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ThoughtWorks: Focusing on the Technology of Web Services & SOA ZapNote»rank:by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :ThoughtWorks is a midsize global IT consulting firm that offers custom software development, integration services, Web Services development, and enterprise architecture consulting. Rather than providing high-level business consulting, the company focuses its resources squarely on providing technology solutions to problems companies face. However, despite the seemingly narrow focus of the firm, the company offers true thought leadership, in particular in the area of distributed development using a global delivery model and agile methodologies, which both lowers their clients risk and helps them attract top-notch technical talent. Specifically, ThoughtWorks has completed ... |
F5 Networks: Leveraging The Network As An Integral Part Of The Application ZapNote»rank: 4929330by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Despite the important role that networks serve, the realms of application development and network operations have traditionally been separate and disconnected domains. This artificial separation of concerns causes problems when distributed computing approaches merge many of the traditional concepts of application and network. In particular, the movement to Web Services and SOAs eliminates many of the artificial barriers between what was once considered the domain of software, and what was the domain of network hardware. F5 aims to change this IT status quo through its products that give greater ability ... |
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ZapNote: Forum Systems ZapNote: Advanced XML Network Appliance»rank: 4929330by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Rather than requiring each application on the network to comply with the latest XML-based security specifications, compression algorithms, and business process standards, most organizations will seek to implement centralized intermediaries that will handle these tasks on behalf of the applications. Hardware XML Network Appliances can fill the role of the XML and Web Services intermediary in a credible way.Forum Systems has produced a hardware appliance that aims to fill the role as Web Services Proxy as and XML "Application Firewall" by processing XML network traffic and applying security, routing, and ... |
ZapNote: Actional ZapNote: A Two-Part Approach to Addressing Service-Oriented Management»rank: 4929330by: 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. |
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Pantero ZapNote: SOA + Information Architecture = Code Reuse (Finally!) ZapNote»rank: 4214331by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Before the Industrial Revolution, virtually every human work product was handmade and crafted by artisans -- clothing, vehicles, buildings, anything people consumed. Then came the Revolution, ushering in mass production, which changed the fundamental economics of manufacturing and consumption forever. Software, on the other hand, is still essentially handmade to this day, where every piece is crafted by an IT 'artisan' to fit a specific need. And so, software has so far failed to provide the same revolutionary economics to IT that the Industrial Revolution provided for manufactured goods. Now, ... |
ZapNote: Phaos Technology ZapNote: The Nuts and Bolts of Application Security»rank: 5408750by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Building application security software is very difficult, and Phaos Technology focuses on building the most difficult parts -- the components and tools that enable other software vendors to build security into their products. Phaos deep expertise in the application security field provides them with the in-depth knowledge they need to build the nuts and bolts of XML and Web Services security. Phaos is one of the few credible Web Services security tools vendors in the market today since they possess a solid list of large enterprise customers, as well as ... |
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XMLとWebサービス・セキュリティ Report»rank: 5408750by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :セキュリティは、企業全体にWebサービス・テクノロジを普及させるためにまず解決しなければならない課題である。そのため、多くのソフトウェア・ベンダがXMLやWebサービス・セキュリティ市場に参入し、実際のさまざまな問題に対して広い範囲にわたってソリューションを提供しているが、その数は多く、混乱しかねないほどだ。ただ、こうした努力のほとんどが、企業クラスのXMLやWebセキュリティ製品およびサービスに対する確実な需要ではなく市場地位の防衛に当てられている。結果として、企業が自社のメッセージを明確に伝え、製品の欠点を無くそうと努力する間、XMLおよびWebサービス・セキュリティ・ソリューションの新興市場では、一定期間の混乱が顕著にうかがわれることになると、ZapThinkは確信している。しかし、これからの数年間、XMLやWebサービスのセキュリティ市場は、Webサービス市場全体と歩調を合わせ、急速に拡大するであろう。2006年までには、ほとんどのアプリケーション・レベルのセキュリティ・ソリューションは、XMLおよびWebサービス関連のものになるだろうとZapThinkは考えている。 |
ZapNote: NetSilicon ZapNote: Linking Intelligent Networked Devices with Web Services»rank: 5408750by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :In the past decade, electronic devices have been getting smaller, smarter, and more connected. In the post-PC era, billions of electronic devices will work invisibly, collaborating with each other and with people. These changes and improvements are making products increasingly more complicated to design, test, and service. NetSilicon's Softworks group, is producing XML-based tools, including an XML MicroParser, XML Schema Compiler, and a SOAP client/server package to address these problems and bring embedded devices into the "third phase" of intelligent networking. |
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ZapNote: DreamFactory - Server-Less Rich Client for Web Services ZapNote»rank: 5408750by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Users are coming to expect increasingly greater interactivity from their distributed applications. They are demanding a set of rich user experience capabilities from their Web and composite applications that include visual interactivity elements and instant access to information they have become accustomed to as part of their desktop computing experience. In addition, businesses want to gain the operational and cost advantages of deploying applications over the Internet, but dont want the limitations that Web browsers impose on user interfaces. DreamFactory hopes to eliminate the trade-offs that companies must make between ... |
JackBe: Radically Improving Web Application Performance By Optimizing The Client ZapNote»rank: 6016637by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :The Web has continued to deliver value to companies as an efficient and effective means of communicating information and interacting with their customers, employees, partners, suppliers, media, investors, and other third-parties. Part of the reason for the success of the Web in being so core to a companys operations is that it allows for organizations to deliver distributed applications on a global scale for significantly less cost than it would be using other, more traditional forms of communication or computing interaction. However, the major downside to the web is its ... |