Grand Central Communications

Overview of Web Services Security

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ April 17, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

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Overview of Web Services Management

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ April 17, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

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Blue Titan Vies For Niche In Web Services Management

By admin ⋅ March 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Blue Titan is far from the only ISV trying to tackle Web services management ahead of the demand for the technology. Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with Waltham, Mass.-based research firm ZapThink, estimates there are at least 10 startups focused on some aspect of Web services management.

ZapNote: Grand Central

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ January 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Grand Central Communications offers a private Web Services network that can connect multiple business partners over the Internet in a standards-based, loosely coupled fashion. Similar to the EDI value-added networks from earlier generations, Grand Central offers connectivity, security, and reliability to its participating customers. However, the similarity ends there. By leveraging the full power of Web Services and Service orientation, Grand Central enables multiple participants to connect with each other in a secure, easy to configure, easy to maintain fashion.

Service-Oriented Management

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ November 19, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

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.

Service-Oriented Management Technology Landscape

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ November 19, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

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.