Course Outline
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) expresses an architectural concept which defines the use of services to meet the requirements of software users. An SOA environment will consist of nodes on a network which make resources available to other participants in the network as independent services (for instance Web Service) which are accessed in a standardised way. Due to the highly interoperable nature of SOA services, technologies such as Java and .NET can co-exist. Software components tend to be reusable, so for instance a C#.NET service may be used by a Java application, and/or any other programming language which can access this service, as the interface can be defined in a standards-compliant manner which 'hides' any vendor- or language-specific implementation from the calling service.
SOA & BPM Training: Service Orientation & Process Management Training Course Outline
Introduction
What you will learn
Lesson Review
Why BPM and SOA?
Topology of a SOA/BPM reference architecture
BPM Vendors overview
Positioning of vendor tools
BPM Overview
SOA and BPMS
When to choose a BPMS
IT and business must work hand in hand
Matching the right technology to your problem
Adopting a development model
Overview of a BPM system
Architecture of a BPM System
EAI and B2B aspects
Topology and scalability
Design tools
Deployment tools
Monitoring and management
The process engine
Process definition repository
Transaction manager
Connector framework
Understanding Basic Concepts and Architecture
Overview of open standards
How BPM fits inside the SOA architecture
Overview of the BPMN Standard
Getting more agile through BPM
basic concepts of a Process Manager
Process Manager Implementation Options
Installing a Process Manager
Example: BizTalk 2006 vs Oracle SOA Suite
Modeling a process with BPMN
The added value of BPMN
Composability and basic services
Promoting an incremental and iterative approach
Why should Use cases drive the project?
Declaration of message properties
Use of correlation sets
Develop a complex parallel execution of activities
Designing concurrency
BPMN implemented by vendors
Microsoft SOA and XLANG
Oracle SOA Suite and BPEL
A Simple Business Process
Introduction to using a Process Designer
Orchestrating services: SOA through BPM
Exchangeability of processes amongst vendors
Creating a Business Process
Adding Activities
Calling services in a loosely coupled fashion
Using location transparency
Deploying the Process
Fault Handling and Exception Management
Defining business events
Configuring service timeouts
Handling service faults
Catching service exceptions
Compensation Management
Administering Processes using Process Monitoring Describing the Consoles
Exploring the Administration Console
Managing a Domain
Viewing a PM Administration Server
Platform Administration
Interfacing with BAM (business activity monitoring)
What about BAS? (business activity services)
Adding a Notification to a Process
Selecting a Notification Channel
Connectivity support in a BPMS
Adapters for a standards-based environment
Selecting an adapter service
Configuring a File adapter
Supported and bundled adapters
The adapter framework
OEM adapters
Example: adapter in BizTalk
Example: adapter in Oracle
EDA and Business Intelligence
The fusion of SOA and BI
Combining events and services
Using ETL processes
SOA challenges to ETL
Pulling SOA data (Request/Reply)
Potential overlap between SOA and BI
Getting trend and historic data
Services being "owner" of their data
Complex event processing (CEP)
ad-hoc database queries
BPM as enabler of SOA: Key components
The active players: application frontends
Focus on business value: basic services
The value of an ESB
Using a registry and repository
Increased agility for the business
The BPM/SOA Board
Distributing technology white papers
Controlling & measuring improvement processes
Managing the repository
Setup of a quality gateway
The 4 pillars of success
Governance and Business strategy
The personal perspective
Innovation, growth and flexibility
Convincing the CEO,CIO, and Business units
The past: data/functions vs objects & services
Core business logic vs process control logic
Design implications for Architects
Alignment of Business and IT
Choosing the right approach
Start at the beginning: the business
Definition of business competencies
Identifying differentiators and overhead
From requirements to components
When does a component become a service?
The future of BPM and SOA
Reaching vendor independence
Roadmap to enterprise renovation
Continuous improvements
