Articles by SOA World Magazine News Desk

Clerity Introduces New Legacy Modernization and SOA Solutions

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:30:00 EST

Clerity Solutions has introduced new software and services that enable legacy mainframe applications and rehosted workloads to play strategic roles in SOA and Web Services initiatives. Building on a heritage of maximizing the value of core IT assets while lowering total cost of ownership, Clerity Service Builder and Clerity Web Connect allow organizations to easily expose legacy assets as secure Web Services and rapidly transform inflexible screen-based applications into modern, user-friendly Web applications.

Intel Presents General Session at SYS-CON’s SOA World Conference & Expo

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST

"SOA evolves in a set of micro domains," stated Intel's Joshua Painter, as he examined the state of SOA practices at SOA World Conference & Expo, in San Jose, CA. Despite the many instances of SOA that are emerging within the global 2000 today, the ability to leverage common services and a common metadata layer in a secure and scalable manner is paramount, but rarely addressed.

OpenSpan and TIBCO Team on Desktop Integration for SOA and BPM

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:15:00 EST

OpenSpan and TIBCO have announced a technology and business partnership designed to extend TIBCO solutions to desktop environments. The partnership will enable TIBCO Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management and Business Optimization solutions to more rapidly integrate with desktop applications without requiring changes to those desktop applications. “The OpenSpan technology helps our joint customers service and event enable any desktop application without changing the code and with nearly zero impact to that application,” said Tom Laffey, executive vice president, products & technology at TIBCO.

SOA World Conference & Expo Session to Discuss How Social Governance Brings Viability to Web 2.0

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:00:00 EST

SOA brings together people, not just software. That’s why integrating Web 2.0 concepts into a SOA—such as comments, feeds, ratings, tags, and automatic search alerts—holds so much promise for breaking down business silos and enabling many people to work together for the first time. However, the unfettered communications associated with consumer Web 2.0 also need to be more controlled once they move into an enterprise SOA. IT professionals require social governance that balances the agility enabled by Web 2.0 capabilities with adherence to policies, visibility into changes, security, and access control.

XAware to Speak at SOA World Conference & Expo

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:45:00 EST

XAware has announced that Kirstan Vandersluis, founder and chief scientist, will be a featured speaker at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West to be held November 19-21, 2008 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Mixing and mashing multiple data sources, all of different formats, into something that makes sense is a headache for software architects.

SOA Pioneer Linthicum Keynoting Today at SYS-CON's 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo in Silicon Valley

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:35:00 EST

David Linthicum, the highly popular SOA thought leader and practitioner, will be keynoting in San Jose, CA, on November 19 at the SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West. 'While everyone wants to do SOA right the first time, the typical results are not always stellar,' says Linthicum. 'The pitfalls of building any complex architecture, including SOA,' he adds, 'are something that the SOA practitioners must contend with, and most are ill-equipped.'

CA to Support Maturing Federation Market Needs

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 EST

CA has announced the planned release of additions and advancements in its Identity and Access Management product portfolio, including CA Federation Manager, a new product designed to ease the deployment and management of federated partnerships; an enhanced CA SOA Security Manager; and an integrated solution for Secure Web Business Enablement that will feature multiple CA Identity and Access Management products including CA Federation Manager and the enhanced CA SOA Security Manager. “As organizations’ IT operations have grown to be more Web-based, CA has been there to help secure and manage that part of their operation, which has become critical to their business success,” said Dave Hansen, corporate senior vice president and general manager, CA Security Management.

Lead Architect at Oracle Fusion Middleware Speaking This Week at SYS-CON's 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo in Silicon Valley

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:45:00 EST

Many times shipped BPEL processes need to be customized at a customer site or at various departments of enterprises. "Such customizations need to be retained in subsequent upgrades," notes Khanderao Kand, a Lead Architect for Oracle Fusion Middleware at Oracle. Kand will be giving a breakout session this week on "Extensibility, Customizations, and Life Cycle Management of BPEL Processes" at SYS-CON's 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo in San Jose, California.

iTKO to Present LISA Eclipse Edition at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST

The new LISA Eclipse Edition offers deep integration with many aspects of the platform, including the IDE, Source Control, Lifecycle Management, SWT interface elements, and other tools that operate inside of Eclipse. LISA test case documents can be stored and executed within the workflow of any Eclipse-based development project.

Intel Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global SOA, Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Open Source technology provider Intel named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. Intel SOA Products division is part of Intel's Software and Solutions Group, a worldwide Intel organization with a strategic focus on enabling technologies. The SOA Products division delivers innovative platform technologies that are optimized for speed and performance through Intel's multi-core processors and servers. Learn more: http://www.intel.com/software/soae.

SAP and CA Ships Diagnostics Application by CA Wily

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:00:00 EST

Further demonstrating continued evidence that the SAP ecosystem strategy delivers additional choices, value and flexibility for customers, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced a global reseller agreement that will enable SAP to resell the CA Wily Introscope(R) solution as SAP(R) Extended Diagnostics by CA Wily, a comprehensive application performance management solution that helps to ensure mission-critical Web applications and Web services meet customers' business and performance goals. The announcement was made at SAP(R) TechEd 2008 Bangalore, being held Nov. 12-14, in Bangalore, India.

Active Endpoints Announces "SOA" Contest

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

Active Endpoints has announced a contest for the 2008 holiday season. Bring SOA Home for the Holidays offers evaluators of the ActiveVOS visual orchestration system for SOA and BPM applications the chance to win one of three Lenovo IdeaPad netbooks. The contest rules are simple. Evaluators visit www.soaholiday.com to register for a free, supported 30-day trial of ActiveVOS. This automatically makes them eligible for the contest.

Data Modeling in the SOA Age

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:32:00 EST

Once upon a time data modeling played a central role in the process of developing applications. Thus far in the SOA era, there has been a heavy emphasis on process, and data has all-too-often been lost in the SOA shuffle. In this session, Mike Carey presents a data model for SOA - i.e., a service-oriented data model. This model formalizes the notion of a data service, modeling data in SOA as a layer of interrelated data services. The session will explain the key components of this model, including a taxonomy of data service operation types, a mechanism for capturing the entities that the data services are "about", and an approach to modeling relationships in SOA.

How to Transition to SOA Successfully

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:26:00 EST

For the last month Brad Brown, CTO of TUSC, has been interviewing countless companies on their status of venturing into the world of SOA. Some companies have been doing "SOA" for more than 5 years, but a great many companies haven't even started down the SOA path. Brad has been talking about Web services (what he would call a lightweight SOA implementation) for more than 5 years now which is now known in the industry as Agile SOA. SOA Adoption is a journey with many paths. One of the journeys is the understanding where these services are coming from and Heterogeneity is Permanent. There are three areas that Automated Web service Generation by a tool makes good business sense for SOA. The exposure of Legacy systems as Web services. Legacy systems are not going away anytime soon, and companies need the ability to offer this critical data as a service.

DataDirect Technologies to Deliver Keynote at Leading Data Services Event

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:25:00 EST

Data Services World brings together experts in databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing to discuss new architecture considerations and technologies for accessing, integrating and processing data from heterogeneous data sources. As more organizations implement Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Web-Oriented Architectures (WOA) or cloud computing initiatives they find themselves with a multitude of business services which need to access enterprise data. With all modern computing architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical than ever before. The concept of data services is emerging as an approach for addressing data access challenges in SOA and a critical component of successful strategic initiatives.

Bridging Technology and Community for SOA

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:46:00 EST

SOA is about people as much as technology. This session will demonstrate how adding a layer of social (or "Web 2.0") features - things like tags, comments, and syndication feeds - to your SOA infrastructure can provide fertile ground to help grow a vibrant and connected community of developers, businesspeople, and technologists. We'll show you how a social registry/repository can enable both grass-roots development and CIO-pleasing governance, all with standard REST interfaces. And because we can directly connect SOA components and metadata with the human community creating them, the relationships of both the software and the people can be enriched.

DataServices World 2008 West: SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing - The New Frontier for Data Services

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:35:00 EST

Data services, contends Rob Steward, Vice President of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies, are critical to the predominant and emerging architectures we're embracing for building new systems. "Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming a standard enterprise architecture and Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) is enabling organizations to pull together data from multiple sources and services," notes Steward, who will be presenting in the Keynote Hall at The Fairmont Hotel on November 20, 2008. "Cloud computing is an architecture that provides high-performance computing, massive data storage and scalability at commodity pricing," he adds.

DataServices World 2008 West: IBM's Malaika to Present on SOA, WOA, Cloud and XML Data

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:20:00 EST

XML end-to-end architectures are a natural follow-on to SOA: XML for the user interface, XML for data interchange, and XML for storage. Universal Services are a set of database operations, including insert, update, delete, and query, that expose stored XML as Web service operations.

DataServices World 2008 West: m2mi CEO Geoff Brown to Reveal the Key to Scalable Data Services

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:10:00 EST

How can security standards such as Open Authorization and Semantics be used to bind Cloud-based services to form a robust trust model? The answer to this question will be given by Geoff Brown, Founder & CEO of m2mi Corporation, in a breakout session at DataServices World 2008 West in San Jose, CA. Brown will focus on the use case of GlobalLockBox.com, one of the most comprehensive cloud-based applications available today - spanning the Apple iPhone through to the desktop and finally large scale servers.

DataServices World 2008 West: Where Are Data Services Headed?

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

DataServices World 2008 West, being held November 20 in San Jose, California, at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo, has a lineup of speakers headlined by Dr Mike Carey, one of the 50 Most Influential Computer Scientists in the world. The lineup also includes experts from Adobe, Salesforce, Yahoo!, IBM, m2mi, and DataDirect Technologies. "DataServices World is about the confluence of databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing," says Ken North, DataServices World 2008 West Conference Chair.

DataServices World 2008 West: Salesforce's Peter Coffee to Run Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:50:00 EST

In this session, a panel of instructors will conduct a Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop. The panel of experts will present a hands-on session focusing on data quality, data services and data access issues, problems and solutions. The workshop is an opportunity for audience members to view and discuss problems with a panel of experts. The goal of the session is to engage the audience using walk throughs, examples, and a question and answer (Q&A) session. The operative principles are interactivity and dialogue.

DataServices World 2008 West: Adobe's Principal Scientist to Present on Declarative Data Management for SOA and Web

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:50:00 EST

"Data services and rich Internet applications are improving the usability and efficiency of browser-based applications," says Jeff Vroom, Principal Scientist as Adobe and one of the distinguished speakers at DataServices World 2008 West in San Jose, California, on November 20 at The Fairmont Hotel.

DataServices World 2008 West: Yahoo! Director of Software Architecture on Data Processing in the Cloud

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:25:00 EST

Hadoop, an open source implementation of map/reduce, has garnered tremendous momentum in large scale data processing, marting, and on occasion warehousing. In an upcoming breakout session at DataServices World 2008 West, being held in November conjunction with the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo in San Jose, California, Parand Darugar - Director of Software Architecture, Yahoo! - will be describing the programming model, capabilities, common patterns, and best-practices for Hadoop deployment and usage.

DataServices World 2008 West: Ken North to Present on The Shape of IT to Come

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:45:00 EST

Ken North will be giving a breakout session at SYS-CON's upcoming DataServices World 2008 West in which he will cover everything from software-as-a-service, rich Internet applications, and information servers, to cloud computing, data services and integration services. He will endeavor to explain the key concepts and issues that are currently shaping the direction of the computing and software industry, including the concept of "data services" - the multiple issues around architecture and technology solutions for accessing, integrating and processing data from multiple sources while guaranteeing security and scalability.

Cordys Named "Gold Sponsor" of 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:18:00 EST

Cordys is a global provider of software for business process innovation. The industry-leading Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP) consists of a complete Suite for next generation Business Process Management (BPMS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and an open, integrated set of Tools & Technologies including Composite Application framework (CAF), Master Data Management (MDM) and a SOA grid that enables Cloud Computing. The Cordys platform empowers customers to dramatically improve the speed of change, fundamentally altering the way they innovate their Business Operations to achieve a true customer-centric philosophy. Global 2000 companies worldwide have selected Cordys to achieve business performance improvements such as increased productivity, reduced time to market, higher security and faster response to ever-changing market demands. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Cordys is a global company with offices in the USA, the UK, Germany, China, India and Israel.

SOA Expert David S. Linthicum Joins Definitive Logic Board

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:57:00 EST

Definitive Logic has announced that David S. Linthicum, internationally known Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration, and Web 2.0 thought leader, has joined the Arlington, Virginia-based company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Linthicum will assist Definitive Logic with refining the firm’s strategy around providing high value IT strategy consulting to the government, continuing Definitive Logic’s commitment to maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of government information systems.

IBM's Steve Mills on the Recession: "IT Remains the Core Transforming Technology...for Hundreds of Years to Come"

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:15:00 EDT

"How could the economic downturn impact on customers and the industry?" IBM's Steve Mills was asked this week. Mills, who is Senior Vice President and Group Executive of IBM's Software Group, was blunt: "There is more uncertainty at this time that most of us have experienced in our lifetimes," he conceded, before adding: "Nonetheless Information Technology continues to provide the ability to operate a business more efficiently."

Active Endpoints Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World and Virtualization Conference & Expo

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Active Endpoints is a leading provider of SOA orchestration solutions that enable organizations to build and deploy composite, process-driven information systems based on WS-BPEL, the SOA orchestration standard. From open source to mission-critical deployments, Active Endpoints allows users quickly adapt to evolving customer demands by reducing the cost of integration, leveraging infrastructure investments, and enabling the sharing of business processes with customers, partners, and suppliers. More ISVs, financial services, government, telecommunications, high technology, and retail organizations use Active Endpoints solutions than any other BPEL technology. Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, Active Endpoints is privately held. For more information about Active Endpoints, visit www.active-endpoints.com.

SOA World Expo: Nexaweb Adds Reusable Framework to Enterprise Web Suite

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:15:00 EDT

Nexaweb has announced the Nexaweb Reference Framework, a new addition to its flagship Enterprise Web Suite, engineered to reduce the time, costs, and architectural decisions associated with modernizing business applications and bringing them to the Web. The Nexaweb Reference Framework offers customers a set of development constructs that form the foundation of applications.

Nastel Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global SOA technology provider Nastel named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

GT Software and Cordys Partner For SOA Development

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT

GT Software and Cordys announced a global partnership. The companies will work together to deliver development solutions that fully integrate the mainframe into Cordys SOA initiatives for their respective worldwide audiences.

WSO2 Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global SOA technology provider WSO2 named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

SOA Software Demonstrates Enhanced Governance

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT

SOA Software has announced that it has added support for Microsoft's extensions to the Windows Server application server (code-named "Dublin") and Windows Communication Framework (WCF) version 4.0. SOA Software has extended the traditional models of enterprise security within Microsoft's .NET Framework and Windows Server. Microsoft's application server is being enhanced through new capabilities in .NET Framework 4.0 (specifically Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 and Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0) and with a set of extensions to the application server role, codenamed "Dublin."

AmberPoint Brings SOA Governance to Microsoft’s Windows

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:45:00 EDT

AmberPoint announced support for “Dublin,” Microsoft’s enhancements to their Windows Server application server. “Dublin” enhances the Windows Server application server role and provides an easy-to-manage platform for developing, deploying and reliably hosting middle-tier services built using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).

Forrester Research Names Cordys Among Top 10 SOA Companies

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:18:00 EDT

“We are proud to be named a leader in the independent evaluation of the IC-BPMS market–a strong growing market segment that promises game-changing business value. This is no small feat in a category of software that is one of the more comprehensive collections of middleware tools available on the market today,” said Jan Baan, Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO for Cordys. “Furthermore, Cordys Business Operations Platform goes well beyond IC-BPMS to create a total human-centric and integration-centric solution in a single product capable of handling complex integration and activity, including orchestration between people, applications, back-end systems, and external business partners, empowering organizations to increase the speed of change and achieve faster innovation. We applaud Forrester for assembling one of the most in-depth reviews of IC-BPMS products and helping enterprise architects more quickly chart and evaluate the path to business process innovation.”

EMC Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World and Virtualization Conference & Expo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the global leading the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions, EMC Corporation, named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

OpenSpan Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:15:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global SOA technology provider OpenSpan named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

WSO2 and Active Endpoints Presents SOA for Java Developers

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:33:00 EDT

Active Endpoints, with its ActiveVOS product, offers the only completely integrated, 100 percent standards-based visual orchestration system to automate, deploy and maintain composite applications and Web services. In orchestrating processes and workflows, ActiveVOS leverages BPEL-based business process management (BPM). The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) provides an easy-to-manage approach to integrating the different systems and applications in a heterogeneous SOA—with millisecond overhead and the ability to manage thousands of simultaneous connections.

Intel Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:00:00 EDT

Intel, a leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel XML Software Products help enhance productivity of XML and SOA application development by providing comprehensive, high performance XML processing libraries that are easy to use and easy to integrate into the existing SOA and XML environments.

AmberPoint Brings SOA Governance to Windows

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:33:00 EDT

The demo will showcase AmberPoint’s latest capabilities, including its ability to leverage the unique strengths of the .NET Framework and Windows Server. “Dublin” enhances the Windows Server application server role and provides an easy-to-manage platform for developing, deploying and reliably hosting middle-tier services built using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). AmberPoint SOA Management System makes use of these new features to non-invasively provide visibility and control of applications and the business transactions flowing through them. This combination creates a breakthrough in governance of composite and SOA applications—without creating additional overhead.