LogicLibrary and Blue Titan Integrate Logidex and Network Director

“IT governance is the most critical area of corporate governance in today’s competitive enterprise, because IT both requires governance itself and can also provide the necessary tools for corporate governance,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink LLC. “SOA governance offers effective management of SOA deployments as well as the visibility and control necessary for successful IT and corporate governance, while also increasing the business agility that today’s organizations require. The partnership between LogicLibrary and Blue Titan helps organizations to achieve both their governance and business objectives.”

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LogicLibrary and Blue Titan Form Strategic Alliance

“IT governance is the most critical area of corporate governance in today’s competitive enterprise, because IT both requires governance itself and can also provide the necessary tools for corporate governance,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink LLC. “SOA governance offers effective management of SOA deployments as well as the visibility and control necessary for successful IT and corporate governance, while also increasing the business agility that today’s organizations require. The partnership between LogicLibrary and Blue Titan helps organizations to achieve both their governance and business objectives.”

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Synapse to provide open source Web services mediation

But considering some of the market confusion around the definition of an ESB, positioning Synapse as a mediation framework “may help clear up some confusion,” said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC in Waltham, Mass. “The concept of a Web services intermediary is core to the way you build an SOA. The intermediary notion is really how you build loose coupling into a service. You might have a consumer send a request and you don’t want it to go directly to the provider of a service if there are compatibility issues; you may need to change the version of SOAP, for example. Without an intermediary, you won’t have loose coupling.”

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Open Source SOA Emerges

As currently constituted, today’s SOAs are little more than a set of best practices; it’s up to each vendor to develop the software constructs that bring them to life, according to Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC (Waltham, MA).

Synapse “will help sort things out, especially in the ESB space where it is already confused,” said Bloomberg, in an interview. “Lots of vendors say they have ESB [but] they are selling different things.”

Many times, in order to loosely couple applications between service providers, all the bells and whistles of an ESB are not needed. “But you do need an intermediary piece,” Bloomberg said.

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WS02 Launches Open-Source Web Services Project

ZapThink founder and senior analyst Ron Schmelzer told LinuxInsider that Synapse is an interesting initiative that demonstrates the commoditization of software.

“It’s difficult to build a technology that companies can justify spending a lot of money on because there’s a lot of low-cost infrastructure that does a very good job,” Schmelzer said. “But there’s a difference between the technology needed to implement Web services and the architecture.”

Indeed, creating the architecture, in other words arranging and configuring software to do what you want it to do, is the industry challenge. With so much available software, analysts said we should be living in the golden age of IT. But the industry is missing the best practices that makes software work.

“I am so positive about Synapse because even though it’s software it does establish a common base,” Schmelzer said. “Even if you don’t have any money you can still implement the basic infrastructure you need for Web services and SOA.”

So who are the short-term losers in this latest Web services twist? Analysts said companies that have made significant investments in proprietary expenses and integration middleware Discover a better way to manage the business of IT with IBM Tivoli solutions. Latest News about middleware stand to lose the most. Still, Schmelzer doesn’t expect IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM or Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft to lose any sleep.

“IBM makes a lot of money on services and Microsoft has a different customer base,” he said. “People choose Microsoft’s products because the company makes it so easy to build applications. But WSO2 is competing against other open-source and commercial vendors in this space. The challenge for Synapse is being heard over all the noise in the marketplace.”

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Blue Titan Software and IBM Collaborate to Aid Enterprise SOA Adoption

“Blue Titan’s infrastructure is built with global, enterprise-wide SOA solutions in mind,” said Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst with ZapThink. “This benefit is most clearly realized by customers that must rely on scalable solutions to tie their global networks together.”

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Blue Titan Software and IBM Aim for Easier SOA Adoption

“Blue Titan’s infrastructure is built with global, enterprise-wide SOA solutions in mind,” said Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst with ZapThink. “This benefit is most clearly realized by customers that must rely on scalable solutions to tie their global networks together.”

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ZapForum Webcast May 2005 — The Great Debate: ESBs, Fabrics, or Something Else

Event Description:

Theme: “The Great Debate: ESBs, Fabrics, or Something Else?”

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts
Listen to ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer talk about The Emerging Infrastructural Patterns for SOA Implementation. What are the technologies, infrastructural changes, and approaches that companies are looking at for making SOA a reality?

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