IBM’s Bid ‘Ascential’ For Dominating Integration

ZapThink Research analyst Ronald Schmelzer agreed.

“Basically, as companies seek to solve the challenge of integration and reuse in a heterogeneous environment, it’s increasingly going to make more sense to solve the data, security, management, and run-time aspects of SOA in a holistic fashion,” he said.

“I think IBM realizes this and is starting to put together all the parts of the puzzle for SOA. I think we’re seeing just the beginning of consolidation in this space. I would expect to see more around process, management, security, event-driven capabilities, policy and performance. [This year] will be a big year for consolidation. The question remains: is there room for start ups?”

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Accenture: SOA as Strategic Architecture for Improving Business Performance

Professional services firm Accenture’s core mission is to improve the business performance of its clients. Accenture accomplishes this mission through a combination of business process expertise and technical consulting. Accenture’s technology roadmap offers their clients an approach to building information technology solutions and approaches that will meet the goal of business performance improvement.

Accenture believes that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) will underpin this technology roadmap. They believe SOA will be the single dominant technical architecture in the future, driven primarily by the need for interoperability. As a result, they are recommending and implementing SOA-based approaches for improving the business of clients worldwide.

Beste Chancen für Ascential Software im Web Services Markt

Ascential Software hat bei einer Studie über die Zukunftsaussichten von XML, Web Services und Service-orientierter Architektur (SOA) gut abgeschnitten. Das Unternehmen war von dem Technologie-Analysten ZapThink LLC als einziger Anbieter von Datenintegrationslösungen in dem Report

ZapThink examines Ascential’s SOA focus

”Ascential Software is occupying a prominent place in the Service Orientation market, a market where its customers are clearly headed,” wrote Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink. The report, Service Orientation Market Trends: Predicting the Future of XML & Web Services , envisions a growing market for SOA vendors and ranks Ascential as the ‘incumbent vendor with Web services/service orientation capabilities throughout its product line.’

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Service Orientation Market Trends

While Web Services have been getting the attention through 2003, in 2004 the IT computing story will be focused squarely on Service Orientation. Offering an evolutionary approach to distributed computing that provides greater business agility while enabling companies to use heterogeneous resources more efficiently, Service Orientation, based on established Web Services standards, is set to fundamentally change many different IT markets as enterprises transition to Service-Oriented Architectures.

In particular, the markets of application security, security appliances, system management, application integration, data integration, and business process management are six key markets that will become transformed as vendors in those markets Service-enable their products. Furthermore, there is a window of opportunity for new entrants in each of these markets to build Service-oriented offerings. Those windows will soon close, however, as the established, incumbent vendors in each space consolidate their respective markets.

These consolidation trends will continue through the rest of the decade, as large vendors round out their suites of software that support Service Orientation, resulting in a combined market consisting of vendors offering a full-function SOA Implementation Framework. These frameworks will offer enterprises all the functionality they need to build, run, and manage SOAs. The market for SOA Implementation Frameworks is still nascent as of 2004, but will dominate the distributed computing arena by 2010.

Premier Web Services Analyst Spotlights Ascential Software Leadership in $43 Billion Web Services Market

Ascential Software is the only enterprise data integration vendor listed in the report, “Service Orientation Market Trends: Predicting the Future of XML & Web Services,” by leading technology analyst ZapThink, LLC. The study was published in late December 2003 and highlights Ascential Software as an established “incumbent” vendor with Web services/service orientation capabilities throughout its product line.

“Ascential Software is occupying a prominent place in the Service Orientation market, a market where its customers are clearly headed,” said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst, ZapThink. “The total SOA implementation framework market opportunity will go from $4.4 billion in 2005 to $43 billion by 2010. The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite

Ascential Software Brings Enterprise Data Integration Expertise to OASIS

Connecting systems within the enterprise as well as with suppliers,
partners and customers is paramount for today’s enterprise,” said Ron
Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink, an IT market intelligence firm that
provides advice and insight into XML, Web services, and Service Orientation.
“Web services offer a new approach to solving integration challenges by
leveraging the widespread adoption of standards for system-to-system
communication. Ascential Software is taking full advantage of this trend and
leads the market in delivering service-based solutions. The company, a 2003
ZapThought Leader, has transformed enterprise data integration by extending
its data profiling, quality and transformation capabilities to Web services
and SOAs.”

Read more at: Ascential Press Release

Ascential Software Reports Third Quarter Revenue of $45.9 Million with License Revenue of $22.4 Million

Was named a ZapThought Leader by industry analyst firm ZapThink for
guiding Ascential Software customers in using XML, Web Services, and
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA’s) to meet business needs.

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HP Offers Web Services Schema to OASIS

“HP is making an aggressive push with their Adaptive Enterprise initiative, and the effort to contribute WSMF, which is very “complimentary” to their commercial Darwin Reference Architecture, is clearly a move to out-step the competition (notably IBM, Computer Associates, and the emerging class of WS Management vendors) for a Web Services-based management spec,” said ZapThink Senior Analyst Ronald Schmelzer.

ZapThink Senior Analyst Jason Bloomberg said the play shows HP’s dedication to its adaptive enterprise strategy since turning its focus to its OpenView management platform since its Compaq purchase.

“As with any established player, they must innovate carefully to avoid alienating their established customer base, but that being said, today’s announcement shows that HP is committed to being a Web Services management leader,” Bloomberg said.

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Strategies for Achieving Real-Time Enterprise Application Integration

The vision of many enterprise integration vendors is to be the standard service-oriented integration platform provider for the enterprise. In fact, it is a large opportunity for many of these vendors to extend their leadership in the integration market. A recent ZapThink survey indicates that the market opportunity will be about $6.2 billion by 2006.

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