Re: [saf] Charter Proposed New Statement of Purpose

["Yasuhide Matsumoto" <ymatsumo@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Hi, all

Does "across domains"in the first sentence mean  across experts in different 
fields?
Does "across domains" include across experts and customers?

Version 1.2 mentions "customer needs" but 1.3 doesn't.

I think customer's participation is important message in the Charter.

I noticed this by Vivian's comment for Flower Delivery Use Case.

Regards.

Yasu.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vaught, Jeffrey A" <Jeffrey.Vaught@ca.com>
To: <saf@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:44 AM
Subject: FW: [saf] Charter Proposed New Statement of Purpose


Below is a new version (1.3) of the "Statement of Purpose".



Version 1.3:



Human experts in specific IT infrastructure and business domains possess
substantial knowledge about prevention, remediation, and optimization of
systems.  However, there is a significant challenge in capturing,
combining, and leveraging this siloed knowledge across domains.



SAF is a catalog-based XML collaborative knowledge framework that is
designed to address these challenges by automating appropriate responses
to changing business conditions and integrating contributions from
diverse domains to provide competitive advantage.  SAF has applicability
in IT and business including cloud computing, service management,
governance, security, energy, eGov, financial, emergency management,
healthcare, and communications.



Cloud computing, in particular, exacerbates the separation between
consumer-based business requirements and provider-supplied IT responses.
SAF facilitates knowledge sharing across these domains, allowing
consumer and provider to work cooperatively together to ensure adequate
capacity, maximize quality of service, and reduce cost.   The SAF
technical committee considers cloud computing to be an area where the
value of existing and developing standards could be significantly
enhanced using SAF.





Version 1.2:



It's hard for different enterprises and domains to work together to in
order to understand and respond to their customers' needs. SAF provides
a collaborative framework that enables diverse enterprises and knowledge
domains to address these issues through automation at lower cost and
much more effectively.



SAF is a catalog-based, XML collaborative knowledge framework that is
designed to address these challenges by automating appropriate responses
to changing business conditions, integrating contributions from diverse
domains such as marketing, sales, and IT to provide competitive
advantage. Note that SAF uses a medical analogy in order to provide an
easy-to-understand conceptual foundation that many people understand,
nothing more. The SAF framework has applicability to multiple domains
including IT, e.g., Cloud computing, service management, governance, and
security as well as business domains, e.g., energy, eGovernment,
financial, healthcare, and communications.



In Cloud computing, the chasm between the business and IT is
significantly widened due to the lack of context between cloud-provider
and cloud-consumer. The SAF TC considers Cloud computing to be an area
where the value of existing and developing standards could be
significantly enhanced using SAF. In SAF, both consumer and provider can
collaborate in order to bridge the chasm by enabling business-relevant
conditions to enable meaningful business-relevant responses.



Version 1.1:

IT and business systems are usually well instrumented to provide a
wealth of information about the state of these systems. Human experts in
narrow, specific IT infrastructure or business system domains possess
substantial knowledge to bring remediate problems or bring them back to
their desired state. However, there is a significant challenge
leveraging this knowledge across these diverse domains.

Current approaches are often manual, expensive, inflexible, and
error-prone. Failure to meet this challenge creates lost opportunities
to develop new and extend existing business, as well as the possible
loss of existing business through 'down time' or lower efficiency. There
are also significant operational and business-related costs that can
affect an entire organization. Cloud computing and other IT initiatives
increase the risk and impact of these challenges.

SAF is a catalog-based, XML knowledge framework that is designed to
address these challenges by enabling both problem remediation and
optimization of the operational and business characteristics of complex
systems. The framework has applicability to both IT domains, e.g., cloud
computing, service management, governance, and security as well as
non-IT domains, e.g., energy, eGovernment, financial, healthcare, and
communications.





From: Lipton, Paul C [mailto:Paul.Lipton@ca.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:44 PM
To: saf@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [saf] Charter Proposed New Statement of Purpose



Hi all,



At the F2F @ CA-Ewing (March 3-5) the idea of clarifying and improving
the charter Statement of Purpose was discussed again with the idea of
issuing a further charter clarification with a revamped Statement of
Purpose. I took the action of attempting one more iteration for your
consideration. Please feel free to further word-craft, of course.