SOA Experiences from the Front Line

Dave Linthicum’s presentation for the Tidal Software speaking event in April, 2008. Covers practical advice for the implementation of SOA.

23-slide PowerPoint in pdf format.

ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA : New York / New Jersey – Finance, Pharma, Media, Governance, Quality, and Management Sneak Peek

Special ZapThink “Sneak Preview” Podcast for January 8, 2008 features:

Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Ben Moreland, Director, Foundation Services, The Hartford

Mike Kavis, Executive Director, Architecture, Catalina Marketing

Jim Mackay, CMO, iTKO

Al Aghili, CTO and Founder, Managed Methods

Martin Milani, CTO, Tidal Software

Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a “Sneak Peek” at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: New York / New Jersey – Finance, Pharma, Media, Governance, Quality, and Management event in Newark, New Jersey, on March 25, 2008.

Tidal Software Podcast: SOA Management: Myth or Reality?

This Podcast is an informative and lively debate between two well-recognized industry experts about the state of performance monitoring and management for SOA applications.

Featured are Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner with ZapThink. Both bring deep knowledge and unique perspectives about application management SOA, web services, and the relevant technologies and standards to this debate.

Whether you are simply deploying web services or building out a complete service-oriented architecture, come hear these analysts’ views on tough questions such as:

• What should management look like in the world of service based applications?
• How does SOA change the landscape of application and systems management?
• Can traditional monitoring tools be effective managing tomorrow’s SOA deployments or is something new needed?
• What standards are needed to make SOA adoption a success, or do they already exist? What role do they play and what are the alternatives?
• As enterprises increasingly deploy SOA-based applications and infrastructure, the lingering question remains: how do current plans and approaches to application management stack up to managing these mission-critical deployments?

This Podcast was produced by Tidal Software and is presented as a 13.8 MB mp3 file. Running time 1:00.21. Recorded on September 14, 2007 at the Harvard Club, Boston.

Tidal Targets the Heart of SOA Management Challenge With Intersperse 7

“The business benefits of agile process automation drive successful SOA initiatives,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst with ZapThink. “Such process automation depends upon the proper management and instrumentation of the orchestrated services as well as the underlying heterogeneous infrastructure. As a result, a SOA management solution like Tidal Intersperse offers critically important enablement of flexible business processes by bringing together disparate management data into a single business-oriented view of process health and performance.”

Read more at: Sys-Con

Tidal Software Intersperse: Deep, Real-Time Management for SOA

The greatest challenge to managing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations is that managing the Services is only the tip of the iceberg–for true SOA management, a tool must manage all aspects of the underlying infrastructure as well. With their focus on the inner workings of Java application servers as well as .NET-based implementations, Tidal Software’s Intersperse Manager is able to rise to this SOA management challenge by offering a distributed, production management solution that provides whole-system visibility and real-time control over an enterprise’s Service-oriented application environments. By managing and monitoring up and down the application stack and across integrated business applications, Intersperse Manager delivers increased system performance and availability for the SOA implementation.

SOA Web Services Vendor Intersperse Releases Manager 5.0

“Intersperse Manager effectively bridges the gap between traditional systems management and Web Services management, because of its deep application and services monitoring capabilities,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst with ZapThink. “Now that Intersperse Manager supports Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere as well as BEA WebLogic, Intersperse is well-positioned to provide comprehensive application management capabilities for many of today’s SOA implementations.”

Read more at: Sys-Con

Intersperse Announces Release of Intersperse Manager 5.0(TM)

“Intersperse Manager effectively bridges the gap between traditional systems management and Web Services management, because of its deep application and services monitoring capabilities,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst with ZapThink. “Now that Intersperse Manager supports Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere as well as BEA WebLogic, Intersperse is well-positioned to provide comprehensive application management capabilities for many of today’s SOA implementations.”

Read more at: Intersperse Press Release