Provides a meta model for SOA. The meta model is presented in the form of several UML class diagrams. Each diagram depicts a number of CBDI Service Architecture and Engineering (CBDI-SAE) SOA concepts, and shows how these concepts are related. The main attributes of each concept are given. Each of these diagrams provides one particular view of the overall unified meta model.

Across the industry Application Modernization is a synonym for legacy renewal and transformation. It's widely viewed as a technology based process. In contrast we recommend that modernization must be business driven. It's a major opportunity to create a modern architecture which reflects the current and future business needs. Getting concrete understanding of the future business needs is of course not a trivial task and in this article we provide guidance on using the increasingly popular BPMN notation in a systematic and efficient approach to business driven modernization.

The Capability concept is widely accepted as a useful technique to bridge the business perspective and the service architecture. But capability identification is frequently as far as it goes. Our experience is that capability can provide a really powerful mechanism to justify, drive and govern service delivery and provide integrated business and IT planning and management. This report outlines a structured approach to the analysis and planning of business and IT capabilities.

Editorial: The Parallel Universe Syndrome

Practice Guide: Beware the New Silos! A governance approach to coordinating the disciplines involved in business improvement.

There are six primary disciplines involved in business improvement – Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management, Business Capability Management, Service Oriented Application Modernization and IT Service Management.  In many enterprises the level of coordination between the disciplines is inadequate resulting in silos which deliver suboptimal results for the enterprise. In this report we explore the issues and propose a governance based approach to balancing responsibilities, accountabilities and managing conflicts and maturity.
By David Sprott

Practice Guide: Innovative Business Process Design

In previous reports we have advised on approaches for modeling for business improvement and the adaptable enterprise. In this report we return to this topic and show by example how enterprises are innovating in their process design to deliver significant improvements in customer experience. They do this by going beyond basic process modeling with capability models for organizational intelligence. We show by example how this model provides an integrating framework for implementing a broad range of organizational and technological initiatives.
By Richard Veryard

Editorial: The Service Oriented Enterprise

Research Report: Business Design for the Service Oriented Enterprise

Business design is set to undergo a dramatic transformation. The convergence of ecosystem automation and autonomics, architecture for continuously evolving business, together with the merger of consumer and business IT will have a profound impact on conventional business models.
By David Sprott

Practice Guide: Capability Planning and Analysis

Our experience is that capability can provide a really powerful mechanism to justify, drive and govern service delivery and provide integrated business and IT planning and management. This report outlines a structured approach to the analysis and planning of business and IT capabilities.
By Lawrence Wilkes

Practice Guide: Using Capability Planning and Analysis

This report looks at various ways in which Capability Planning and Analysis might be applied in specialized scenarios and service portfolio planning.
By Lawrence Wilkes

This article presents a "draft" publication of Version 3 of the CBDI-SAE Meta Model. It incorporates some changes based on our continued work with customers and standards organizations and provides a mapping to SoaML so that end users can reap the benefits of both the breadth and depth of the CBDI-SAE Meta Model as well as the capabilities that tool vendors will develop based on SoaML.

Application Modernization is a commonly used term covering a wide range of practices and technologies. As the world emerges from recession there is growing interest in applying modernization techniques and technologies to reduce complexity and cost and respond to rapidly changing, post recession business models. In this report we explore how the CBDI SAE framework can be evolved to provide a repeatable, business driven backplane for effective application modernization practice.

In a collaborative, shared, reusable SOA world the reference framework provides a common backplane for federated service and solution development and assembly. Without a consistent framework, service orientation will remain an interesting concept but deliver suboptimal business value. With an appropriate reference framework the work of individual projects, programs divisions and partners will be coordinated with just enough formality to ensure that the many moving parts can fit together when and were needed. This article provides a process structure for the creation and evolution of the model and architecture elements of the SOA Reference Framework.

In recent years, TIBCO has expanded it's highly regarded middleware core of integration and messaging infrastructure to provide Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) support. In this report we look at the suite of products offered by TIBCO, and consider how they can be used to implement the Service Architecture best practice recommended by Everware-CBDI.

It can be difficult to understand a meta model quickly. To help readers get a better grasp of the CBDI-SAE meta model for SOA, this report walks through the model providing examples of the concepts and their properties.

The OutSystems Agile Platform is a unified software development environment that provides full life cycle support for composing Web business applications using Agile methods. In this report we overview how the combination of product architecture and agile methods are used to deliver SOA based solutions. 

At the heart of the service concept is conformance with the principle of the "contract based" capability. Whilst many SOA principles will be optional depending upon context, the use of service contracts is likely to be required, because a well formed service is likely to be the primary enabler of the agile business. At the same time it is important to use a pragmatic level of specification detail that is appropriate to the context of use. Our practice research to date has focused on the Rich Service Specification and the Service Level Agreement. In this report we extend that guidance to cover evolution of specification artifacts across the full service life cycle, in an integrated way, to include all the involved parties.

We continue to develop our thinking on SOA Adoption Roadmap as we work with customers. In this report we map out the framework in a more orderly manner than we have done previously, and also taking the opportunity to introduce practical guidance on customization for various circumstances that we have encountered. We have also updated and structured our guidance on patterns.

CentraSite is a SOA governance and lifecycle management product from Software AG. This report  looks at how an enterprise user organization may customize and extend the provided capabilities to support the meta model underlying Service Lifecycle Automation and SOA Configuration Management as discussed in recent reports. 

There is no "one size fits all" methodology, ours or anyone else's, and so best practice in method development calls for incorporation of a framework of artifacts, tools and techniques that can be tailored to the nuances of each organization that wants to implement the methodology. However, most popular methods don't tend to focus on the needs of service lifecycle instead covering a broad but typically less focused method landscape. CBDI's SAE™ Reference Framework is built to remedy that problem by highlighting aspects of methodology such as process, techniques and artifacts needed to embrace SOA concepts in a structured manner. This article provides an introduction to the Architecture component of the Reference Framework and the rationale that went into its creation.

This report provides an update to the UML Profile for the CBDI-SAE Meta Model V3 focusing on the core areas and those that illustrate alignment with SoaML. Given that worked examples are the best way to understand a meta model we have updated the example model based on the fictional company Springfield Parcels, Inc. This should allow readers the opportunity to compare and contrast the version 2 meta model with that of version 3.

In this report we provide guidance on how to obtain and use the CBDI-SAE UML profile for SOA and provides a user friendly example based on our well known case – Springield Parcels.

The CBDI-SAE Metamodel provides a robust set of metadata that supports the entire service lifecycle.  A UML Profile is a mechanism that allows existing UML tools such as Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, No Magic’s MagicDraw and Rational Software’s Rational Software Modeler to immediately begin using a language that extends the UML with additional semantics and notation in a standard, shareable manner.