Oba provides support for generating innovative solutions for enterprises' cross-functional business processes

Object-Oriented Technology, component technology, SOA, and other ideas and methods have brought us into a completely new software era. Today, driven by software industrialization, enterprises' investments in software are no longer part of system investment. enterprises are more concerned about how to freely compose and restructure software assets, create a solution that is most suitable for business processes.

In the process of informatization, enterprises all carry out Informatization Construction Based on internal business functions of enterprises, so there will be various business application systems, although enterprise application integration has been gradually introduced in the future, some enterprises have even begun service-oriented transformation, but all of them are transformed and integrated within the original scope of business functions. All these transformations focus on improving the utilization of a business system, rather than flexibly Combining Innovations in business processes to generate new solutions.

From the perspective of users, most of them hope that the software assets of enterprises can be reused to the maximum extent in a global scope, providing cross-functional and cross-system user experience, it can coordinate system-to-human collaboration, and flexibly restructure and compose software assets to provide support for generating innovative solutions for cross-functional business processes of enterprises.

Today's business applications are generally integral, and their integration is relatively weak. In order to enable the software assets of an enterprise to be more reusable and restructured, and then to promote the flexibility and innovation of real business processes, enterprises must treat their software assets in a more granular manner, so that a large number of software assets can be restructured and combined on a certain platform.

To meet these requirements, Microsoft's Oba technology provides both advanced architecture theories and excellent implementation platforms.

For architecture theory, enterprise architecture is generally divided into three layers: presentation layer, application layer (or business logic layer) and data layer. Faced with the increasing importance of interaction between people that many enterprises rely on to complete their business processes, oba believes that, we need to clearly explain the interaction between people, which is very important for the completion of business processes. Normally, structured processes or traditional business applications do not obtain these interactions, so they are added to Layer 4-productivity layer, oba believes that the productivity layer plays a crucial role in interpreting the interactions between these humans and also contains a large amount of commercial value.

We know that a large number of software assets cannot be composite. According to the Oba theory, we also need a platform with composite technical capabilities, which can provide one capability, so that our assets can be independently deployed or effectively combined. In other words, these assets must be componentized, and the platform must be able to provide containers, at the same time, it can provide the corresponding containers for all layers of the system architecture described above, providing flexibility for all four layers.

Therefore, for the Implementation platform, oba provides us with an excellent platform of Office System 2007. Office System 2007 provides many functions, services, and tools for each layer of the enterprise system architecture, which also provide the platform with the ability to composite assets.

Oba has opened up a new angle for business process innovation. In the business process chain, traditional application systems are often divided by functional areas on the chain, and business process innovation is also limited to these areas. Oba combines and restructured our software assets to generate cross-functional solutions for the business processes it supports, the collaboration and interaction between the system and personnel is perfectly integrated.