Aristo Togliatti

SOA and integration have been working together so well that we tend to forget that SOA is not just about integrating and we often refer to SOA itself as mainly an integration architecture. The word ‘integration’ has been used for decades to describe the possibility for systems to interact, which makes it confusing when applying it to the SOA domain where it might be relevant to distinguish between integrating and interacting. The point is that integration and interaction are two different things but how they differ depends on the way you define integration. There are those that me... (more)

Why All This Fuzz About SOA?

I’ve been to dozens of SOA lectures, presentations and conferences and though I considered some (the first ones) to be very interesting as I approached the subject, it soon started to get a bit boring as I easily could anticipate what the presenters were going to say: why adopt SOA, how will your company benefit from SOA, the possibilities SOA gives you, etc. etc. It’s fair to say that the... (more)

SOA World Magazine: The Value of Process Driven Architecture

We all are aware of the importance of  BPM (where ‘M’ stands for modeling) for good business governance. BPM is the discipline of describing business processes in a uniform and ordered fashion. Documenting your business processes allows you to easily review them, share them and get control over them. Standardizing on one BPM tool makes it easier for the business to work with ... (more)