http://www.web2journal.com/ Latest articles from SOA World Magazine News Desk Copyright 2008 WEB 2.0 JOURNAL Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:28:00 GMT WEB 2.0 JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.web2journal.com/read/619497.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/619497.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:00 GMT This open beta program includes two new Quality Management products and three enhanced versions of Rational products that you may already know: New IBM Rational Quality Manager v8.0, New IBM Rational Test Lab Manager v8.0, Enhanced IBM Rational Performance Tester v8.0, Enhanced IBM Rational Functional Tester v8.0 and Enhanced IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality v8.0. http://www.web2journal.com/read/619498.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/619498.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:00 GMT This Rational Quality Management ROI calculator is intended to give you an idea of what return you can garner from implementing our solutions. Our quality management solutions offer tools that help you develop a continuous process, powered by automation to govern software delivery. This calculator offers ROI information for functional test automation. The ROI in this calculator is based on labor savings. http://www.web2journal.com/read/619471.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/619471.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:45:00 GMT A SOA Gateway is a core infrastructure component of a SOA with the ability to integrate XML/SOAP-based services securely. Typically deployed as a hardware appliance, a SOA Gateway seamlessly controls access to services, protects information through data-level encryption, ensures the integrity of a message through signatures, and controls information flow. This article covers SOA Gateway deployment best practices, benefits and requirements with a focus on service virtualization, message privacy and integrity, and message control and auditing. http://www.web2journal.com/read/612076.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/612076.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT SOA brings challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception. SOA requires quality management across all types of testing--functional, performance, security and compliance. IT quality managers can develop a successful SOA quality program by finding the right strategy, implementing the right processes and selecting the right tools. http://www.web2journal.com/read/612115.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/612115.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT Few other innovations in IT offer the transformative potential of SOA. SOA is centered around a transformation of your enterprise IT architecture into a set of services that can be shared and reused across application development initiatives. The successful deployment of services requires the ability to manage the quality of these services so you can increase the use of IT resources and reuse services across multiple applications to enhance business agility. http://www.web2journal.com/read/612116.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/612116.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT Today, SOA is a mainstream IT initiative that ranks among the top priorities of CIOs. SOA dramatically improves the flexibility and adaptability of organizations by accelerating the time to market for new applications and processes. This paper summarizes the business benefits of adopting SOA, describes the obstacles that must be overcome and outlines the business technology optimization (BTO) approach that HP uses to optimize the business outcome of SOA. http://www.web2journal.com/read/612064.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/612064.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:30:00 GMT The technologies used by IT to create SOAs are maturing. They are found to be robust and reliable. SOA governance provides a framework for making and applying the decisions that determine how the SOA will be designed, developed and operated. Work with real enterprises deploying SOAs to solve real business problems has led to the development of a set of best practices spanning SOA. This paper presents the eight best practices for SOA governance. http://www.web2journal.com/read/612065.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/612065.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:30:00 GMT Managing SOA services is usually done by a specific project team initially. However, in the long run, SOA must be managed in production by IT operations to take advantage of trusted operational processes. This paper describes an approach to SOA management that integrates SOA into the fabric of IT by addressing the unique aspects of SOA management and balances the needs of the initial SOA project team with the needs of the enterprise. http://www.web2journal.com/read/612063.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/612063.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:15:00 GMT SOA has become a strategic imperative for organizations today. Without a SOA strategy, you risk being outpaced and outperformed by competitors who are better equipped to serve customers, seize opportunities and respond to change. This paper highlights the concept of SOA governance and provides a framework for blending the flexibility of a SOA with the control, consistency and predictability of traditional IT architecture. http://www.web2journal.com/read/612062.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/612062.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT SOA enables IT to increase agility and to lower costs. However, because of the added complexity, you need to manage SOA services and applications built with SOA to ensure their performance and availability meets the needs of the business. This white paper provides an overview of the specific challenges involved - including service discovery, monitoring, root cause analysis and service level management- and offers potential solutions to address them. http://www.web2journal.com/read/614541.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/614541.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT Microsoft added this week workflow capabilities to BizTalk Services, the company's platform-in-the-cloud project for SOA and business process management. http://www.web2journal.com/read/618495.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/618495.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT Sonoa Systems announced that Sterling Infosystems has selected its ServiceNet solution to more effectively operate Sterling's SOA infrastructure and ensure enterprise-class security, manageability and performance of these customer-facing Web services. http://www.web2journal.com/read/610467.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/610467.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:15:00 GMT OpenSpan announced that it closed $13 million of C-round venture capital funding. The round was co-led by FTVentures and Globespan Capital Partners, and included re-investments from Matrix Partners, Sigma Partners and Imlay Investments. The funding will help OpenSpan accelerate its growth with strategic new hires, expanded operations, including international markets, and continued investments for building out the company's innovative client-side integration technology. http://www.web2journal.com/read/615606.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/615606.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:15:00 GMT DataDirect and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation announced the availability of the DataDirect Data Integration Suite. The new offering combines DataDirect Technologies' existing XML-based technologies in one package with a single, simple installation. Software developers now have the combined power of the DataDirect XQuery, DataDirect XML Converters (Java and .NET) and Stylus Studio products to meet their immediate data transformation and aggregation needs. http://www.web2journal.com/read/610420.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/610420.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Forum Systems announced it has partnered with Techlogix to bring SOA products to markets in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific. Techlogix will supply Forum Sentry with installation and architecture consulting services to its large customer base across Asia-Pacific and United Arab Emirates. http://www.web2journal.com/read/610423.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/610423.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT WSO2 announced that it has extended its support for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance through enhanced authentication. Version 1.5 of the WSO2 Identity Solution for strong Web authentication based on open standards and open source is now generally available and adds support for OpenID, a feature for decentralizing single sign-on. Additionally, WSO2 has joined the OpenID Foundation and is a founding member of the Information Card Foundation, which was launched June 23, 2008. http://www.web2journal.com/read/612942.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/612942.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT IONA has announced that Chariot Solutions has become a FUSE Partner. Chariot Solutions, as a FUSE Partner, will resell IONA's FUSE family of Open Source services and solutions to address customers' enterprise Open Source requirements. http://www.web2journal.com/read/610422.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/610422.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT A new global survey issued by Software AG suggests that enterprise adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 'crossed the chasm'. Users also identified SOA governance as a key component of sustainable implementations with holistic, lifecycle approaches viewed as a core requirement. However, the overall maturity of their adoption was regarded as moderate with the state of their governance practices considered lacking. http://www.web2journal.com/read/610557.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/610557.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT First Trace has completed development and released Korrigo, a standards-based engineering document management product. Korrigo is the newest addition to the KinnosaONE product family. KinnosaONE is a suite of service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions built on open standards that solve a common industry problem: How to unify engineering with the greater corporate document management strategy. http://www.web2journal.com/read/610649.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/610649.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT iTKO LISA announced the general availability release of LISA 4.5. LISA 4.5 extends the functionality of the LISA 4 suite, adding service virtualization for load and performance testing, and customer-driven enhancements. iTKO customers value the product for its unique ability to test both their existing EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) business processes, as well as emerging SOA initiatives. http://www.web2journal.com/read/610421.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/610421.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT A new global survey issued today suggests that enterprise adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 'crossed the chasm'. Users also identified SOA governance as a key component of sustainable implementations with holistic, lifecycle approaches viewed as a core requirement. However, the overall maturity of their adoption was regarded as moderate with the state of their governance practices considered lacking. The Best Practices for SOA Governance User Survey (Summer 2008) was produced by Software AG. http://www.web2journal.com/read/600206.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/600206.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:15:00 GMT LISA Virtualize (formerly LISA Virtual Service Environment) allows teams to decouple themselves from dependency on live or unfinished systems and components throughout the lifecycle of building and testing SOA applications. LISA Virtualize models the expected functionality of any Service within SOA applications, whether that is a Web Service (WSDL), an integration layer such as an ESB, or an implementation layer such as an EJB, mainframe or database, and represents that Service virtually, with a high level of dynamic input and output capabilities and performance characteristics that simulate the real-world behaviors of complex systems. A Virtual Environment instance in LISA saves the team more than 90% of the cost of producing a replicated environment by other means, and allows teams to work in parallel instead of being constrained by each other's lifecycles, which increases agility and quality. http://www.web2journal.com/read/607301.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/607301.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:15:00 GMT IONA's advanced SOA infrastructure suite, IONA Artix, offers a standards-based approach to SOA deployment that complements existing infrastructures and makes integration with future technologies more affordable. By commoditizing proprietary, centralized middleware deployments and allowing SOA to conform to the needs of enterprises, IONA Artix delivers on the promise of SOA, including business agility, increased ROI and lower operational costs. http://www.web2journal.com/read/606056.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/606056.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT SOALayers is a comprehensive SOA platform designed to assemble, manage and govern composite enterprise applications. It enables business process composition, integration, governance and policy management, and SOA infrastructure management. As a platform, SOALayers has a Studio to build composite applications and an enterprise service bus (ESB) for integration, mediation and loose coupling. Enterprise and inter-enterprise services are wired using a process server and a business rules engine for greater flexibility in adopting policy changes rapidly. Process automation is extended to human workflows to support requirements like reviewing, approving, escalating, and exception/error handling. http://www.web2journal.com/read/609518.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/609518.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT AppTrigger extended its capabilities for market-leading messaging provider Unisys and their customers by expanding its features for the Unisys Application Session Controller (ASC) offering. AppTrigger?s latest product release has coincided with the expansion of the Unisys Application Session Controller (ASC) offering to customers of the Unisys UVMS/VSE550 solution. http://www.web2journal.com/read/609472.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/609472.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT EXTOL International, Inc. a provider of integration software applications for both internal and external collaboration, announced support of IBM?s i 6.1 operating system. EXTOL solutions enable companies to exchange and integrate transactions and documents, regardless of form or format, between their applications and those of their partners. http://www.web2journal.com/read/608866.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/608866.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:30:00 GMT Managed Methods has announced support of REST style services to their patent pending Agentless deployment options. JaxView has several different deployment options including XML/Firewall, Agentless, Agent stub and ESB integration. Although JaxView has had support of REST services in other deployment options, the agentless option only supported SOAP standard based services, until now. http://www.web2journal.com/read/604445.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/604445.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT SOA Software is a company that offers a complete Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution addressing SOA security and management together with Legacy and B2B Web services requirements. SOA Software?s Repository Manager, Policy Manager, and Service Manager combine to form a comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution, with SOLA providing a governable Mainframe SOA platform. http://www.web2journal.com/read/606685.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/606685.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT Software AG and the Potsdam-based Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering (HPI) announced the successful completion of a one-year research project examining the impact of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance on Green IT practices. Working together, the two organizations developed methods and tools for optimizing resource sharing of IT services, thereby reducing energy consumption and lowering hardware costs. http://www.web2journal.com/read/607927.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/607927.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT Aspera announced that its whole suite of software products seamlessly integrates with the IBM Media Hub Solution Framework, enabling digital content to be moved at maximum speed with unprecedented bandwidth control, complete security and uncompromising reliability. http://www.web2journal.com/read/607069.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/607069.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:30:00 GMT P2 Energy Solutions is pleased to announce the release of Enterprise Land 2.5. Using the industry leading Tobin LandSuite of software as the basis for the new product, Enterprise Land redefines the way companies utilize software to manage their land assets. http://www.web2journal.com/read/607019.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/607019.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:45:00 GMT Ranorex announced the release of Ranorex V1.5, the newest version of its flagship software testing application. Leading the additions in Ranorex V1.5 is Ranorex Studio, a complete test development environment that brings all Ranorex features together, allowing the user to create and maintain professional test automation projects through a single, easy-to-use interface. http://www.web2journal.com/read/605588.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/605588.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:30:00 GMT The SOA Consortium announced that Layer 7 Technologies has joined as a Silver Sponsor. The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. Layer 7 joins sponsors Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems. http://www.web2journal.com/read/605438.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/605438.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Layer 7 Technologies announced a collaboration with Sun Microsystems to help secure and govern Web services built using the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS). Sun customers will be able to purchase Layer 7 products globally through Sun Professional Services. http://www.web2journal.com/read/600708.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/600708.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Progress Software has acquired Mindreef, a provider of SOA service validation and testing tools. Mindreef will be fully integrated into Progress Software, and will adopt the Progress Software company name. Progress expects to retain most Mindreef product names, however, this will be reviewed over the months following the acquisition. http://www.web2journal.com/read/599095.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/599095.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT Elixir Technology provides Integrated Business Intelligence with Elixir Repertoire - a product for Dashboard, Reporting, Data ETL and Scheduling. Supporting 'Web 2.0' with RESTful Web Services architectural approach on SOA, Elixir Repertoire aims to power the new generation enterprise applications with Business Intelligence that is simplified yet powerful, feature-rich yet affordable. With over 600 customers across 50 countries already using its enterprise reporting feature, Elixir Repertoire completes the entire Business Intelligence cycle to realize the full return of investment. http://www.web2journal.com/read/599096.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/599096.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT Legacy systems typically contain the most critical information in an enterprise, and many organizations have more than one type of legacy platform. LegaSuite Integration is a middleware tool to simplify and accelerate integration of all types legacy data, business logic and screens with Web applications and SOA tools such as ESB and BPM suites. http://www.web2journal.com/read/603159.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/603159.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT AmberPoint announced a new program to recruit and support leading systems integrators. The AmberPoint Systems Integrator Alliance Program provides the tools systems integrators need in order to implement reliable and manageable SOA-enabled systems with AmberPoint's runtime SOA governance solutions. http://www.web2journal.com/read/603160.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/603160.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT MEGA International announced that Cox Enterprises is using the MEGA Modeling Suite for its enterprise architecture and business process modeling program. Cox Enterprises is a media company with more than 80,000 employees in 300 companies. Major operating subsidiaries include Cox Communications, Cox Newspapers, Cox Television, Cox Radio, and Cox Auto Trader. http://www.web2journal.com/read/603184.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/603184.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Ivory Service Architect is the centerpiece of the Ivory mainframe SOA solution, instantly turning mainframe developers into service developers for rapid mainframe SOA development. With Ivory Service Architect, developers can create and publish Web services, developing right-sized composite business services from existing mainframe assets with little or no training, and no consulting required. Ivory Service Architect consists of: Ivory Studio - graphical modeling environment; and Ivory Server - high performance SOAP processor with runtime service orchestration & WSDL repository.