Biography Bahadir Baran Odevci is an Enterprise Architect at Finansbank (Holland) N.V. He has B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering with more than 6 years of hands-on enterprise-scale, object-oriented, n-tier software design and development, particularly in large-scale, complex deployments comprising Core Banking and Internet Banking applications. He is responsible and competent on devising software architectures tailored for enabling faster time to market with maximum design flexibility, embracing exact features with low production costs. He is one of the chief architects of the in-house developed Finansbank Core-banking application (>1,500 man-months, 40,000 TPM), which has been successfully deployed to Finansbank Turkey and Finansbank Moscow. He is the architect and developer of a custom GUI Framework and a RAD suite that the aforementioned Core-Banking architecture embraces. Interested keywords are software architectures, reuse engineering, ontology engineering, RAD, Business Process Management, SOA deployment, Business-Rules Approach, GUI Frameworks.

Presentation
Ontology-driven, Rule-based, Service-Oriented Business Abstraction Tier
“The SOA on the foundation of Web services enables a new paradigm for the design and operation of business applications: The separation into functions and processes”. This presentation has the proposition of carrying the aforementioned statement one step further.

Think of a software architecture, which engages ontology engineering, business rules approach and service-oriented architecture, and unveils all the combination of features of those branches composed in a so-called Business Abstraction Tier, which is truly modelled commencing from the requirements engineering and is built upon a highly-scalable, transactional and distributed application run-time platform, having the following highlighted features;

• An enterprise-scale application run-time, and a Business Abstraction Tier tailored on top of that, enabling the business side getting the direct control over the rules that govern how enterprise applications behave.
• Literally describing the business processes in native language of choice, and enjoying the “executable” behaviour of the process descriptions.
• With the core business knowledgebase modelled on the Business Abstraction Tier, being able to switch the runtime-platforms underneath (.NET, J2EE).