create a paradigm shift within your Information Technology department where the focus is on the business and technology is the enabler rather than the other way around. It will also allow the organization to become more agile and adaptive over time. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Business Process Analysis with SOA: A Case Study - SOA Magazine

This article presents the rationale for BPA, its importance and more importantly it describes the actual steps involved within BPA with the help of a case study. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Active Endpoints Announces New Reseller in the United Kingdom

Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.activevos.com), the inventor of visual orchestration systems (VOS), today announced that it has appointed T-Impact (www.t-impact.com) of Reading, England as its reseller for the United Kingdom. T-Impact will use ActiveVOS in its expanding services-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) consulting engagements to deliver to its telecommunications, retail and banking clients cost-effective business process orchestrations which maximize investments in legacy applications. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Fastenal to Improve Customer Service, Expand Globally with ActiveVOS

Active Endpoints, Inc. ( www.activevos.com), the inventor of visual orchestration systems (VOS), today announced that the Fastenal Company has successfully deployed ActiveVOS(TM) in multiple sales applications, empowering their direct sales team to respond more quickly than before to partner, inventory and pricing changes. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Active Endpoints To Sponsor BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast Series

Active Endpoints, Inc. ( www.activevos.com), the inventor of visual orchestration systems (VOS), today announced that it is the charter sponsor of a new BriefingsDirect(TM) podcast series entitled BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition. Produced and moderated by veteran IT industry analyst Dana Gardner, Analyst Insights will gather together enterprise software industry experts for a bi-monthly podcast of news, discussion and analysis of special relevance to users of enterprise and middleware software, with a special focus on Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing and Business Process Management (BPM). A changing panel of analysts and industry participants will ensure that listeners always hear the freshest and most perceptive discussion of enterprise and middleware software. - SOA Business Analyst - THE BA NETWORK << MORE >>

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

This book is for CIOs, executives, SOA project managers, business process analysts, BPM and SOA Architects, who are responsible for improving the efficiency of business processes through IT, or for designing SOA. It provides a high-level coverage of business process modeling, but it also gives practical development examples on how to move from model to execution. - SOA Business Analyst - THE BA NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA: From Modeling to Implementation - IBM Systems Journal

Entitled "SOA: From Modeling to Implementation," this issue of IBM Systems Journal contains eight papers by expert practitioners and researchers from IBM and elsewhere that deal with modeling, testing, an governance, issues that have emerged from SOA in a variety of industries. It is available free online. - SOA Business Architect - THE BA NETWORK << MORE >>

Active Endpoints Announces ActiveVOS 6.0

Active Endpoints, Inc. ( www.activevos.com), the inventor of visual orchestration systems (VOS), today announced the general availability of ActiveVOS(TM) 6.0, an all-in-one, standards-based orchestration and business process management system that permits Java(R) developers, business analysts, and enterprise architects to automate business processes, collaborate across IT and business boundaries, control the overall state of the business and adapt rapidly and easily to changes in the business that require new or updated applications. - SOA Business Analyst - THE BA NETWORK << MORE >>

More Opinions on the Business analyst role key in SOA software development projects

More opinions on the role of the Business Analyst in SOA Developments. SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Data Modeling and Data Management in a SOA Environment

This one day interactive seminar will address the issues data and information management professionals encounter in a SOA environment. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Analyst Study Reveals 91% of Business Analysts Use Ineffective Tools to Define Requirements

voke, inc., a modern analyst firm for the Web 2.0 world, announced today the publication of the voke Market Snapshot(TM) Report: The Role of the Business Analyst. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The Business Analyst vs. the Enterprise Architect - ZapThink

As adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) spreads in the enterprise, one of the most notable trends in the market, other than introduction of new products and services, are changes to the organizational structure of businesses that are successful with SOA. In addition to the growth of Centers of Excellence (CoE) and competency centers focused on SOA, we’re also seeing a greater focus on enterprise architecture (EA) groups that lead and guide SOA initiatives across the organization. However, EA groups are not alone in trying to help meet the wide range of needs of the business with IT solutions. Indeed, before the discipline of EA got the visibility it has now, another part of the organization held sway with the business -- business analysts. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Methodologies Corporation Launches the Green Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Training Program for Business and IT Professionals

Methodologies Corporation, the leading SOA modeling and training company, announced the release of the Green SOA Training Program. This state-of-the-art training material has been gaining industry-wide recognition because it fosters software and hardware asset reuse and consolidation. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

OSLO Architect.net - Service-Oriented Modeling in a .net Connected World - Coming Soon!

Coming Soon! OSLO Architect.net - SOA Modeling in a .net Connected World - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

UML Modeling for SOA - News on Further Developments and Support for the SAE-UML Profile

The UML Profile for SAETM enables users to model SOA design and architecture using diagrams that are UML compliant and to record relevant metadata that can be exported to the repository and registry. The Profile provides a set of structured model elements that are customized to support the SAE implementation of SOA. This allows organizations to follow the CBDI-SAE methodology and guidance in any UML compliant tool. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect

This book follows up where the authors’ best-selling Service-Oriented Architecture Compass left off, showing how to overcome key obstacles to successful SOA implementation and identifying best practices for all facets of execution—technical, organizational, and human. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA tools hit UML Tipping Point

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) developers will find Unified Modeling Language (UML) support in virtually any development tool they chose, according to Richard Soley, chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group Inc. (OMG). - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Coming Soon! - BUSINESS ANALYST NETWORK - IT Resource Network for Business Analysts

The Business Analyst Network is a resource network for the New Business Analyst. It will provide resources, careers and information on new technologies, methodologies and general trends in the industry impacting Business Analysts. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

How do Business Analysts become Business Leaders?

"Disruptive internal and external forces such as globalization and the emergence of business process management (BPM) technology and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have created intense demand for multidimensional professionals with broad business, IT and leadership skills" - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Methodologies Corporation Announces Advanced Service-Oriented Modeling Framework (SOMF) for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Implementation

Methodologies Corporation, the leading SOA modeling company, announced the release of SOMF version 1.1 today. The advanced edition is based on recent book publication entitled "Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture", written by Michael Bell and produced by Wiley & Sons Inc. in March, 2008. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

What Process Experts Need To Know About SOA

Process Professionals must embrace a holistic understanding of SOA and BPM technologies or risk being marginalized in their organizations' transformation efforts. - SOA Business Analyst - The New Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM Announces Enhancements to Telelogic Portfolio

IBM today announced new enhancements to its Telelogic portfolio of software and systems development tools. IBM acquired Telelogic on April 3, 2008 to accelerate the innovation of products that rely on software. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

THE NEW BUSINESS ANALYST - Coming Soon!

THE NEW BUSINESS ANALYST - Coming Soon! << MORE >>

SOA on the List of Skills required by CIO's for the New Business Analyst

CIOs are coming under pressure to improve their business analyst talent pool to respond to changing IT Environments - Are you adapting to meet their needs.<< MORE >>

Eight Business Analyst Responsibilities - Scott Ambler

Scott Ambler, the practice leader of agile development for the IBM Methods Group and author of several books on software project management and agile development, says that first and foremost, business analysts (or as he terms it, business systems analysts, or BSAs) are responsible for communication and collaboration between the business and IT. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

What Do Business Analysts Actually Do for Software Implementation Projects?

Everyone knows who the business analysts are in their organization, but not everyone knows what they actually do and what they are responsible for during software implementation projects. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Why Business Analysts Are So Important for IT and CIOs

A new Forrester report sheds light on this little known, often misunderstood but critical liaison role that can unite the business and IT on enterprise projects, systems development and business strategy. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Remaking Business Analyst Role - SearchSOA

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) changes the traditional roles played by many IT professionals and business people, but no job is being more radically changed than that of business analyst, says John Michelsen, chief scientist at iTKO Inc. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA terminology overview, Part 3: Analysis and design

Learn a few new terms, including service identification, specification, realization, and design principles, and find out why they are fundamental to the success of SOA. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Talking to the Business about SOA

How do you go about talking to the Business Folks about SOA?- SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Getting Started Now on SOA for BI

Service-oriented architectures for business intelligence efforts pioneered over the past several years in both the vendor and user communities have sufficiently evolved and are now ready for deployment. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The Role of Business Process Management in SOA

To seize the new opportunities and realize the benefits that can be derived from an SOA, companies need to streamline their business processes and eliminate the re-creation of the wheel. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Value Assessment - Calculate the benefits of SOA

Software AG brings you the SOA Value Assessment, based on a comprehensive model for determining the value of IT. (Registration Required) - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

The Pivotal Role of the Business Analyst in a SOA World

This paper focuses on the changing demands of the Business Analyst in the successful transition to a Service Oriented Enterprise. - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

How to Cost Justify SOA?

SOA is maturing. In fact, the market is seeing more enterprise deployments than ever before. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

BPEL 2.0 stalled by nay votes

The Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) 2.0 specification was approved in an organizational vote, but No votes to be investigated. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

Modeling's The Next Big Project on W3C Runway

SML, which embodies the spirit of service-oriented architecture (SOA) distributed computing, will help corporations craft service models at a time when systems topologies are becoming increasingly convoluted. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

IBM expands SOA wares

IBM announce another expansion of its SOA software and services. - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

What you need for a successful SOA - ComputerWeekly

While it is widely understood that SOA involves tools, integration, web services technologies and process modelling, it may not be so obvious what new investment is needed for a successful strategic SOA deployment. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

SOA Business Systems Analyst - The Career Network

Check out this position at SOA HOT JOBs - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

Active Endpoints Offers Market's Only Native .NET Support for WS-BPEL 2.0 - PRWeb

ActiveBPEL Enterprise for .NET Forms Foundation for Cost-effective Business and Systems Integration - SOA Business Analyst ActiveBPEL Enterprise for .NET Forms Foundation for Cost-effective Business and Systems Integration - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

My point-of-view on Microsoft's strategies around Service Orientation, BPM and ESB

Mario Szpusztra posts his whitepaper on his point-of-view on Microsoft's strategies around Service Orientation, BPM and ESB. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

Business and Technical Trends for 2007 - CRN

Designing for Agility: Business Analysts Step Up - The analyst role is evolving. Besides BPM and UML tooling, information consolidation/integration is important for a business analyst. << MORE >>

SOA business logic without coding? - SearchWebServices

Addressing the skeptics who still say "this cannot possibly work," Walker says they can download a free copy of the tool from the Tenfold Website and test it for themselves. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

The Integration Journey - A Field Guide to Business Integration for SOA - BEA Systems

This White Paper is meant to be IT's field guide for traveling on a journey through the landscape of integration approaches and tools. (Registration Required) - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

What to Look for in a BPMN Tool - Intelligent Enterprise

So even though BPMN is a standard, the tools that support it are not all the same. - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

Functional Reuse and SOA - Quocirca

SOA is a driving force for future functional use within organisations. However, these functions must be viewed as being shared services for all processes. Functional re-use will be the main means of ensuring that organisations can respond rapidly and effectively to market dynamics, and that improvements to specific functions will have the optimum impact across the whole organisation. - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

Key XML Standards Pass W3C Muster - internetnews

XQuery, XSLT and XPath officially join the XML armory for Web development.<< MORE >>

Extending the Business Value of SOA with Business Process Management - BEA Systems

Business Process Management (BPM) can give you better performance visibility and eliminate IT implementation bottlenecks—even across geographical and departmental boundaries. Now, here's your chance to get more insight into how BPM can become a critical business driver for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)—and enhance its value to your business. - Get Your Complimentary Report << MORE >>

The Rational Software Architect product affords highly flexible model management - RDN

The Rational Software Architect product affords highly flexible model management. << MORE >>

Demand for SOA-Related Change Management Services Grows - CRM Today

By creating services that are configured to support business capabilities, organizations must change their modus operandi from transactions to business processes<< MORE >>

Web 2.0 - Exposing Processes to Customers

Web 2.0 interfaces will move the management of process to customers, as a Business Analyst you will need to understand how you are going to manage policies around those processes.<< MORE >>

THE SOA NETWORK - Resources for SOA

Resources for Service-Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management.<< MORE >>

What You Need to Begin an SOA Deployment with IBM Rational SDP - DevX

What You Need to Begin an SOA Deployment with IBM Rational SDP << MORE >>

Tibco Rolls Out Support For BPEL In BusinessWorks - Techweb

The BPEL support provides orchestration that's integrated with enterprise service bus (ESB) technology. << MORE >>

Insurance provider urges SOA flexibility - NetworkWorld

The insurer is also planning to begin setting performance metrics for SOA in terms of money saved, time to market and reuse. << MORE >>

SOUP for SOA - Development Process - Kunal Mittal

SOUP, a new software methodology for building your SOA << MORE >>

SOA Product Review — ActiveBPEL 3.0 from Active Endpoints - LinuxWorld

Active Endpoints has been busy working towards the 3.0 release of its ActiveBPEL Designer and engine. << MORE >>

SOA Reality Comes in Three Waves - Saugatuck Research

Excellent Research Report that put SOA Adoption into perspective.<< MORE >>

Fostering People's Interaction and Collaboration - IBM

Registration Required<< MORE >>

Business Analysis and SOA - SearchWebServices

Six part series on Business Analysis and SOA by Thomas Erl<< MORE >>

BPEL: Service composition for SOA - JavaWorld

Get started developing business processes based on the Business Process Execution Language<< MORE >>

IBM Enterprise Architect Kit for SOA

Align IT processes with business requirements using free enterprise architecture tools, technologies, and information from IBM. Free with Registration.<< MORE >>

SOA and BPM headed for Convergence, Says Gartner - SearchWebServices

Seems like a natural evolution to me. SOA is about building services, BPM is about orchestrating services into business process.<< MORE >>

Active Endpoints Announces Support for WS-BPEL 2.0 with New ActiveBPEL 3.0

Open Source and Commercial BPEL solutions now deliver seamless, side-by-side execution of WS-BPEL 2.0 and BPEL4WS 1.1 processes. << MORE >>

Business Process Architect

Check out my new Business Process Architect/BPM Architect Blogs<< MORE >>

The Coming Eclipse of Visual Studio - CMS Wire

Survey says Eclipse is gaining in popularity.<< MORE >>

WEBINAR: How to Integrate People and Information with SOA

How to maximize business value of SOA<< MORE >>

IBM extends SOA Tools for Desktop - InfoWorld

Focusing on the global architecture of SOA, IBM on Tuesday is introducing IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0 for the desktop. << MORE >>

ARIS PROCESSWORLD 2007 CONFERENCE

All the hot topics and how ARIS can support them will be addressed: from the latest BPM trends to Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Rules, as well as accelerated enterprise software roll-outs. << MORE >>

Telelogic Announces Tau 3.0 - Business Wire

Telelogic Tau is a Model-Driven Development environment for the design, development, test, and analysis of large, complex systems and software applications for Enterprise IT, Aerospace/Defense, Telecom, and Transportation domains.<< MORE >>

Intalio bows to BPM standards

Intalio Inc claims the latest release of its namesake open source business process management platform supports the broadest range of standards in the industry. << MORE >>

The New Business Analyst talks SOA - Network World

Reference made to my SOA Business Analyst web site.<< MORE >>

Educating Developers on SOA

There are other factors than just technology that are driving SOA Adoption.<< MORE >>

Coming Up - Next Week I talk to Jack Hilty

Interview with Jack Hilty who specializes in Business Analysis in relation to Service-Oriented Architecture.<< MORE >>

**SOA HOT JOBS** - SOA Business Analyst

Check out today.<< MORE >>

The Pivotal Role of the Business Analyst In a Service-Oriented World - SentientPoint

Business Analyst role is one that must be expanded through new SOA skills to ensure that companies realize the results and ROI they expect.<< MORE >>

COMING SOON!

Introduction of New Blog "SOA Business Analyst"<< MORE >>