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Applying MDA to Service-Oriented Architectures Presentation»rank: 5902128by: 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. |
ZapNote: Ipedo ZapNote: An In-Memory Native XML Data Storage System»rank: 5902128by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Ipedo has developed a proprietary, hierarchical, in-memory database engine aimed at storing XML documents "natively". The Ipedo XML Database uses memory techniques to get substantial performance gains versus some other NXD approaches. Built as an all-Java server, the Ipedo system is meant to be easily integrated with typical application server environments. Ipedo has extended XPath for search across multiple XML documents and has also included XSLT transformations within the data store itself. |
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ZapNote: Epistemic ZapNote: Giving Real Power to Business Analysts»rank: 5902128by: 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 ... |
SOA Tools and Best Practices Report: Beyond Point-to-Point Web Services»rank: 5902128by: 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 -- ... |
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Service-Oriented Architecture Consulting Report: Facilitating the Service-Oriented Enterprise»rank: 5648818by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Key Findings: Todays professional services firms are struggling to find their long-term value proposition in environments that are in constant change. There is a significant opportunity for PSOs in the short-term for helping companies implement and adopt SOAs, and in the long-term for providing critical business process expertise. As Service-oriented process tools mature, system integration will no longer be a separate activity, but will be subsumed into the process orchestration and choreography activities within the Service-oriented process tools. The business process design, optimization, and execution consulting market will come to ... |
ZapNote: Fidesic ZapNote: XML-Powered Electronic Payment»rank: 5648818by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Paper-based invoices and payments are inefficient, time-consuming for both the payer and payee, and are fraught with potential for error and delays due to the postal service and the required time to take payment to the bank for deposit and processing. XML, Web Services, and associated technologies promise to solve these problems and present to users a more efficient, integrated, and lower-cost solution for automating electronic payment. Fidesic provides a solution to the above problems through an electronic invoicing and payment solutions that integrates with existing financial applications. The solution ... |
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ZapNote: Cybermation ZapNote: Perking Up Enterprise Scheduling with Espresso»rank: 5648818by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Enterprise, or distributed, job scheduling is the ability to create cross-platform batch processes and workload that is executed on multiple machines. Cybermation's Espresso accomplishes this task by means of a graphical interface that helps a user define, test, and manage these distributed workloads across heterogeneous systems. |
Testing Web Services Report»rank: 5648818by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Key Findings: Web Services promise to fundamentally change the distributed computing landscape. This new landscape will present new testing scenarios and problems that companies using Web Services don't currently understand. Todays enterprises that are dabbling in Web Services arent inquiring about or requesting testing solutions. The whole concept of a software development lifecycle will fall by the wayside as companies realize the advantages of orchestrating loosely coupled Services into coarse-grained business Services. As enterprises follow the Web Services model and move from phase one (through 2003) to phase three (2005 ... |
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The Pros and Cons of Web Services Report»rank: 5648818by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: : List of Arguments Pro: Web Services are standards-based. Pro: Web Services' loose coupling leads to increased modularity and flexibility in complex, distributed IT environments. Pro: Since Web Services are dynamically described, they will lead to systems that can be upgraded automatically. Pro: Web Services reduces integration costs. Pro: Web Services simplify Business to Business Integration (B2Bi). Pro: Web Services enable new business models. Pro: Web Services leverage existing technology and skill sets. Pro: Web Services enable less technical business people to 'assemble' software solutions without the need for coding. ... |
ZapNote: LogicLibrary ZapNote: Leveraging Web Services Software Assets»rank: 5648818by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :In order for enterprises to realize the promise of Web Services to make their businesses more agile and efficient, organizations need to be able to get a firm grasp of their existing computing assets that can be translated into Web Services at many different levels of granularity. Best practices for Web Services development demand an approach that begins with building a model of the capabilities needed within the context of the business, and then subsequently identifying the computing assets present in the organization that can support the modelLogicLibrary Logidex allows ... |