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information available in a utility-like fashion is the utopia
of the enterprise software system. In your office or home, we
take for granted that we can plug our electronic devices into
the electrical power system and it will just work. All of these
devices agreed on a standard for making the grid and the devices
work together. In essence, this is the same goal we are trying
to accomplish in the enterprise, but on a much grander scale.
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In our analogy, the
power grid is the system of processes in an organization. It is
literally hundreds of processes and their sub-processes that have
been defined. Each of these processes has well defined interface
points, where humans or other processes join the conversation
and interact. Picture a 3D model of all of the processes in an
enterprise linked together. Natural flow of information takes
place within a process, between processes and between organizations.
Web Service Orchestration
enables the creation of a system flow that mimics the needs of
a business.
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