Simple Service Enterprise – part 6
In my latest post, I recapped on the previous posts and started to take Integration from a business point of view. I’ll continue to do that here, and try to mix in technical details without it getting too confusing. Wish me luck! Here’s the conversation again: Hey Tom! What did the Red Sox do last […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 5
In my first post on SSE I explained why and how I want, and can achieve, and have achieved, an Enterprise Integration paradigm that will give you a device-agnostic, platform-agnostic, tool-agnostic architecture that will free you from being crushed by the two tectonic plates in IT at the moment: diversity in devices, platforms and tools on the […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 4
Today we’ll take a REST from REST and I’ll touch upon one of the issues I ran into today: the two types of data there are. REST assured however that at least a few of the next posts will be about yesterday’s topic, as it has led to fierce debates here and there over the […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 3
My previous post showed the fundamentals of information interchange: exposing business functionality, currently encapsulated in the back-end, to the outside world via services. These services are a one-to-one translation to back-end functions, which are one-to-one translations to business process steps themselves: the smallest level of business transaction. I also showed that the How of exposing […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 2
Yesterday’s post was about Simple Service Enterprise, and showed the basics: to keep up with the growing diversity inside and outside your enterprise for getting the same functionality on different devices and platforms, you need an Integration layer (the red in the middle). Can’t argue with that, point-to-point integration is a neat quick and dirty […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 1
I plead for a Simple Service Enterprise. One that is ruled by Business, not IT. One that is interoperable with any other business, customer or consumer, regardless of the platforms they operate on. Regardless of the vendors that dominate those platforms. Regardless of the programming languages used on those platforms. Regardless of the devices used. […]
