January 16, 2008

MuleSource expands its SOA lineup

This week, MuleSource, known for its open source enterprise service bus (ESB) offering, announced a trio of product updates and new offerings. In addition to enhancing the Enterprise version of the company's namesake Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the vendor debuted a tool for monitoring transactions and a registry. The enhanced lineup now enables MuleSource to embed itself deeper into service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments.

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Posted by TomR at 10:04 AM |

December 05, 2006

IONA fully embraces its Celtix open source experiment

IONA Technologies is making Celtix, an open source enterprise service bus (ESB), part of its core offerings. Previously, the company had heavily promoted its two commercial product families: Artix, its ESB, and Orbix, its battle-tested CORBA solution. But with this recent announcement, Celtix Enterprise becomes a fully marketed and supported IONA product -- the third element in the company's distributed computing portfolio.

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Posted by TomR at 02:18 PM |

July 21, 2006

Accenture puts a half billion dollar figure on its SOA bet

This week Accenture, the $15 billion global consulting, technology services, and outsourcing firm announced it would be investing $450 million in service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives and activities over the next three years. The fact that Accenture was betting big on SOA was not news, but by attaching a nearly half a billion dollar figure to its bet, the company made the strength of its commitment obvious to the industry, the media, clients, and prospects. Beyond...

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Posted by TomR at 02:34 PM |

July 10, 2006

Shoring up SOAs by improving underlying software code

Organizations, vendors, and the trade media have embraced the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA). In an SOA environment industry standards like the XML markup language and various Web service technologies are used to expose software as "services." By exposing software as services, organizations can more easily access these systems, as well as tie multiple services together with their own business logic to create "composite applications." SOA investment is compelling for so many IT departments because...

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Posted by TomR at 01:46 AM |

March 20, 2006

Built with SOA: i2's Agile Business Process Platform

The core principles of service-oriented architecture (SOA) -- standards-based interfaces and reusable services -- and its benefits -- system reuse, incremental adoption, and multi-vendor support -- are impossible to ignore for organizations with tight budgets and the need to adapt their systems to a dynamic business environment. The SOA marketplace is full of solutions that will help organizations service-enable their existing apps, build new services, and tie services together into an orchestrated composite app. But...

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Posted by TomR at 11:38 AM |

December 20, 2005

Cape Clear's SOA ecosystem

Building off a new release of its software, Cape Clear plans to build a multivendor SOA ecosystem to challenge vertically integrated SOA solution providers like IBM.Building a multivendor SOA ecosystem: The Cape Clear strategy [PDF]...

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Posted by TomR at 04:34 PM |

November 30, 2004

Using a data service layer to create a single view of your customers

Knowing as much as you can about your customers, such as what products they have purchased, past service calls, and their financial history, is critical to delivering the right product at the right price and meeting customer service expectations. The problem is that customer data is locked into separate systems, scattered throughout the enterprise and isolated in hundreds of databases and files. As a result, companies lack a single, all-inclusive view of their customers. The...

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Posted by TomR at 10:50 AM |

May 01, 2004

New Rowley Report: The need for SOA infrastructure

To realize the business and IT benefits of XML, Web services, and service-oriented architecture (SOA), organizations will inevitably have to invest in SOA infrastructure. This infrastructure – lightweight, distributed, and rolled out incrementally – performs tasks like routing messages; enforcing security, privacy, and other policies; and orchestrating multiservice solutions. The challenge for organizations will be to: 1) realize that they need SOA infrastructure; 2) choose the best solution from two SOA infrastructure designs; and 3)...

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Posted by TomR at 01:27 AM |

March 24, 2004

Customers ask Actional to watch for stalled Web services

Last week, Actional Corporation (Actional) announced a new capability — called watchdogs — for its Web services management platform. Watchdogs will be added to the Looking Glass centralized management console at no additional charge, starting with .NET now, and soon to be released for J2EE.Watchdogs are a technology that allow companies to test Web services and to make sure they are functioning correctly. While they don't qualify as a full-fledged testing solution, they do allow...

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Posted by TomR at 01:28 AM |