SOA Industry Future Trends

Presentation for EDS Webinar on February 17, 2009. Covers future trends in SOA, including Software-as-a-Service, virtualization, cloud computing, Enterprise 2.0, and Enterprise Mashups.

29-slide PowerPoint in pdf format.

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HP, EDS Expand SOA Outsourcing

EDS views its SOA consulting work in the context of its role as an IT service provider, and the company leverages its knowledge to expand its offerings to outsourcing clients, and SOA is the best way to do that, according to Zapthink’s ZapNotes.

Read more at: Integration Developer News

Web services takes flight in travel industry

Sabre “is probably one of the more aggressive, forward-looking” travel companies in terms of its Web services strategy, says Ronald Schmelzer, an analyst at ZapThink LLC, a Waltham, Mass.-based SOA research and advisory firm.

But building your own Web services infrastructure is not necessarily onerous, says ZapThink’s Schmelzer. Companies that have gotten immersed in Web services often discover that they’re able to draw heavily upon their existing IT infrastructures, he explains. “You don’t need a whole lot of new middleware to make SOA work,” he says.

Read more at: IT World (Canada)

Case study: Sabre’s Web services journey

Sabre “is probably one of the more aggressive, forward-looking” travel companies in terms of its Web services strategy, says Ronald Schmelzer, an analyst at ZapThink, a Waltham, Mass.-based SOA research and advisory firm.

But building your own Web services infrastructure is not necessarily onerous, says ZapThink’s Schmelzer. Companies that have become immersed in Web services often discover that they’re able to draw heavily upon their existing IT infrastructures, he explains. “You don’t need a whole lot of new middleware to make SOA work,” he says.

Read more at: ComputerWorld

The great 2005 SOA talent hunt

To do SOA, enterprise architects need to understand business requirements from an IT perspective. They need to know how things like supply chain, customer relationship management, call centers and outward marketing would fit into IT, said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC, of Waltham, Mass.

“One of the challenges with SOA is that because it’s enterprise architecture at a higher level of abstraction, it requires skills at that architecture level. You can’t just take a Java developer, teach them how to do Web services and make them into a service-oriented architect,” Bloomberg said. “Java and .NET developers have been doing integration through Web services for three-plus years now, but these are just baby steps toward SOA.”

Read more at: SearchWebServices

EDS: SOA as Strategic Offering for IT Outsourcer

EDS considers itself to be a long-term IT outsourcer and IT service provider, and places its Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) consulting work in that context. EDS leverages its deep knowledge of legacy systems to expand the solutions it can offer its outsourcing clients, and SOA is the best way to accomplish this goal.

Because of EDS’s legacy expertise, much of their interest and active projects center on exposing legacy data and functionality within an SOA. EDS offers SOA enablement of existing legacy assets that in many instances they are maintaining for their clients. Fundamentally, EDS focuses on new technologies, products, and approaches that extend mainframe and other legacy systems to provide SOA capability.

Wall Street goes digital to cut down on waste

“The whole trade-settlement process is bogged down in this how-do-we-describe-what-we’re-doing question,” says Ronald Schmelzer, an analyst with research firm ZapThink. “They’re all moving to XML representations of these data formats because it’s the best hope for achieving consistency.”

Read more at: CNet

Web services to offload integration from professional services

As service-oriented architectures utilizing Web services become dominant, companies will increasingly be using professional services organizations less for system integration and more for architectural consulting and business process automation, according to a report from research firm ZapThink announced this week.

Read more at: InfoWorld

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