Mihai MOLDOVAN is OSLO’s Product Manager and is in charge of the OSLO Suite product line. Mihai’s job is to guarantee the alignment of OSLO Suite with the current IT trends: SOA, EDA, CEP.

Mihai has a marketing background on Service Oriented Architectures and Event Driven Architectures. He works with the OpenGroup on promoting agent technology as a provider of adaptive business solutions.

OSLO Software is the software provider of an agent-based enterprise platform to design, build and execute adaptive business solutions.

OSLO Suite helps organizations manage exception-rich business operations through goal oriented software design and execution. OSLO Suite guides and automates business operations, enabling faster and more accurate decision making.

Presentation
Adaptive and Collaborative SOA: Some case studies
Speakers: James Odell (Consultant), Mihaï Moldovan (Product Manager, OSLO Software), Andy Mulholland (Global CTO, Capgemini)

Achieving business value at the enterprise level requires that every organization architect its own Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)—to some extent. Since no standard off-the-shelf SOA exists covering all business needs, organizations rely on value-added technologies to leverage the benefits of their particular SOA.

Among these is agent technology. Agents can be thought of as active objects—i.e., objects having their own thread of control. They are distributed-processing entities that can be reactive, proactive, autonomous, collaborative, and adaptive. As such, agents work well with other approaches (such as objects, relations, components, and so on), as well as support and extend SOA and the Web.

Agent technology enables IT departments to deliver business value effectively, because each agent acts on behalf of its organization. Agents—like humans—can play designated roles and embody specific business goals in a dynamic and collaborative manner. In a fairly static and stable SOA, agents do not have much use; objects and components are adequate. However, when an SOA involves many service consumers and providers that can change quickly, conventional SOA approaches no longer scale or respond in a timely manner. Here, agents can interact, adapt, and organize in a way that reflects the business needs of the enterprise.

Through case studies we will illustrate how agent technologies provided real value to major accounts in several industrial sectors.

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