Oliver Sims (born 1943, died in 2015) was a British

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, former IBM employee, and enterprise architecture consultant, known for his work on

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Erik Persson (2002) ''Shadows of cavernous shades: charting the chiaroscuro of realistic computing''. Department of Computer Science, Lund University, 2002. Chapter 3.4: Oliver Sims and the vision of cooperation business objects

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, and

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(SOA).

Biography

After attending

George Watson's College George Watson's College is a co-educational Independent school (United Kingdom), independent day school in Scotland, situated on Colinton Road, in the Merchiston area of Edinburgh. It was first established as a Scottish education in the eight ...

and Neath Grammar School, Sims studied Economics and Statistics at

Swansea University , former_names=University College of Swansea, University of Wales Swansea , motto= cy, Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn , mottoeng="Technical skill is bereft without culture" , established=1920 – University College of Swansea 1996 – University of Wa ...

, where he received his BSc (Econ) with honours in 1969. In 1969 Sims started his 24-year career at IBM, where he started as a trainee Systems Engineer. He held positions in software development, technical management and, in his last three years, in consultancy. He worked on a range of software products from

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(DBMS) and application packages to the development of in-house customer applications.Oliver Sims
linkedin profile. Accessed 12 December 2013. in 1993 he became Chief Architect and Principal Consultant for Integrated Objects Ltd in Newbury, UK, and also became member of the

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. He has held a number of other positions in software and consultancy ever since. He described his goal as "to contribute to the transformation of software development, and IT's management of their assets, to much higher levels of productivity, responsiveness, and flexibility. Achieving this goal is now possible through a synergistic combination of architectural design, traceability concepts, product line, middleware improvement, MDA, and agile processes."

Selected publications

Books * Sims, Oliver. ''Business objects]''. McGraw-Hill, 1994. * Eeles, Peter; Oliver Sims (1998). ''Building Business Objects.'' John Wiley & Sons. . * Herzum, Peter, and Oliver Sims. ''Business Components Factory: A Comprehensive Overview of Component-Based Development for the Enterprise.'' John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. * Sims, Oliver, Ashish Jain, and Mark Little. ''Enterprise service oriented architectures: concepts, challenges, recommendations.'' Springer, 2006. Articles, a selection: * Herzum, Peter, and Oliver Sims. "The business component approach." ''Business Object Design and Implementation II.'' Springer London, 1998. 46–58. * Tyndale-Biscoe, Sandy, et al. "Business modelling for component systems with UML." ''Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2002. EDOC'02. Proceedings''. Sixth International. IEEE, 2002.

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the "father" of business objects {{DEFAULTSORT:Sims, Oliver 1942 births Living people Alumni of Swansea University British computer scientists IBM employees People educated at George Watson's College People educated at Neath Grammar School for Boys

Biography

Selected publications

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