Joe,
I'm not sure - sometimes this is subliminal!
I have dim recollection of see something Gartnerish that
mentioned POA back last month - and I ranted about
the need of analysts to invent new acronyms every
six months or so - to keep charging their clients
to explain it to them....
Not that I'd think that of BAH of course ; -)
DW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chiusano Joseph" <>
To: "ebSOA" <>; "Monica J. Martin"
<>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ebsoa] Process-Oriented Architectures (POA)
> Someone outside our TC must have been reading our archives for this
> thread[1] :)
>
> "POA: Building SOA from the Ground Up":
> [1] http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=45098&DE=1
>
> Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> >
> > I know that our concentration is to be service-oriented architectures,
> > but at the same time I'm thinking about what will lie beyond (so that we
> > can best prepare). A term popped into my head on the way home yesterday
> > (the DC Beltway apparatentely inspires me): Process-Oriented
> > Architecture, or "POA".
> >
> > Has anyone heard this term used before? I Google'd it and found few
> > hits, all of which seemed to be individual (rather than corporate)
> > references.
> >
> > As you can tell from the term, just as SOAs enable (involve, pick your
> > favorite word here) the use of shared services, POAs will extend SOAs to
> > enable the use of shared Web Services-based processes that are based on
> > shared Web Services that are defined within SOAs, working in concert
> > with each other. So for a US federal application (my primary client),
> > this could mean a set of shared Web Services-based business processes
> > for federal agencies, in a flexible, agile, process environment.
> >
> > Does this concept resound with anyone?
> > --
> > Kind Regards,
> > Joseph Chiusano
> > Associate
> > Booz | Allen | Hamilton
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Joseph Chiusano
> Associate
> Booz | Allen | Hamilton
>
