Service-Oriented Management

Web Services management applications provide software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services implementations. The Web Services management products on the market today offer functionality in five basic categories: system management, lifecycle management, business management, security management, and the most important, Service-Oriented Architecture enablement.

The latter category is especially important because many Web Services management products provide the critical infrastructure necessary for companies to take their fine-grained, atomic Web Services and other data sources and encapsulate and compose them into coarse-grained business Services that make up a Service-Oriented Architecture. Such architectures offer far more long-term business value than the point-to-point applications of Web Services common today.

Cambridge startup has Clear Method for better XML

Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst with the Waltham-based analyst firm ZapThink, said Water is a “seriously cool technology.” ZapThink is dedicated specifically to XML and Web services.

“We have to remember that the path to success is littered with seriously cool technology that never made it,” Bloomberg said. “There’s no question that it’s a brilliant innovation, but there’s no guarantee that it will take off. The real unknown here is ging to be Silvestri. It’s going to be up to him to add the business aspect to the company.”

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