Open-Source SOA Proves Valuable to Business Processes
A presenter from JBoss at the Red Hat Summit itemized the stages of service-oriented architecture, showed how businesses are benefiting today from the company's SOA platform and offered SOA predictions for two years in the future.
For example, a hypothetical 2010 SOA scenario he described would use an advanced business process management (BPM) suite, and would ensure that the SOA governance platform supported not just Web services but also BPEL, SCA and other business process standards. Fricke also expects to see more standardization in messaging technologies in a similar time frame.
This trend has clear business benefits for IT governance and compliance, Fricke emphasized. He cited one CIO who realized that "to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, I just have to prove what happens in my business process!" As Fricke explained, the CIO could use event logs and an event-driven architecture to record everything that happened—and didn't happen. And doing so could take away a huge amount of Sarbanes-Oxley complexity.



