Web services infrastructure
Dec 7th: The gap between vision and reality in SOA tools and best practice is putting pressure on organizations as they implement projects.
moreNov 25th: Oracle is pressing ahead with a grand plan to integrate its SOA stack, even while adding more acquisitions.
moreNov 7th: SOA can only deliver business agility if it's built to adapt to changing demands throughout the lifetime of the architecture.
moreAug 22nd: Apache-sponsored Synapse open-source project aims to build a universal web services intermediary.
moreAug 11th: XML-aware network devices within a service-oriented infrastructure can make integration simpler, faster, cheaper
moreApr 4th: Buying Oblix has plugged important gaps in Oracle's SOA strategy, putting it temporarily ahead of competitors IBM, HP and SAP.
moreMar 18th: Enterprises implementing SOA aim to maximize the benefits while minimizing unforeseen burdens.
moreFeb 23rd: The emerging SOA management market is a battleground between best-of-breed specialists and established enterprise-wide infrastructure vendors.
moreJan 31st: Early adopters extend registries beyond the core UDDI standard to provide vital SOA governance and information sharing.
moreDec 21st: Enterprise application vendors including SAP have delayed finalizing their strategies for the finer aspects of SOA, such as web services management.
moreNov 24th: Early adopters who deploy web services monitoring and management want to see it closely integrated with effective identity management and perimeter security.
moreOct 27th: SOA management vendors are extending their product offerings with strategic acquisitions and partnerships.
moreSep 20th: The process when buying from specialist start-up vendors is one of minimizing rather than eliminating risk.
moreAug 31st: Immature and incomplete standards for sharing grid computing resources could leave enterprises locked into vendors' proprietary technology stacks.
moreJul 28th: Established vendors across systems management, identity management, application infrastructure and EAI are eager to buy into web services management.
moreJun 22nd: The objective of loosely coupled integration is often completely lost when security integration is added.
moreMay 26th: When process automation falters because of unnoticed errors, having preset policies in place can keep things running smoothly.
moreFeb 10th: Oblix says enterprises get control of identity management before they begin managing web services. It bought Confluent so it can offer both.
moreJan 14th: Management tools that drill down to detailed web services data may inadvertently expose sensitive information.
moreDec 17th: Some enterprises are finding that smaller, specialist web services management vendors offer a better match for their needs than the better-known names.
moreDec 5th: Accurate user identity information is the key to security when linking up systems, but emerging standards leave customers in a dilemma.
moreNov 10th: Vendors define web services management to play to their individual strengths and mask the gaps in their product portfolios.
moreOct 13th: BEA hopes to persuade customers moving to SOA to standardize on its WebLogic platform for end-to-end development, deployment and integration.
moreSep 16th: CA and HP have beefed up their SOA management capabilities by acquiring technologies and skills from web services startups.
moreAug 27th: IT and business stakeholders have to work together to define realistic service level criteria for commercial web services.
moreJul 30th: Standards efforts on web services management may ultimately bring interoperability across the full spectrum of systems management software.
moreJul 24th: To stay on top of diversity, unpredictability and change in web services deployments, early adopters are prioritizing services management.
moreJun 16th: HP, IBM and CA have ambitious plans for adding web services capabilities to their IT management offerings, but progress will be slow.
moreMay 28th: Standards-based messaging eases the migration to more flexible architectures, but in production environments, reliability is critical.
moreMay 19th: Managing web services requires tools and techniques that organizations have not yet acquired.
moreApr 15th: Enterprises are adopting web services for short-term benefits. Defining an SOA strategy comes later, if at all.
moreApr 7th: Web services require a new layer of security that companies don't have at the moment. Getting it right takes more than just putting in an XML firewall.
moreFeb 26th: Low take-up has led web services management vendors to talk up the integration and instrumentation capabilities of their products within a broader SOA context.
moreFeb 20th: Two years after the fanfare of its introduction, UDDI adoption levels remain low. But users are beginning to see UDDI directories filling a practical role.
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Application integration strategies
Sep 19th: Rearden Commerce hosts a composite application platform that lets enterprises consume and potentially resell business services.
moreJun 27th: Enterprise information integration (EII) brings real-time web services into business intelligence (BI) tools, but at a cost.
moreMar 22nd: WebMethods has assembled an infrastructure offering that is designed to offer its customers a roadmap into SOA.
moreFeb 23rd: Standards-based messaging allows flexible integration without having to roll out an enterprise-wide services architecture.
moreDec 29th: New software tools aim to make services more accessible to business analysts and users when assembling composite applications.
moreOct 27th: New services-based approaches are empowering business users with real-time access to enterprise information resources.
moreOct 20th: Vendor-centric web services strategies may not meet the needs of enterprises who run a mix of packaged software suites.
moreSep 29th: Service-oriented architectures and tools free up functionality in legacy systems for reuse in productivity-enhancing applications.
moreSep 10th: By bringing together disparate functions into composite applications, businesses are streamlining partner and customer interactions.
moreJul 16th: The standards-based messaging of ESB lowers the cost and complexity of integration, so businesses can concentrate on process improvements.
moreJun 25th: Web services standards are freeing composite applications from their proprietary past, but assembling them still requires care and skill.
moreJun 9th: Despite doubts about the security and reliability of linking to legacy systems with web services, standardization promises to ease integration pains.
moreJun 3rd: EAI software vendors are repositioning their offerings to adjust to web services standardization, but their ultimate role is unclear.
moreMay 12th: In the right conditions, service-oriented approaches deliver integration for far less money and effort than traditional EAI.
moreApr 29th: Nygard automated longstanding manual processes when it used web services to link its manufacturing and finance systems.
moreFeb 17th: Packaged enterprise software vendors have begun to web service enable their products, but leave customers struggling to manage inter-application integration.
moreFeb 3rd: BT is not only a supplier of web services, but also an early adopter within its own internal systems. Its head of systems integration relates the lessons of its in-house experiences.
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Business process management
Jan 16th: Some vendors say business process management should be built into applications rather than bought as a separate product.
moreOct 10th: Proprietary implementations will undermine the openness of BPEL-based business process orchestration in an SOA.
moreSep 5th: Service-oriented architectures can help BPM projects realize the dream of continuous process improvement, say vendors.
moreJul 11th: If SOA can bridge the gap between business need and technology intent, then SMBs might just be interested.
moreNov 17th: The latest enterprise software empowers business people to rearchitect the way they run their operations; but who among them has the necessary skills?
moreJul 2nd: Choreography directs the connections between separate application resources to create productive business processes.
moreMay 6th: Technology is only half the story when automating B2B procurement. Business issues are critical factors in a project's success.
moreMar 31st: Microsoft would have you believe its large installed base leaves BizTalk Server perfectly positioned to broaden the market for business process orchestration.
moreMar 24th: Business process management is spawning a radical approach to IT and a new class of BPMS vendor. But for some, the shock of the new may be too much to take.
moreMar 3rd: SAP says its new xApps provide 'snap-on' business process agility across multiple environments -- but they require more behind-the-scenes investment than the hype suggests.
moreFeb 6th: The UN-backed standard ebXML is promoted as a platform for automating business-to-business (B2B) process integration. But businesses remain wary.
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Development issues
Jun 6th: Making sure that developers adhere to corporate policies in an SOA requires imaginative compliance and incentive systems.
moreOct 4th: Enterprises risk becoming dependent on service providers that provide no SLAs or support desks and interoperate poorly.
moreAug 7th: Connecting .NET and Java web services isn't as hard as people expect, but embracing both platforms has its pitfalls.
moreJul 10th: Abandoning mega IT projects in favor of multiple short implementations brings advantages, provided long-term objectives stay in focus.
moreApr 29th: Software vendors in the midmarket are united in porting to .NET but divided over how readily smaller businesses will embrace web services.
moreApr 23rd: Standards-based integration no longer requires specialist skills, so systems integrators are having to prove their worth to customers in new ways.
moreMar 17th: SI's web services environments look to offer customers a cost-effective route into application development. But why should customers buy into them in the first place?
moreFeb 10th: Developer skills programs are emerging for web services. They tackle not only basic programming but also higher-level architecture and business issues
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