Six presentations given at the SOA Consortium meeting related in various ways to Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, and Master Data Management.
* Clay Richardson (Forrester) presented "lean BPM" trends, which include BPM-as-a-Service, lightweight BPM using mashups, and replacing the "waterfall mindset" with agility.
* Ryan Gates (Appiam) talked about the value of a BPM suite to do rapid application development, and gave advice on how to choose and conduct a BPM pilot.
* Marc Redemann (IDS Scheer) presented a case study of business transformation at Deutsche Bank, and told us about a free version of IDS's ARIS BPM product,
ARIS Express.
* Olivier Brousseau (Schlumberger) described the company's journey toward "Information for Excellence," which combines aspects of SOA, MDM, usability, and other architectural elements into a list of ten requirements for all IT systems. The audience appreciated the pragmatic approach and the concrete examples.
* Fred Cummins (HP) considers SOA as an architectural pattern that applies to the business itself as well as to IT. This would support the need, especially in a large organization, for shared functional service centers.
* Aleks Buterman (SenseAgility) explained how BPM, SOA and MDM can help "defuse the business model mismatches" between the organizations involved in a merger or acquisition.
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