Overview
Reflecting an emerging area, this book presents an IT system architecture approach that centers on business processes: process-centric architecture. It provides a step-by-step presentation of process-centric architecture, that includes its principles of analysis and design. This text covers the evolution of IT systems in enterprises, the importance of a business process focus, the role of workflows, business process modeling languages such as BPML and WS-BPEL, enterprise application integration, and more. The author then demonstrates how to architect and design an enterprise application based on process-centric architecture using case studies as well as illustrative examples.
Full Product Details
Author: Parameswaran Seshan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.616kg
ISBN: 9781439816288
ISBN 10: 143981628
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 24 June 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Parameswaran Seshan is a Principal (Education and Research) with Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore, India. At Infosys, he is part of the E-comm Research Labs. He has around 14 years of work experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry as a researcher, educator, architect, and programmer. Before joining Infosys in 2001, he worked as an Advisory Systems Analyst with APL (American President Lines Ltd.), Oakland, California, U.S.A. Parameswaran has also worked as a software engineer with Case Consult (I) Pvt. Ltd., Thiruvananthapuram, India. He holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Calicut (in 1995). His work experience in the IT industry involved research, programming, architecture, and design. At Infosys, Parameswaran has been doing research work in the area of Process-centric Architecture, Business Process Management (BPM) , Software architecture, and new computing models/paradigms. He has also been teaching architecture and high-end technology courses at Infosys. He was the lead architect for the home-grown Business Process Management System (BPMS) from Infosys and was also actively involved in its design and development. Parameswaran has architected, designed, programmed and supported a number of IT systems over his career as a computer software professional. Parameswaran is an active researcher. He has published papers at international conferences and other forums. He has worked on joint research works with Microsoft Research India and Researchers from Universities such as Copenhagen University and University of Melbourne in the areas of BPM and Agent-oriented software engineering. Parameswaran has designed, developed and supported IT systems involving various technologies, at APL. He programmed system tools to automate operations. He also led a team in software development and support projects at APL. Parameswaran programmed system tools based on REXX to automate conversion of programs from one programming environment to another, at Case Consult. Parameswaran's areas of research interest include software architecture, process-centric architecture, new computing models, intelligent software agents and intelligent systems.
