FAQ s

Frequently
Asked
Questions
Week 3

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Business Process
Management

SOA. Service-Oriented
Architecture

Business Process
Simulation Tools.

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What is an SOA How is SOA
Tool? Architecture Applied
Within Business
Process Management?
The SOA is a means services fits into the The power of an SOA Service
(tool) to access entire system. lies in its ability to performance
the capabilities express technical metrics.
that are repeated In an SOA, the capabilities in
in a business, so services are in a business terms and Interoperability
according to its repository called a allow companies to standards.
acronym in English, it registry. They are recombine them to
is known as Service assembled using so- create new solutions Data schemas.
Oriented Architecture called composite rapidly.
(SOA). applications. The This tool integrates Policies.
blueprint that serves within its interface:
Now let's define what as a guide is known Classification and
a service is. A service as the overall SOA Business services. location
provides a capability schema within an requirements for
for the consumer, interface. Requirements for services.
such as processing the description of
the change of services.
address of a bank
customer, so the SOA
architecture defines
the following aspects:

How to locate a
service.

How to get
different services to
communicate.

How each of the

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 Did you know that...

SOA enables the creation

of scalable, versatile
and flexible information
systems that can help
organizations boost their
performance.

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What is Business How do simulation
Process tools work in
Simulation? business process
management?
The simulation of decision-making Simulation tools Analysis of a route.
a business process in various cases, provide the dynamic
(Business Process such as military representation of a Presentation of the
Simulation, BPS) is a operations, economic natural system using results.
tool that copies the studies, healthcare, a model rendered
dynamic system of a information systems on a computer. This
revolution in a model. design, applications model behaves in
Its objective is to in construction, the same way as
obtain knowledge to transportation the system itself,
transfer it to reality. facilities, and even which allows us
Sometimes we need sociological analysis. to extrapolate
to make confident the results of the
decisions within the analyses to reality.
system (the business), Visually, it improves
but our understanding the generation of
of it is not enough, creative ideas for
and the cost of the readjustment of
studying it is very existing processes.
high. Therefore, we Process simulation
proceed indirectly by tools are designed
creating and studying to track events
another entity (the that occur during
simulation model), the execution of a
which is sufficiently process. Some of
similar to the real- them include:
world system.
Animation.
For example,
simulation has Modifying a course.
been used to aid
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References:
Chindove, H., Seymour, L. and Merwe, F. (2017.
Service-oriented Architecture: Describing Benefits from an
Organisational and Enterprise Architecture Perspective. Department
of Information Systems, University of Cape Town, South Africa. DOI:
10.5220/0006383604830492.

https://repogbl.utel.edu.mx/recursos/files/r1r/w414w/2_Chindove_SOA.
pdf

Medoh, C. & Telukdarie, A. (31 December 2016). Business Process

Modelling Tool Selection: A review. School of Engineering
Management, University of Johannesburg. South Africa. DOI:10.1109/
ieem.2017.8289946

https://repogbl.utel.edu.mx/recursos/files/r1r/w414w/3_Medoh_
Telekdarie_BPM.pdf

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