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Applying MDA to Service-Oriented Architectures Presentation»rank: 6146290by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :The Take Credit code for this presentation was made available to attendees of the live presentation only. If you didn't see the presentation in person, you won't be able to get the code. |
A Guide to Securing XML and Web Services White Paper»rank: 6106606by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :The quantity of XML crossing the enterprise network is dramatically increasing as the range and depth of uses that companies find for XML grows. This torrent of XML traffic offers substantial business value to enterprises, but it also offers a new set of risks. Companies are using Web Services today to facilitate integration with their most important systems, but XML, the heart of Web Services, is by its nature an open, human-readable format, and as a result offers little in the way of inherent security. It is critically important, therefore, for companies to secure their XML and Web Services traffic ... |
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ZapNote: Epistemic ZapNote: Giving Real Power to Business Analysts»rank: 6106606by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Traditional business intelligence (BI) solutions are often inflexible and incomplete, because they depend on rigidly structured data found in relational database systems (RDBMS). Such solutions often exclude nonrelational data, and force users into a "SQL query" mindset.Epistemic leverages the power of Web Services to break free from the traditional relational database/SQL query approach to business intelligence that poorly addresses non-relational data and provides intelligence of limited use. Where business analysts using these traditional tools must massage the results in Excel in order to analyze them, analysts using the Epicentric Analytics Toolkit can begin their analysis right away.Epistemic's use of Web ... |
SOA Best Practices Report: Beyond Point-to-Point Web Services»rank: 6106606by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Key Findings: Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility. By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented. The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over $98 billion by 2010. Reworking existing brittle, high-cost IT infrastructures into flexible, Service-oriented architectures promises substantial long-term cost savings and revenue opportunities through increased business agility. Service orientation represents the latest distributed computing approach to affect IT -- the fourth major shift since the mid-twentieth century. ZapThink predicts ... |
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ZapNote: Actional ZapNote: A Two-Part Approach to Addressing Service-Oriented Management»rank: 6106606by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Actionals product line addresses IT architecture challenges at two gaps: at the adaptation layer between back-end data sources and application servers, and at the management layer between the application servers and Service consumers. At the adaptation layer, Actional provides loosely coupled interfaces to business applications, databases, and other back-end systems. At the management layer, Actional solves problems of access control, Service quality and availability, and managing changes to existing Web Services. Actionals complex two-product approach offers their customers flexibility in deployment of Web Services. |
ZapNote: Westbridge Technology ZapNote: Soup to Nuts Web Services Management»rank: 6106606by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Many software vendors entering the Web Services arena are jostling each other with respect to their various business models. Are they a Web Services infrastructure platform or a Web Services security platform? Or maybe they are a Web Services management platform, or even a Web Services gateway or router?While most vendors focus on one core competency, Westbridge Technology is developing a product that will be all of these things. The Westbridge Technology XML Message Server is fundamentally a Web Services management platform. However, it also offers security features, message transformation and routing, as well as directory administration, all on top ... |
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ZapNote: MetaMatrix»rank: 6106606by: Jason Bloomberg
: :Many software vendors entering the Web Services arena are jostling each other with respect to their various business models. Are they a Web Services infrastructure platform or a Web Services security platform? Or maybe they are a Web Services management platform, or even a Web Services gateway or router?While most vendors focus on one core competency, Westbridge Technology is developing a product that will be all of these things. The Westbridge Technology XML Message Server is fundamentally a Web Services management platform. However, it also offers security features, message transformation and routing, as well as directory administration, all on top ... |
ZapNote: Vitria ZapNote: Semantic Approach to Business Process Management»rank: 6106606by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :The Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Business to Business Integration (B2Bi) space is getting more competitive by the day, with industry juggernauts IBM and BEA pushing into the markets dominated by the four established EAI vendors: WebMethods, Tibco, SeeBeyond, and Vitria. On top of these increased competitive pressures comes the advent of Web Services. With their open standards-based, loosely coupled approach to integration, Web Services provide a clear, short term cost benefit to companies looking to integrate systems, both within their enterprises as well as across their value chains. |
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Ubiquitous Computing: Removing the Final Roadblock White Paper: Integrating Closed Systems with Edge Devices & XML»rank: 6321715by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Ubiquitous computing -- connecting all the systems in an enterprise into a single, well-oiled IT infrastructure that responds quickly and efficiently to the needs of the business -- is one of the primary goals of many IT managers today. After all, todays economy is information-based, and the better a company can leverage the information it has in its systems, the more competitive it will be.For ubiquitous computing to be a reality, however, companies must address many tough issues. Systems must communicate with each other. There must be a flexible, resilient architecture that guides the operation of the IT infrastructure. And ... |
Case Study ZapNote: The Hartford ZapNote: Web Services Management Adoption at an Early Adopter»rank: 6321715by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :The insurance industry is leading the economy in the adoption of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), and The Hartford is an early adopter of these technologies among insurance companies. When it became necessary to update an agent tool that required integration to a heterogeneous collection of back-end systems, taking an SOA approach was a natural fit for them. The Hartford realized early in this project that they needed to acquire a Web Services management (WSM) solution, so they established formal selection criteria, invited several vendors to participate, and narrowed the selection down to two vendors. They then put those ... |