Digital Evolution
Identity & Access Management: Fundamental Prerequisites for Service-Oriented Architectures
This webinar will focus on ways to tackle the complex challenges that can arise in Identity Management when developing a Service-Oriented Architecture. Topics to be covered:
In addition, we will explore the case study of Sempra Energy, a Fortune 500 Utility business that worked through the challenges of instituting an effective Identity Management solution for their SOA.
Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst and founder of Zapthink, is a well-known expert in the field of XML and XML-based standards and initiatives. Ron has been featured in and has written for periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences including XML One, Comdex, and Internet World on the topic of XML. Ron has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). Ron was named “Geek of the Week” in Internet Magazine and was listed in Boston Magazine’s Internet Top 40. Ron received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Actional, Westbridge Merge in SOA Union
ZapThink senior analyst Jason Bloomberg said the Actional-Westbridge merger changes the competitive landscape for SOA enablement providers.
“This acquisition definitely makes sense for both parties, as their technologies are reasonably complementary, and the combined offering is comprehensive and powerful,” Bloomberg told internetnews.com. “They will definitely continue to give Digital Evolution and AmberPoint in particular a run for their money.”
“But make no mistake — everybody was expecting continued consolidation in this space, so Actional’s competitors will not be caught by surprise,” he said.
Read more at: InternetNewsActional, Westbridge Merge
“This makes sense for both companies,” says analyst Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink. “Actional was stronger in management, Westbridge stronger with security, and to compete with Digital Evolution and AmberPoint, they have to be strong on both sides.” After the acquisition, Bloomberg assesses Actional as being “fairly complete” in Web services management, so there may not be future M&A activity in the company’s immediate future.
Read more at: Line56Actional and Westbridge Merge To Provide Integrated SOA Security and Management
ZapThink estimates there was approximately $194.3 million in Web-services management revenue in 2003, a number that is expected to leap to $1.4 billion this year and to $8.8 billion by 2005, reflecting both the growing use of the software and the larger role of dominant players in selling it. ZapThink expects the market to reach $30.4 billion by 2010.
Read more at: Web Services PipelineDigital Evolution Buys Flamenco Networks
Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, of Waltham, Mass., said, “This acquisition makes sense for both Digital Evolution and Flamenco Networks. Flamenco’s strength in managing and provisioning B2B Web services, as well as their ability to provide the infrastructure for a hosted services environment, complement Digev’s [Digital Evolution] strengths nicely, and will enable Digev to bring a deeper, more comprehensive product to market.”
Read more at: eWeekDigital Evolution Acquires Flamenco
Analyst Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink, a research firm and consultancy specializing in XML and Web services issues, praises Flamenco’s technology in this regard. “They had come up with a negotiation approach, a strong offering where their software could tell if the person you were interacting with also had their software; if not, they could interact based on WS Security or SSL.” That approach superseded Flamenco’s original paradigm of having a hosted managed network.
Read more at: Line 56Digital Evolution Buys Flamenco Networks
“This acquisition makes sense for both Digital Evolution and Flamenco Networks,” said ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg. “Flamenco’s strength in managing B2B Web Services, as well as their ability to provide the infrastructure for a hosted Services environment, complement Digev’s strengths nicely, and will enable Digev to bring a deeper, more comprehensive product to market.”
Read more at: internetnews.comIs now the time to manage Web services?
In the meantime, vendors in the Web services management arena have been playing a near-constant game of musical chairs. “There are a lot of vendors, and they’re all trying to figure out their niche,” explained Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at consultancy ZapThink LLC in Waltham, Mass. “They’re all changing their story and moving around,” trying to figure out the most appropriate mix of features to meet customers’ needs.
Another big difference from even a year ago, noted ZapThink’s Bloomberg, is that “last year we saw soup-to-nuts functionality,” where every vendor implemented virtually every feature one could ever want in a management package. Now, however, some suppliers are starting to specialize in certain niches — managing or creating service-level agreements, for instance, or audit and version control. Some are targeting security as a core feature, while others are working to ensure that their management suites work with existing Web security leaders like VeriSign and Netegrity.
Read more at: Application Development TrendsHP Joins SOA Fray With BEA
Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst for SOA and Web services research firm ZapThink, said HP is making its play at the right time.
“It’s definitely not too late for HP to move into the SOA space in a big way,” Bloomberg told internetnews.com. “In fact, their timing is probably quite good, considering that the number of enterprises who are now considering SOAs has spiked over the last few months. It didn’t make sense for the likes of HP to offer a strong SOA story through last year, because they weren’t yet getting strong demand for such products from their customers.”
Bloomberg said SOAs have been on HP’s roadmap for OpenView for well over a year, as evidenced by the Talking Blocks acquisition.
“Now the time is right for HP, as well as CA, to move into leadership positions in the Web Services Management space — with IBM Tivoli not far behind,” he continued. “As for the small players — Actional, AmberPoint, Blue Titan, Digital Evolution, Flamenco Networks, Infravio, NetIQ, and Westbridge Technology — the clock is ticking.”
Read more at: InternetNews.comWeb Services Management
Of all the markets that the rush to capitalize on Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) spawned, the space known as Web Services Management (WSM) is likely the most turbulent. Marked by a large number of new entrant vendors and cutthroat competition for a steadily increasing number of customers, WSM products have come to offer a core set of functionality as well as many of the key capabilities necessary for companies to build and run SOAs.
In spite of significant press and early adopter attention to the vendors in this space, there have been too many vendors chasing too few deals, and as a result, most WSM vendors have reconfigured their product and marketing strategies at least once, as they seek the right niche to build the customer traction so critical to their survival. As a result, the WSM market is filled with short-term fragmentation, as vendors jockey for position, and longer-term consolidation, as incumbent vendors make strategic acquisitions and build their WSM capabilities as the market matures.
This report provides WSM vendors with the perspective they need to focus their market and product strategies for the next one to two years, and it illustrates the complete WSM landscape for end-users, enabling them to understand which vendors will be able to provide the capabilities they require, both now and as they build out their Service-Oriented Architectures.
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