Howard Smith

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Biography

Howard Smith - Howard Smith is Chief Technology Officer for Computer Sciences Corporation in Europe where he is responsible for strategic technology innovation and early stage vendor incubation and solutions development. He also directs Ontology.Org, a CSC sponsored research forum studying interoperability among enterprise and B2B applications. As a founding member, Howard is leading CSC's participation in the Business Process Management Initiative (bpmi.org) that is standardising the management of business processes that span multiple enterprise applications, corporate departments, and business partners, both behind the firewall and over the Internet. In 1998, through a strategic alliance with CommerceNet Howard became an invited expert to the eCo Working Group [eco.commerce.net] which developed an architectural specification and semantic recommendations that have influenced many of the leading e-commerce interoperability and Web Services frameworks in practical use today. His current interests are focussed on Business Process Management, next generation Enterprise Integration, organisational agility and the Knowledge Level Business.

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• The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org)