IBM’s Bid ‘Ascential’ For Dominating Integration

ZapThink Research analyst Ronald Schmelzer agreed.

“Basically, as companies seek to solve the challenge of integration and reuse in a heterogeneous environment, it’s increasingly going to make more sense to solve the data, security, management, and run-time aspects of SOA in a holistic fashion,” he said.

“I think IBM realizes this and is starting to put together all the parts of the puzzle for SOA. I think we’re seeing just the beginning of consolidation in this space. I would expect to see more around process, management, security, event-driven capabilities, policy and performance. [This year] will be a big year for consolidation. The question remains: is there room for start ups?”

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Service-Oriented Process

Business processes have always been an important, if understated, asset of enterprises. The nature and methods by which a company runs its business changes on a daily basis at various different levels in the company — from high-level strategic changes to lower-level implementation details. As a result of these changes, enterprises constantly struggle to make their businesses more responsive to business changes by connecting their business requirements to their IT and human capabilities.

However, automating business processes has historically been a difficult-to-achieve goal for most enterprises due to the flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Fortunately, businesses have a solution in Service-Oriented Process: a separate abstraction layer for business process definition and execution that leverages the capabilities of Service-oriented Architectures. Service-Oriented Process provides businesses an approach to tying business requirements to the Service model represented in the SOA metamodel, thereby providing a flexible approach towards implementing architectures that promote business agility.

Service-Oriented Process

Business processes have always been an important, if understated, asset of enterprises. The nature and methods by which a company runs its business changes on a daily basis at various different levels in the company — from high-level strategic changes to lower-level implementation details. As a result of these changes, enterprises constantly struggle to make their businesses more responsive to business changes by connecting their business requirements to their IT and human capabilities.

However, automating business processes has historically been a difficult-to-achieve goal for most enterprises due to the flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Fortunately, businesses have a solution in Service-Oriented Process: a separate abstraction layer for business process definition and execution that leverages the capabilities of Service-oriented Architectures. Service-Oriented Process provides businesses an approach to tying business requirements to the Service model represented in the SOA metamodel, thereby providing a flexible approach towards implementing architectures that promote business agility.

The X files

XML and web services analyst group ZapThink believes that demand for XML storage is set to take off, but that the XML database vendors will not be the prime beneficiaries.

It forecasts that by 2005, the market for XML storage will be worth $4.1 billion (