Heidi Buelow is a product manager for the Oracle SOA Suite. She spent the last 10 years building business process management systems with a focus on service integration and interoperability of diverse systems. Heidi’s career developing service-oriented architecture started with the early services- and object-oriented transport and messaging stacks of Xerox PARC’s XNS networking protocols. Her recent experience includes the development of the BPMS platform and tools for very large SOA-based solutions, an example of which is the managed care system of one the largest managed healthcare companies in the United States.
People sometimes ask what a service-oriented architecture enables today that could not have been done with the older, proprietary integration stacks of the past 5 to 15 years, such as those from Tibco, IBM, or Vitria. One such ability is the greater degree of interoperability between h...Apr. 3, 2007 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 28,420
