I know that our concentration is to be service-oriented architectures, but at the same time I'm thinking about what will lie beyond (so that we can best prepare). A term popped into my head on the way home yesterday (the DC Beltway apparatentely inspires me): Process-Oriented Architecture, or "POA".

Has anyone heard this term used before? I Google'd it and found few hits, all of which seemed to be individual (rather than corporate) references.

As you can tell from the term, just as SOAs enable (involve, pick your favorite word here) the use of shared services, POAs will extend SOAs to enable the use of shared Web Services-based processes that are based on shared Web Services that are defined within SOAs, working in concert with each other. So for a US federal application (my primary client), this could mean a set of shared Web Services-based business processes for federal agencies, in a flexible, agile, process environment.

Does this concept resound with anyone?