The arrival of Web services has been heralded with great fanfare, and the noise -- as usual -- has drowned out the real message. The publish/subscribe metaphor, where one publishes a service -- such as a well-defined business process -- and others subscribe to that service, offers a new take on process integration and automation.
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About The Author
Futurist, researcher, and writer. Stowe Boyd leads Work Futures, an exploration of critical themes of the ecology of work, and the anthropology of the future. He coined the terms “hashtag,” “social tools,” “work management,” and “publicy.”
Mr. Boyd has worked with dozens of companies in the past decades, including Microsoft, Google, IBM, and many startups. Earlier, he was a computer science researcher/educator, led a software startup, and… Read More
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