ICEIS 2008: First Friday afternoon session

I attended four papers (you can check the abstracts of Friday papers here): paper 304, 323, 538, and 434. On of the paper has nobody to present it. There were quite a bunch of interesting ideas. I just want to mention one of them. Two papers presented several methodologies to model SOA. Another interesting approach was the claim (papers 304 and 434) that SOA can be used for modeling business processes, and have little to do with information technologies. They claimed that such a connection to information technologies should be done once the SOA business processes are well defined. This may sound quite estrange if you are coming from a technical background. However, it is not far fetch. It just sound like a reincarnation of the late nineties hype on business reengineering via functional designs—which SAP rided so successful. Interestingly Jorge Cardoso also hinted this direction during the morning panel.