Seeking to position itself at the top of the heap among vendors in the emerging market for SOA management software, Digital Evolution, announced this week that it has acquired Flamenco Networks.
Steve Garone, managing partner at The AlignIT Group LLC, said there are six requirements to keep in mind when evaluating WSM products.
There’s no shame in expressing skepticism that SOA is nirvana, but our August Cover Story does find reasons for optimism that the technology could benefit IT development and integration projects.
Firm’s CTO said he considered the more typical SOA Web-based front end but determined that HTML and the current state of Web services technology was not up to tracking jet flights in real-time.
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) journey is entering a new phase in corporate IT shops. Experts still expect SOA to finally give IT an adequate integration solution.
Lydian Trust is a mid-sized financial services company based in Palm Beach, Fla. Although it was only founded in 1999, its services, including private banking and wealth management, had expanded by mid-2002 to the point where it had outgrown its original IT systems built on Microsoft Windows .COM. John Studdard’s job was to move to the .NET platform with a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that would allow development teams to build Web services applications without having to worry about the basic XML-based standards or architecture.
At NxTrend Technology Inc., Web services allowed the company to continue to use its established transaction engine while putting on a most “modern” face for other systems, indicated Ross Elliott, vice president and chief strategy officer at the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based supply distribution software house.
Integration brokers are increasingly becoming part of application platforms from the major vendors, including IBM, Microsoft and BEA, according to analysts at the Burton Group.
Never underestimate the power of a name -- or in this case, a category. Now that the enterprise service bus (ESB) has been officially identified by IT industry watchers, life is a little easier for companies like Cape Clear Software. "Our products have always been based on ESB," Cape Clear co-founder David Clark told eADT over lunch in Palo Alto recently, "but we've had to spend a lot of time explaining ourselves to our customers. Now that [industry analysts at] Gartner have put us in the ESB category, we've got something to hang our hat on."
If SOA is going to move from "academic" to practical application, developers will need better mechanisms for managing identity issues from single-sign-on to service-level agreements, says Ian Goldsmith, VP, product marketing at Digital Evolution.
BEA Systems is characterizing a new high-end version of its WebLogic Server -- the BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition -- as the convergence of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented application development.
This site is trying to become the online hub for Web Services and SOA activity.
Sun Microsystems unveiled details of its plans to support Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) in its Java Enterprise System server software suite and Java Studio programming tools at last week's JavaOne conference. Enhancements to these products under "Project Kitty Hawk" will make it easier for developers to write "a new breed of enterprise software" around Java-based Web services, company officials said.
Oracle Corp. last week unveiled what it called "the industry's first and most complete" Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. Based on technology acquired with its recent purchase of Collaxa Inc., Oracle's new BPEL Process Manager features what the company claims is the first native BPEL "engine," or software that collects data from different applications to complete particular business processes.
We can learn lessons from trading hubs and apply the data to IT integration. See how the ESB removes the distinction among internal and external networks for supply-chain apps.