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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:44:00 GMT

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

You knew that this had to happen!

As we move beyond the enterprise to multi-enterprise architecture the Business Analyst must understand business processes across the cloud. This requires a different perspective. We have long been "Enterprise-Centric" and focused on Enterprise Architecture. Cloud Computing ushers in a whole new vision of the Enterprise and where your IT resources are located and business processes are no longer bound by the Enterprise. While it may be many years away for many enterprises, you need to start understanding the current trend of moving to Cloud Computing. The following book excerpt will give you an appreciation of the challenges that will face the COBA:

The following excerpt from Peter Fingar's Book: "Dot.Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform"

Extreme Competition Oriented Business Architecture

If you are interested in news related to the Cloud Computing Industry check out these resources:

Website: The Cloud Network www.cloudcomputingnetwork.net

Blog: Cloud Computing Architect www.cloudcomputingarchitect.com

Twitter: Claude Cloud www.twitter.com/thecloudnetwork

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Business Analysis in a SOA World - BA Collective

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:12:00 GMT

Business Analysis in a SOA World

by Kyle Gabhart and Kimberly Terribile, CBAP

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). At first glance, this seems like the sort of thing that only software architects and application developers should be concerned with. Upon further investigation, it is clear that while the technology team is intimately involved in implementing a Service Oriented Architecture but, there are other essential (and sometimes overlooked) roles such as the Business Analyst. Before you can implement SOA, you have to analyze your business and understand the core functions you perform. Getting a handle on your organization to support a SOA strategy is not for the faint of heart. It requires significant commitment from the "powers that be" and a commitment to investing in the initiative from a strategic enterprise perspective.

Additionally, there are huge chasms in understanding and perspective regarding what SOA is about and how best to go about service orienting the enterprise. This leads to tremendous communication challenges as each division or even each team perceives and approaches SOA in a different manner. Developing a shared vocabulary and a common understanding of service orientation and how it will be applied to align and transform the organization is essential. In many respects, the role of the business analyst is to bridge the communication gaps within the organization.

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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:15:00 GMT

Business Process Analysis with SOA: A Case Study

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Abstract: The success of any IT initiative could be measured in terms of the actual business goals that it fulfills. However, when it comes to SOA based projects, it becomes imperative that such an initiative bears close correspondence with the business requirements as SOA is usually an enterprise wide activity, so any slight deviation from the actual business goals could result in an SOA that is misaligned with the enterprise wide goals. So in order to achieve this required alignment, it stands necessary that before starting off with the service-oriented analysis phase, a high level view of required SOA needs to be in place that ensures that the subsequent analysis phase concentrates on business processes in the order of their preference with respect to the business goals linked with each business process. Business Process Analysis (BPA) offers matrices that help in drawing a correspondence between business goals and high level services. BPA also helps in prioritizing the business processes in terms of the most pressing needs of an organization. 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.

Business Process Analysis with SOA: A Case Study

SOURCE: SOA Magazine

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Active Endpoints Announces New Reseller in the United Kingdom

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:33:00 GMT

Active Endpoints Announces New Reseller in the United Kingdom

T-Impact to Propel Transition to Visual Orchestration Systems for SOA Application Development in UK Enterprises

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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.

“Our business across the European Union, and in the United Kingdom in particular, has been accelerating at a rapid pace,” said Eric Egertson, vice president, sales, Active Endpoints. “With T-Impact’s well-known capabilities and passion for rapid delivery now focused on deploying ActiveVOS, UK customers get the best of all worlds: true SOA applications developed in a 100% standards-based system, coupled with T-Impact’s proven development expertise and superior client satisfaction.”

T-Impact has been serving the UK business solutions market since 2003 and today has grown to over 40 staff members, serving diverse clients including Cable & Wireless, Hutchinson 3, Virgin Media, France Telecom and Best Buy Europe. Utilizing its unique Business Integration Framework methodology, T-Impact works with clients to accelerate their business agility and to deliver SOA applications with unprecedented return-on-investment.

ActiveVOS is the first standards-based development and deployment system that permits enterprises and developers to automate business processes, collaborate across IT and business boundaries, control the overall state of the business and adapt rapidly and easily to change. This affordable, all-in-one system delivers everything UK enterprises need to create modern services-based applications without the cost and complexity of poorly integrated, expensive and complex alternatives from legacy software vendors.

“Customers are recognizing the key differentiation their processes deliver to the business, even to the extent of valuing these strategic assets on their balance sheet. Developing new SOA applications allows customers to extract their critical business processes from the functional silos in their legacy applications,” said Keith Stanger, CEO, T-Impact. “As the leading visual orchestration system, ActiveVOS is the natural choice for UK customers who are seeking a standards-based, all-in-one, cost-effective solution to create those SOA applications. We are very excited by the opportunity to work with Active Endpoints to deliver these new applications in the UK.”

About Active Endpoints, Inc.

Active Endpoints (www.activevos.com) is the inventor of visual orchestration systems. VOS empowers line of business project teams to create applications using services and industry standards, making their businesses more agile and effective. Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS promotes mass adoption of SOA-enabled applications by focusing on accelerating project delivery time with a standards-based, easy to use system. Active Endpoints is headquartered in Waltham, MA with development facilities in Shelton, CT.

ActiveVOS is a trademark of Active Endpoints, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Active Endpoints, Inc.

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Fastenal to Improve Customer Service, Expand Globally with ActiveVOS

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:35:00 GMT

Fastenal to Improve Customer Service, Expand Globally with ActiveVOS

New SOA applications created with visual orchestration system key to international growth

WALTHAM, Mass., Oct 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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. Fastenal, based in Winona, MN, is the largest fastener distributor in the nation, as well as the fastest growing full-line industrial distributor. Fastenal operates 12 distribution centers, a fleet of 275 company-owned semi trucks and over 2,100 stores. Applications created with ActiveVOS's SOA-based business process management and orchestration system enable salespeople to access inventory information in real-time; process sales transactions; and track orders and report information for the outlet stores.

"Our direct sales team was not getting the critical information they needed to service our customers in real-time. They were relying on inventory and pricing information that could be outdated by a few hours and which was widely distributed across our partner community," said Michael Loos, team lead, e-Business Integration Team, Fastenal. "Using ActiveVOS, we are able to aggregate information and efficiently convey it as needed to users, including to their mobile devices in near real-time, enabling our sales team to provide a higher degree of customer satisfaction. This is even more important as Fastenal expands globally, vastly increasing our network of both customers and partners."

ActiveVOS is the first standards-based development and deployment system that permits enterprises and developers to automate business processes, collaborate across IT and business boundaries, control the overall state of the business and adapt rapidly and easily to change. This affordable, all-in-one system delivers everything companies need to create modern services-based applications without the cost and complexity associated with traditional "stack vendors."

"We are pleased that Fastenal selected Active Endpoints to develop their SOA-based applications," said Eric Egertson, vice president of sales, Active Endpoints. "Updating core business processes like sales and inventory management is much faster and more cost-effective because of ActiveVOS's rigorous adherence to standards, ease of implementation and breakthrough pricing."

About Active Endpoints, Inc.

Active Endpoints ( www.activevos.com) is the inventor of visual orchestration systems. VOS empowers line of business project teams to create applications using services and industry standards, making their businesses more agile and effective. Active Endpoints' ActiveVOS promotes mass adoption of SOA-enabled applications by focusing on accelerating project delivery time with a standards-based, easy to use system. Active Endpoints is headquartered in Waltham, MA with development facilities in Shelton, CT.

ActiveVOSis a trademark of Active Endpoints, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Active Endpoints, Inc.

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Active Endpoints To Sponsor BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast Series

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:56:00 GMT

Active Endpoints To Sponsor BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast Series

Bi-monthly Podcast Series Featuring Noted Industry Analysts to Deliver Insights to Users of Enterprise and Middleware Software

WALTHAM, Mass., Sep 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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.

"Analyst Insights will serve an important role in keeping the enterprise and middleware software communities up-to-date on the important issues and trends in technology," said Dana Gardner, principal analyst, Interarbor Solutions, LLC. "By bringing together the most knowledgeable and opinionated analysts and observers of the SOA, cloud computing and BPM worlds, the podcast offers listeners something they cannot get elsewhere: lively, timely, deep and pointed analysis of the people, products and trends that matter to users and practitioners."

Analyst Insights podcasts will be available for free on www.briefingsdirect.com, via RSS feed, in the iTunes Store and on ZDNet as well as via other popular podcast directories and IT industry blogs. In addition, written transcripts of the podcasts make it possible for listeners to easily search for and review discussions that they might have heard while listening to the podcast on a mobile device.

"We are pleased to help launch a podcast series that we know over time will become an invaluable resource to the SOA and BPM communities," said Alex Neihaus, vice president of marketing, Active Endpoints. "Over time, we expect that Analyst Insights will become the thought leadership 'podcast of record' for the enterprise and middleware software communities as a result of its unique panel format that enables it to deliver knowledge and commentary available nowhere else."

About Active Endpoints, Inc.

Active Endpoints ( www.activevos.com) is the leading developer of visual orchestration systems. VOS empowers line of business project teams to create applications using services and industry standards, making their businesses more agile and effective. Active Endpoints' ActiveVOS promotes mass adoption of SOA-enabled applications by focusing on accelerating project delivery time with a standards-based, easy to use system. Active Endpoints is headquartered in Waltham, MA with development facilities in Shelton, CT.

About Interarbor Solutions, LLC

Interarbor Solutions ( www.interarbor-solutions.com) identifies and interprets the trends inServices-Oriented Architecture (SOA)and enterprise software infrastructure markets. Interarbor Solutionscreates in-depth Web contentand distributes it via BriefingsDirectblogs, podcasts and video-podcasts to support conversational education about SOA, software infrastructure,Enterprise 2.0, and application development and deployment strategies.

ActiveVOSis a trademark of Active Endpoints, Inc. BriefingsDirect is a trademark of Interarbor Solutions, LLC. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Active Endpoints, Inc.

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Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:16:00 GMT

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

Modeling business processes for SOA and developing end-to-end IT support has become one of the top IT priorities. The SOA approach is based on services and on processes. Processes are focused on composition of services and in that sense services become process activities. Experience has shown that the implementation and optimization of processes are the most important factors in the success of SOA projects. SOA is so valuable to businesses because it enables process optimization. In order to optimize processes, we need to know which processes are relevant and we have to understand them – something that cannot be done without business process modeling. There is a major problem with this approach – a semantic gap between the process model and the applications. This book will show you how to fill this gap.

It describes a pragmatic approach to business process modeling using the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and the automatic mapping of BPMN to the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), which is the de-facto standard for executing business processes in SOA. The book will also cover related technologies like Business Rules Management and Business Activity Monitoring which play a pivotal role in achieving closed loop Business Process Management.

What you will learn from this book

Modeling business processes in an SOA-compliant way
A detailed understanding of BPMN standard for business process modeling and analysis
Automatically translating BPMN into BPEL Executing business processes on SOA Platforms
Overcome the semantic gap between process models and their execution, and follow the closed-loop business process management life cycle
Understand technologies complementary to BPM and SOA such as Business Rules Management and Business Activity monitoring Approach

The book provides a well-balanced mixture of theoretical discussion and real-world examples. It explains the concepts and approaches, and describes methodology and notation. It demonstrates these concepts on real-world examples and provides a step-by-step example tutorial that guides readers from business process modeling in BPMN through transformation into BPEL to execution on the SOA process server. It also discusses some key concepts using practical examples and business scenarios around Business Rules Management and Business Activity Monitoring with BPM and SOA.

Who this book is written for: 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. We expect the readers to be familiar with the basics of SOA.

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

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SOA: From Modeling to Implementation - IBM Systems Journal

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:12:00 GMT

SOA: From Modeling to Implementation

"As many businesses, applications, and platforms make the transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), significant changes are required in business process design as well as in modeling and solution development. To this end, innovative techniques, tools, and methodologies from a variety of SOA deployments are being developed for use in future solutions. This issue contains eight papers which describe challenges and insights related to modeling, testing, and governance, which have emerged from SOA engagements in a variety of industries."

IBM Systems Journal

Message from the General Manager, Global Consulting Services and SOA	Robert LeBlanc

Preface	D. Seidman and J. J. Ritsko	p. 355

Creating and maintaining coherency in loosely coupled systems	R. High, Jr., G. Krishnan, and M. Sanchez	p. 357

SOMA: A method for developing service-oriented solutions	A. Arsanjani, S. Ghosh, A. Allam, T. Abdollah, S. Ganapathy, and K. Holley	p. 377

SOMA-ME: A platform for the model-driven design of SOA solutions	L.-J. Zhang, N. Zhou, Y.-M. Chee, A. Jalaldeen, K. Ponnalagu, R. R. Sindhgatta, A. Arsanjani, and F. Bernardini	p. 397

Model-driven synthesis of SOA solutions	J. K. Strosnider, P. Nandi, S. Kumaran, S. Ghosh, and A. Arsnajani	p. 415

The IBM telecommunications service delivery platform	S. Ramanathan, M. Alexander, and G. Kerr	p. 433

A runtime-adaptable service bus design for telecom operations support systems	I.-Y. Chen, G.-K. Ni, and C.-Y. Lin	p. 445

Business-process-driven gray-box SOA testing	Z. J. Li, H. F. Tan, H. H. Liu, J. Zhu, and N. M. Mitsumori	p. 457

Increasing business flexibility and SOA adoption through effective SOA governance	R. Varadan, K. Channabasavaiah, S. Simpson, K. Holley, and A. Allam	p. 473

For the articles: SOA: From Modeling to Implementation

SOURCE: IBM Systems Journal

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Active Endpoints Announces ActiveVOS 6.0

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:19:00 GMT

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Latest Release of Visual Orchestration System Delivers All-In-One Capabilities that Enable the Next Generation of Business Process Applications

WALTHAM, Mass., Sep 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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.

ActiveVOS 6.0 offers a stark contrast to SOA "stack" products which require users to assemble a complicated puzzle from piece parts before any applications can be built. ActiveVOS 6.0 combines integrated process modeling; an extensive design, testing, debugging and deployment environment; reporting and consoling for operations staff and end users; and a tightly-integrated complex event processing engine into one easy-to-use system. And, ActiveVOS 6.0 integrates these technologies while retaining 100% compliance with all major open standards. As a result, ActiveVOS 6.0 frees developers, architects and companies from the cost and complexity of proprietary systems. Standards implemented in ActiveVOS 6.0 include Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and human task management via the BPEL4People and WS-Human Task specifications.

"With ActiveVOS 6.0, Active Endpoints has finally achieved what companies and Java developers have been waiting for," said Mark Taber, CEO, Active Endpoints. "Now, enterprises no longer have to focus on building expensive, theoretical application infrastructures. Instead, they can simply begin to do what they have longed to do: create services-based applications. ActiveVOS 6.0 is unique because it delivers everything developers, business analysts, architects and operations staff need to develop SOA-based applications right away."

"ActiveVOS 6.0 helps elevate SOA investments and developer knowledge to the level of business process outcomes," said Dana Gardner, principal analyst, Interarbor Solutions. "By focusing on practical, visual tools for creating services-based applications -- and integrating many process orchestration features into a single product -- ActiveVOS 6.0 accelerates the productivity returns of process-centric applications. The market clearly needs to better empower enterprises and developers to reap business-level rewards from their IT systems and assets, especially as they examine and invest in services-oriented architecture."

An Open Business Process Management System Everyone Can Use

ActiveVOS 6.0 offers business analysts and developers a new way to collaborate and to create applications. Analysts can easily import models and documentation of existing applications, including Microsoft(R) Visio(R) drawings, directly into the graphical ActiveVOS 6.0 BPMN designer. In this way, analysts can easily document existing business processes and create new processes using a standards-based designer. BPMN models are automatically transformed to executable BPEL, allowing developers to provide the implementation details necessary to turn the logical model into a running application. BPEL processes can also be transformed into BPMN, allowing the developer to document existing processes for analysts.

ActiveVOS 6.0 supports very sophisticated deployment capabilities. ActiveVOS 6.0 permits developers to reuse plain old Java objects (POJOs) as native web services. Processes can be thoroughly tested and simulated in ActiveVOS 6.0 even when there are no actual services available during the testing phase. Flexible deployment options allow processes to be versioned and allow for the specification of policies dictating what the system should do when a specific service is unavailable in production. Because ActiveVOS 6.0 BPEL processes run "on the metal" as native XML applications, scalability is assured.

Most importantly, because ActiveVOS 6.0 is rigorously standards-based, SOA applications do not run on proprietary engines. ActiveVOS 6.0 is unique in its ability to go from design to execution without the need for custom code at execution time.

Democratizing Complex Event Processing

CEP has emerged as an exciting new way to extend services-based applications. But until ActiveVOS 6.0, it has required users to integrate yet another server into their applications and to manage the complexity of integrating the application with the CEP engine. ActiveVOS 6.0 eliminates this challenge by providing a fully-capable CEP engine in ActiveVOS 6.0. Users simply select which events generated by the execution engine should trigger CEP events. And, these selections are made at deployment time, meaning that developers can easily add or modify CEP capabilities to running applications at will. CEP statements are written in a SQL-like language that is quickly learned and delivers all the capabilities of a dedicated CEP server.

ActiveVOS 6.0 is the first system to make CEP broadly available to Java developers and will result in an explosion of applications utilizing this technology. For example, a CEP "waiting room" health care application could monitor waiting patient status, detect backups or overflows and take actions to solve the problem. Or, in a manufacturing company, a CEP application could respond to quality information by initiating an engineering change process or modifying one already that has already been started with new information.

Reporting and Consoles Deliver the View of the Forest As Well as the Trees

ActiveVOS supports the needs of operations staff and management with dashboards, integrated reporting and a universal console. Using BIRT-based dashboards, reporting and graphing, business analysts and end users can easily improve decision making. Questions like, "How much?" and "How often?" and "Are we slowing down or speeding up?" are answered directly and in detail by ActiveVOS 6.0. Custom reports can be added directly to the ActiveVOS 6.0 console.

For operations staff, ActiveVOS 6.0 delivers the tools they need to ensure uninterrupted service. A single unified console provides detailed process, task and server monitoring. A groundbreaking "time machine" root-cause analysis capability allows operations staff to graphically step back in time in a specific process to determine why a process has faulted. For example, an email service might have been unavailable. Using the time machine capability, operations staff can quickly identify the problem and the conditions that lead to it. The extensive process exception management system then allows them to correct the process to resolve the underlying problem and allow it to continue to completion.

Pricing, Availability and Supported Environments

ActiveVOS 6.0 is available today for download at www.activevos.com. Customers are invited to download the system for a free, 30-day trial. During the 30-day trial, Active Endpoints' support is available to assist in the evaluation. ActiveVOS 6.0 documentation, samples and tutorials have been completely revised with the objective of making developers productive in as little as an hour.

ActiveVOS 6.0 is priced at $12,000 per CPU socket for deployment licensees. Development licenses are priced at $5,000 per CPU socket. A CPU socket is the physical processor on the machine, not a count of CPU cores inside that socket. Contact Active Endpoints for pricing for virtualized environments.

ActiveVOS Designer 6.0 runs on Microsoft Windows(R) XP, Windows Vista(R) or Linux versions of Red Hat(R), SUSE(R) or Ubuntu(R) Linux operating systems. ActiveVOS 6.0 Enterprise Server runs on a variety of server operating systems, application servers and database systems, including:

-- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and later, Sun Solaris(R) 10, Linux operating systems including Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu

-- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle BEA(R) WebLogic(R) Server, IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Server, Apache Tomcat

-- Sun MySQL(R), Oracle(R) Database 10g, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, IBM DB2(R) 8.x

About Active Endpoints, Inc.

ActiveVOSis a trademark of Active Endpoints, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Active Endpoints, Inc.

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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:14:00 GMT

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

The traditional business analyst role needs to change if service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to successfully advance in organizations, according to two analyst reports released this week. At the same time, despite different backgrounds and responsibilities, analysts and enterprise architects must work together more closely.

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Business analyst role key in SOA software development projects

SOURCE: SearchSOA.com

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Data Modeling and Data Management in a SOA Environment

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:49:00 GMT

Data Modeling and Data Management in a SOA Environment

Tom Haughey

Sept. 15, 2008

Woodbridge Hilton, Woodbridge, NJ

Tuition: $545

SAVE $50 if paid by Aug. 18, 2008

This one day interactive seminar will address the critical issues data and information management professionals encounter in a SOA environment.

How and why data modeling is different in a SOA environment?
Does the level of granularity of the data have to be adjusted for SOA?
Are there issues with data that is too highly abstracted?
What is a canonical model and why is one needed?
How important are standards?
Can data itself be considered a "service" under SOA?
How does SOA alter data warehousing?
How can organizations benefit from integrating the data warehouse within SOA?
Can SOA simplify delivery of business intelligence?

Early Registration Ends Aug. 18, 2008!

Seating is Becoming Limited

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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:29:00 GMT

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

Business Analyst Role Explored in Detail by voke in Latest Market Snapshot; Finds Market for Business Analyst Solutions One of the Fastest Growing in the Application Lifecycle

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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. This independent survey of the business analyst focuses on:

-- the role and interaction with others in the lifecycle

-- the communication processes and channels used to gather and define requirements

-- the market readiness of solutions expressly for the business analyst

-- a market forecast for solutions designed for the business analyst

The report found that business analysts are playing a greater role than ever in the success of IT projects. 74% of business analysts have been in the role greater than three years, indicating that the role is maturing and having a greater impact on the alignment of the line of business and the IT organization. The report concludes that organizations with business analysts are more likely to satisfy their customers in a more timely fashion, which translates to a competitive business advantage.

"Software drives the business and business analysts are the key conduit in delivering satisfaction to the line of business by effectively defining requirements to the IT organization," said Theresa Lanowitz, founder of voke. "The business analyst is critical to the overall success an organization will experience with its applications."

The report highlights the need for improved use of solutions to help the business analyst closely align requirements with the business needs. 91% of the study's participants say the solutions they use to define requirements are static and do not meet the dynamic nature needed for today's business analyst. The report also identifies a lack of integration between existing requirements definition solutions and the creation of test cases. A total of 76% of survey participants manually create test cases from their requirements.

"It is critical to the alignment of the line of business and IT, as well as customer satisfaction to eliminate time consuming and error prone tasks such as the manual creation of test cases from requirements," said Lisa Dronzek, COO of voke. "Dynamic creation of test cases from requirements frees up the time of the test engineer to focus on more strategic quality efforts. Incorporating modern and dynamic solutions for the business analyst will complement and enhance existing investments in testing solutions."

As a result, the report forecasts that the market for business analyst solutions will be one of the fastest growing segments within the application lifecycle market over the next few years, soon to be a billion dollar segment annually.

"The business analyst has been dramatically underserved for far too long," said David Nyland, CEO of Blueprint Systems, a leading provider of requirements solutions to meet the business analyst need. "As their role grows in importance, we have seen a significant increase in demand for solutions that help them closely align requirements with the business need. Our customers are seeing dramatic improvements in their development process by leveraging requirements solutions to enable the business analyst to succeed."

A detailed market forecast is included in the report.

The full voke Market Snapshot Report: The Role of the Business Analyst is available to subscribers at www.vokestream.com.

To learn more about this topic, register for the webinar "Business Analysts Empowered: Optimize Global IT Project Teams Through a Requirements Lifecycle" to be held on Thursday, August 21 2:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM Pacific. To register, visit www.requirements.net.

About voke

Founded in 2006, voke, inc. represents a new model in thought leadership based on fluid collaboration, discussion, and real-time interactions to deliver strategic advice in technology markets. By communicating, collaborating, and understanding the impact technology has on the world around us, voke delivers market analysis, trend observation, and insight. Companies of all sizes, financial firms, and venture capital organizations turn to voke to harness strategic marketing, independent and impartial market observations and analysis to move markets beyond the status quo. For more information about voke, visit www.vokeinc.com.

Targeted memberships in the vokeStream community are available for the enterprise, technology vendors, press, service providers, financial analysts and venture capital teams. Visit www.vokestream.com to request a membership.

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The Business Analyst vs. the Enterprise Architect - ZapThink

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:08:00 GMT

The Business Analyst vs. the Enterprise Architect

Document ID: ZAPFLASH-2008813 | Document Type: ZapFlash
By: Ronald Schmelzer
Posted: Aug. 13, 2008

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.

Business analysts serve an important role in the organization, helping to marry the needs of the business with the various capabilities and resources available to it. However, now that the EA organization is getting its time in the limelight, what will happen to traditional business analysis and the business analyst organization? Are BAs a separate group that should be given a specific role in interacting with EA groups and SOA efforts, or are business analysts simply another type of enterprise architect that should be rolled into SOA initiatives? Furthermore, what’s the future of the business analyst? In this ZapFlash, we hope to bring the business analyst and enterprise architect roles into sharper focus so that we can help the organization maximize its resources for business success.

What is the role of a Business Analyst?
In order to understand how the roles of business analyst and enterprise architect might interact, we first need to understand what exactly a business analyst does. Wikipedia defines a business analyst (BA) as a person who practices the discipline of business analysis. Obviously. More insightfully, the entry continues: “A BA is responsible for analyzing the business needs of their clients to help identify business problems and propose solutions. Within the systems development life cycle domain, the business analyst typically performs a liaison function between the business side of an enterprise and the providers of services to the enterprise. Common alternative titles are business systems analyst, systems analyst, and functional analyst, although some organizations may differentiate between these titles and corresponding responsibilities.” Reading between the lines it seems that a business analyst is responsible for translating the needs of the business into specifics that can be acted upon by individual parts of the business.

Reinforcing this definition, the International Institute of Business Analysis clarifies that "a business analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. The business analyst understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals." To be relevant then to the area that EAs concern themselves with, we really are focusing on one sort of BA in particular: the IT business analyst.

An article on CIO.com refines the role of the IT business analyst as the organization that scopes the system, interprets business need, translates technical issues into language that business can understand, scopes out the project details and requirements, serves as the liaison between the development team and business representatives, helps the project team traverse the politics of the organization, creates test cases and scenarios, and acts as advocates for project stakeholders. In this regard, a business analyst isn’t a project manager per se, however they function as the business requirements role necessary in every IT project.

What makes the BA role interesting is that it predates the predominant use of IT in the enterprise. In the days before IT, the BA would have a set of principles and methods they would use to address risk management, facilitate inter-organizational communication, improve labor utilization, optimize processes, and perform other tasks that required connecting the strategic aspects of the business with the tactical parts that made it work. When IT was introduced into the mix, it just became another part of the mechanism that made things “work”.

Conflict and cooperation with the role of an Enterprise Architect
At first blush, it seems that much of the responsibility of IT BAs overlaps with the responsibility of EAs. In a number of previous ZapFlashes, we defined the role of an EA as providing executive-level management leadership to all architecture efforts across the enterprise, pulling together and establishing core architectural best practices for the entire organization, establishing business-focused Service Domains that bring together Business Services that share a common business context, creating, coordinating, and funding teams to run the Service Domains on behalf of the lines of business as well as IT, working closely with the VP of Project Management to insure close cooperation between architecture and project management teams, and to improve project management policies, and working closely with executive management within each line of business to communicate the process improvement and agility benefits of the SOA initiative, to coordinate process definition, improvement, and management activities, and to better align IT capabilities with business needs overall, among other responsibilities. And to make matters worse for the BA, according to Payscale.com, an average BA with 5-9 years of experience makes a bit less than $66k a year, while EAs with equal experience make over $100k.

Furthermore, in our discussion of the SOA Metamodel, we defined the EA as the person, or organization, that shepherds business requirements into Services and then manages the realization of those Services through the IT development organization. In this light, it would seem that the role of the EA eclipses, competes, or otherwise impedes the efforts of the BA in the organization. So, are the BA and EA different roles trying to accomplish similar tasks? Not exactly.

Even if we focus on the role of an IT Business Analyst, it is clear that the scope of the work and nature of their skills differ in significant ways. An EA’s role is to translate business requirements into capabilities that can be cost-effectively implemented, predictably managed, and reliably controlled. The central abstraction for the EA is the Service Model and other models that relate to information, process, system, and functional flow to enable the ongoing operation of the business. As abstract as this may seem, especially to developers, the BA acts at an even more abstract level.

BAs are primarily tasked with requirements generation and facilitation of communications with technical groups to make sure those requirements are reliably implemented. In this regards, while an EA has both feet firmly planted on both sides of the business-IT divide, the BA (even an IT BA) is weighted towards the business. Most organizations separate the roles of the BA and EA. However, organizations that are looking to maximize the benefit they receive from SOA and other architecturally-driven IT efforts should think more holistically about either combining the EA and BA responsibilities in the business or creating a new organizational structure that puts the business analysis and enterprise architecture roles into more intimate contact.

Part of the reason for bringing BA and EA closer together is that BAs often lack the technical skills to do the modeling part that is so necessary to making good architecture work. Second, most BAs have business metrics in mind (as they should) without having visibility into how IT will impact the realization of those metrics. Furthermore, BAs still think in terms of discrete business needs that need to be addressed in short timeframes. To achieve the promised SOA goals of reuse, reduction of redundancy, and business agility, the EA can provide the corporate memory and long-term strategic IT planning that most BAs lack in their tactical approach to today’s business needs.

The ZapThink Take
In most organizations, the role of the BA is far more developed and understood than the role of the EA. As such, it would be unreasonable to assume that the EA role will usurp, replace, or otherwise impinge on existing BA capabilities. However, the future of EA and the future BA are clearly moving in complementary directions. To the extent that BAs are dealing more and more with requirements for agility, reuse, and reduced cost of integration, they will find themselves mirroring the activities of the EA groups in their organization. Likewise, the more that EAs find themselves responsible for translating ill-defined business requirements into architectural models and Service definitions, the more they will find themselves filling a BA role in the organization.

Clearly, not everything in the organization that a BA will deal with is IT centric, and likewise, the EA organization won’t cover all aspects of business operation. However, we’re in a business environment that’s looking to squeeze every bit of value and inefficiency out of IT. In this environment, it only makes sense to rethink the role of the BA and EA together – an expanded, strategic, and operational role for IT planning that plays more in the hands of business than it does in the increasingly commoditized hands of IT implementation and operations. When this happens, architecture itself becomes strategic and can move out of the hands of the IT organization and into the hands of business operations.

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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:40:00 GMT

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

The Green SOA Training Program introduces powerful training strategies that focus on enterprise asset consolidation and reuse, acceleration of time-to-market, and reduction of organizational expenditure

MONROE, N.J., Aug 08, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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.

"Green SOA is all about savings, efficiency, and high productivity in the workplace. Our Green SOA courses encourage business and technology professionals to efficiently manage companies' resources and increase software and hardware reusability," states Lisa Nathan, Methodologies' SOA training executive. "It is a strategic endeavor that every enterprise should consider."

"We believe that business and IT personnel should shoulder equal responsibilities when it comes to SOA and service-oriented development," adds Michael Bell, Methodologies' chief architect. "Our Green SOA Training Program offers SOA development life cycle disciplines that promote business and technology agility."

The Green SOA Training Program offers courses to executives, project managers, business analysts, business architects, technical architects, data and service modelers, software designers, and developers in the following major topics:

-- SOA Fundamentals

-- SOA Adoption

-- SOA Roadmap and Strategies

-- Introduction to SOA Modeling

-- Service-Oriented Conceptualization, Discovery, Analysis, Design, and Architecture

-- SOA Virtualization (software and hardware)

To view a complete list of this program, please click here: http://www.modelingconcepts.com/pages/training.htm

About Methodologies Corporation:

Methodologies Corporation is an SOA Adoption company that provides SOA strategies, implementation, and training services to facilitate business agility and growth. Methodologies Corporation's mission is to assist business and IT organizations to increase software asset reusability, accelerate time-to-market, improve and manage business processes, reduce expenditure, and efficiently consolidate business and technological assets. For additional information visit: www.ModelingConcepts.com.

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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:20:00 GMT

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

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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:19:00 GMT

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

UML Profile Now Available for Download

Worked example of Simpsons Parcels Case Study deliverables using the UML Profile in Enterprise Architect now available as an HTML file

Both of these deliverables are available to all members at: http://www.cbdiforum.com/public/uml_profile.php

The UML Profile for SAE^TM 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.

If you have attended the CBDI Fast Track or DBSA education class then you will recognize the worked example instantly. This set of example deliverables takes the Simpsons case from business model to traceable specification, implementation, deployment and technology architecture diagrams.

Did you see the UML Profile Webcast?
A recording is now available of our recent web event covering the UML Profile for SOA developed by Everware-CBDI in support of the CBDI-SAE Meta Model for SOA.

In this webcast you will learn

What is a UML Profile?
What is the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA?
How to Install the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA in UML tools
How to use the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA, including a walk though of each of the main diagrams, showing how objects are modelled, the deliverables that can be produced, and how the model may be used in downstream activities
Duration: 1 hour

You can watch the recording by visiting http://www.cbdiforum.com/public/news/index.php3?id=1533

Information provided by the CDBI Forum, for more information sign-up at: www.cdbiforum.com

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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:55:00 GMT

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

Book Description

The Expert, Practical Guide to Succeeding with SOA in the Enterprise

In Executing SOA, four experienced SOA implementers share realistic, proven, “from-the-trenches” guidance for successfully delivering on even the largest and most complex SOA initiative.

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. Among the issues it addresses: introducing a services discipline that supports collaboration and information process sharing; integrating services with preexisting technology assets and strategies; choosing the right roles for new tools; shifting culture, governance, and architecture; and bringing greater agility to the entire organizational lifecycle, not just isolated projects.

Executing SOA is an indispensable resource for every enterprise architect, technical manager, and IT leader tasked with driving value from SOA in complex environments.

Coverage includes

· Implementing SOA governance that reflects the organization’s strategic and business focus

· Running SOA projects successfully: practical guidelines and proven methodologies around service modeling and design

· Leveraging reusable assets: making the most of your SOA repository

· Enabling the architect to choose the correct tools and products containing the features required to execute on the SOA method for service design and implementation

· Defining information services to get the right information to the right people at the right time

· Integrating SOA with Web 2.0 and other innovative products and solutions

· Providing highly usable human interfaces in SOA environments

Chapter 4 is of particular interest to the SOA Business Analyst and focuses on Service-Oriented Modeling and Design. Service-oriented modeling and design is a discipline that provides prescriptive guidance about how to effectively design an SOA using services, service components, and flows. This chapter discusses service modeling, object orientation, the SOMA technique and explains how it helps in the identification, specification, and realization of services, service components, and flows.

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SOA tools hit UML Tipping Point

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:13:00 GMT

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).

Microsoft's announced plans to support OMG's modeling standard in Oslo, the code name for its Visual Studio 10 wave release, means last major vendor hold out against UML is coming into the camp, the OMG executive said.

"Every major software development tool in the world supports UML," Soley said. "All of IBM's tools, all the Borland tools. The Eclipse toolset has complete UML support. There are something like 75 UML tools available on the market."

SOURCE: SearchSOA

SOA tools hit UML Tipping Point

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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:14:00 GMT

Coming Soon! - Business Analyst Network - 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.

BUSINESS ANALYST NETWORK

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How do Business Analysts become Business Leaders?

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:55:00 GMT

How do Business Analysts become Business Leaders?

Executive Summary

So while everyone agrees that good business analysts are extremely valuable, and that cultivating business analyst talent is essential for effective IT operations, a new Forrester Research report says that businesses need to do more. To really take advantage of everything that business analysts have to offer, there needs to be an answer to a career conundrum that many business analysts face: What's next?

In the June 2008 report, "The Business-Oriented Business Analyst," Forrester's Andy Salunga offers several potential paths to future business leadership for business-oriented business analysts.

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How do business analysts become business leaders?

Forrester Report:

"The Business-Oriented Business Analyst,"

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

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:45:00 GMT

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

The advanced Service-Oriented Modeling Framework introduces an SOA easy-to-use modeling disciplines and language for implementing business and technical services.

Monroe, NJ (PRWEB) June 30, 2008 -- 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.

"The advanced service-oriented modeling framework, also known as SOMF 1.1, offers a service life cycle development methodology designed to help organizations establish state-of-the-art software architecture disciplines for building enterprise services," states Bell. "Our goal is to provide an SOA modeling framework that is easy to understand and implement, increases application reuse, decreases expenditure, shortens time-to-market, and encourages software assets consolidation."

The provided service-oriented modeling framework disciplines enable business and IT personnel to collaborate on devising an efficient SOA model for small scale projects or large initiatives. These involved SOA project life cycle participants are typically executives, program managers, project managers, business and technical architects, business analysts, system analysts, application and database modelers, team leads, and software developers.

The released SOMF version 1.1 offers the following service-oriented modeling disciplines:

Service-Oriented Conceptualization
Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis
Service-Oriented Business Integration
Service-Oriented Logical Design
Service-Oriented Conceptual Architecture
Service-Oriented Logical Architecture

To view SOMF modeling examples, please click here: http://www.modelingconcepts.com/pages/download.htm.

About Methodologies Corporation:
Methodologies Corporation is an SOA Adoption company that provides SOA strategies, implementation, and training services to facilitate business agility and growth. Methodologies Corporation mission is to assist business and IT organizations to increase software asset reusability, accelerate time-to-market, improve and manage business processes, reduce expenditure, and efficiently consolidate business and technological assets. The leading forces behind these accomplishments are three major business and technology drivers: Strategy, Process, and Implementation.

For additional information visit: www.ModelingConcepts.com.

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What Process Experts Need To Know About SOA

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:01:00 GMT

What Process Experts Need To Know About SOA

Executive Summary

"In recent years, as enterprise architecture and process professionals have begun to work together more closely, overlaps have been emerging between service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM) solutions, and process improvement methodologies. Despite the benefit of this convergence, process professionals have long been skeptical of enterprise technology solutions and have long been viewed as Luddites who eschew using enterprise platforms for disconnected tools such as statistical analysis and process mapping software. While expertise in methodologies and tools such as statistical analysis and process mapping software continue to be critical for process improvement experts, process professionals must embrace a holistic understanding of SOA and BPM technologies or risk being marginalized in their organizations' transformation efforts."

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