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Why is "Business Logic" an Oxymoron? ZapFlash

By Jason Bloomberg
Document ID: ZAPFLASH-01222004 | Document Type: ZapFlash

Dear executive: quick! Where is your business logic? In the business or application tier of your n-tier architecture? Ingrained in your business and enterprise applications? How about stored procedures in your databases? You wouldn't have any business logic in your client apps, portals, or Web pages, would you? How about your identity and access management software? What's that you say? All of the above? The fact of the matter is, for most large organizations (and many midsize ones, as well), business logic resides in all of these places, and more. Where it doesn't reside is in the hands of the business people. And there's the contradiction: how can business logic be business logic if it's locked away in the technology, rather than in the hands of the business?