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Jon Mountjoy's Blog | October 3, 2007   1:13 AM | Comments (0)

Alfred Chuang just delivered his keynote, titled "SOA and Beyond: Technology Convergence and Dynamic Applications." The result of users using and creating Mashups means that information is being used differently (and unpredictably, presumably) argues Alfred.

He then argued that business agility is key; businesses don't have time to wait for a year to get a business process or application implemented. Indeed, business processes shouldn't be coded; not agile enough. What we need is to take the elements of mashups and apply them to the business. Alfred calls these "Flexible, dynamic, real time applications." He was careful to point out that they aren't what we traditionally called mashups because they embody business process.

Alfred then announced Project Genesis, an infrastructure platform (extended AquaLogic line) to enable knowledge workers/IT to build apps that fit the way they work. To dynamically construct applications. "Pricing built in", "SaaS", "design for hosted and traditional applications"

We then had a demo of what they had in mind: someone using Workspace 360 (which is integral to Genesis) to look at business from exec level (nice graphs), then click through to business processes, then modify the process by looking up another component to insert (from a repository), then drilling down into the process implementation (looked like WLI to modify it, again using repository), and a promise to drill down even further to code.

In other words, the context can be shared; what the exec wants can be communicated to those doing the business processes, which in turn can be communicated to the architects etc. The shared repository seems to be pretty important here, and the ease with which these different perspectives can share information.

I think I can see where Alfred is going with this. I mean, this is mashups of sorts. It is combining services (although here at different layers). And business processes are key. Mashups for the business I guess. Of course, all the details area little fuzzy, but let's see what turns up!

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