CEP - The Secret Weapon
for SOA Application
Performance Management By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Service Oriented
Architectures (SOA) can
deliver tremendous value
in flexibility,
adaptability and cost
savings. But SOA
environments are complex
by definition, with lots
of loosely coupled
components and a
potentially vast
combination of platforms,
software, da... Mar. 12, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,727 |
Service Oriented Unified
Process By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Service orientation is
one of the most popular
trends of these recent
years, but there are not
any metrics on it. Hence
you can not consume SOA
in a project with a
specific measuring. On
the other side, Unified
Process (especially RUP)
has powerful abilities on
su... Mar. 12, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,787 |
A Lightweight Approach to
SOA and BPM in Java Using
jBPM By SOA World Magazine News Desk  SOA is mostly associated
to technologies such as
BPEL, SCA and Web
Services. But does SOA
really imply these
technologies? In this
session we will show how
you can use the service
oriented approach while
staying inside the Java
world. jBPM is a powerful
lightweigh... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 1,508 |
Open Source Penetration
and Use in SOA
Deployments By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Open source has made
signficant inroads into
middleware deployments in
the enterprise. More and
more, open source is
being used to deliver the
benefits of SOA and open
source to the enterprise.
There are many custom
Enterprise Service Bus
deployments waiting to be
... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 916 |
A Little SOA Goes A Long
Way By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Many organizations make
the faulty assumption
that SOA is a panacea
that can, and should be,
applied to every
situation. The reality is
that service orientation
is not the right answer
for every scenario. The
expense of service
orientation cannot always
be recoupe... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 891 |
Implementing a Highly
Distributed, Real-time
Data-critical SOA
Application By SOA World Magazine News Desk  SOA implementations are
increasingly reliant on
streams of data that are
time-critical, reliably
delivered and sourced
from mixed
infrastructures in a
highly distributed
environment. Data
formats, delivery
mechanisms, fault
tolerance capabilities
and stateful se... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 670 |
Avoiding a SOA Fiasco By SOA World Magazine News Desk  While SOA can deliver
dramatic cost reduction
of an organization's
business operations, it
is a complex,
multidisciplinary
undertaking, and
therefore introduces
significant risk. This
session presents a list
of the most important
risk factors and ways to
mitigat... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 835 |
SOA by the Numbers By SOA World Magazine News Desk  While everyone wants to
do SOA right the first
time, the typical results
are not always stellar.
Indeed, the pitfalls of
building any complex
architecture, including
SOA, are something that
the SOA practitioners
must contend with, and
most are ill-equipped.
Howeve... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 721 |
New Perspectives on
Governance, Management,
and Industry Standards in
the Service-Oriented
Enterprise By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Popular assumptions can
often be dangerous. We
will start by considering
how the many unique
architectural
characteristics of SOA,
such as loose-coupling,
can actually be a
two-edged sword affecting
the requirements, nature
and success of many
important aspects of... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 2,406 |
Where We Are and Where We
Need to Be With SOA? By SOA World Magazine News Desk  The success of SOA runs
two ways. SOA serves as
the catalyst for
organizational change,
yet an organization must
be ready to embrace these
new dimensions opened up
by SOA. The latest survey
data shows most
organizations are just
starting on their SOA
journeys. Why... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 582 |
The End of Middleware As
You Know It at SOA World By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Dramatic industry changes
- including vendor
consolidation,
outsourcing and the
growth of open source -
highlight the need for a
better way. When a SOA
implementation costs too
much, the culprit is
often the old-fashioned,
proprietary and expensive
server or hub-b... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 642 |
CEP - The Secret Weapon
for SOA Application
Performance Management By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Service Oriented
Architectures (SOA) can
deliver tremendous value
in flexibility,
adaptability and cost
savings. But SOA
environments are complex
by definition, with lots
of loosely coupled
components and a
potentially vast
combination of platforms,
software, da... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 715 |
Service Oriented Unified
Process By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Service orientation is
one of the most popular
trends of these recent
years, but there are not
any metrics on it. Hence
you can not consume SOA
in a project with a
specific measuring. On
the other side, Unified
Process (especially RUP)
has powerful abilities on
su... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 738 |
Service Oriented
Architecture: Making the
Leap By SOA World Magazine News Desk It seems that Service
Oriented Architecture
(SOA) continues to be
this year's hot buzzword,
rather than a
well-defined, meaningful
and valuable part of the
Enterprise Architecture
landscape. Before the
term fades away
completely, perhaps we
should agree what's
v... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 981 |
Making Sense of the BPM &
SOA Standards Alphabet
Soup By SOA World Magazine News Desk  What is BPEL? What is
XPDL? How are they
different? What is the
best use for each? What
is BPMN and why should I
care? Which of these are
primarily designed to
help IT at a technical
level, and which help an
organization at a
business level? Amongst
the flurry of ... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 666 |
On the Wireless Fringes
of SOA By SOA World Magazine News Desk  This session will
investigate what is
happening out there in
the world of Mobility
that uses Services, some
are calling this MOA
(Mobile Oriented
Architecture). We will
also discuss
architectures,
application design &
considerations for
mobility. Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 697 |
Digital Identity and
Service-Oriented
Architecture By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Adoption of federated
identity technology has
been slower than the hype
might indicate, despite
the maturity of standards
such as SAML 2.0 and Web
Services Security. This
presentation examines the
distinct business and
technical identity
management issues in both
... Mar. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 828 |
Local System Integrators
Push SOA Penetration in
Major Asian Markets By SOA World Magazine News Desk Springboard Research
reported that local
system integrators and
Independent Software
Vendors (ISVs) are
playing a role in SOA
vendors' ability to
penetrate four major
domestic markets in Asia.
This is evident in the
Chinese market that is
dominated by local
play... Mar. 11, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 1,310 |
Title Guaranty of Hawaii
Surfs Through SOA
Transition with Micro
Focus By SOA World Magazine News Desk Micro Focus announced
that Title Guaranty of
Hawaii has successfully
incorporated a service
oriented architecture
(SOA) environment to join
and enhance its existing
systems and COBOL-based
applications. Using Micro
Focus Studio for COBOL
Developers 4.0, which
comb... Mar. 11, 2008 12:30 PM Reads: 1,236 |
Appcelerator CTO Says:
"The Next Web Development
Episode Is RIA + SOA" By SOA World Magazine News Desk 'There has been a lot of
buzz around rich Web 2.0
applications, but they
will not become
mainstream until the next
generation of web
platforms emerge - fully
integrated platforms that
enable RIA + SOA.' That
is the current state of
the enterprise Web
development u... Mar. 11, 2008 12:15 PM Reads: 3,879 |
Project Insight Project
Management Software
Announces Web Services
Integration By SOA World Magazine News Desk Project Insight recently
integrated project budget
information from its
hosted service to the
back-end accounting
system for customer, R.W.
Smith & Company, using
Web Services APIs.
Project Insight helps
project teams like
American Honda, Merrill
Lynch, and Regist... Mar. 11, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 1,289 Replies: 1 |
Groupe Mutuel Chooses
ILOG JRules as a Core
Component for Its SOA
Initiative By SOA World Magazine News Desk ILOG announced that
Groupe Mutuel chose ILOG
JRules to automate its
claims management
processes. ILOG JRules
will be used as a core
component of Groupe
Mutuel's new
service-oriented
architecture (SOA).
Groupe Mutuel comprises
14 insurance companies
and provides ... Mar. 10, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 1,522 |
ABBYY Releases
SOA-Compatible Server
Solution for
Enterprise-Scale OCR By SOA World Magazine News Desk ABBYY announced
Recognition Server 2.0,
the next generation of
its OCR and PDF
conversion solution. Its
compatibility with
service-oriented
architecture (SOA)
through a Web Service
interface, combined with
seamless output to
Microsoft SharePoint and
document inp... Mar. 10, 2008 01:45 PM Reads: 1,609 |
Software AG Extends SOA
Further into Mainframe
Environments with Release
of the webMethods
Application Modernization
Suite By SOA World Magazine News Desk Software AG introduced
the webMethods
Application Modernization
Suite as a comprehensive
product suite for
revitalizing and
extending mainframe
applications. The release
fully leverages the
company's global
leadership in the
service-oriented
architecture (SOA) a... Mar. 10, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 3,420 |
AMR Research Finds
Average Spending on SOA
Software and Services
Reached $1.4 Million in
2007 By SOA World Magazine News Desk Companies adopting
service-oriented
architecture (SOA) spent
$1.4 million on software
and services in 2007,
according to a report
released by AMR Research.
'The SOA Spending Report
2007-2008,' which
surveyed IT executives
from the United States,
Germany, and China... Mar. 10, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 1,652 |
FINEOS Achieves IBM SOA
Specialty Status By SOA World Magazine News Desk FINEOS Corporation
announced its acceptance
into the IBM SOA
Specialty after
successfully completing
IBM's rigorous SOA
technical and business
requirements. With this
achievement, FINEOS
integrates with the IBM
software and strategy for
SOA and will also be
list... Mar. 10, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 1,446 |
Testing and Metrics Key
to Business Value of SOAs By SOA World Magazine News Desk According to a new study
from Aberdeen,
comprehensive, consistent
and proactive performance
measurement and testing
best maximize the
business value of
service-oriented
architecture (SOA)
investments. The new
Aberdeen study found that
64% of Best-in-Class
compan... Mar. 7, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 2,212 |
JBoss and iWay Software
to Deliver SOA Solutions By SOA World Magazine News Desk JBoss and iWay Software
announced an agreement
designed to bring a full
range of information
management capabilities
to global organizations.
The combined power of
iWay Software's pre-built
data and application
connectors and JBoss'
enterprise application
platform... Mar. 7, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 2,136 |
SOA Software Certifies
JBoss as a Governed
Service Platform By SOA World Magazine News Desk SOA Software announced
that it has certified the
JBoss Enterprise SOA
Platform as a Governed
Service Platform.
Certified Governed
Service Platform status
means that customers can
be confident that their
platforms won't
compromise the fidelity
of the governance sys... Mar. 7, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 1,789 |
businessMart Takes On New
Markets Using IBM SOA and
Web 2.0 Technologies By SOA World Magazine News Desk businessMart AG announced
it has accelerated its
entry into new business
markets thanks to a new
Web-based trading
platform built on IBM's
service oriented
architecture (SOA) and
Web 2.0 technology.
Combining a flexible
infrastructure with
mashup technology,
bus... Mar. 7, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 2,839 |
MomentumSI Announces SOA
Adoption Accelerator By SOA World Magazine News Desk MomentumSI announced
Harmony - a SOA framework
that blends enterprise
architectural methods
with practical
implementation
techniques. The assets
that comprise the Harmony
offering are crucial to
corporations seeking to
ensure successful SOA
deployment. Mar. 6, 2008 10:30 AM Reads: 1,353 |
Software AG Extends SOA
Further into Mainframe
Environments By SOA World Magazine News Desk Software AG introduced
the webMethods
Application Modernization
Suite as a comprehensive
product suite for
revitalizing and
extending mainframe
applications. The release
fully leverages the
company's global
leadership in the
service-oriented
architecture (SOA) a... Mar. 5, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 2,556 |
IDS Scheer Announces
Support for OASIS
Reference Model with ARIS
SOA Architect By SOA World Magazine News Desk IDS Scheer announced
support for the OASIS SOA
Reference Model used in
tandem with ARIS SOA
Architect. The structure
and management of a
business process-oriented
service landscape
requires close
cooperation between
specialized departments
and IT within companies.... Mar. 5, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 1,808 |
DataDirect Shadow
Mainframe-to-SOA
Integration Support for
IBM's New System z10
Mainframe By SOA World Magazine News Desk DataDirect has announced
DataDirect Shadow
mainframe-to-SOA
integration support for
IBM's new System z10
mainframe. DataDirect
Shadow version 7 is a
mainframe integration
platform capable of
diverting SOA and data
workloads from IBM's
general purpose mainframe
p... Mar. 5, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 1,521 |
Open Source Penetration
and Use in SOA
Deployments By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Open source has made
signficant inroads into
middleware deployments in
the enterprise. More and
more, open source is
being used to deliver the
benefits of SOA and open
source to the enterprise.
There are many custom
Enterprise Service Bus
deployments waiting to be
... Mar. 5, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 5,606 |
AccuRev and Electric
Cloud Partner to Advance
Multistage Continuous
Integration and Scalable
Agile Best Practices By SOA World Magazine News Desk AccuRev and Electric
Cloud announced a
technology partnership
designed to improve
software development
productivity and
efficiency. The combined
solution, which
integrates the automated
build, test and
deployment functionality
of Electric Cloud's
ElectricComman... Mar. 4, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 4,071 |
ERUCES Accepted Into the
IBM SOA Specialty By SOA World Magazine News Desk ERUCES announced its
acceptance to the IBM
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
Specialty after
completing IBM's SOA
technical and business
requirements. With this
achievement ERUCES'
Tricryption application
integrates with the IBM
software and strategy for
SOA. Mar. 4, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,475 |
Active Endpoints
Announces ActiveVOS 5.0 By SOA World Magazine News Desk Active Endpoints
announced the
availability of ActiveVOS
5.0. ActiveVOS 5.0
revolutionizes the
design, development,
testing, deployment and
maintenance of composite
applications for line of
business developer
project teams who are
struggling to balance the
techn... Mar. 4, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,705 |
AccuRev Unveils SCM
Coexistence Solution for
ClearCase By SOA World Magazine News Desk AccuRev announced the
availability of AccuRev
4.6 for ClearCase, the
latest add-on to its
software configuration
management (SCM)
solution. AccuRev 4.6 for
ClearCase provides
coexistence for optimal
support of parallel,
geographically
distributed and Agile
devel... Mar. 3, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 3,508 |
Order Processing Software
is Built on SOA Framework By SOA World Magazine News Desk TDCI announced the
availability of a new
BuyDesign iSeries Adapter
along with BuyDesign
release 5.2. Built on a
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
framework, the BuyDesign
iSeries Adapter makes it
easy to incorporate the
Microsoft Windows-based
BuyDesign product ... Mar. 3, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 1,526 |