Search:

Publications

MDA Journal: The ISO 20022 Common Global Implementation - Streamlining Corporate-Bank Connectivity David Frankel - May 04, 2010 In his Column this month, David Frankel parses the ISO 20022 payment and cash management messages which aim to streamline electronic communication between banks and corporate customers. This initiative has recently gained traction globally and, once the growing pains are addressed, promises a substantial positive economic impact on the global economy. Read David’s insightful analysis of this important development.

MDA Journal: Semantic Metadata—Tapping the Potential of Semantic Ontologies David Frankel - February 02, 2010 David Frankel has written extensively on semantic interoperability problems and has suggested solutions to many of them. Those readers familiar with Dave’s previous Columns on this subject know that he considers semantic interoperability a major economic enabler. This month, he focuses on semantic ontologies and where they fit into the picture.

MDA Journal: A Decade of MDA - An Appraisal David Frankel - November 03, 2009 In 2000 the Object Management Group (OMG) launched its Model Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative. Dave Frankel offers a retrospective on the evolution of MDA during the subsequent ten years, discussing what it evolved from, how it was first envisioned, and what it has evolved to. Read his insightful assessment of the challenges MDA practitioners encountered in the last decade as well as current and future challenges that will continue the evolution of MDA.

MDA Journal: XBRL and Semantic Interoperability David Frankel - June 02, 2009 Dave Frankel has written extensively in previous BPTrends mda journals about issues relating to semantic interoperability. This month, he addresses foreseeable problems with XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language being mandated by governments world wide for various kinds of compliance reporting. Sound complicated? Dave provides a clear and concise description of the language and the potential issues surrounding it.

The mda journal: Business Network Transformation David Frankel - March 03, 2009 n his December, 2008 Column, David Frankel and his colleague Steve Winkler discussed the advantages of data sharing. This month, he explores the advances in technology in combination with macro economic factors that are underscoring the importance of collaborative relationships among business partners. You will want to read his Column to learn about the possibilities as well as potential barriers to business network expansion and efficiency.

MDA Journal: Safeguard the Future of your Business - Unvault Your Data David Frankel - December 02, 2008 This month, Dave Frankel asked his colleague, Steve Winkler, to discuss a topic he considers of critical importance to organizations facing the problems of a difficult economy—data sharing. Read Mr. Winkler’s expert assessment of why data sharing is of value and how it can create a positive impact on an organization’s ROI.

MDA Journal: MIS Schools in Decline David Frankel - September 02, 2008 In his Column this month, David Frankel discusses the alarming and seemingly precipitous decline in MIS enrollments in colleges and universities, to the extent that some programs have shut down. David makes the point that if this downward trend continues, it could threaten prospects for the continued development of BPM that depends so heavily on a future generation of trained experts. Read his Column for the details of what is happening and what might be done to correct the situation.

MDA Journal: Requirements for BPMN 2.0 David Frankel - June 03, 2008 As the Object Management Group (OMG) gets closer to releasing BPMN 2.0, David Frankel examines the main issues to be addressed in the new release. Read his timely and engaging Column for interesting insights into the issues and solutions proposed by the two groups working on the new release.

MDA Journal: Semantic Interoperability Roadmap David Frankel - February 04, 2008 David Frankel continues his discussion of semantic interoperability problems this month with a focus on financial institutions. In a clear and concise fashion, he outlines the approach being considered by the expert panel convened to revise the standard. Read his Column to gain an understanding of the urgency of the problem and possible solutions standards groups are working on now, or will be in the near future.

MDA Journal: Semantic Interoperability and Convergence in the Financial Industry David Frankel - October 02, 2007 This month, David Frankel continues his examination of semantic interoperability and its primary importance in reducing integration costs. Read his Column to discover how standards organizations in the financial sector are dealing with this issue by converging around a single standard known as Universal Financial Industry Message Scheme (UNIFI).

MDA Journal: Industrial Convergence David Frankel - July 03, 2007 David Frankel offers a clear and concise discussion of what he sees as a potential problem as data sharing across vertical markets becomes more prevalent. Read his Column for some thoughts on how to manage this issue before it becomes a serious problem.

MDA Journal: MDA’s “Last Mile” Problem Dave Frankel - April 01, 2007 An IDC Report analyzing the model-driven development market provided Dave Frankel with the central theme for this month’s Column – specifically, that model-driven approaches need to go the “last mile of applications development—making the applications come to life.” Read this clear and concise essay to learn his conclusions on the “last mile” challenge.

MDA Journal: A Convergence of Business and IT Thinking? SOA and the Business-IT Divide Dave Frankel - January 02, 2007 As the title suggests, Dave Frankel takes on the commonly held notion that business and IT people speak different languages. David sees a convergence of thinking that offers new opportunities for the two parties to discover common ground.

mda journal: The Technology 1.0 Syndrome, How Business Learns to Use Technology David Frankel - October 03, 2006 This month, David Frankel introduces the term Technology 1.0 Syndrome to describe the tendency throughout recent history to use new technology to mimic old approaches. He explores how this syndrome is currently playing out with the WEB and with B2B electronic commerce.

MDA Journal: What Does David Frankel - May 02, 2006 This month Dave Frankel considers what the “model-driven” in the OMG’s Model-Driven Architecture really means. He concludes that, for MDA, models and metadata are very closely related.

MDA Journal: A Response to Forrester David Frankel - April 03, 2006 This month, David Frankel responds to a Forrester article that attacks MDA. He argues that Forrester has misrepresented the views of the leading MDA thinkers and practitioners.

MDA Journal: BPMI and OMG: The BPM Merger David Frankel - February 07, 2006 This month David Frankel takes a detailed look at exactly how the work of BPMI and the OMG complement each other and offers a vision of their future together.

MDA Journal: Scaling the Business Process Platform Up: The Challenges Dave Frankel - December 06, 2005 In July, Dave Frankel discussed the emerging Business Process Platform. This month he considers exactly how such a platform would interface with services or components and considers some of the scaling problems such a platform would have to deal with.

MDA Journal: Electronic Payments and MDA Dave Frankel - October 04, 2005 This month, Dave Frankel zeros in on what MDA can bring to a classic automation problem like Electronic Payments. He explains why message formats are insufficient and goes on to review the work of the OMG’s Electronic Payments Working Group.

MDA Journal: Towards A Business Process Platform David Frankel - July 05, 2005 This month, David Frankel describes the rise of the idea of the Business Process Platform and discusses how it can speed up the acceptance of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).

MDA Journal: SOA and MDA David Frankel - June 07, 2005 This month, David Frankel looks at the relationship between Service Oriented Architectures and Model Driven Architectures and concludes that BPM and SOA are driving each other forward and that both need MDA to provide the rich, formal semantics their applications will require.

MDA Journal: Whatever Happened to CORBA? David Frankel - May 03, 2005 This month, David Frankel looks at CORBA, the middleware standard that the OMG developed and promoted before it began to focus on UML and MDA. A look at CORBA suggests some of the challenges any standard faces as it seeks market acceptance.

MDA Journal: A Response to Scott Ambler David Frankel - April 05, 2005 The April issue of Software Development magazine has an article by Scott Ambler in which he disparages the OMG’s MDA initiative. Dave Frankel uses his April column to respond to Scott’s remarks.

MDA Journal: Eclipse and MDA David Frankel - March 01, 2005 This month, David Frankel discusses the growing importance of Eclipse, the open Java development environment, provides a good brief on the Eclipse framework, and describes how Eclipse can be used with MDA.

MDA Journal: XML and MDA David Frankel - February 01, 2005 This month, David Frankel looks at the relationship between MDA and a variety of XML standards, including XMI and the XML approach taken by Microsoft.

MDA Journal: Six Sigma and MDA David Frankel - January 04, 2005 This month, David Frankel turns his podium over to Mike Guttman who considers how Six Sigma and the OMG’s Model Driven Architecture can support each other. Mike argues that MDA is ideally positioned to support Six Sigma’s exacting quality requirements when automation is required.

MDA Journal: The DRM, the Semantic Web, and MDA David Frankel - December 07, 2004 This month, David Frankel discusses the US Federal Government’s Data Reference Model (DRM), a key element in the government’s current Enterprise Architecture effort, and considers how it relates to both the Semantic Web and MDA.

MDA Journal: Beyond MDA 1.0: eXecutable Business Processes from Concept to Code David Frankel - November 02, 2004 This month, David Frankel turns his podium over to Ken Orr who offers a rejoinder to last month’s article by Clark, Evans, Sammut and Willans, and offers a vision of a real-time enterprise that realizes the goals CASE advocates failed to achieve in the Eighties.

MDA Journal: Language Driven Development and MDA David Frankel - October 05, 2004 This month, David Frankel turns his podium over to Tony Clark, Andy Evans, Paul Sammut and James Willans, all from Zactium Limited. They, in turn, consider how MDA functions to generate and integrate semantically rich languages and tools that target specific modeling requirements.

MDA Journal: Enterprise MDA or How Enterprise Systems Will Be Built Dave Frankel - September 07, 2004 This month, David Frankel turns the podium over to Oliver Sims, a well known methodologist and the co-author of the now classic Business Component Factory, which describes how one uses components in distributed enterprise systems. Sims provides his perspective on how MDA will be used. In addition, Michael Guttman continues his ongoing debate with Steve Cook of Microsoft over the utility of MDA.

MDA Journal: A Model-Driven Semantic Web David Frankel - July 06, 2004 This month, David Frankel, Patrick Hayes, Elisa Kendall, and Deborah McGuinness provide a major White Paper on the idea of Semantic Web, and report on recent efforts to bridge the W3C’s Semantic Web project and the OMG’s MDA initiative.

MDA Journal: Agile MDA David Frankel - June 01, 2004 This month, David Frankel turns the pulpit over to Stephen Mellor, a leading object methodologists, widely recognized for his work with real-time applications. Mellor considers what will be required to create an MDA modeling system that can generate code.

MDA Journal: An MDA Manifesto David Frankel - May 01, 2004 This month, David Frankel’s mda journal publishes a paper by five luminaries from IBM’s Rational division. These authors, Grady Booch, Alan Brown, Sridhar Iyengar, Jim Rumbaugh, and Bran Selic, have played major roles in creating UML, MOF, and MDA, and, in this paper, they join to describe IBM’s MDA vision.

MDA Journal: Model-Driven Software Development David Frankel - April 06, 2004 This month, David Frankel turns the MDA podium over toJorn Bettin of SoftMetaWare who describes Model Driven Software Development, a methodology for using MDA for software development. In addition, Steve Cook of Microsoft provides a response to Mike Guttman’s review of his article on Microsoft’s position on MDA, published in the mda journal in January, 2004.

MDA Journal: The MDA Marketing Message and the MDA Reality David Frankel - March 02, 2004 This month, David Frankel reports on some of the MDA “hype” currently being reported in the media and defines MDA and its current capabilities.

MDA Journal: A Response to Steve Cook David Frankel - February 03, 2004 Last month, Steve Cook explained how Microsoft would not be supporting MDA, but would focus instead on domain specific modeling languages. This month David Frankel turns the podium over to Michael Guttman who offers his personal critique of Microsoft’s position.

MDA Journal: Domain Specific Modeling and Model Driven Architecture David Frankel - January 06, 2004 In this month's column, David Frankel turns to Steve Cook, a Software Architect in Microsoft's Enterprise Frameworks and Tools group for an update on how Microsoft is thinking about model-driven software development.

MDA Journal: MDA, SOA, and Technology Convergence David Frankel - December 02, 2003 This month Dave Frankel turns the podium over to Michael Rosen, a well-known enterprise architect, who provides a wide-ranging look at Service Oriented Architectures and discusses how they will integrate with MDA and languages like BPEL4WS.

MDA Journal: Bringing in MDA David Frankel - November 04, 2003 In this month's column, Dave Frankel turns the podium over to Michael Guttman who discusses the development of MDA FastStart, a program that IT managers can use to introduce MDA into their organizations.

MDA Journal: MDA and the Object Technology Barrier David Frankel - October 07, 2003 In his October Column, David Frankel discusses why some software architects view MDA as object-oriented. David suggests that, in fact, MDA has the flexibility to address these concerns.

MDA Journal: Software Industrialization and the New IT David Frankel - September 02, 2003 This month we luanch a new feature, Dave Frankel's mda journal -- comments and articles by Dave and other MDA gurus. In this month's article, Dave reflects on Nicholas Carr's recent HBR article on IT's strategic value. He suggests that MDA illustrates Carr's thesis. He also suggests that MDA will lead to a new era in which IT converges with business process management which will invalidate Carr's thesis.