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Cloud Computing and SOA: Same but Different

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ March 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Presentation for the Cordys Webinar earlier in March 2009 on the topic of “Cloud Computing and SOA”.

Key Takeaways:

Cloud provides a good excuse to stop thinking about the ESB as central (or even necessary) for SOA
Cloud, cloud, cloud — the same hype as SOA, SOA, SOA?
From a SOA perspective, is Cloud Computing SaaS+Virtualization + SOA?
SOA provides the fundamental architecture perspective on making loosely coupled, location independent, virtualized capabilities possible.
Cloud is a way to apply SOA in a virtualized manner
Will Cloud be the new hype center?

Practical SOA: Insurance

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ May 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Presentations from ZapThink’s Practical SOA for Insurance event on May 16, 2008. Presented as a 232-slide PowerPoint in pdf format (large file). Agenda as follows:

Session title	Time	Details
Welcome &SOA Adoption Trends in Insurance	08:30-09:30	Presenter: Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink, LLC What are current, worldwide SOA adoption trends? How is SOA impacting the Insurance industry? As Insurance companies face significant market-shaping challenges, how will IT be able to respond to those challenges through SOA? How can Insurance companies learn from other sectors with regards to SOA adoption? What is a practical SOA roadmap for the Insurance industry?
Industry Standards Based SOA: Using Standards to Jump Start SOA Projects	09:30-10:00	Presenter: Frank Neugebauer, Sr. Enterprise Architect, ACORD The ACORD Corporation is embarking on a new way of developing standards that incorporates a model-driven approach based on five facets; business dictionary, component model, service maps, information model, and capability model. Each facet builds and leverages the other but more importantly, each can be used to provide a foundation of SOA projects. This session outlines how ACORD standards – specifically the ACORD Standards Framework – can be used to jump start SOA projects. Learn how ACORD standards can jump start SOA component design. Learn how ACORD standards can jump start SOA process design. Learn how ACORD standards can serve as the foundation for insurance Web Services.
Coffee Break	10:00-10:15
Case Study in SOA: Insurance Industry	10:15-11:00	Presenter: Benjamin Moreland, Director, Foundation Services, The Hartford The Hartford, through their SOA Maturity Model, created a long-term SOA strategy as part of the EA program in 2003. This has allowed them to build a strong foundation, implement effective SOA governance and continue to leverage successful deployments of platforms, services and standards. This presentation will describe the Maturity Model used, lessons learned and benefits that The Hartford has experienced the last 5+ years. Think strategically, act tactically SOA must be planned SOA without governance will fail
The 3 C’s of SOA and Integration Quality: Complete, Collaborative, Continuous	11:00-12:00	Presenter: Chris Kraus, iTKO LISA Product Manager Enterprises are rapidly reaching the Tipping Point of increased change and complexity in IT. While the industry has developed agile tools for integrating and leveraging new and existing technologies — our ability to ensure quality must keep up with the pace of change that business drives. Quality must be baked into the entire lifecycle of the application, from design time, to change time and runtime, and not relegated to a pre-production “acceptance” phase. This presentation will provide practical examples for how developers and QA teams can work together to test and validate SOA workflows that span multiple application tiers, from the web UI, to services protocols, messaging/ESB frameworks, and implementation layers. Ensuring complete, collaborative and continuous quality to support SOA design, development and governance Identifying points of Risk in SOA and integration projects Methods for implementing testing processes at every phase of the application lifecycle Gaining participation and buy-in for quality across the extended organization
Lunch Break	12:00-13:00	Enjoy a gourmet lunch and network with your peers
Leveraging Pre-Built Services to Accelerate Your SOA and Deliver Value to Your Business	13:00-14:00	Presenter: Chris Connell, SVP Services, SEEC Learn how leading insurance carriers are taking a practical approach to SOA by leveraging pre-built SOA components to accelerate their SOA through the creation of shared services layer to rapidly meet the needs of their business. Hear how services common to Agent Enablement, Customer Self Service and CSR Enablement can be used – and re-used and how a number of carriers are delivering on the promise of SOA in less time and with less cost. Pre-built, standard based components are accelerating SOA initiatives across insurance and delivering significant value to the business. A shared service layer of common and industry specific components rapidly enables carriers to break down the silo’s associated with legacy systems and achieve interoperability. Leveraging pre-built services takes costs out of IT initiatives and provides a consistent, lower total cost alternative – enabling carriers to do more with less.
Changing Mainframe SOA Economics	14:00-15:00	Presenter: Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect Shadow Survey the broad expanse of the insurance industry and change is everywhere. Mergers, consolidations, new markets, new competition – issues that demand organizations increase their business agility or face obsolescence. Once dominant with superior mainframe technologies, insurance carriers are increasingly turning to SOA and Web services to expand the interoperability of their legacy infrastructures. This presentation tackles the economics of mainframe SOA and how new technologies can dramatically impact how the Insurance industry exploits mainframe technologies as an enabler for future growth. Find out about the latest SOA Methodologies and Best Practices Improving architectural skills and methods for SOA Moving SOA past the Web Services stage Determining, calculating, and realizing a Return on Investment for SOA
Coffee Break	15:00-15:15
The role of Identity in SOA deployments	15:15-16:00	Presenter: K. Scott Morrison, Layer 7 Technologies Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the new deployment model for Enterprise Architecture. SOA however extends the enterprise and its transactions beyond traditional security boundaries. This has the unintended effect of bringing the issues of identity, privacy, and governance to the fore. Technologies such as WS-Trust, WS-Policy, XACML and SAML, have been developed to solve the technical aspects of these issues. In order to properly manage them, however, SOA deployments need to implement a policy layer that decouples the business logic from the rest of the infrastructure. This talk will introduce the problem in the context of a case study for distributed data management, and will present the concepts of a Policy management layer, along with an introduction to the various technologies involved.
SOA Infrastructure: Laying the Foundation for IT Productivity	16:00-16:45	Presenter: Franco Castaldini – Director, SOA Product Marketing, Software AG Laying an enterprise-class foundation provides your enterprise with a structured and scalable platform to grow your SOA. With so many architectural and technological options to consider, what is the right infrastructure required for successful SOA adoption. You’ll hear how leading companies have implemented their SOA infrastructure, what did they implement to provide IT with greater productivity and responsiveness. Architectural Do’s and Don’ts for SOA What’s critical to a successful SOA implementation Case studies on successful SOA deployments

ESB market report

By admin ⋅ October 26, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

“The real question is, how can an ESB help with a SOA implementation plan, which is the challenge a lot of enterprises face,” said Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst at ZapThink LLC in Waltham, Mass. “Companies need to think through a plan, identify the business problem, figure out how to build services, then figure out the infrastructure. They may or may not need an ESB.”

As the larger vendors have added ESB capabilities to their offerings, the pureplays have broadened their capabilities as well. “Look at Sonic Software,” said Bloomberg. “They’re still leading with their ESB product, but Progress Software [Sonic's corporate parent] has reorganized. It’s significant that Progress has realized SOA is more than ESB. They have the Neon legacy integration, they have XML tooling. SOA requires a lot of different pieces. Sonic’s leading standalone ESB product is really not standalone anymore. Companies want a more comprehensive solution.”

According to ZapThink’s Bloomberg, “A key part of the SOA infrastructure has to do with the intermediary capability for loose coupling of services. If your existing middleware can’t do that, bring in some intermediary. If you have the need for additional integration infrastructure, get an ESB. If you already have that infrastructure you can use an intermediary, like SOA Software’s Network Director. The question is, do I need messaging infrastructure in addition to intermediary capabilities?”

“What we’re seeing from ESB vendors as well as consultants building SOA solutions, is that the bloom is off the ESB rose,” said Bloomberg. “Clearly the role of ESB is no longer thought of as a key piece of SOA infrastructure, but rather one piece of many moving parts to get SOA to work.”

SOA Software going global with Cordys partnership

By admin ⋅ September 27, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

This week’s partnership is expected to strengthen both companies and has the potential to create an SOA offering that could compete in the SOA space with major vendors such as IBM and BEA Systems Inc., said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink LLC.

Zapthink’s Schmelzer called the alliance announce Tuesday afternoon “Great news for both companies.”

“Cordys is in the market of providing capabilities for SOA composition and the provision of industry-specific composite services,” the analyst explained. “By partnering with SOA Software, they are placing their bets on the SOA pure-play market, rather than with the other vendors, to provide them with the capabilities they need for registry, metadata management, governance, service management, security and other capabilities. SOA Software provides all those capabilities and requirements for SOA infrastructure at a very reasonable price. So, this bolsters SOA Software’s efforts to put their SOA solution suite into the market with increased credibility.”

Cordys: Comprehensive Enabler of Service-Oriented Business Applications

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ September 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Netherlands-based Cordys followed the core principles of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to build a Composite Application Framework from the ground up. The eponymously named Cordys offers integration capabilities, Web Service creation and enablement, composite application creation and management, and rich user interface capabilities, in addition to data management and security. Furthermore, since Cordys built the entire product as a single, standards-based, integrated suite, Cordys customers have seamless, agile capabilities that enable them to get the most out of their SOA implementations. As a result, Cordys is a member of a new class of Service-oriented applications that might be called the killer apps of SOA.

IT companies are hooking up like divorcees at a Vegas wedding chapel

By admin ⋅ January 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The ZapThink guys have it right that this is only the second inning (given the weather, it can’t be too soon for baseball metaphors) of a nine-inning outing of SOA components and supplier consolidation.

ZapThink’s Service-Oriented Architecture Roadmap

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ October 31, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

ZAPTHINK’S ROADMAP TO SOA ADOPTION
Companies today are struggling with the best way to implement IT infrastructures that enable business agility. Service-oriented architectures based on Web Services provide cost-effective approaches to achieving companies’ agility goals. ZapThink’s Roadmap to SOA adoption is a one-of-a-kind, full-color 24×18″ poster that …

ZapForum Webcast: Building Composite Applications with Legacy Systems

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ July 13, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Guest Experts: Ardy Franssen, Product Management, Seagull Software and Arjen Westerink, Product Marketing, Cordys

Topics:

Top-down vs. Bottom-up SOA
How can you leverage legacy systems in an SOA?
How are SOA-based composite applications different?

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts
Listen to ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer talk about how …

Repositories viewed as security link for Web services

By admin ⋅ June 15, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

“People are starting to discover discovery,” claims Ron Schmelzer, analyst for Waltham, Mass.-based ZapThink. “No one was able to take advantage of it, since the products were immature, as were the SOA [service-oriented architecture] implementations.”
Read more at: Manufacturing Business Technology

Taking Business Logic to the Next Level with SOA

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ February 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Coding business logic is the only way to satisfy business requirements in information technology (IT), and businesses have been doing so for decades, albeit with limited success. The fundamental problem with business logic has been its inflexibility–business needs change, and the logic can’t keep up.

While there have been modest flexibility improvements since the days when all application functionality resided on the same system, the unfortunate truth is that these advances have been little more than a business logic shell game, moving the hard-coded logic from one system to another. Instead of solving the problem, businesses are in the habit of creating instant legacy code all over their infrastructure.

Today’s business requires more flexibility from its IT, and fortunately, IT has a new approach to distributed computing that promises the business agility that companies crave. That solution is Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA is an approach to distributed computing that represents business logic as Services on the network. People can then compose these Services into flexible business processes that provide the business agility so necessary in today’s demanding business environment.

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