| Title: |
The Service-Oriented Software Supply Chain |
| Author: |
Oliver Sims |
| Publication Date: |
9 December 2002 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Roadmap Report |
| Abstract: |
With 20:20 hindsight we can see that components and CBD have been essential evolutionary steps, however they are merely building blocks in a broader process. This paper shows how a radically improved software supply chain will emerge and operate, that can efficiently deliver and consume reusable Services and components in a business context. |
| Backgrounder: |
The software crisis means that IT is too often on the critical path of business evolution. Instead of being a contributor to business change, it is often seen by the business stakeholders as a constraint.
It might be thought that the advent of Service-Oriented Processes (see October CBDI Journal) will merely add to the problem. However, what is more likely to happen is that a much more effective software supply chain - the sources that business stakeholders can use to provision software to meet their business needs - will evolve.
This means that the traditional pattern of IT as the sole provider of core business systems, whether in-house or outsourced, is about to change. New opportunities arising from service-oriented middleware and tools in the B2B and Workflow areas will provide businesses with alternative sources of application provisioning. In addition, new tools and infrastructures may cause the pendulum again to swing away from centralized IT departments, as it did when minis challenged mainframes. Such a swing would strengthen our main thesis, but would not change its thrust, and so we do not consider this possibility further.
In this report, we show how the change will come about, and how CBD will emerge from a technology into a service-oriented design paradigm that will form an essential part of a new software development and provisioning environment.
Oliver Sims is widely recognized as a leader in the design and implementation of distributed business object and component systems. He served for several years on the OMG Architecture Board and has been active in various OMG Task Forces. He is author of "Business Objects”, co-author of “Building Business Objects” and “Business Component Factory.
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| Report Size: |
10 Pages |
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