I, probably along with others having an Information Engineering background, see all of
these EDI message formats and transaction sets, XML
grammars/vocabularies/schema/styles, and other information products that Biztalk,
OASIS, and others are positioning themselves to support as the tip of a very long
chain of activity starting with the enterprise mission.
Enterprise Mission > Enterprise Management > Enterprise Engineering > Enterprise
Architecture/Integration > Enterprise Functional Strategy/SubMission > IT Architecture
> IT Infrastructure > IT Systems > Software Applications > Application
data-schema/queries/forms/reports/transformations/modules.
The information products generated at the end of the above strategic management
process aren't generally developed in isolation, but they often take on a life of
their own, independent of their roots. Why spend resources on building or maintaining
a product, service, or internal capability if it does not well-serve a higher business
need?
As to Biztalk, it seems to provide a registry for some of these XML information
products, with a mechanism to interface them. Unfortunately, the interfaces end up
being organized in very expensive many to many relations, rather than less expensive
many to one to many relations. The central hub, like a data dictionary, to which all
interfaces would be defined, seems to be missing from Biztalk. This central hub,
providing an integrating common vocabulary/grammar, would be generated and maintained
by analysis of the above strategic management process operating in its environment.
Roy
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Boyle
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 7:50 AM
To: The XML/EDI Group
Subject: RE: Biztalk - Everyone loves marketing!
...Bloor Research on www.silicon.com Jan 31, says
"The reason (for the delay)... is the competition is already
ahead of the game. According to recent reports, the missing
link is the connection with business processes. This is the ability to
link the communications required between organisations with the
higher-level business logic, for example ordering a product or
handling a customer request.
Products from HP and Vitria, for example, already support such a
linkage. But as yet Microsoft has no such facility. Microsoft insiders
claim that BizTalk is changing to take this into account - but that
could give the competition quite a lead."...
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