2. IT should be responsive to change! IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 Today’s IT architectures, arcane as they may be, are the biggest roadblocks most companies face when making strategic moves . --- McKinsey “ Flexible IT, Better Strategy” “ It is not necessarily the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent , but the one that is most responsive to change .” --- Charles Darwin

3. Two roads: SOA or Web 2.0? IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43

4. SOA unique selling points IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 Relative costs Adoption Deployment Maintenance Changes [source ZapThink http://www.zapthink.com/] Costs of different EAI approces Custom Integration Proprietary EAI solutions Web Services based EAI solutions SOA based EAI solutions

5. … mature integration model IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca 5/43 1 2 3 4 5 silos object component service SOA Maturità del modello di integrazione infrastructure architecture applications method IT seen from the business Function oriented modules structured Close platforms monolitic Function oriented modules Object oriented Close platforms a layers Function oriented components Component based Open platforms Component-based Service oriented service Service modeling W eb S ervices Client-server Service oriented Business Process made of services IT process modeling Web Services SOA

8. SOA allows to open-up the silos IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 Silos 1 Shared Services Outsourced Services Provider Customer Silos 2 … by rationalizing the architecture.

9. SOA provide great plumbing! IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43

12. Web 2.0 provide great plumbing! IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43

13. Can SOA and Web 2.0 get combined? IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 SOA Web 2.0 plan design implement monitor

14. Similarities and differences IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 Web 2.0 SOA Software as service = Software as service Interoperability achieved using existing Web standards in new ways (i.e., Ajax + REST service) = Interoperability achieved proposing new “Web” standards (i.e., SOAP, WSDL, UDDI) Accent on platform = Accent on platform Encurage re-use  Allow re-use Rich and lightweight user interfaces  No user interfaces Participation  Governance

15. SOA and Web 2.0 nicely fit together! IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca Fonte: Babak Hosseinzadeh, IBM /43

16. Mash-up based on SOA: great plumbing! IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca Mash-up SOA /43

17. Is pluming enough? IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43

18. The problem is in the semantics! IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 to know what that format is. You have to agree on what the business objects look like. And no one has come up with a feasible way to work that out yet ...“ Oracle Chairman and CEO - Larry Ellison " Semantic differences remain the primary roadblock to smooth application integration , one which Web Services alone won't over-come. Until someone finds a way for applications to understand each other, the effect of Web services technology will be fairly limited. When I pass customer data across in a certain format using a Web Services interface, the receiving program has The problem is not in the plumbing, it is in the semantics ” Verizon Chief Scientist - M . L . Brodie

20. Coping with complexity… IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 Inspired by: J. Cardoso, C. Bussler, A. Sheth, D. Fensel, Semantic Web Services and Processes , October 2002 A4 A1 A4 A1 A2 A1 A2 A1 B3 A4 A2 A1 B3 A1 B3 A1 A1 A2 A1 A4 A4 A2 A1 A4 A4 A2 A1 A2 A2 A1 B3 A1 A1 A2 A1 A1 A1 B3 A1 A1 A1 A1 A4 A4 A4 A1 A1 A2 A1 A4 A1 A1 A1 A1 B3 B3 A2 A4 A1 A1 A2 A1 A1 A2 A1 A1 A1 A1 B3 A4 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A4 B3 B3 B3 B3 A1 B3 A4 B3 A1 A4 A1 A4 A2 A2 A1 A1 A1 A1 A4 A1 A1 A1 A2 A1 A4 A1 A4 B3 A1 A1 A4 A2 A4 A1 A1 A2 B3 A1 A2 A2 A1 A1 B3 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A4 B3 A2 A1 A4 A1 A1 A1 A4 A1 B3 A1 A2 A2 A1 A4 A2 A1 A2 A1 A1 A1 A2 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 B3 B3 A4 A4 A1 A4 A2 A1 A4 If you have few services and data source you want to support several simple mashup But, if you have lot of services and data sources and you want to support complex business process? B8 A1 A4 A1 A2 A4 B3 A1 A4 A6 A2 A5 A4 A1 A4 A1 A1 B3 B3 A1 A1 B3 A1 A1 A4 A4 A1 A1 A4 A1 A2 A1 B3 A1 A4 A4 A1 A2 A2 B3 A2 Few services and data sources Simple mashup Lot of complex services and data sources Complex Business Process A ? C D N1 N2 F E

25. A Semantic Web Service Challenge IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 http://sws-challenge.org sponsored by organized by Mediation Discovery

27. The SWE-ET approach IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 Business Process Modeling Software (Web) engineering http://www.bpmn.org/ BPMN http://www.webml.org/ Semantic Web Services SWE-ET http://www.wsmo.org/ S emantic W eb (services) E ngineering E nvironment and T ool http://glue.cefrie.it

28. WebML and WebRatio at work IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 /43 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca

30. SWE-ET: Extended WebML framework IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 SWS WebML S emantic W eb S ervice Application

39. DEMO: Glue at work IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 Try it! http://webml.org/sws-challenge.html

40. Awards related to SWE-ET IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca /43 Links: http://sws-challenge.org/wiki/index.php/Workshop_Budva#Evaluation http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/scholars/it/faculty_awards.html http://www.webml.org http://www.webratio.com http://glue.cefrie.it The most complete solution of Faculty Award 2006

43. Thank you for paying attention. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA USA 2-11-2007 E. Della Valle and F.M. Facca Any Question ? /43