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Everything I was looking for
By TomB
from New Port Richey, FL
I bought a tablet shortly before the holidays, and was disappointed with the hard cover that came in the recommended accessory package. Everything is designed to become a desktop, and I wanted something pliable and low profile. The large book wrap fits the bill perfectly.The size is just right for my 8" tablet, the side flaps allow you to anchor it securely from either side, and the unused pocket can hold accessories, such as a stylus. And, it's a fraction of the cost of the covers designed as tablet covers.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Try a book wrap with your compact circa
By swimgirl
from Centreville, VA
I recently purchased the smaller book wrap to cover my circa compact planner. The wrap fits my planner perfectly and looks great. Now I have the convenience of a small circa planner with the beauty of carezza leather. I just wish Levenger would bring back the compact plastic dividers and pocket dividers.
By readhead
from Hampton, VA
Years ago, I bought a leather book cover for my FIL and always wished I gotten one for myself because they are no longer available. I was thrilled to when the Carezza book cover came out. It is very nice and very well made, but almost useless to me. I bought the large but it doesn't fit a standard size hard cover book. I only read hard cover so unless I get a non-standard size book, it will remain unused. I am regretting getting it monogrammed or I would send it back and wait for a larger size to come out. Other than the sizing, it is a great product.
Four star bookcover
By LevengerLover
from MI, USA
The bookcover itself is great so four stars may be a bit unfair, however, would like to get the attention to the company to come out with a Bible Cover! This served it's purpose but with smaller paperback books. I read a lot, and love the cover. It is useful but in no way large. I read the measurements so knew I was in for a challenge with the size. Hopeful for Bible covers in this beautiful leather in the future. The flap is questionable for function. A nice, thin leather bookmark included would have been great for me. Ribbons fray and the flapp is just a flap. I use it just to protect the oustide edges of the book. Overall, great product, would just love to see it up-sized!
Should be called "Ravello" NOT "Carezza"
By TNTPackrat
from Undisclosed
I was disappointed when I received this item... I have an abundance of "Carezza" items including the Tote that I planned on slipping this into an exterior side pocket. The leather is caress-ably soft and smooth BUT instead of your fingers gliding over the leather the almost non-skid surface prevents that as well as preventing it to easily slip in the Tote. All of my Carezza Items have a nice sheen to them - not shiny but not dull... THIS item is a matte finish with no sheen to it.... I'm wondering if this is to serve a function like helping you hold onto the book so that it doesn't slip out of your hands while holding it to read????? Also... I would have much preferred a ribbon place marker instead of the flap that actually seems to get in my way... I tried to discern if some of the purpose of IT was to protect the side edges of pages but if you're near the end of the book and using the flap to mark your page it wouldn't serve that purpose... As far as the size goes... I agree that a larger size would be nice for Hardcover books that most of the ones I have will not fit in the size Large... however.. .the size Large is perfect for the standard size of the Softcover Christian Fiction books I purchase from CBD. All in all although I'm disappointed with some of the design, the non-skid finish, and that it does NOT "match" my Carezza items, I would still recommend it as it is beautiful but definitely think it's over-priced. Hope this helps someone make their decision.
Merchant response: Thank you for your detailed review of the Carezza Book Wrap. We appreciate your suggestions and feedback. I have submitted your comments to our Product Development Team for further review. If you are not satisfied with this item, please take advantage of our 100% guarantee and contact us at 1-800-545-0242 and we will do whatever it takes to make it right.
Been Waiting For This!
By tankascribe
from Benicia, CA
I've been waiting for Levenger's to offer a leather book jacket like the one I purchased over 15 years ago (alas, not to be offered again). That leather jacket is very wellworn (I use it everywhere!) and still usable, but I wished I had another one. This flexible cover is an improvement in that it can hold extremely fat paperbacks; I also like the flap serving as the bookmark rather than a ribbon (which my cat promptly chewed off). Take my advice and order two -- if not for yourself when your ownw ears out, then for a friend!
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This cover easily holds a paperback almost 2 inches thick.
This is the small size cover; the longer flap easily marks the place. The cover can be rewversed so the flap is at the front of the book, too.
Carezza suggestion
By Polack
I like the product but we need a size larger than what is being sold as "Large". The reason I purchased this product is because I have many books with fine bindings, such as "Folio Society" or "Limited Editions Club". I want to use the leather cover to protect the bonding so I can take the books with me in a briefcase or satchel; otherwise you can only read the fine bindings at home.
Merchant response: Thank you for your comments regarding the Carezza Book Wrap. We sincerely appreciate your suggestion for a larger cover. We have submitted your idea to our Product Development Team for further consideration. In the meantime, if you are not satisfied please contact us at 800-545-0242.
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It's a fact of life that as we age, the elasticity of our face starts to lessen, meaning that we are now much more prone to drooping or wrinkled skin. Women spend millions worldwide on different creams, ointments, injections and even surgery to prevent this from happening but in actual fact there is no need to empty out your bank accounts on these treatments as it is very easy to give yourself a "natural" face lift without the need for any products at all. So here are some steps for you to try. This is a workout for the face known as facial yoga.
Followers of the practice certainly look a little funny pulling off the 18 different "poses," but they claim it really does help. How? The moves theoretically tighten the facial muscles and even encourages the production of collagen, which helps keep skin looking youthful.
This move is good for anyone who is having issues around the eyes, be it from crow's feet, drooping lids, or just general puffiness. It is very easy to do and involves placing your middle fingers above the bridge of the nose at the inside corner of your eyebrows and pressing them together. Your index fingers should be placed on the outside edge of your eyebrow and you should pull the skin out to the side, then look up toward the sky and squint with your lower eyelids. Once you have finished, squeeze your eyelids shut tight for around ten seconds.
Step 2: The Giraffe
This is excellent for anyone suffering from loose skin or lines around the neck as an alternative to painful treatments to lift the skin. To begin, tilt your head back and gently pull the neck skin down by stroking it, then bring your head back down so your chin touches your chest. Facing ahead, stick your lower lip out as far as you can as this will pull out the corners of your mouth. Point your chin upwards whilst placing your fingers on your collarbone and pulling the skin down gently. Hold it for a few seconds and then slowly lower yourself back down.
Step 3: Brow Smoother
The brow smoother move is perfect for those of us who suffer from horizontal lines on our foreheads (more commonly known as frown lines) but don't want to go as far as having a botox treatment to fix them. It is a really simple move and, unlike the others, it can be done discreetly so you won't need to hide away to do it. To start with, you place both hands on your forehead with your fingers pointing towards each other and spread out between your eyebrows and the top of your head, press down gently and slowly pull your fingers backwards across your forehead. If carried out correctly you should feel your forehead skin move underneath your fingers. Be careful not to press too hard though; you don't want to mark your forehead.
Those are just three different moves for you to try out. I have chosen these because they each target a different part of your face and neck. Actually, there are up to eighteen different face yoga moves which you can try. It may take a while for you to start seeing some results but it's worth it for the money you will be saving on expensive treatments. I wouldn't carry out these moves in public though. Some of them will make you look extremely silly and you wouldn't want to be embarrassed by a friend or co-worker.
Yes, face yoga is a promising technique that involves series of exercises which help to tone the face just like yoga for body tones and relaxes the body. Know these face yoga exercises.

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The story of the game was the pitching of Cochran-Gill. Making his sixth start of the season he faced very little trouble in getting deep into the game for the Tigers to improve to 5-2. With four games in the next five days that's something that is huge for Auburn's pitching staff said Coach John Pawlowski.
"Playing Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Arkansas and two games this week and then playing Thursday, Friday, and Saturday against Florida that's a lot of innings to be had," Pawlowski said. "We needed somebody to go out there and hopefully go deep in the ballgame. Trey did that for us today. It gives us an opportunity now to have the rest of the bullpen for tomorrow's game."
Trey Cochran-Gill improved to 5-2 with the win
For Savage it continued a hot streak since taking over for an injured Garrett Cooper at first base in Thursday's win over Arkansas. In his last four games Savage has hit three home runs and has eight RBI. Jay Gonzalez and Ryan Tella both added two hits as well on a night when the Tigers struck for seven early runs and coasted to victory.
"We jumped out and scored seven runs in the first inning," Pawlowski said. "We got a couple of walks with five base hits. I think we got seven or eight base runners. Patrick Savage comes up again with a big home run. It was some really good things in the first inning. We took the momentum and kept it in our dugout."
It didn't take long for Auburn to take complete control of Monday night's contest against struggling Florida A&M (7-45). Leading off the game Jay Gonzalez singled and stole second before a walk to Creede Simpson put two on for Ryan Tella. The Auburn center fielder singled home Gonzalez to put Auburn on the board. The second stolen base of the inning moved Tella to second and Justin Bryant followed with a single of his own to make it 2-0 and bring Savage to the plate.
Getting a pitch to drive, the Auburn first baseman launched a home run over the wall in left field for his fifth bomb of the season and third in his last four games. That put the Tigers up 5-0 and before the inning was complete they had added two more to take a touchdown lead on the Rattlers.
The visitors struck for single runs in the third and fourth inning to climb back into the game momentarily and reliever Thomas Barwick shut down the Auburn offense in the meantime. Pitching four scoreless innings after coming in with no outs in the first, the left-hander left the game in the fifth with Miles Williams taking over for FAMU.
With one out Savage recorded his second hit of the night with a double down the left field line to get the inning going. A walk to Dan Glevenyak put two on for catcher Caleb Bowen, but a pop up for the second out meant the Tigers needed some two-out magic. They got just that in the form of mistakes from FAMU.
The second walk of the inning, this one to Bobby Andrews, loaded the bases for Auburn third baseman Mitchell Self. Already with a hit on the game, his ground ball to second appeared to end the inning but FAMU's John Scott threw the ball away at first. The error allowed two runs to score and made it 9-2 Auburn. The Tigers tacked on the 10th run of the game as a wild pitch allowed Self to score from third.
That's how things remained into the eighth inning as Cochran-Gill settled in on the mound for the Tigers. Unfortunately the same was true of Auburn's hitters as the Tigers had just three hits from the second inning through the seventh. In the eighth the Rattlers got on the board again with a solo home run from Aaron Smith. It was his fourth home run of the season, but just the seventh for FAMU this year.
The Tigers tacked on a run in the bottom of the eighth on a Savage sacrifice fly and got a scoreless ninth from freshman pitcher Rocky McCord to make the final 11-3.
Auburn will return to action Tuesday night as the Tigers take on Jacksonville State (23-27) at 6 p.m. at Plainsman Park.


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How not to end your screenplay
You want the ending of a screenplay to be satisfying. You want the hero to overcome great obstacles to succeed in the end. Or to fail if it is a tragedy. Or even win in one way and loose in another, usually in a complex drama. But what you don't want is for the hero to be rescued by an omnipotent force that could have rescued the hero long before the end. In fiction, such a force is called deus ex machina (God from machine). It comes from ancient Greek plays where the playwright often put the hero into so much trouble that they didn't know how to get him or her out of it. So, instead of trying to figure out a way for the hero to do it, they just lowered a God onto the stage by a machine and made the God solve all the problems and sort everything out.
Don't do this!
When you watch a film with a deus ex machina ending, you feel cheated. Why did I sit through this two hour film (or four hour play) if the problem could have been solved so easily? Just because the screenwriter was lazy?
Deus ex machinas are usually only found in bad B-movies, but occasionally they sneak into big budget movies as well. The eagles in The Hobbit (and in The Return of the King) are examples of that. When everything seems lost, they just swoop in a save the day. Granted, a big part of the battle has already been won by the heroes in those movies, but the outcome is still uncertain. Why couldn't the eagles just have picked Frodo up at the beginning of the first movie and dropped him off at mount Doom?
In the case of The Return of the King is not the fault of Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. It was J.R.R Tolkien himself that came up with that ending. Maybe he was tired after writing a thousand pages and wanted to move on to something else. Maybe he thought he could get away with it. And he was probably right. But that doesn't mean that you can! Deus ex machina endings usually spoils the whole movie. So, if you've put the hero into a situation that you can't get him or her out of, think again! Don't call in a God, or the eagles.


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Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide.1 Although the mainstay of glaucoma therapy is medical management,2 surgery is an important yet complex component of treatment for many patients. While filtration surgery often achieves intraocular pressures lower than those achieved with medicine or laser surgery, excessive bleb scarring is a common cause of surgical failure. The scarring involves fibroblasts of the fascia bulbi (also known as the Tenon capsule, after the French surgeon and pathologist Jacques-Renee Tenon). Managing the wound-healing response requires achieving a precarious balance between inhibiting scarring and permitting scarring. With too little scarring, there is a higher likelihood of overfiltration, hypotony, and choroidal detachment. Mitomycin C (MMC) promotes prolonged filtration by inducing apoptosis of human Tenon fibroblasts. However, MMC can be associated with complications such as hypotony maculopathy3 and bleb leaks.4 Thus, additional improvements in the control of wound healing would probably make incisional glaucoma surgery safer and more effective.5
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Bail continued at $400,000 for man charged in child sexual assault
Bail was maintained at $400,000 Wednesday morning for a Kihei man who allegedly sexually assaulted a child over a two-year period.
Matthew Kawika Asuncion Magnani, 31, is charged with four counts of first-degree sexual assault. A grand jury indicted him Friday, charging him with assaulting a child under 14 years old from 2007 to 2009, according to court documents.
Second Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo ordered Magnani to stay away from a home in Waiehu and Baldwin High School if he posts bail.
A jury trail is scheduled for June 2.
Kula man, 23, dies from injuries caused by falling out of pickup
A 23-year-old Kula man died Monday at Maui Memorial Medical Center after he sustained critical injuries Sunday night when he fell out of the bed of a moving pickup truck, police reported Wednesday.
Jared Robello was a passenger in a white 1999 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck that was traveling north on Kula Highway around 7:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. He climbed out of the cab of the truck through the rear sliding window and into the bed of the truck as it was moving.
Robello then fell out of the truck bed, police said.
The truck was operated by another 23-year-old Kula man. The incident occurred near Kealakapu Road in Kula.
The man's death marks Maui County's fifth traffic fatality, compared with four at the same time last year.
Project VISION, WE health event now at Makawao Boys & Girls Club
The Project VISION and WE . . . a hui for health screening event April 28 will be relocated to the Makawao Boys & Girls Club at 931 Makawao Ave., organizers announced Wednesday.
The free vision screening and health assessment event will be held from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
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As a community manager, we're used to disgruntled customers taking to Twitter to vent their grievances about, well, pretty much anything.
But this is new!
A consumer turned one of these grievances into an ad!
If you haven't heard of it, I'll recap it for you quickly:
Hasan Syed's parents flew British Airways from Chicago to Paris, and realized one of their bags hadn't made the trip.
To help his parents – and after the airline hadn't responded in two days – Syed bought a promoted tweet to get the airline's attention, and highlighted their lack of customer service.
Not only did Syed's 400 followers see the tweet, according to Time, "50,000 other Twitter users based in New York and the United Kingdom that Syed paid to target" also saw the tweet.
Lack of Response
British Airways took around eight hours to pick up on the offending tweet. And their response?
Not only did they take a long time to respond, they also wanted the customer to do work to figure out the problem.
And it just got worse…
To be fair, it does say on the British Airways North American Twitter profile they only receive complaints from nine to five EST. However in today's digital age, things happen – and can get out of control – REALLY fast during non-business hours. And, if you provide a service 24/7, 365 days a year, shouldn't you be available any time, day or night, for your customers?
Social Media Crisis Management Lessons for Brands
Twitter is a place where customers expect a quick response despite the time of day. Unfortunately, it's no longer a nine to five, and to my point above, especially if you are a global company that operates 24/7.
All Twitter shared an infographic from Tatu Digital Media to explore how social media crises are best managed.
Always Monitor
Set up monitoring tools to help you manage your reputation. You can use free tools such as Talkwalker Alerts, or paid tools such as SalesForce. Either way, know what is being said about your brand at all times.
Create a Plan
You never know when a crisis will happen, but you can be prepared for one. Define what is a crisis and what is not. During a crisis is not the time to decide what needs to be done and who is responsible for it, so plan for worst-case scenarios.
Establish a Clear Chain of Command
Who should respond? Know exactly who will do what in the event of a crisis.
Take Action
Fix the issue in a timely manner, typically within a few hours. An eight-hour response time is unacceptable with the quick pace of social media. How you will fix the problem is dependent on what the crisis is.
Get to the Source
Go directly to the source and deal with the situation…and try to remain calm while doing so. Yes you should answer customer gripes on social media – but at some point, you need to pick up the phone and personally get in contact with your customer.
Don't Fight Back
Remember Amy's Baking Company? Enough said!
Go Back and Review
When it's all over, go over what happened. How well did you handle the situation? Did it escalate to a bigger problem than it was? What could you have done differently? Was there any damage control that could be done afterwards?
As a community manager, I'm glad this didn't happen to me! But we can all learn a lesson from the experience British Airways had.
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Such great points — many of them basic ones that it would be so simple for organizations big AND small to follow! I can say as a consumer I will knock myself out to support a company I had a bad experience with IF they were responsive and respectful. Thinking British Airways would not earn that effort from me if they handled things like this situation!
biggreenpen That's the thing – they could've done really basic things to prevent this. And I completely agree – if a company is responsive and respectful, I'll forgive them for whatever I'm mad about. But they really didn't put much effort into helping a very angry customer out – not that he was their customer, it was his parents, but still. The man took out an ad!
Yvette, great advice and recap of the BA story. Sayed wasn't even rude when some people would have lost it upon receiving the responses he did. Besides having a crisis plan in place, your last point is key, and one that is often forgotten – REVIEW!
susancellura Thanks Susan!! I know, he was angry and that showed in his tweets, but if he wasn't rude. I totally would have lost it!!
YES!! Every situation is different and there is always something that can be improved. Whenever I get in an argument in my personal life, I always say "Gah, I should've said this!" when it's all said and done. And that can be applied to business too.
Wow, I followed this at the time but didn't recall BA's answer that their social media shop was only open 9 to 5. That does seem bizarre, both for a business that runs 24/7 AND in time zones around the world. Maybe that's more typical than I think?
And you know what? If you're in the customer service business and can only be open for a portion of the day, pick any other combination of times other than "9 to 5," which is shorthand for merely clocking in and clocking out and doing nothing more. Like the old school "bankers' hours."
RobBiesenbach Right?! I couldn't believe it was 9 to 5 either! I had to double check that when I was writing this post. They do have a separate global account on GMT, but that doesn't really cover all of the time zones of customers using BA. I love the idea of having a combination of times that way you do hit all time zones…really love it.
It may be typical now, but there are so many variables. I also think it's changing as we discover different ways consumers use social, when they're online, etc.
yvettepistorio Maybe they need to pour themselves a cup of ambition:
RobBiesenbach Hahahahaha!!!
Great points Yvette, I just did a post about listening with humility. People are talking and it is so important to know what is being said about your brand (as per your always monitor) and to handle the customers' complaints with humility, fix the problem and as per your great last point review – how can you do it better next time around. Thanks for this post.
LSSocialEngage Thanks Lubna!
Agreed! Whether its positive or negative, you should know what is being said about your brand. I always put myself in the customers shoes – if I was angry, how would I want the customer service rep to respond to me? Humility is key in customer service roles and yes, review! There is always room for improvement.
yvettepistorio LSSocialEngage humility, lack of ego, patience, understanding, rarer and rarer indeed.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me why we're still having these conversations? How can these multibillion dollar companies still not get it? Is it a case of "we're too big/good/special for that"? Thinking that customer service is going back to the "pick up the phone and call" mode is about as realistic as thinking that websites and email are a fad. Fantastic recap, Yvette!
KristenDaukas Thanks Kristen! I know – it's frustrating to still have these conversations. But for some, social is still new, even though we use it every day…and have for a while now, but I'll cut some businesses some slack. However, you'd think a company as large as British Airways would not only "get" social media, but have someone constantly monitoring their social networks 24/7! Hopefully they've learned a hard lesson and change their ways. Only time will tell.
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Joshua Wilner/A Writer Writes KristenDaukas I'm in – I'll bring the coffee and donuts 😀
sallworth I know – it was BAD!
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susancellura HI!!! I have to say I'm happy I wasn't the #cmgr on this one!
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Sigh, when will some companies finally get on board? I agree that if you are a 24/7 international company you need round the clock, daily customer service for your clients. I think this is especially true in the travel industry. If you are out of the country and have a crisis you should be able to reach someone to help you.
sydcon_mktg Agreed!! It was really surprising to find out they were only 9 to 5.
What's shocking is the response that they're only available from 9-5. I understand wanting to keep business hours, but that's not the right response. Nothing other than "I am so sorry we weren't here when you tweeted us. How can we help?" is the right response. THAT is what I don't get…when will organizations understand "I'm sorry" is the only response?
ginidietrich Agreed – simple, to the point, shows they are in the wrong, and offers help. And not only a "I'm sorry" but how about NOT asking the customer to do more work! They should've been looking up his information etc. to resolve the problem so it didn't escalate any further.
dave_link I don't think these types of conversations will ever fully go away!
Howie Goldfarb JaffeJuice It's really sad that we expect poor service, but it's true for me at least.
So true! I do get surprised by good service. Sad indeed.
I am wondering if this is more frequent in such highly regulated businesses, or airlines in particular. I had a horrific experience with American Airlines, and also used the service example as a what-not-to-do in a blog (http://www.mymarketingcafe.com/how-to-lose-a-customer-learn-from-american-airlines/). Our issue was around accessible travel and the service was inexcusable. It is much easier to put a plan in place in advance than it is to try to undo the damage of poor service.
jenzings Now that is something! The airline certainly would have had to adjust their plan to fit this unique situation, but how different the outcome could have been. I think you are right about it being financially motivated. That, and working in reactive mode.
jolynndeal Wow, what a nightmare! They couldn't answer some questions that they should honestly know or be able to look up quickly so you can make a purchase.?! I don't blame you for not choosing them.
It's definitely a good idea to have a plan in place. Things happen, we're human, and we make mistakes, but we should have a plan of action to respond so an issue doesn't BECOME a crisis.
yvettepistorio So true, we all make mistakes. We need a plan and need to be accountable.
Another example of how large corporations are still learning to adapt to and integrate social media into their business.
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eveypistorio my pleasure Yvette
LucyNiro SpinSucks Thanks for the RT Lucy! 🙂
DanielGHebert SpinSucks Thank YOU for the post, Daniel.
Steveology ginidietrich It is shocking to see how often brands ignore the importance of social media these days!
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Figure 1. Logical SOA reference architecture
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The ESB uses the service registry and repository component as a dynamic look-up mechanism to provide information about service endpoints. The registry and repository service thus enables optimized access to service metadata and management of service interactions and policies. It also supports the integration and federation of other standard registries and repositories. In its most elemental state, it is composed of service metadata artifacts documents, such as XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) or Web Services Description Language (WSDL) files. These service metadata files are stored and managed by the service repository.
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Figure 3. Interaction services
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Process services
Figure 4 shows the process services and components it uses to carry out its function within the SOA domain. Process services use the business processes and mediation modules to accomplish its business flow requirements. Process services use the SCA programming model to model the business services that consume and produce business data.
Figure 4. Process services
Business processes are defined using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). A business process is the set of business-related activities, rules, and conditions invoked in a predefined sequence to achieve a business goal. Business rules are a means of implementing and enforcing business policy through externalization of business function. Externalization enables the business rules to be managed independently from other aspects of an application. This independence allows a dynamic business rules update capability, providing for a more agile business.
SCA components consist of interfaces, references, and an implementation. Service components can have interfaces either in Java or WSDL port types. The business process type component consists of a process implementation type that can implement one or more SCA interfaces with either Java or WSDL port types. The processes can be long or short running; the short-running processes are called micro flows. The long-running business processes can interact with multiple partners, with interactions performed through standard, stateless Web service calls.
The interaction with each partner occurs through Web service interfaces. BPEL is built on top of WSDL and XML schemas. The process model is validated using an extended XML schema for syntax and a comprehensive set of rules applied for semantic constraints, as defined by the BPEL specification.
Information services
You can see the information services stack for the ESB in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Information services
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- Metadata management
- Provides information about the data (Metadata is information about the data
structure and meaning. The metadata management component can manage the metadata
and the metamodel and meta-metamodels.)
Metamodels (also known as meta-metadata) define the structure and semantics of the metadata. Examples of standardized metamodels include UML and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). The meta-metamodel layer is comprised of the description of the structure and semantics of meta-metadata. It is an attempt to provide a common language that describes all other models of information. MetaObject Facility (MOF) is a standard used for meta-metamodels. (See Resources for more information.)
- Extract, transform, and load (ETL)
- Extracts, transforms, and loads data from one or more data sources to one or more targets (ETL enables data consolidation, migration, and propagation, and is closely allied with data warehousing and business intelligence functions.)
- Federation
- Uses the data and content classes to federate data across heterogeneous content
sources (These decentralized approaches reduce data and content redundancies,
bandwidth, storage, ongoing synchronization, and additional administrative cost
associated with a centralized approach. Real-time access to distributed information
sources also brings new capabilities to business intelligence.)
Federation reduces the need to develop and maintain custom application program interfaces (APIs) for various data sources. Federation also improves performance by caching frequently used data and by using materialized query tables (MQTs) and distributed query optimization and execution. To increase performance, the federated server can also cache and create MQT tables that can be a subset of the rows from the targeted federated data sources to increase performance.
- Data placement (replication and caching)
- Copies data from one location to another location (The target location can be either a centralized location, such as data warehouse, or another distributed place on the network. In a grid environment, replication and cache services are used to create the placement management service to meet QoS goals. Depending on the access patterns and location of the consuming applications, a placement management service can improve response time and information availability by creating caches or replicas. The staged data governance gives organizations greater control over the life cycle of information flow.)
- Data modeling
- Has an aggregation of the logical, physical, and metadata models for storing the
respective models of the enterprise (These data models have a direct impact on the
business and business applications in the form of data structure and data
Careful planning of the data models also improves the overall transaction performance. There's a dependency on the type of transaction: online transaction processing (OLTP) transactions use E/R models; data warehousing transactions use dimensional modeling techniques.
- Search
- Primarily uses its own search mechanisms (The most generic search function is
through a query language, such as SQL and XQuery. Database search is great to
retrieve structured and exactly matched data, but it requires familiarity with the
data model structure to construct the queries accordingly.)
Database search is limited in scope; it is not designed for relevance ranking, fuzzy search, or multiple keywords. For search engines to achieve higher performance, flexibility, or relevance ranking, the engine sometimes connects to the databases directly to extract data and generate indexes from databases.
- Analytics
- Assists in better decision making, data mining, and cross-departmental reporting
(The traditional analytics include reporting, data mining, dashboards, scorecards,
and business performance management. Organizations want to access heterogeneous
data sources in real time to ensure regulation compliance, respond to customers
better, predict market trends, and improve on operational efficiency.)
The analytics component is closely tied to the function and features of composite applications of the interactions services and provides a real-time view of KPIs for business applications. In the future, analytics will build increased intelligence to access and correlate information from heterogeneous information sources to provide new insights to make better business decisions.
Partner services
The partner services that act as the reuse entry point for SOA are shown in Figure 6. This implies that legacy systems and electronic data interchange (EDI) systems can connect to the SOA enterprise architecture with the help of custom adapters and hook up to the ESB, thereby increasing operational efficiency and QoS. Adapters provide communication between the EIS and the integration broker. Each back-end system or business application requires a specific adapter.
Business integration adapters consist of a collection of software APIs, providing native communication with the back-end enterprise information system (EIS), and tools that let you configure business objects and adapters. Partner services using custom adapters depend on various software vendors, including SAP, Siebel, and IBM® WebSphere® (which offers the WebSphere Adapter Toolkit, as well as dozens of adapters, including the WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software and the WebSphere Adapter for Siebel Business Applications).
Figure 6. Partner services
Figure 7 shows a common pattern used in business integration that involves the need to synchronize semantically similar data among various back-end business application systems. The scenario shows two different back-end systems, each integrated with the business integration application running on the process server, through the use of business integration adapters. The integration of the adapters is achieved by leveraging the same SCA programming models and components used by other integration applications.
Figure 7. Business integration adapter services
The center of Figure 7 shows the process server with a business integration application. The business integration application is made available for invocation to other services, outside of the SCA module, through a JMS export. The business integration application is able to invoke other services outside of the SCA module through the use of a JMS import. The adapters communicate with the back-end systems using the application-specific data structure or business object and are configured using the connector configuration file.
When a business object is passed inbound to the process server through the export, it is converted to a format understood by the process server by a data binding that is part of the export. When a business object is passed outbound to the adapter, it is converted to a format understood by the adapter by a data binding that is part of the import. This data synchronization pattern can also incorporate mapping of the business object from an application-specific format to a generic format.
Some of the vendors who partner in supplying application adapter components include Ariba Buyer, Clarify, MatrixOne (eMatrix), JD Edwards, mySAP.com, Oracle applications, PeopleSoft Portal intranet, QAD MFG/PRO, Retek, SAP Exchange Infrastructure, Siebel, WebSphere Process Server, and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Some of the technology adapter components are: ACORD XML, Microsoft® COM, CORBA, e-mail, EJB, Microsoft Exchange, FIX Protocol, IBM iSeries®, WebSphere Business Integration iSoft Peer-to-Peer Agent, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) (SQL and stored procedure access), JMS, JText, IBM Lotus® Domino®, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker, WebSphere MQ Workflow, Web services, and XML.
Some of the technology adapters can use data handlers, including data handlers for EDI, SOAP, XML, and various text formats.
The adapters are built using a common adapter framework and are:
- Bidirectional, in that they are capable of event processing and request processing
- Configurable through metadata and capable of processing multithreaded business objects.
The business integration collaboration component has collaborations with components such as customer relationship management (CRM), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), health care, order management, procurement, telecommunication, life insurance, and so on. Business integration collaboration is done with prebuilt templates that streamline and synchronize information and data related to the respective components.
For example, collaborations for HIPAA transactions enable compliance with required specifications and standards, and ensure that all transactions and interactions interconnect across multiple applications and across enterprise boundaries. The broker plug-in component provides the necessary classes required for creating a user plug-in node. The microbroker plug-in component provides the necessary access-related information, such as broker name, queue name, data source, and so on.
Business application services
Business application services constitute the reuse entry point for SOA. Business applications are loosely coupled to bring business value to the enterprise by using Web services.
Web services reduce the cost of building expensive business applications and enable the deployment of new business models in the enterprise structure. For most organizations, the primary challenge with rapid deployments into the mainstream is security. Business application services incorporate some of the business security features to ensure security during business transactions.
Figure 8 shows the business application services that use the business process and policy management component to provide business security services to the business applications of the enterprise.
Figure 8. Business application services
The business process and policy management component uses the following security components to fulfill its security obligations to the business applications.
- Security governance framework
- Addresses the need for effective governance structure and decision-making authority within an enterprise (This framework is used to establish the chain of command, responsibilities, and authority to ensure that enterprise business applications are controlled effectively from a security perspective.)
- Trust management
- Establishes trust between any two enterprises or organizations coming together to
conduct secure business transactions (Trust is established with the two entities
agreeing to abide by a set of relationship and liability management rules to conduct business.)
Trust is also established from a technology perspective using cryptographic methods, including encryption keys, private or public keys, digital signatures, or protocols.
- Identity and access management
- Provides the necessary ID management and access privileges across enterprises. This component uses the following additional components to fulfill its services:
- HR identity feed, to notify the administrative authorities about ID status changes and to trigger appropriate workflow initiations
- Approval component, to get the necessary management approval for modifications or updates to identity or information access
- User self-care component, to enable end users to carry out certain security administrative tasks without administrative supervision, such as periodically changing a password
- Delegation component, to provide the ability to delegate the IT security management functions to another individual
- Revalidation component, to provide access to systems that need to be approved at regular intervals
- Secure systems and network
- Provides security services such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, virus detection, patch management, and operating and network security (The Business application services component uses a federated component to manage many different service environments of the enterprise.)
- Data protection
- Responsible for the security of the business information content during its transportation or at its destination (The data protection component establishes trust by managing privacy policies, obtaining detailed reports on sensitive information, publishing policies for review by users, and capturing and enforcing user preferences.)
- Risk management
- Determines the level of risk associated within the enterprise IT system and the need to take effective action to assess its impact on overall security operations based on a cost benefit analysis and its impact on the system
- Compliance management
- Ensures compliance with external federal or state regulations and internal compliance with IT organization business security policies
- Audit trails and records
- Reconciles and assesses how the different IT security policies introduced in the IT system are practically applied in day-to-day operations to ensure compliance that is set against internal and external policies. (This helps management and technical teams take quick corrective actions in case of policy divergence.)
Application and data access services
The application and data access services component serves as the information and reuse entry points of SOA, as shown in Figure 9. Connectivity of services across heterogeneous technologies is the foundation of SOA. Figure 9 shows a scenario of an enterprise application supporting various interaction protocols and QoS with the application and data access services component. The business applications of most organizations must be able to handle a variety of data representations as they start moving toward exposing applications as services in an SOA environment.
Handling the myriad forms of data turns out to be a challenge; there is an imperative need for a common universal API capable of handling the various data sources. The SCA programming model can expose services that interact with the underlying data layer. A robust data access utility called the relational database data access service (RDB DAS) provides a tight integration with Service Data Objects (SDO) to access data within an SCA-based application.
Figure 9. Application and data access services
Architects and stakeholders often find it challenging to articulate the SOA architecture pattern and to determine which entry point to choose. As a result, they may want to select several SOA entry points that can address the most pressing and challenging issues that face the enterprise. After reading this article, architects and other key players can help their organization better meet its requirements by drilling down on the various nodes identified at each of the entry points to begin working toward their SOA architecture journey.
In this article, you learned about SOA from a logical perspective and how to create nodes and associated UML components that can represent the SOA reference architecture in a nonpropietary, product-agnostic manner.
The author thanks Dr. Pavlick, IBM DoD CTO, for providing the Federal market need for logical SOA models and a repeatable process that can help sales and architecture teams quickly respond to customers with a repository of SOA nodes.
- "What's new in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6" (developerWorks, Jan 2007) gives an overview of WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Integration Developer, the integrated development environment for developing WebSphere ESB applications.
- WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus provides product information and resources.
IBM Redbooks®:
- Patterns: Implementing an SOA using an Enterprise Service Bus focuses on how the SOA profile of the Process Integration patterns can be used to start implementing SOA using an Enterprise Service Bus.
- Understanding SOA Security Design and Implementation discusses how security is factored into the SOA life cycle. Security is a business requirement, and not just a technology attribute.
- Dimensional Modeling: In a Business Intelligence Environment describes and demonstrates dimensional data modeling techniques and technology, specifically focusing on business intelligence and data warehousing.
- "Building an Enterprise Service Bus with WebSphere Application Server V6, Part 2" (developerWorks, Feb 2005) describes a sample business case for building an ESB with WebSphere V6 Messaging Resources and explains the steps for setting up an instance of the bus.
- Recommended reading list: Service-Oriented Architecture and WebSphere Process Server (developerWorks, Apr 2006) lists essential reading, compiled for customers, consultants, and other technical specialists by IBM Software Services for WebSphere.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- It's a pleasant, mid-week afternoon and the convivial Huntsville Shuttle bus driver is telling familiar passengers before we pull out into traffic that "I'm going to get my driver's license tomorrow."
A renewal, not a first-time, he assures me.
I've lived here 14 years and never before been on a Huntsville Shuttle.
Odds are, same for you. The years may differ, but it's a one-size-fits-all sentiment.
With the city pondering changes for its public transportation system, I hit the bus. Or buses, to be precise. Nobody milks more miles out of one dollar and a full house of transfer slips.
The Huntsville Shuttle is a public service for those who otherwise have no transportation to get to the grocery store or mall or work. It serves a small segment, but then again so do soccer fields, symphony halls and skate parks.
It's a necessary convenience for its regular patrons.
It's also an inconvenient convenience.
Michael Carter is waiting for the Red Core Loop bus. He's going from his west Huntsville home to Target in Jones Valley. It entails everything but a layover at the Atlanta airport. It's a 1 1/2-hour-plus trip on three busses. One way.
"Once you understand all the different routes, it's not hard to get to where you want to go," he says.
A man leaving downtown for an apartment just off Mastin Lake rides beyond the Alabama A&M campus and then a few miles west before heading back toward town. He is on board for 28 minutes. I later drive from the transfer station to his stop in eight minutes.
The bus map itself looks like a wiring diagram to help you dismantle a ticking time bomb. However, the schedules are easy to follow, connections simple to make.
For the regulars, though, there aren't enough different routes.
Dorothy Watts boards at Kroger's on South Parkway with a pair of grocery bags. She's fairly new to Huntsville, moving from New York, where mass transit is truly necessary.
She'd like to see the Shuttle running later in the day and on weekends. She'd even support doubling the fares - they're $1 for most, 50 cents for senior citizens - for weekends.
"I'd pay it just to get out of the house," she said.
The passengers, on all four routes I take, are generally quiet and polite. No loud cellphone conversations, pungent food or drivel you can't help hear from four seats away. In other words, not like sitting on a plane before taxiing.
On one route I believe I'm in a green-white-and-blue petri dish on wheels. An elderly woman constantly coughs into the lining of her jacket, yet shares a piece of fruit with her granddaughter. And the eerie man who sat in the seat next to mine even though the bus was empty begins coughing up a lung.
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"You have a fine day, ma'am," says the going-to-get-his-license driver to departing passengers.
I have no illusions that Huntsville will ever have a big-city mass transit system. Too much snobbery. Costs too much. The city is too far-flung. We'll be commuting in our flying cars before there's a high-speed mass transit line between Research Park and, say, Hampton Cove.
But for a segment of the population for which it's the only option, a little inconvenience is worth the convenience.
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