Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Within any organization, communication between
the core business operations and the IT group has traditionally been a
challenging and adversarial relationship. Most miscommunications between the
two groups result from misunderstandings related to software and other issues.
Now the gap between the business IT layers is beginning to close.
“My programmer doesn’t understand me! This
software doesn’t do what I need it to!” The deep sighs from the business side of an organization are a familiar sound. Standardized applications are not a perfect fit for the desired business processes, and customized applications are costly and quickly outdistanced by real environmental conditions. Management and departmental criticism of a company’s application software is stirred up regularly due to the high cost of rolling it out as well as a lack of
flexibility for processes, which hampers dynamic business development.
This disconnect can be traced back to
fundamental problems in the implementation of technical process requirements in
business management applications: for a long time, there was no method with
sufficient semantics to represent business processes coherently for
professional users that could also meet the technical requirements of mapping
the processes in the software. Now with service-oriented architectures (SOA), a
new chapter is beginning in which real business processes are taking center
stage in application development. The combination of business process models
and SOA will close the gap between business management problems and IT
implementation.
In comparison to earlier revs, the new
SOA-based application software allows dynamic design and rapid customization of
corporate business processes. Now, business management process models take
services to the application system’s physical processes and orchestrates them
accordingly. Before discussing SOA and its implications for the future, a
review of the past is in order.
About Wolfram Jost Dr. Wolfram Jost is Chief Technology Officer for Software AG. He is responsible for Research & Development as well as Product Management and Product Marketing. Dr. Jost has written numerous articles for books and magazines and has co-authored more than 10 specialist books.
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