Alastair Green is CEO/CTO and co-founder of Choreology Ltd, the business transaction management (BTM) company. A co-author of the OASIS Business Transaction Protocol standard and an active member of the OASIS WSBPEL committee, he has spent over twenty years helping produce distributed transaction products for software vendors, and deploying them in end-user business processes, particularly in banks. He has been invited to overview web service transaction standards for the biennial High Performance Transactions Systems workshop this fall.
Business transaction management (BTM) is a promising new development in
general-purpose enterprise software. Most large companies are devoting
significant resources to the problem of reliable, consistent integration of
application services.
BTM offers previously inaccessible levels of application coordination and
process synchronization, radically simplifying the design and implementation
of transactional business processes. Business process management (BPM) needs
to be enriched by BTM for users to see the potential value of BPM realized in
practice.
XML is already widely deployed as a useful lingua franca enabling the
creation of canonical data standards for particular industries, trading
communities, and information exchanges. The extended family of Web services
sta... (more)
In the first part of this article (WSJ, Vol. 3, issue 9), we examined the
need to integrate business transaction management (BTM) software into
business process management standards and products. We believe that BTM
offers previously inaccessible levels of application coordination and process
synchronization, radically simplifying the design and implementation of
transactional business p... (more)
Alastair Green is CEO/CTO and co-founder of Choreology Ltd, the business transaction management (BTM) company. A co-author of the OASIS Business Transaction Protocol standard and an active member of the OASIS WSBPEL committee, he has spent over twenty years helping produce distributed transaction products for software vendors, and deploying them in end-user business processes, particularly in banks. He has been invited to overview web service transaction standards for the biennial High Performance Transactions Systems workshop this fall.
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