"We didn't start the fire ... it was always burning since the world's been turning ..." [Billy Joel 1989]. Is SOA the "Same Old Architecture?" or is it "Simply Over Ambitious?" Let's apply SOA's arsenal:: XML, BPM, Services, SOAP, Web Services - to the real world and find out. Let's put out some fires.

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De-mystifying SOA products selection

With a trend of providing comprehensive suite of functionalities in the IT platform, the market is cluttered with different products and platforms offering composite application capabilites. Application servers like Websphere, BEA are adding identity management, BPM, portal, integration capabilites to offer a SOA platform. Integration brokers or EAI platforms like tibco are claiming that their platforms offer true SOA capabilites. Enterprise systems like SAP, Oracle have modularised the traditional monolithic model to offer enterprise functions as services. Perosnalization / content management tools like Vignette, Plumtree seem to be catching up with adding open architectures. Its confusing for the new SOA entrant to decide which platform to select for effective SOA implementation.

Does this situation seem similar to a novice investor asking which kind of portfolio I should create? Well that depends on investor profile, amount to be invested, and correct assessment of the market state and trends. Diversification, long term thinking usually do not go wrong. Can this mentality, approach be applied for selecting SOA products / platforms? Can financial asset allocation models approach be used for IT assets/products allocations?

 

Posted by Shreyas J. Kamat on December 15, 2006 05:55 AM |

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Hi,
i saw your comments on the SOA and enterprise application architecture and how companies are gearing to it. I think if you at IBM Story of SOA it is quite complete because does not just talk abt an EAI like TIBCO or App Server like BEA, or app service provider like oracle or SAP, it has components like rational where you can model, tivoli where you can monitor and recent additions like Registory and Repository where you can manage your services. Also important feature is the data gaurd (an appliance which can seperate service execution from core applications.

Posted by: Amar | December 19, 2006 01:36 AM

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