Mohamad Afshar

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 defined, refined, and optimized to respond to changing business environments, government regulations and competitive pressures. This vision has followed us through the evolution of mainframes, Management Information Systems (MIS), packaged applications, J2EE-based application platforms, business process management systems (BPMS) and now, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). We are getting the... (more)

SOA in Action Case Study: LibGo Travel

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)

Building Flexible Business Processes Using BPEL and Rules

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 o... (more)

Going Beyond Project-Driven SOA

However, most of the organizations we've worked with are taking a project-driven approach to SOA - namely, addressing tactical integration and composite application requirements with SOA tools. So where does this leave them? Fortunately, companies don't necessarily have to do SOA for the same reasons, or do enterprise SOA. Each of us can do SOA in our own way and still benefit from it. ... (more)

Process-Centric Realization of SOA

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)