Similar to the enablement of applications to the web in the late 90\u2019s, service oriented architecture (SOA) is a major paradigm shift in how we do and think about business processes and the data that supports it.<\/p>\n
SOA is really just a fancy name for the next generation of middleware. Built on web services technologies, SOA includes the basics of identity, directory, applications management and data integration protocols. Not that it all happens in the SOA middleware, but SOA is the facilitator and enabler of more robust transactions.<\/p>\n
One of the things this means is that workflows once disjointed because they flowed through disparate systems can be unified in the middleware. However, this creates new problems. While the business process and be unified through a single stream of work, the front end user interface does not necessarily support it. For example, if your performance process includes doing performance management in Workstream, compensation in SuccessFactors and allows drill downs into the Sum Total learning system, the front end user interface has to be rebuilt to support the new workflow. While the middleware accommodates the integration of process, the UI\/portal layer does not necessarily know how you want it presented.<\/p>\n
Think if you had a single talent application suite. Theoretically the performance scores and configuration flow easily into compensation and so on. Each of the vendors is good enough to know that their user interface needs to allow managers to jump around easily within the process and go forwards and backwards in the process to view data, and they have tooled the user interfaces to be able to do that. But if you are working off of disparate systems, your portal tool doesn\u2019t necessarily know what to do when the user wants to \u201cjump.\u201d HOW you want data presented is completely different than the fact that data CAN be presented.<\/p>\n
What it does know is simply what can be brought forward from the SOA middleware. That is, no matter what the event or action trigger is from any application attached to the SOA middleware, the UI can present the user with a single task list from all the disparate systems. Portals will also gain in sophistication, mostly from allowing more configuration in how end users see the business process. Until then, SOA enablement is limited by your ability to construct the user view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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