Architecture, Data and Intelligence

A business service represents an agreed delivery of some parcel of capability from one agent to another agent. Understanding services prop...

During the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, the British Army operated a laundry - an apparently innocent laundry with some addition...

In my post on the Laundry Metaphor of Services , I said that all services are a bit like laundry, and some services are very much like laund...

Multi-tenancy basically means that the service provider is supporting several customers with the same resources. (There is some ambiguity ab...

Just over a year ago, fed up with the over-use of the Lego brick metaphor, my colleague David Sprott proposed the laundry model of SOA ( Exp...

A service-oriented modelling approach helps us to identify alternative business strategies, involving the creation and deployment of added-v...