Business Orchestration

Digital convergence is redefining industries, and putting information, knowledge and collaboration at the heart of strategic leadership and management. In the face of such change it is those leaders who can ‘orchestrate’ a complex network of employees, customers and suppliers in a single ongoing learning experience that will succeed. Exploring four learning roles for customers (information acquirer; explorer; performer; inventor) and orchestrators (conductor; architect; auctioneer; promoter), Business Orchestration provides a strategic view of how to harness digital convergence by mobilizing and integrating the resources of other companies to create business value.

This book introduces a new industry technology, Business Service Orchestration (BSO). Section I provides detailed overview of business services and their orchestration and describes an in-depth architecture necessary to provide a web of business services, and orchestration of their interactions, including a methodology for modeling the BSO. Section II focuses on technologies necessary to orchestrate business services, ranging from component models to programming languages to various kinds of protocols. Section III reveals a real use case and explains how to apply orchestration to a real-life business process.

Service orchestration techniques combine the benefits of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) to compose and coordinate distributed software services. On the other hand, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is gaining popularity as a software delivery model through cloud platforms due to the many benefits to software vendors, as well as their customers. Multi-tenancy, which refers to the sharing of a single application instance across multiple customers or user groups (called tenants), is an essential characteristic of the SaaS model. Written in an easy to follow style with discussions supported by real-world examples, Service Orchestration as Organization introduces a novel approach with associated language, framework, and tool support to show how service orchestration techniques can be used to engineer and deploy SaaS applications. Describes the benefits as well as the challenges of building adaptive, multi-tenant software service applications using service-orchestration techniques Provides a thorough synopsis of the current state of the art, including the advantages and drawbacks of the adaptation techniques available Describes in detail how the underlying framework of the new approach has been implemented using available technologies, such as business rules engines and web services

Growth is non-negotiable for the stakeholders, and the solution lies in the orchestration of the business. In the ever-evolving realm of business, the path to sustained success requires an architecture that supports integrated processes with a blend of tools, technologies, high-performance teams, and strategic reinvention. Even medium businesses are fast evolving into structures replicating conglomerates and need to architect their businesses, learning from the conglomerates, to handle size with agility. “Scale it or Shut it” teaches the management essentials for handling conglomerate complexities for continued success. Discover the indispensable pillars that support your journey: • Business Architecture: Architect your business rather than shooting the arrow and making it the target where the arrow hits. This is fundamental to any complex business. • Orchestrate the Business: All the processes should work in unison with harmony rather than working on their own islands. • A closed loop of business: without a closed loop, management cannot know whether a strategy is working or not. • Organizational Synergy: Learn to harmonize multiple business arms and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation, driving your conglomerate’s competitive edge. This comprehensive guide combines expert insights with practical advice to help you chart a course towards creating and leading a business empire. Whether you’re working in medium business, mimicking the conglomerate, or elevating an existing empire to new heights, Scale it or Shut it equips you with the management essentials and the wisdom to navigate the complex world of conglomerates, transforming your aspirations into reality.

This book constitutes the workshops of the 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2006, held in Chicago, IL, USA. The two workshops presented were carefully reviewed and selected from six submissions. Both ICSOC'06 workshops were held as one-day-workshops the day before the major conference program of ICSOC'06 started. This volume contains separate descriptions of both workshops as well as all high-quality paper contributions to these two workshops.

Are you looking for alternative streams of revenue for your business, low-hanging-fruit opportunities, and better profit margins? According to McKinsey, a dozen or so emerging economies will collectively have an annual GDP of more than 20 trillion USD by 2020, exceeding that of the United States. In 2015, developing economies will account for more than half of the world's annual GDP. And the largest consumer markets of the next generation can be found in emerging markets like China, India, and Africa. With figures like these, "going global," particularly to emerging markets can present the opportunities for which you are looking?As markets in developed countries stagnate, slow, dwindle, or reach saturation, companies are looking for new horizons to sustain them in the next generation economy. This is no less true for entrepreneurs and SMEs. While going global has become a business imperative and entrepreneurs and SMEs look for new opportunities like larger firms, questions arise around how? How do we go global? How do we tap into markets far away with limited resources? How will going global make a difference? How long should we wait before going global?Going Global on a Dime answers the "how" of going global from both a strategic and practical approach, focusing on new and existing firms considering or just starting the going global process. It re-wires the framework for going global so firms can navigate the course dynamically while minimizing costs, managing and maximizing cash flow and return on investment, streamlining processes, and keeping the "small" firm ready to take advantage of profitable opportunities.

Illustrating the interdisciplinary implications for research on creativity development, this book focuses on the new concept of ‘knowledge differences’ that arise between people, organizations and various phenomena. It describes how these key differences create boundaries knowledge, a dynamic process that accelerates innovation.

BizTalk 2013 Recipes provides ready-made solutions to BizTalk Server 2013 developers. The recipes in the book save you the effort of developing your own solutions to common problems that have been solved many times over. The solutions demonstrate sound practice, the result of hard-earned wisdom by those who have gone before. Presented in a step-by-step format with clear code examples and explanations, the solutions in BizTalk 2013 Recipes help you take advantage of new features and deeper capabilities in BizTalk Server 2013. You’ll learn to integrate your solutions with the cloud, configure BizTalk on Azure, work with electronic data interchange (EDI), and deploy the growing range of adapters for integrating with the different systems and technologies that you will encounter. You’ll find recipes covering all the core areas: schemas, maps, orchestrations, messaging and more. BizTalk Server 2013 is Microsoft’s market-leading platform for orchestrating process flow across disparate applications. BizTalk 2013 Recipes is your key to unlocking the full power of that platform. What you’ll learn Automate business processes across different systems in your enterprise. Build, test, and deploy complex maps and schemas. Implement the business rules engine (BRE). Develop business activity monitoring (BAM) solutions. Manage electronic data interchange (EDI) with trading partners. Monitor and troubleshoot automated processes. Deploy BizTalk to Azure and build cloud based solutions. Who this book is for BizTalk 2013 Recipes is aimed at developers working in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013. Experienced BizTalk developers will find great value in the information around new functionality in the 2013 release such as that for cloud based integrations. Those brand new to BizTalk will appreciate the clear examples of core functionality that help them understand how best to design and deploy BizTalk Server solutions. Table of Contents What’s New in BizTalk Server 2013 Document Schemas Document Mapping Messaging and Pipelines Orchestrations Adapters Business Rules Framework EDI Solutions Cloud Solutions Deployment Administration and Operations Business Activity Monitoring