Open Source Solutions for SOA: Check Your Bias at the Door

Make sure you aren’t losing an advantage by prematurely eliminating OSS from your SOA infrastructure mix.

Scaling SOA with Complex Systems Engineering

Ever since ZapThink published our Business Agility as an Emergent Property of SOA ZapFlash, we’ve been explaining in our Licensed ZapThink Architect course how SOA implementations must be complex systems in order to deliver on emergent properties like business agility. Yet, even though we’ve expanded our treatment of Complex Systems Engineering (CSE) in the latest version of the course, the reaction of most of our students is typically one of perplexity.

Not that we’re really surprised, however. Breaking away from the Traditional Systems Engineering (TSE) way of thinking is a huge leap for most technologists, as it shakes to the foundation how they think about architecture, not just SOA in particular, but even more fundamentally, the role IT plays in the enterprise.

Oracle to buy AmberPoint

Jason Bloomberg, managing partner with Zapthink LLC said that AmberPoint’s software’s ability to monitor distributed business transactions was likely a key in Oracle’s decision to buy.

Tools emerging for integration and orchestration of BPM with SOA

“One of the biggest stories in SOA has been around the composition of services,” said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink, an SOA and cloud analysis and consulting firm based in Baltimore. “If you look at the ideas of BPM, it’s the same idea: You can represent the process outside system then change the process [...]