I 'd like to recommend to all enterprise architects dealing with Global 3500 companies to read-up on ESBs (Enterprise Service Bus architectures).
David Chappell published
his book on ESBs in
April-July 2004 - it is a must read IMHO.
If you cut your teeth on this now you'll still have a job when Indigo arrives :-)
PS. some other links to read:
Cryptic? Well perhaps this might help:
V = PI – NPI Value, Productive Interactions and Non-Productive Interactions
C2B Customer-to-Business
I2V Interaction-to-Value
1997 50%+ NPI across all sectors. Source: McKinsey ‘Revolution in Interaction’
2004 80%+ NPI in complex service organisations. Findings from knowledge audits
So why post this - well I am going to do a little blogging series on one of the
SalePlane portfolio clients: Decisionality, this is just a taster to what I will show the Decisionality team have invented and how they use webservices to deliver on the promise of
optimal reduction of NPI, if ever there was a business case this is it ;-)
Praise Ton Haarmans: You have done a fantastic job Emad! Thank you!
Bjoern Schliebitz: Same from my side, it's fantastic to see what progress you made just over the weekend!
Ton Haarmans: great work and fast! thanks again
Andrius Kulikauskas: Ton, your work is beautiful! and your description is very helpful.