The journey of business process management (BPM) from technologies such as
document flow routing to service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based Web
services has been a process of evolution rather than revolution.
In this article, we'll discuss the convergence of Web services and business
process management, how Web services alleviate some of the core problems with
BPM, and how Web services can help companies evolve into process-based
organizations leading to increased efficiency and lower operational costs.
It's all about processes, after all.
Business process management (BPM) enables enterprises to automate and
integrate the disparate internal and external corporate business processes.
It does so by supporting dynamic process topologies that allow the boundary
between processes and participants to be determined either statically or
dynamically on a real-time basis. Furt... (more)
One word can describe the current state within financial organizations as far
as straight-through processing (STP) is concerned: confusion.
In the current state of STP implementation in almost every financial
institution, its scope is still limited and it targets only a portion of the
underlying financial instruments and product and business lines, and requires
a full development cycle for each product addition.
This article presents a paradigm to achieve internal and external STP through
the orchestration of Web services. We discuss the fundamentals of STP,
introduce the concept... (more)
Today, Web services are being portrayed as the building blocks for the EAI
platform, whereas, in the last three-to-four years, J2EE-based application
servers have been able to carve their way to the core of enterprise
application integration (EAI) solutions for several small, mid-, and
large-size companies. This article examines how J2EE-based application
servers support Web services and how they tie into and enterprise's overall
integration and Web services strategy, enabling companies to use
service-oriented architecture for EAI.
The myth...
Service-oriented architecture-based... (more)
Labeled as the coming nirvana for enterprise application integration and
business-to-business (B2B) integration, Web services technology is
nonetheless vulnerable to a wide array of security threats such as denial of
service and spoofing.
In this article, we'll review Web services security requirements, the factors
that determine them, and how Microsoft's .NET Framework supports them.
Web Services as Interfaces to Business Methods
The common belief is that the security requirements of Web services are the
same as those of a Web site. But this assumption completely underestimates
... (more)
It's critical that service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based Web services
solutions provide high-performance, reliable, extensible, scalable, and open
standards-based communication and integration for both internal and external
applications that can be easily monitored. To meet these goals, it's
imperative that companies design their Web services correctly, check service
quality, conduct active performance management, and continuously monitor the
end-point integrity of Web services. This article discusses monitoring and
optimizing the design and runtime performance of Web service... (more)
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