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Implementing Secure Web Services in B2B Environments White Paper»rank: 6122599by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Businesses are increasingly seeing Web Services as both a practical and economical way to solve a number of long-standing integration issues. While such companies are using many Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches to solve integration issues behind the corporate firewall, many companies are also finding significant success in deploying Web Services to solve their business-to-business (B2B) integration challenges. Yet, successful deployment of B2B Web Services involves careful consideration of a number of significant issues, not the least of which is making sure that the Services interactions between companies ... |
Web Services Security Technologies & Markets Presentation»rank: 5057042by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Businesses are increasingly seeing Web Services as both a practical and economical way to solve a number of long-standing integration issues. While such companies are using many Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches to solve integration issues behind the corporate firewall, many companies are also finding significant success in deploying Web Services to solve their business-to-business (B2B) integration challenges. Yet, successful deployment of B2B Web Services involves careful consideration of a number of significant issues, not the least of which is making sure that the Services interactions between companies ... |
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The SOA Implementation Framework White Paper: The Future of Service-Oriented Architecture Software»rank: 3781123by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :The world of distributed computing is currently in the midst of a major transition, as tightly coupled, integration-centric approaches gradually lose favor and give way to loosely coupled, Service-oriented computing techniques. At the core of this trend are Service-oriented architectures (SOAs), which promise greater flexibility in the way that companies produce and consume IT assets, in particular when IT environments are heterogeneous and business requirements are dynamic. However, building SOAs is challening for most organizations, for several reasons: they involve a different way of thinking about software resources, they require ... |
Information as a Service: Service-Oriented Information Integration White Paper»rank: 5904108by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :As organizations grow organically, they often implement multiple systems that contain information that is redundant, conflicting, or distributed across their organization. As such, the seemingly simple task of trying to gain a single view of the information contained in the enterprise is a significant challenge. The requirement for single view, aggregated views, or shared information cuts cross the value chain from sales leads, orders, to products, inventory including e-government initiatives in public safety, health and defense. While many application integration approaches attempt to solve this disparate information challenge by ... |
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Solving Information Integration Challenges in a Service-Oriented Enterprise White Paper»rank: 5904108by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :As enterprises grow and evolve, they create and store their assets in a wide array of disparate systems and sources ranging from mainframes to relational databases, file systems to directories. However, in order for companies to realize the value of the information stored in these systems, they must integrate and connect the disparate silos of information in the enterprise. As such, todays enterprises face an immediate challenge of connecting relevant systems in a manner that is flexible, cost effective, manageable, and reliable. Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) offer compelling ... |
Connecting the Dots to a Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Presentation»rank: 5904108by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Join ZapThink and Wakesoft for a free, technical online briefing to discuss how to take an incremental approach to Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and how to get SOA-ready systems out of your current J2EE projects. You will get more information on: Identifying an SOA roadmap Understanding the challenges in implementing an SOA environment How to take a software architecture approach for getting SOA today A real world case study in the implementation of SOA |
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Service Orientation Market Trends Report: Predicting the Future of XML & Web Services»rank: 5904108by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Key Points: ZapThink sees a consolidation of most SO functionality into a single market category that can be delivered as individual products, product suites, or service offerings that contain broad functionality, including features that are currently associated with the security, management, process, integration, and tools segments. We call that market the SOA Implementation Framework market. The total SOA Implementation Framework market opportunity will go from $4.4 billion in 2005 to $43 billion by 2010. The big winners from the shift to Service Orientation will be large vendors who are able ... |
SOA Governance White Paper: IT Governance in the Context of Service Orientation»rank: 300832by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :In todays tough business climate of heightened competition, complex regulations, and constant change, the issue of corporate governance has risen to the top of many executives minds. Management must be able to set the groundrules that everybody within their company has to follow, they must require the visibility needed to confirm that people are following the rules, and they must have the control necessary to make the appropriate adjustments. No area of an enterprises operations are as complex as information technology (IT). Combine this complexity with the typical IT shops ... |
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What's Hot with Web Services? Presentation»rank: 300832by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :In todays tough business climate of heightened competition, complex regulations, and constant change, the issue of corporate governance has risen to the top of many executives minds. Management must be able to set the groundrules that everybody within their company has to follow, they must require the visibility needed to confirm that people are following the rules, and they must have the control necessary to make the appropriate adjustments. No area of an enterprises operations are as complex as information technology (IT). Combine this complexity with the typical IT shops ... |
ZapThinkTank 2003: Web Services and SOA Implementation Roadmap Presentation: Presentation delivered at ZapThinkTank 2003»rank: 5249701by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Financial services and insurance firms today are struggling with the best way to implement IT infrastructures that enable business agility. Service-oriented architectures based on Web Services provide cost-effective approaches to achieving companies' agility goals. This session provides companies of all sizes and industries an approach to implementing Service-oriented architectures in a way that provides return-on-investment (ROI) at each step along the path toward agile IT infrastructures. We will discuss the steps and phases by which these companies can move from today's brittle infrastructures to loosely-coupled, coarse-grained, asynchronous SOAs. The session ... |