Mohamad Afshar, PhD, is director of product management for Oracle Application Server 10g. He has core product management responsibilities for the Application Server that is part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. His main focus includes middleware vision, strategy, and architecture, with an emphasis on Web services, SOA, and EDA. Mohamad is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a contributing author to business-oriented, technical, and academic journals. He holds a PhD in Parallel Database Systems from Cambridge University, UK.
Leading companies are tackling the complexity of their application and IT
environments with service-oriented architecture (SOA), which facilitates the
development of enterprise applications as modular business services that can
be easily integrated and reused, thereby creating a truly flexible, adaptable
IT infrastructure. Business process management (BPM) solutions such as those
based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) enable services to be
orchestrated into business processes. Processes built using a BPM solution
can be reused, changed easily in response to business ... (more)
Agile and adaptive business processes and supporting IT infrastructure are
the holy grail of enterprise applications. The industry is heading in the
right direction to start delivering on this promise. SOAs (service-oriented
architectures) promise to enable businesses to align their business processes
to customer needs, and optimize them to improve customer responsiveness and
drive effic... (more)
Business processes integrate systems, partners, and people to achieve key
strategic and operations objectives. Examples of business processes include
getting and filling orders, processing invoices, reconciling shipping notices
and received goods and processing insurance claims and loan applications. The
Holy Grail of enterprise computing is adaptive business processes that can be
define... (more)
LibGo Travel, one of the largest privately held travel companies in the U.S.,
provides vacation packages through its retail stores and wholesale
distribution channels to consumers, partners, travel agents, and stores. The
company wanted to expand its offerings by adding dynamic, branded, and
personalized packages. To help execute this idea, LibGo had to bring together
our travel partners... (more)
Mohamad Afshar, PhD, is director of product management for Oracle Application Server 10g. He has core product management responsibilities for the Application Server that is part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. His main focus includes middleware vision, strategy, and architecture, with an emphasis on Web services, SOA, and EDA. Mohamad is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a contributing author to business-oriented, technical, and academic journals. He holds a PhD in Parallel Database Systems from Cambridge University, UK.
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