Toufic Boubez has a stellar record in Web services. At IBM, he co-authored UDDI. Later, he founded Layer 7 Technologies which recently released SecureSpan to promote Web services security and integration policy creation. Jack Vaughan met with Boubez over iced tea in Boston's Seaport District.
J2EE complexity stemmed the growth of early Java tools. Now, an emerging
breed of simpler offerings aims to give Visual Studio .NET a run for its money
just as the next-generation Microsoft offerings increase complexity.
ADT's editors sort through the people, events and trends that made
2003 what it was.
Scouts Canada has installed a centralized database system with Web-based access to membership information.
Some new BI products on the market.
We speak with Jim Rhyne, a distinguished engineer and legacy modernization architect, based at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab.
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) helps execs to sift seas of changing data. But a move to BAM means taking on tough integration issues.
Experts such as Stephen Brobst say the overriding trend in data integration today is toward an Active Data Warehouse where event-based triggering occurs. But a mix of batch- and trickle-feeds will rule for quite a long time.
Applying force field analysis to Web services shows that they provide the path of least resistance to integration goals.
The BPM supplier crowd is also doing deals -- technology and/or marketing -- to help their wares include more real-time features.
Server pages, both Active- and Java-type, using what many in the industry still call a portal, serve up the coolest view of integrated data. We recently took a peek inside the minds of a couple of portal partisans, from different points on a vast spectrum.
They said it was dead, but the mainstay IT platform is ambling into the modern era. The mantra for many shops now is to ‘refresh and renew.’
If you want to simplify your applications portfolio to achieve your enterprise architect vision, think ahead to the next stepping-stone toward your goal.
It is difficult to debate the need for real-time analytics because the definition of real time itself can be so highly subjective, but everybody wants data “while it’s hot.” Development managers need to navigate a wide field of hyperbole to find the big picture.
Development teams are finding their way toward the new Microsoft platform. They are encountering decent performance, sketchy security standards and a handful of best practices.
In the “aught-world” of standards (2000 and beyond, that is), compliance is a moving target. Vendors are beginning to push UML 2.0 products, but some people wonder if today’s “standardization” is adequate.
For its real-time needs, Fleet delivers business intelligence information through a portal called the Business Advisor.
Dan Romanchik asked Paul Raymond, VP in charge of requirements management products at Telelogic, to share his views on managing requirements.
Efforts of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization to address the issue of interoperability have borne fruit recently with the release of important implementation guidelines for developers.
When selecting an enterprise BI platform, firms need to pay attention to architectural issues.