Fast Takes - Web Services-thoughts on service orientated architecturesEnabling Process Entrepreneurs- November 24, 2003 Phil Wainewright describes the next wave of innovation for IT in Loosely Coupled weblog - Process entrepreneurs. With the release of the BPEL Service on Grand Central we have enabled all these process entrepreneurs. The ability to create business services without requiring massive (any) infrastructure is changing the economics of the value chain. Optimizing the value chain has suddenly become possible without massive investment. In the past to create business processes between organizations...http://www.mcdowall.com/webservices/2003_11_23_archive.html#106963454910927281 BPEL as a service- November 21, 2003 We have just launched our BPEL Resource Center along with the Grand Central BPEL engine. This new service demonstrates both the value of SOA and the network service model. Using the new service I can provision new BPEL services into the network (I use XML-SPY, it provides a really cool edit, run, debug approach to progamming Grand Central) without having to deploy any software, hardware etc. This ability to create virtual processes that are completely managed by the network allows developers to.http://www.mcdowall.com/webservices/2003_11_21_archive.html#106943047961364137 |