ARTICLES AND COLUMNS

"BPM in Peril--Objects to the Rescue"
Cutter Consortium Business Intelligence Report, July 2006
BPM and SOA-Orchestration efforts would benefit enormously from a new approach to the routing of work among people an/or systems--using intelligent objects designed for long-running transactions.

"Collaborative Transactions"
Inside Collaboration newsletter guest editorial
How to harness the intelligence built into transactional systems as a useful collaborator--a superhumanly observant proofreader, error-checker, and task-list enforcer

"Intermediary Objects for Transactional Systems: Introducing 'Proposals'"
Object Magazine
Using Proposal objects to mediate between front-end consumers and back-end domain objects means powerful new opportunities for reuse

"Discovering a 3-tier Architecture for Distrubted Object Systems"
Distributed Computing
The best object applications will have three tiers, just not the ones we expected

"The Misunderstood Middle"
InformationWeek
Why does the area between UI client and asset store still swallow programmer hours? We've got a theory.

"Teamwork and Transactions"
InformationWeek
In this age of networked PCs, too many business apps are designed for individuals rather than groups

"Slow Down Transactions"
InformationWeek
Concessions to the human factor may actually speed up transaction processing

"OS Shrugged"
InformationWeek
With apologies to Ayn Rand, the stirring story of a genius who stood alone