By Linda Terlouw | June 27, 2009

Selecting an SOA Delivery Strategy

Recently I wrote a scientific paper with Joeri Terlouw and Slinger Jansen on “An Assessment Method for Selecting an SOA Delivery Strategy” based on Joeri’s master thesis.
The article can be downloaded from http://www.icris.nl/wp-content/whitepapers/SOAdelivery.pdf, the full master thesis from http://www.icris.nl/wp-content/whitepapers/thesis_joeri_terlouw.pdf.
Let’s have a look at the abstract.
Abstract
Organizations should carefully consider which SOA delivery strategy, for instance top-down [...]

By Linda Terlouw | June 7, 2008

Why BPEL is a wrong name

Looking at the name Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) one would expect that it is a language for executing business processes. In reality BPEL is a standard for service orchestration. There is a huge difference between the two.
Let me start by making clear what a business process is. Probably the first person to describe a [...]

By Linda Terlouw | May 25, 2008

CfC: Call for Cases on Service Specification

If your organization is struggling with the question how to specify services (and how to find them!) and wants to be part of scientific research, please contact me to see if we can help each other.
My email address is:

My interests are:

reviewing current service registry implementations (finding out the problems with existing methodologies);
applying new methodologies to [...]

By Linda Terlouw | May 31, 2007

The problem of IT (in the Netherlands?)

A complex IT system needs to be build. Two IT architects start a conversation.
“How did you become an IT architect?”, says one of them to the other.
“I studied computer science, worked as an assistant to a very experienced IT architect during several years, followed additional education each year and finally I managed to become an [...]


Linda Terlouw works as an IT Architect in the field of SOA for Icris BV . She advises large corporations about the gradual migration towards a service-oriented way of thinking and the use of ESB technology for its technical implementation. Before starting Icris, Linda worked for several large companies like IBM and Ordina. Linda holds both an MSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. The focus of this research is the specification of services working from DEMO models. The research is part of the CIAO! Program.