While I was reading Small Companies do not have time for SOA and Microsoft’s Just Do it SOA, I was wondering how Business Rules Technology so nicely fits in with this idea.
Personally, I am normally careful about any big bang approaches to change, and the popular SOA philosophy seems to be propounding exactly that. I like the […]

This is my final post in this series.In part 1, I introduced Decision Services, in part 2, I talked about the challenges in implementing Decision Services.
In this post, I will attempt to come up with a set of capabilities that you need to aim to have when using rule driven Decision Services
The SOA Life Cycle
Before […]

In this post, I will attempt to cover the implementation landscape including actors and roles, technologies and skill sets. I will attempt to identify the typical challenges that might arise when using rule driven Decision Services in an SOA.
A little Background
Lets take the example of a Pricing Service in a Loan Process. A Pricing Service […]

This is the first of my 3 part series on real world SOA and rule driven decision services. I am going to essentially talk about the following items

What you need to know about a Decision Service ?
The implementation landscape including actors and roles, technologies and skill sets. What are the typical challenges that might arise […]

I was writing about Loan Processes, Service Orientation and Business Rules yesterday, when I remembered the write-up on the MSDN Architecture Site on an Architecture for a Loan Origination System.
This article explains in some detail about Loan Origination Systems, and explains how you can use the MS Technologies stack to implement a solution. Please read […]

I have found myself explaining Service Orientation to members in YASU these last few days, and it seemed to be a perfect opportunity to get back into my blogging ways once again.
Here is a simplified version of a Loan Process. I’ll use this to talk about Service Orientation , and where a Business Rules driven […]