Re: [ebsoa] Process-Oriented Architectures (POA)

[Steve Ross-Talbot <steve@enigmatec.net>]

Interestingly POM (Process Oriented Middleware) is a take on POA. An 
example of this would be:

http://www.enigmatec.net/Products/RIF%20Middleware.html

Now you can see why I am interested in this space.

Cheers

Steve T
On Jun 7, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Chiusano Joseph wrote:

> That would be Booz Allen Hamilton. ;) :P
>
> David RR Webber wrote:
>>
>> 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" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
>> To: "ebSOA" <ebsoa@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Monica J. Martin"
>> <monica.martin@sun.com>
>> 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
>>>
>
> -- 
> Kind Regards,
> Joseph Chiusano
> Associate
> Booz | Allen | Hamilton