Ideate Service Oriented Processes
Posted Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009, 8:02 am.Ideate takes a holistic approach to service orientation. Instead of modelling a research process as a single monolithic flowchart, Ideate has thoughtfully deconstructed complex research lifecycles into loosely-coupled Services. A Service Oriented Process, or process fragment, represents a single step or series of related steps that collectively fulfil an abstracted business need (e.g. form completion; error checking; internal review; account establishment; project startup; etc.).
Ideate’s approach gives it unprecedented support for long-running human-centric processes that involve frequent ‘wait’ periods, extensive conditional branching, complicated decision trees, and interrelated processes. Importantly, the architecture manages all these variables in a consistent and structured way that provides for governance and change management.
The universal componentization of all system resources into loosely-coupled services is the necessary foundation for the dynamic composition that makes Ideate system interactions so responsive. In Ideate, discrete services that come together like tiles in a mosaic to deliver a , every interaction is made-to-order.
Ideate’s exploitation of pervasive loose-coupling to achieve dynamic composition based on context, puts the solution at the pinnacle of any SOA maturity model.
