Category Archives: SOA

(SOA) Service Oriented Architecture with (OP) Object Patterns, (SOI) Service Oriented Integration, (SOC) Service Oriented Components, (SoC) Separation of Concerns, and (E/PA) EndPoint analysis

SOA and eLearning

Posted on by
Reply

QUESTION by Kristi Mead for Facebook group “CSUF MSIDT Alumni Chapter – NEW”
What is the best flowchart software for ID and eLearning, especially for decision trees like in serious games?

RESPONSE:

The most popular is MS Visio with Professional preferred and widely used by most IT professional types.
For integrated packages with decision tree features just do a search on Google with keywords “flowchart software eLearning” gives good results. Add “decision tree” to get more results.

I chased some links and found some items very interesting to me but fairly technical since one was about SOA integration of eLearning elements and another was a very “mission critical” case study about a military issue in overcoming cultural differences:

o SOA/eLearning – http://www.waset.org/journals/ijhss/v4/v4-9-86.pdf
o cultural case study – http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2010/05/elearning-example-branching-scenario/

I am a ex-veteran and been a IT system architect some 20+ years currently concentrating on an SOA global products distribution Internet Facing system featuring SOA Demand Management driven design using Cloud technologies. The attempt is to provide real time management of global product distribution available anywhere and anytime; the design incorporates many APICS concepts the I developed for Toyota Motors, USA’s national parts system, Black & Decker, Ralphs Grocery, Broadway Department, Stores and Hughes Satellite (Direct TV) concepts and software predictive analytic solutions

I’m not sure if or how this may help you, but thanks you since it did help me!

1 page in MVC and Another in C#?

Posted on by
Reply

As an instructor of NET Framework 4 that uses Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET is under-the-hood object patterns.  C# is the best language to use since it designed to be compatible with NET Framework 4 and so is SQL 2008 and Server 2008 with Active Directory using Federation features.  Any MS versions less than these are going to be phased-out because the earlier software versions were a bit of a batch job because all the Federation and NET Framework 4 collaboration features were not fully compatible within the same object pattern technology (based on C# features).  Hence, this most currently implementation level now supports all Federal design goals; the federation feature allows MS to use one architect/framework that achieves single one logon for the Internet doing away with dealing with intranet and extranet configurations.  This was and has been Gates’ vision for over a decade.

There will be fewer and fewer radical changes in the architecture unless a sever design fault is discovered.

ASP.NET is a facade build on object patterns to keep the millions of small developers under the MS family marketing umbrella.  Under-the-hood the object pattern inventory services were built to support patterns like MVC, MVP, SOA, and other more advanced object patterns.  ASP.NET will die on its own being replaced by the newer generation of programmers while attempting to assist the older ASP.NET style programmers to move to MVC.  MVC is more robust, easier and faster program as well as less fragile.  Therefore, the best moves are to build using Visual Studio 2010 with C# and NET Framework 4 using MVC object patterns.  This way you will be OK in 2 years when Microsoft will move away from supporting ASP.NET (or just won’t enhance its features).

I have moved to include the SOA service design software such as (WF) Work Flow and (WFC) Windows Communication Foundation since these are used to create Internet facing transaction applications that can be Cloud enabled.  More fun stuff.,,

Follow discussion on Forums.ASP.NET

How-To Get Educated in the Security Knowledge Area?

Posted on by
Reply

I have been asked by a fellow IT consultant about how-to get a solid education in the Security Knowledge Area – in the broader sense of both physical and IT – but not overly in-depth IT/computer detailed.

Short answer and what I think professionally is a good solid approach:

  • certify in CompTIA Security+
  • BUT first certify in CompTIA Network+, and I would further suggest CompTIA Project+

This gives you vendor neutral security service language. This way you learn anindustry standardized approach to security that has a strong requirement of network security knowledge area and provides a good knowledge base of physical security. (For more details to the my blog: http://i4Aid.WordPress.com/)

Why?
One CompTIA is basically vendor neutral. Most of the major software platform heavily bias their certifications course to their vendor service language and marketing language usage. In today’s market place most of the software have reached an on-par implementation of industry standard deployment. Thus, you avoid limiting yourself to one particular vendor current implemented platform approach and you can comply with many of the government security certification requirements. Furthermore, this industry standardized service language knowledge based education will last you into the foreseeable future (possibly 10+ years or more) and make you more flexibility for career advancement and changes.

SEM+SOA(Security+)+SEO Framework Methodology with Business Scaffolding Approach

Posted on by
Reply

i4Aid has enhanced their IT consulting practice to a short-hand expression of SEM+SOA(Security+)+SEO as a scaffolding approach to transforming business vision while integrating IT service capabilities. It works just like remodeling a building – you start by building a scaffolding consulting framework. Then point-to-point you start changing different parts of the business but start at the top by building a new enterprise vision, mission and goals for the business – then you develop framework for produce-lines or product channels – all the way to a single product and or service item by recasting service capabilities and maximizing SEO values for hub website and social networks. This moves a firm into the future of a fully actualizing there business vision in a cloud Internet environment – into an actualize, relationalized, modernized, futurized, and revenuizing business

This remodeling method stresses team goals not personal performance such that when a team goal is achieved the team is honored equally (it follows some Scrum rules) Also it promotes a choice cascading style of management such that empowerment is made policy at each level in a business or organization. This creates a growth pattern of management while promoting service capabilities and social networking possibilities for marketing and eCommerce.. Combining these team skills in a directed top-down approach – with a SEM+SOA(Security+)+SEO framework aligns business vision with marketing vision and integrates your vision into to very fabric of the service capabilities at all levels in the IT framework while promoting excellent SEO – thus achieve the business vision while promotng promoting cloud Internet actions.

(SEM+BI)+SOA(SECURITY+)+SEO Framework Issues

Posted on by
Reply

Should BI teams be more focused on the business side of things or should they have technical IT expertise?

i4Aid/Internet4Aid RESPONSE:

Ajay Sharma • There is no one answer to this question. BI teams have multiple roles – some of which fit in the business side while others in IT. PMO role is required to manage and deliver to the timelines and comitments from various groups involved in a typical BI project. While business owns the functionality and final outcome of the project, IT should own the infrastrucutre, maintenence, licensing, operational aspects of the BI project. There is general accusation that IT slows down teh project and cant keep pace with the agility required by the business. This is a true statement but can be addressed by carefully designing BI project teams. There are various models that can be implemented based on organization’s structure and culture.

i4Aid • My quick response is that Ajay Sharma presented the appropriate basics including his notion about the integration aspects. Briefly, BI should fill out management policies and provide the first break-down levels for the functional processes but not more than 5 levels of detail. Then IT should review and integrate these processes into their IT framework before doing more levels of detail – it is a kind of first scope and impact estimations as they adjust and balance conceptualization and implementation. Then review and balance with both parties – do this before before specifying any more detail processes and procedures and agree on any high level the risk factors. Then do a rough estimate of project timeline.

We did this on the Toyota Motors, USA National Parts System development and it remained fairly scoped for 1-2 years of our development process such that IBM adopted most of this high-level approach.

I will be entering this in my blog: i4Aid.WordPress.com