Comments on: SOA in the Clouds http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2009/06/16/soa-in-the-clouds/ Darren Wesemann on SunGard Technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Michelle Johnston http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2009/06/16/soa-in-the-clouds/#comment-143860 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:04:53 +0000 http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2009/06/16/soa-in-the-clouds/#comment-143860 Interesting! This touched off an idea for me. My team is just completing the models for about 42 common processes that are the ones that college and university academic/business units run and mapping them to the application portfolio in the SunGard Higher Education UDC (for any individual client we can then quickly map to their unique ap portfolio). These are "large" processes broken into flows that map to the way our customers in this space think about their work, like "Disbursing Financial Aid" or "Admitting Foreign Students". As technology moves up the stack, having processes clearly mapped like this give us a jump on bringing forward, relatively quickly the components that would power a customers solution, moving it to the Cloud would merely be swapping out the application portfolio components...oh...and then of course having access to the object in the Cloud. But we have the process models! Great to have you here! Interesting! This touched off an idea for me. My team is just completing the models for about 42 common processes that are the ones that college and university academic/business units run and mapping them to the application portfolio in the SunGard Higher Education UDC (for any individual client we can then quickly map to their unique ap portfolio). These are “large” processes broken into flows that map to the way our customers in this space think about their work, like “Disbursing Financial Aid” or “Admitting Foreign Students”.

As technology moves up the stack, having processes clearly mapped like this give us a jump on bringing forward, relatively quickly the components that would power a customers solution, moving it to the Cloud would merely be swapping out the application portfolio components…oh…and then of course having access to the object in the Cloud. But we have the process models!

Great to have you here!

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