The Microsoft "Oslo" initiative is to provide a modeling (UML), management, and hosting platform for delivering model-driven service-oriented composite applications and S+S solutions; plus cloud computing through modeling.
The recently published BizTalk 2009 roadmap shows how "Oslo" features can be utilized also from BizTalk:
In fact, you won’t need to upgrade BizTalk Server to take advantage of "Oslo" – current BizTalk Server 2006 R2 or BizTalk Server 2009 customers can benefit from "Oslo" by being able to leverage and compose existing services into new composite applications. BizTalk Server today provides the ability to service enable LOB systems or trading partners as web services (using WCF supported protocols), which can be composed with the "Oslo" modeling technologies.
As the roadmap shows, WCF is the central enabler for connecting services from different systems into service-oriented solutions. WCF and WF are central to the new "Oslo" modeling tool and repository, allowing users to define and execute business processes (much like BPEL, XLANG). "Oslo" has a strong focus on enabling automation of business processes with strong support for humans as central actors in the processes (like BPEL4People, WS-HumanTask). Add the BAM interceptors for WCF and WF provided by BizTalk, and you have a platform that gives repeatability, consistency and visibility to your business process management efforts.
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Saturday, September 06, 2008
Friday, August 08, 2008
Business Process Modeling, Not Only For Automation
Every now and then I see statements like this and it makes me cringe:
"Unless we are only documenting the As Is, business process modeling are made to optimize the business process, notably by using automation."
Aiming for automating processes might be a good strategic goal, but it will get you into a lot of both political and technological issues. How will information workers react to a project that aims at automating their jobs? What percentage of business processes can readily be automated with the available technology today?; think of the BPMN-BPEL chasm. Also read The Case Against BPEL: Why the Language is Less Important Than You Think.
In my opinion, you should do business process modeling with the objective to document the processes, enable visibility into the process performance for operational awareness (BAM, KPI, etc) and to achieve consistency and repeatability in the way the processes are performed - even by humans. Way too many processes that are core to your business (DDD core domain) depends on human interaction, and these processes are not going to be automated using BPM any time soon - however, they might get efficacious support from BPMS solutions.
The ultimate BPM automation system might be Agent Smith: "Never send a human to do a machine's job".
"Unless we are only documenting the As Is, business process modeling are made to optimize the business process, notably by using automation."
Aiming for automating processes might be a good strategic goal, but it will get you into a lot of both political and technological issues. How will information workers react to a project that aims at automating their jobs? What percentage of business processes can readily be automated with the available technology today?; think of the BPMN-BPEL chasm. Also read The Case Against BPEL: Why the Language is Less Important Than You Think.
In my opinion, you should do business process modeling with the objective to document the processes, enable visibility into the process performance for operational awareness (BAM, KPI, etc) and to achieve consistency and repeatability in the way the processes are performed - even by humans. Way too many processes that are core to your business (DDD core domain) depends on human interaction, and these processes are not going to be automated using BPM any time soon - however, they might get efficacious support from BPMS solutions.
The ultimate BPM automation system might be Agent Smith: "Never send a human to do a machine's job".
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