"Disruptive internal and external forces such as globalization and the emergence of business process management (BPM) technology and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have created intense demand for multidimensional professionals with broad business, IT and leadership skills" - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Methodologies Corporation, the leading SOA modeling company, announced the release of SOMF version 1.1 today. The advanced edition is based on recent book publication entitled "Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture", written by Michael Bell and produced by Wiley & Sons Inc. in March, 2008. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Process Professionals must embrace a holistic understanding of SOA and BPM technologies or risk being marginalized in their organizations' transformation efforts. - SOA Business Analyst - The New Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced new enhancements to its Telelogic portfolio of software and systems development tools. IBM acquired Telelogic on April 3, 2008 to accelerate the innovation of products that rely on software. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

THE NEW BUSINESS ANALYST - Coming Soon! << MORE >>

CIOs are coming under pressure to improve their business analyst talent pool to respond to changing IT Environments - Are you adapting to meet their needs.<< MORE >>

Scott Ambler, the practice leader of agile development for the IBM Methods Group and author of several books on software project management and agile development, says that first and foremost, business analysts (or as he terms it, business systems analysts, or BSAs) are responsible for communication and collaboration between the business and IT. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Everyone knows who the business analysts are in their organization, but not everyone knows what they actually do and what they are responsible for during software implementation projects. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

A new Forrester report sheds light on this little known, often misunderstood but critical liaison role that can unite the business and IT on enterprise projects, systems development and business strategy. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) changes the traditional roles played by many IT professionals and business people, but no job is being more radically changed than that of business analyst, says John Michelsen, chief scientist at iTKO Inc. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Learn a few new terms, including service identification, specification, realization, and design principles, and find out why they are fundamental to the success of SOA. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

How do you go about talking to the Business Folks about SOA?- SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Service-oriented architectures for business intelligence efforts pioneered over the past several years in both the vendor and user communities have sufficiently evolved and are now ready for deployment. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

To seize the new opportunities and realize the benefits that can be derived from an SOA, companies need to streamline their business processes and eliminate the re-creation of the wheel. - SOA Business Analyst - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Software AG brings you the SOA Value Assessment, based on a comprehensive model for determining the value of IT. (Registration Required) - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

This paper focuses on the changing demands of the Business Analyst in the successful transition to a Service Oriented Enterprise. - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

SOA is maturing. In fact, the market is seeing more enterprise deployments than ever before. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

The Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) 2.0 specification was approved in an organizational vote, but No votes to be investigated. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

SML, which embodies the spirit of service-oriented architecture (SOA) distributed computing, will help corporations craft service models at a time when systems topologies are becoming increasingly convoluted. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

IBM announce another expansion of its SOA software and services. - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

While it is widely understood that SOA involves tools, integration, web services technologies and process modelling, it may not be so obvious what new investment is needed for a successful strategic SOA deployment. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

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ActiveBPEL Enterprise for .NET Forms Foundation for Cost-effective Business and Systems Integration - SOA Business Analyst ActiveBPEL Enterprise for .NET Forms Foundation for Cost-effective Business and Systems Integration - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

Mario Szpusztra posts his whitepaper on his point-of-view on Microsoft's strategies around Service Orientation, BPM and ESB. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

Designing for Agility: Business Analysts Step Up - The analyst role is evolving. Besides BPM and UML tooling, information consolidation/integration is important for a business analyst. << MORE >>

Addressing the skeptics who still say "this cannot possibly work," Walker says they can download a free copy of the tool from the Tenfold Website and test it for themselves. - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

This White Paper is meant to be IT's field guide for traveling on a journey through the landscape of integration approaches and tools. (Registration Required) - SOA Business Analyst<< MORE >>

So even though BPMN is a standard, the tools that support it are not all the same. - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

SOA is a driving force for future functional use within organisations. However, these functions must be viewed as being shared services for all processes. Functional re-use will be the main means of ensuring that organisations can respond rapidly and effectively to market dynamics, and that improvements to specific functions will have the optimum impact across the whole organisation. - SOA Business Analyst << MORE >>

XQuery, XSLT and XPath officially join the XML armory for Web development.<< MORE >>

Business Process Management (BPM) can give you better performance visibility and eliminate IT implementation bottlenecks—even across geographical and departmental boundaries. Now, here's your chance to get more insight into how BPM can become a critical business driver for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)—and enhance its value to your business. - Get Your Complimentary Report << MORE >>

The Rational Software Architect product affords highly flexible model management. << MORE >>

By creating services that are configured to support business capabilities, organizations must change their modus operandi from transactions to business processes<< MORE >>

Web 2.0 interfaces will move the management of process to customers, as a Business Analyst you will need to understand how you are going to manage policies around those processes.<< MORE >>

Resources for Service-Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management.<< MORE >>

What You Need to Begin an SOA Deployment with IBM Rational SDP << MORE >>

The BPEL support provides orchestration that's integrated with enterprise service bus (ESB) technology. << MORE >>

The insurer is also planning to begin setting performance metrics for SOA in terms of money saved, time to market and reuse. << MORE >>

SOUP, a new software methodology for building your SOA << MORE >>

Active Endpoints has been busy working towards the 3.0 release of its ActiveBPEL Designer and engine. << MORE >>

Excellent Research Report that put SOA Adoption into perspective.<< MORE >>

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Six part series on Business Analysis and SOA by Thomas Erl<< MORE >>

Get started developing business processes based on the Business Process Execution Language<< MORE >>

Align IT processes with business requirements using free enterprise architecture tools, technologies, and information from IBM. Free with Registration.<< MORE >>

Seems like a natural evolution to me. SOA is about building services, BPM is about orchestrating services into business process.<< MORE >>

Open Source and Commercial BPEL solutions now deliver seamless, side-by-side execution of WS-BPEL 2.0 and BPEL4WS 1.1 processes. << MORE >>

Check out my new Business Process Architect/BPM Architect Blogs<< MORE >>

Survey says Eclipse is gaining in popularity.<< MORE >>

How to maximize business value of SOA<< MORE >>

Focusing on the global architecture of SOA, IBM on Tuesday is introducing IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0 for the desktop. << MORE >>

All the hot topics and how ARIS can support them will be addressed: from the latest BPM trends to Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Rules, as well as accelerated enterprise software roll-outs. << MORE >>

Telelogic Tau is a Model-Driven Development environment for the design, development, test, and analysis of large, complex systems and software applications for Enterprise IT, Aerospace/Defense, Telecom, and Transportation domains.<< MORE >>

Intalio Inc claims the latest release of its namesake open source business process management platform supports the broadest range of standards in the industry. << MORE >>

Reference made to my SOA Business Analyst web site.<< MORE >>

There are other factors than just technology that are driving SOA Adoption.<< MORE >>

Interview with Jack Hilty who specializes in Business Analysis in relation to Service-Oriented Architecture.<< MORE >>

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Business Analyst role is one that must be expanded through new SOA skills to ensure that companies realize the results and ROI they expect.<< MORE >>

Introduction of New Blog "SOA Business Analyst"<< MORE >>