soarcetag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2/22007-05-22T20:04:48Zservice oriented architecture resource center enterpriseMovable Type 3.2ysb5-20051201hp to help businesses implement soatag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.272007-05-22T21:03:35Z2007-05-22T20:04:48ZHP will implement products to help businesses get started with service oriented architecture.
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Hewlett-Packard announced on May 21 that they will implement products to help businesses get started with service oriented architecture. Most of the software wilol come from the HP 2006 acquisition of Mercury Interactive. For governance HP wil use SOA Systinet 2.51. This is a management system that can be reused rather than re-created each time a new service is created.
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oracle has a new definitiontag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.252007-05-19T14:42:20Z2007-05-19T14:22:26ZOracle's new philosophy seems to offer the opposite. Bring all the components together so applications can be developed together.
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Oracle says each component of SOA, EDA and Grid computing platforms require applications to be developed separately. Along the lines of EDA, Oracle is developing Complex Event Processing (CEP). The CEP capabilities will complement exixting EDA capabilities. As a result, real-time operational dashboards will be provided. This aspect enables tracking of key business performance indicators. Impact assessment is the functional component of event processing. Predicted reactions can be estimated so cost, priorities and utilities can be an integral part of the business solution.
Bigger companies are embracing lightweight SOA. The core enterprising principle is using an SOA model for sub-sets of services which can be used as new applications. Oracle's new philosophy seems to offer the opposite. Bring all the components together so applications can be developed together.
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144,000 open source projects out theretag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.212007-05-11T15:18:38Z2007-05-11T16:04:55Z400 executives were surveyed, and 71 percent said open source software was important or very important.81859mike
Open source and SOA are beginning to be a powerful duo. Joe McKendrick writes that a survey for Unisys conducted by Forrester Consulting shows that there is enough business benefit to keep open source a viable business alternative. More than half the respondents use open source software for mission-critical applications.
400 executives were surveyed, and 71 percent said open source software was important or very important. 77 percent responded that they expect consulting services from their open source service provider.
When looking for IT alternatives, an article from Rod Cope resources 10 open source projects that enterprises can look to when considering open source alternatives in their infrastructure.
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the value of eventstag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.142007-04-05T01:46:49Z2007-04-05T02:28:15ZI entered this article because I can't help but put commodity futures trading and EDA together.
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Have you heard the news about event-driven architecture (EDA)? Maybe not, because there doesn't seem to be much news about EDA. But wait...there just might be more and more as "event-driven" businesses will need this notion to stay competitive. Joe McKendrick wrote about this area and mentioned John Bates, who in the article, is considered the father of event-driven processing. Remember this: that data is always on the move. Joe wrote that certain businesses are concerned with data on the move. Two in particular are the airlines and financial trading.
I entered this article because I can't help but put commodity futures trading and EDA together. The way I see the situation is that a commodity futures trading business would benefit from EDA. Let's go back to last fall when the corn market took off to new highs. Frankly it was events that shaped that market. One "event ", a major one, was ethanol. The need for more corn when the supply was at an historic low. Granted the ethanol news doesn't have the "hot off the wire" persona that it did back in November and December of 2006, and the ethanol frenzy has cooled down some, but there is bound to be more events to plug into an event-driven system to gain a benefit. One recently was the British/Iran situation and the oil market.
Joe's article is very good. He really went to task and delivered a story that gives EDA a fair shake. He quoted Todd Biske who challenged event-driven businesses to think of themselves in the context of an event-driven business. These businesses must be in a position to realize the value of events. These businesses also need to think of the SOA side. Afterall a commodity futures broker must give service to the customer after an event has taken place, such as a crop or weather report.
One item that's worth noting is risk. EDA and SOA have to be correctly balanced. Don't create too many event-driven applications without some type of filter to sift through the events to priortize them. In other words, don't over-leverage. Joe was right when he said EDA will evolve in its own right.
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vendor ratings - worth a readtag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.132007-04-05T00:44:17Z2007-04-05T00:56:44ZHere is a link to a very good soa vendor rating81859mike
If you need a good resource on SOA vendors, this entry from service-architecture.blogspot.com is excellent. The assessments include summaries. The ratings and the categories are explained at the end of the entry.
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the long incremental stepstag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.112007-04-02T22:13:04Z2007-04-02T23:02:26ZPortal infrastructure need to be looked at since it can be implemented to solve business problems and help productivity and ROI.
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Create the vision. Create workspace applications. Get an architect. Sounds easy enough, but wait...where do the users come in? What about the enterprise? The new applications want to penetrate the enterprise with a thin line that's hardly there. Visual development tools are being upgraded.
Selling a product needs much strategy, or I've been told. Selling is done by so many people in an organization. The more organized the organization, the more strategy goes with selling a product. One might think more architecture is needed, but strategy is not architecture. But selling takes a vision that aligns with business needs. Business goals should be broken down to immediate and long-term. Customer relations is surely a goal that can't be ignored. There needs to be a good balance.
This is where the enterprise portal comes to mind. Portal infrastructure need to be looked at since it can be implemented to solve business problems and help productivity and ROI. The key job of the portal is to increase business.
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business intelligence and searchtag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.102007-04-01T12:26:37Z2007-04-01T12:57:52ZThe possibility of traditional search results from the traditional sources and from structured data sources is worth a try.81859mike
Business intelligence is about finding information from structured data. But what if you need to find information from unstructured data? Is there a business intelligence source that can find information from the company intranet? Or from internal blogs within the organization? Yes. The answer is Search.
There has been a wall put up between BI and Search. One reson is that the two have had trouble working together. Many want the two to work together for everyone who needs the information. Custom-designed portals or dashboards that combine the two are possible. The wide variety of desktop search tools like the free Google Desktop make it possible for detailed search queries across multiple data sources.
A change in infrastrucure will most likely be needed to enable a good integration of combined Search and BI tools. The possibility of traditional search results from the traditional sources and from structured data sources is worth a try.
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oracle buys tangosoltag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.92007-03-31T17:08:52Z2007-03-31T17:58:43Zoracle buys tangosol81859mike
The creation of comprehensive middleware for building applications real-time data analytics, grid-based in-memory computations and high-performance transactions is on the way with Oracle buying Tangosol, Inc.
This will enable faster performance within a database and data caching portfolio model. SOA, web 2.0 and EDA are driving the need for a high performance continuously shared data service. Data grid software increases application performance by providing fast access to data.
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bea makes announcements for web 2.0 offeringstag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.82007-03-30T20:24:38Z2007-03-30T20:47:29ZBEA has introduces three new web 2.0 products81859mike
The use of web 2.0 technologies has more companies looking at it for efficient user participation in the workplace. BEA announced the emergence of three new products: AquaLogic Ensemble, AquaLogic Pages and AquaLogic Pathways. Ensemble is for enterprise mashup creation and management. Pages is for simple day-to-day business solutions. Pathways combines social bookmarking and tagging with search and activity analytics.
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sun announced the release of glassfish v2tag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.62007-03-20T23:00:17Z2007-03-21T23:19:27ZThe AJAXWorld Conference and Expo in New York City was the scene of the annoucement of the beta release of GlassFish V2 from Sun Microsystems.
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The AJAXWorld Conference and Expo in New York City was the scene of the announcement of the beta release of GlassFish V2 from Sun Microsystems. This is the next major version of Java(TM) EE 5 application server and the release of Sun(TM) Developer Pack, a toolkit for simplifying and enabling advanced Internet applications for the Java platform. These releases will help build Web 2.0 and SOA applications which use AJAX and other technologies.
The GlassFish V2 Beta is available for download. Flexible open source technologies have been in demand and the scalability of Solaris 10 and the GlassFish application will no doubt become popular. GlassFish will boast of ease ease of development. The Sun Web Developer Pack simplifies access to open source techologies for creating rich Internet-based applications. This will help create RSS feeds more rapidly. The developer community will get next-generation Java technologies such as jMaki. Ben Galbraith, co-founder of Ajaxian.com, suggests to learn jMaki before you start down the path of integrating some of the popular Ajax frameworks into your application.
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soa is a set of best practicestag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.22007-03-14T22:07:51Z2007-03-20T13:03:33ZCan return on investment (ROI) be calculated for SOA? Does ROI have to be calculated? First off, SOA is generally a long-term project with long-term results as a priority. SOA is all about solution building with many parts involved to...81859mike
Can return on investment (ROI) be calculated for SOA? Does ROI have to be calculated? First off, SOA is generally a long-term project with long-term results as a priority. SOA is all about solution building with many parts involved to build the finished product.
Joe McKendrick wrote about this and the very concept of SOA has many scratching their heads and wondering if an SOA venture is worth it. As Joe wrote, SOA is a strategic bet. SOA is about transforming business and is intangible. The best set of practices is used to drive business transformation.
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service framework for librariestag:westhamlet.com,2007:/blog2//2.12007-03-14T03:50:25Z2007-03-14T04:03:34ZLibraries have made good progress in changing their service with new learning environments. How should libraries be organized? Is there a shared view when it comes to making libraries more networked and more digital? Frankly, no. Where to start?The Digital...81859mike
Libraries have made good progress in changing their service with new learning environments. How should libraries be organized? Is there a shared view when it comes to making libraries more networked and more digital? Frankly, no. Where to start?
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) was formed in 2005 and they in turn formed the Service Framework Group(SFG), which was to consider a more community-minded approach to information environments. The SFG wants to model the library for this new environment. A paper written on this subject and was published in July/August 2006.
A reference model is surely needed and the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) is a good example. OAIS provides the means for digital preservation and a service framework would shape the general library landscape as a shared reference point. AN OAIS is an archive made available to a community with accepted responsibility to preserve information.
As more applications are forthcoming, the framework has to be adaptable and flexible. New products from the Web 2.0 community will make information sharable and readily available. However the need for standards will soon arise during a project. The need for end-user friendly models will surely be a top priority. What good is the information archived if it can't be readily accessed?
