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Missing emphasis on 'A' in
SOA
Dr
Vish Viswanathan, The Open Group
In spite of the extensive solution focus on SOA by IT
industry, there has not been sufficient emphasis on
Architecture aspects of SOA. How can SOA ignore the
current state of "spaghetti-like" Enterprise
Architecture, a strange mix of old and new technologies,
characterised by islands of information, disparate
applications, and myriad of platforms. This presentation
highlights the issue as well as the initiatives in The
Open Group to put the emphasis back on 'A' in
SOA.
The Value of Standards for
eBusiness
Tim
McGrath, UBL
The diversity and number of standards available for
eBusiness appears to work against the objective of
simpler, interoperable exchanges of business documents.
Why is this? This talk will examine whether standards
are what we think they are, what some of the current
standards are, and what they should be. It then
discusses how we can benefit from re-using the patterns
described in eBusiness standards.
The ATO’s Standard Business
Reporting Project
Darren
Menachemson, Australian Taxation Office
Following the success of the Netherlands Taxonomy
project, the ATO will be working with a number of other
federal and state agencies to simplify and reduce the
burden of reporting to government for Australian
businesses. The ATO will be utilising the XBRL
specification to implement this new reporting
regime.
A passion for saving
lives
Jodie
Camden, Police Information Exchange
XML is a straightforward, flexible text format which
greatly simplifies large-scale data exchange. Right?
Yes, but there's more!
XML is also a very powerful tool to help police
around the world to make our communities safer and save
lives. In the hands of police, up-to-date information
helps them to target offenders and protect innocent
victims. It also helps give advance warning of the
likely response of an offender to police
intervention.
This presentation will clearly demonstrate that
there's much more to XML than dry coding, and that our
efforts can often make a valuable contribution to
society.
EERP, the possible killer
of SOA
Andy
Lee, Changfeng Alliance
SOA brings the value chain of online society together
through a open standard such as Webservice, SOAP and so
on. In the SOA age, a company can not only organize,
process and optimise information of internal system, but
also collect, interact and optimize the information from
its external partners such as suppliers, distributors
and vendors. End-to-End Resource Planning (EERP) is an
application that integrates the resource information
that relevant to the external partners of an enterprise
and then optimise the information subject to a set of
financial goals. Combining the optimization of internal
resources by the means of ERP, an enterprise can use
EERP to achieve a complete picture of its operation and
market environment. The implementation of EERP requires
an enterprise version of UDDI server that can register
the services from all external partners, a optimizer
that generates the chorography of external services per
a set of enterprise financial goals. EERP exhibits the
best of SOA, and extends the scope of an enterprise
application to the whole value chain. Therefore, we
think EERP could be the killer application that SOA will
generate.
A Government Tender
Information Management Service
Stephen
Gould, Open Interchange Consortium
Government tenders are the first public step of the
Government eTender Process http://www.oic.org/guest.htm.
Often these tenders require a number of business
partners working together to submit consortium responses
to solve complex requirements with a number of
stakeholders.
TIMS was developed to as a standard XML tender form
(including the ISO 8601 to provide Business Intelligence
reports for the 3 different levels of Government tenders
to enable business partners to utilise templates to
respond quickly.
Managing Application
Localization data in the database using XML and
XLiff
Bhushan
Khaladkar, Oracle
This paper demonstrates a new approach to storing,
querying and extracting application localization data in
the database using XML and XLiff. In databases which
support XML natively, applications can store data as XML
allowing users to leverage rich XML standards like
XMLSchema, and XQuery/XPath/XSLT. The translations are
stored within the XML documents. These documents can be
queried by applications using XQuery, SQL/XML standards.
The results returned by these queries will be
transparently based on the user session language
setting. Indexes on the XML documents are made
translation aware for efficient queries. Applications
can also extract localization data from the XML in the
XLiff format so that it can be consumed by localization
tools and also apply the XLiff documents generated by
tools to the data allowing them the ability to integrate
with Localization tools using open
standards.
Policy-driven governance in
a SOA World
Paul
Pognoski, Japara Solutions
SOAs hold great promise to improve re-usability of IT
assets increasing the responsiveness of changing IT
organizations. A key enabler of SOA-based systems is
policies representing various characteristics of a
system from process, function, security and
performance.
Presentation highlights include: Reducing costs
associated w/creating, maintaining management policies;
Automating the provisioning of policies, avoid
administering one-at-a-time; Built-in roles for
controlling/limiting access to sensitive data; and
Importance of bidirectional policy communication
w/registries.
Microformats – a revolution
in semantics for today’s web
John
Allsopp, Western Civilisation
The problem of bringing richer semantics to the Web
has been challenging standards bodies and developers for
years. The last year or two has seen an evolutionary
approach to richer semantics for today's web, based on
HTML, current developer practices, and tools -
Microformats, has been spreading like wildfire among
tool developers, and web publishers large and small.
John will look at why microformats are necessary,
what organisations like Yahoo! are doing with them, and
how your organisation can benefit from them right
now.
NZ SAMS – the New Zealand
Government deployment profile of OASIS SAML v2.0: A Case
Study
Bill
Young, State Services Commission, NZ
The New Zealand Government proposes to deploy OASIS
SAML v2.0 in its All-of-government Authentication
Programme and other related e-initiatives promoted by
government agencies. This presentation provides a high
level overview of the Programme and walks attendees
though the approach being taken to develop the profile.
The presentation will highlight the roles of the
standards bodies, vendors and the agency implementers in
the work, and finish with an insight into the key
considerations for others who may be planning a similar
exercise.
Enterprise Integration
using Enterprise Architecture, Web Services and
SOA
Clive
Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services
Success with Enterprise Integration depends on both
Business Integration and Technology Integration.
Business Integration is achieved using Enterprise
Architecture methods, while Technology Integration is
achieved using Web Services and SOA. This session shows
how rapid delivery EA methods can be used with these
technologies to achieve effective Enterprise
Integration.
Key points of discussion will include: Why is
Enterprise Architcture important for Enterprise
Integration? Which EA methods are used for Business
Integration? How do these methods work with Web Services
and SOA? Why do all three approaches need to be used
together?
ebXML – B2B, Model to
wire
Steve
Capell, Red Wahoo
The goal of this presentation is to demonstrate the
application of the complete suite of ebXML
specifications to achieve secure, reliable and
semantically meaningful business to business
interoperability between businesses of any size. The
presenter will give an overview of the ebXML suite
including the CEFACT Information modelling (CCTS) and
process modelling (UMM) framework and the OASIS process
(ebBP), registry (ebRIM), partner agreement (ebCPA) and
messaging (ebMS) specifications. The presenter will then
show these specifications in action by developing and
deploying a business interaction between a large
enterprise running SAP and a small business running
Quickbooks. Delegates will learn how a collection of
closely aligned but loosely coupled set of
specifications such as the ebXML suite provides the most
cost effective and scalable way to build interoperable
business communities.
The document formats
landscape 2006
Jason
Harrop, Consultant
In spite of its promise, the vision of widespread use
of XML to leverage significant information in business
documents is yet to be realized. This paper will look at
some of the reasons why progress has been so slow, and
what is likely to occur over the next couple of years.
Leading document formats such as XHTML, OASIS'
OpenDocument file format, and Microsoft's
WordProcessingML will be considered as platforms for
custom markup, and contrasted with the alternative of
developing a new format from
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