ZapForum Podcast: Case Study: Web Services at a Midsize Bank

ZapForum Podcast for September 21, 2007 features

Guest Experts Mike Zink, Database Analyst & Developer, Roger Lanka, Manager of Client/Server Development, Shawn King, Programmer/Analyst, and Jason Bowling, Programmer/Analyst, First Merit Bank.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Get a real-world sense as to how a midsize bank is leveraging Web Services
• Understand how mainframes play in a Microsoft environment
• Gain insight into how reusable Web Services can reduce costs and provide agility

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.