Service Architecture
Everware-CBDI has pioneered structured methodology for Service Architecture and Service Portfolio Planning. The underlying reference models have been contributed to various standards bodies and have been made available in the public domain. Today the core concepts are widely used by organizations moving to higher levels of SOA maturity where formality of reference model, policy and portfolio coordination are essential. Everware-CBDI provides services to accelerate the achievement of SOA maturity and of the resulting benefits.
Everware-CBDI Service Architecture services can accelerate delivery of the reference model and reference architecture, development of the service architecture for one or more domains and establish the methodology and practices for Service Portfolio Planning (SPP).
Everware-CBDI provides a range of services to assist customers to:
- assess current service and data architectures;
- establish their reference model, reference architecture and repeatable process to ensure consistency and quality;
- develop and evolve service architecture and the service portfolio for project, programs, domains or for the enterprise;
- adopt and customize the Everware-CBDI Service Architecture & EngineeringTM (CBDI-SAETM) framework
Associated Reports
Using Capability Planning and Analysis (pdf)
This report looks at various ways in which Capability Planning and Analysis might be applied in specialized scenarios and service portfolio planning.
Capability Planning and Analysis (pdf)
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.
Business Design for the Service Oriented Enterprise (pdf)
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
CBDI Journal October 2011 (pdf)
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
The Agile Application Modernization Project (pdf)
In this report, we discuss an agile project structure and organization and provide a detailed breakdown of the Application Modernization process in terms of Project Phases and Work Packages.
This approach to application modernization will allow an escalation from a sponsored modernization effort to an enterprise SOA effort over time. It can be viewed as the pragmatic middle ground between a difficult to motivate enterprise level SOA and successive SOA projects that will inevitably lead to service anarchy.
Innovative Business Process Design (pdf)
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.
CBDI Journal April 2011 (pdf)
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
CBDI Journal Jan 2011
Editorial: Head in the Clouds?
Practice Guide: Making Sense of Cloud Computing
The terms virtualization, utility computing and Cloud computing are often used interchangeably which can be very confusing. This report aims to provide clarification - to identify the similarities and differences in those characteristics, and provide a framework in which organizations can decide which capabilities they require in specific situations – as it is unlikely that one model alone will suit all requirements. By Lawrence Wilkes
Practice Guide: Business Driven Cloud Strategy
Cloud is rapidly gaining acceptance in the provisioning of utility IT resources, but we must look beyond the purely technology considerations to understand the broader implications and opportunities for business. In this report we outline a roadmap planning approach that integrates Cloud Computing, SOA and BPM in delivering new business models. By David Sprott
Practice Guide: Information Services Architecture for Responsive Process Management
Business process management is evolving to incorporate dynamic response to events. In this environment the information services architecture must also evolve to provide a broader set of information that complements the transactional business process perspective. By David Sprott
Applying ESB (pdf)
What is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)? We suggest it is a logical collection of various capabilities, not a product category. In this short extract from a CBDI Journal report, we examine what capabilities might be offered by an ESB and how the different capabilities might be provided by new products, existing infrastructure, or perhaps built in-house.