ZapThink » Savvion http://www.zapthink.com Sharpening Your Vision of the Future of IT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:12:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 BPM inside the belly of the SOA whale, part 3 http://www.zapthink.com/2006/06/29/bpm-inside-the-belly-of-the-soa-whale-part-3/ http://www.zapthink.com/2006/06/29/bpm-inside-the-belly-of-the-soa-whale-part-3/#comments Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:06:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=1894 In addition to tighter integration with modeling, BPM in the context of an SOA is moving toward utilization of a registry/repository for metadata. "Since business processes are represented as compositions of services, registries will increasingly be the place where service compositions and orchestrations are stored and registered," said ZapThink's Schmelzer. "Users will be able to query registries to not only find services, but also processes that are compositions of those services. We haven't seen much activity in this area as of late, but we hope to see more process-driven services with metadata residing in registries soon."

Going forward, BPM tools need to evolve in the area of runtime, according to ZapThink's Schmelzer. "Most of today's BPM tools are design-time or modeling activities. We need the idea of a runtime business process that is in essence an actual representation of the running system."

Read more at: SearchWebServices]]> “BPM traditionally has been separate from composite applications and the concept of service orchestration because it has traditionally been a modeling or design-time application,” said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC. “But runtime process modeling and management necessarily means management of composite services, which means that process-driven SOA tools will necessarily support composite applications that are either an orchestration or choreography of services.”

In addition to tighter integration with modeling, BPM in the context of an SOA is moving toward utilization of a registry/repository for metadata. “Since business processes are represented as compositions of services, registries will increasingly be the place where service compositions and orchestrations are stored and registered,” said ZapThink’s Schmelzer. “Users will be able to query registries to not only find services, but also processes that are compositions of those services. We haven’t seen much activity in this area as of late, but we hope to see more process-driven services with metadata residing in registries soon.”

Going forward, BPM tools need to evolve in the area of runtime, according to ZapThink’s Schmelzer. “Most of today’s BPM tools are design-time or modeling activities. We need the idea of a runtime business process that is in essence an actual representation of the running system.”

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2006/06/29/bpm-inside-the-belly-of-the-soa-whale-part-3/feed/ 0 BPM inside the belly of the SOA whale, part 2 http://www.zapthink.com/2006/06/22/bpm-inside-the-belly-of-the-soa-whale-part-2/ http://www.zapthink.com/2006/06/22/bpm-inside-the-belly-of-the-soa-whale-part-2/#comments Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:06:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=1890 Read more at: SearchWebServices]]> “Any vendor who wants to have a credible SOA solution in order to build loosely coupled, composite, service-oriented applications will necessarily have to have a business process aspect to their product,” said Ron Schmelzer, a senior analyst at ZapThink LLC. “IBM, Oracle and Microsoft already have this capability as well as vendors like Sonic Systems, Fiorano and SOA Software. Even emerging composite application vendors like SEEC Systems, Webify Solutions, Tenfold and others are adding BPM capabilities to their SOA infrastructure. Vendors need to have process capabilities if they plan to have a credible solution in the space.”

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2006/06/22/bpm-inside-the-belly-of-the-soa-whale-part-2/feed/ 0 BEA Buys Fuego for $87.5 Million http://www.zapthink.com/2006/03/01/bea-buys-fuego-for-875-million/ http://www.zapthink.com/2006/03/01/bea-buys-fuego-for-875-million/#comments Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:03:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=1769 Read more at: eWeek]]> However, Ronald Schmelzer, an analyst at ZapThink LLC, said, “It’s clear that business process is a key part to making composite services in an SOA work. Indeed, you can’t do service composition without business process. As such, acquiring a BPM company like Fuego makes a lot of sense for BEA, given that their existing process tooling wasn’t particularly service-oriented, and service-oriented process is clearly a key element of the AquaLogic roadmap.”

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2006/03/01/bea-buys-fuego-for-875-million/feed/ 0 BPEL: Why Everyone Is Doing It http://www.zapthink.com/2004/07/25/bpel-why-everyone-is-doing-it/ http://www.zapthink.com/2004/07/25/bpel-why-everyone-is-doing-it/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2004 00:07:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=1128 Read more at: Web Services Pipeline (CMP)]]> With this backing, and in less than two years since being unveiled, BPEL has become the de-facto orchestration language standard, bypassing a number of alternative specifications such as BPML and WSCI. Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink says “It’s a foregone conclusion that BPEL is becoming the accepted standard for business process execution. It addresses 80 percent of the need, and people are rallying behind it. BPEL’s a done deal.”

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2004/07/25/bpel-why-everyone-is-doing-it/feed/ 0 Service Orientation Market Trends http://www.zapthink.com/2004/01/05/service-orientation-market-trends/ http://www.zapthink.com/2004/01/05/service-orientation-market-trends/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2004 00:01:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTR-WS110 In particular, the markets of application security, security appliances, system management, application integration, data integration, and business process management are six key markets that will become transformed as vendors in those markets Service-enable their products. Furthermore, there is a window of opportunity for new entrants in each of these markets to build Service-oriented offerings. Those windows will soon close, however, as the established, incumbent vendors in each space consolidate their respective markets.

These consolidation trends will continue through the rest of the decade, as large vendors round out their suites of software that support Service Orientation, resulting in a combined market consisting of vendors offering a full-function SOA Implementation Framework. These frameworks will offer enterprises all the functionality they need to build, run, and manage SOAs. The market for SOA Implementation Frameworks is still nascent as of 2004, but will dominate the distributed computing arena by 2010.]]> Key Points:

  • ZapThink sees a consolidation of most SO functionality into a single market category that can be delivered as individual products, product suites, or service offerings that contain broad functionality, including features that are currently associated with the security, management, process, integration, and tools segments. We call that market the SOA Implementation Framework market.
  • The total SOA Implementation Framework market opportunity will go from $4.4 billion in 2005 to $43 billion by 2010.
  • The big winners from the shift to Service Orientation will be large vendors who are able to leverage the innovation of the smaller players to build fully functional SOA Implementation Frameworks. New entrants will find opportunity in adding value to these large vendors’ products, or by finding opportunity in the gaps between their solutions.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. Context: The Shift to Service Orientation
    • 2.1. The shift to Service Orientation affects all distributed computing

    • 2.2. Shifts in market segments
    • 2.3. The SOA Implementation Framework
    • 2.4. The march toward the SOAIF
    • 2.5. Integration: the key transitional market
  • III. Vendor Landscape
    • 3.1. Core Service Orientation segments

    • 3.2. The role of the incumbents
    • 3.3. The role of On Demand
  • IV. Market Trends
    • 4.1. Methodology

    • 4.2. Core market numbers
    • 4.3. SOAIF market numbers
    • 4.4. Who will win the SOAIF battle?
  • V. Conclusions
    • 5.1. Key notes

    • 5.2. Decision points
    • 5.3. Figures
    • 5.4. Tables

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    ]]>     http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/17/service-oriented-process-2/feed/ 0     Service-Oriented Process to Cannibalize Integrators http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/17/service-oriented-process-to-cannibalize-integrators/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/17/service-oriented-process-to-cannibalize-integrators/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2003 00:04:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=490 Read more at: Internetnews.com]]> As Web services support for business processes matures, companies may be able to throw out expensive and complicated integration systems through a “Service-Oriented Process” approach, according to a new report by XML research firm ZapThink.
    “A process is a set of activities that are linked together into a logical flow that meets business requirements,” Ronald Schmelzer, ZapThink co-founder and senior analyst, told internetnews.com.

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    ]]>     http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/17/service-oriented-process-to-cannibalize-integrators/feed/ 0     Service-Oriented Process http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/16/service-oriented-process-3/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/16/service-oriented-process-3/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:04:00 +0000 Ronald Schmelzer http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTR-WS108 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.]]> Key Findings:
    • Service-Oriented Process is Key to Meeting Business Agility Requirements
    • Service-oriented process includes orchestration, choreography, composition, workflow, transactions, and collaboration of Web Services.
    • The market for Service-Oriented Process solutions will grow from $120 Million in 2003 to over $8.3 Billion by 2008.
    • The standards landscape will converge on a single choreography, orchestration, and process flow specification in the next 12-18 months.
    • By 2005, over 70% of Web Services implementations will be process-driven.
    • Services must be developed devoid of process in order that they can participate in an SOA that meets the goals of business agility
    • Service-Oriented Management techniques can assist in managing discrete services as well as end-to-end business processes.

    Table of Contents:

    • I. Report Scope
    • II. The Context for Service-Oriented Process
      • 2.1. What are Business Processes?
      • 2.2. Why is Process Important to the Enterprise?
      • 2.3. Connecting Business Requirements to IT Capabilities Through Process
      • 2.4. Organizational Roles and Business Process
    • III. Fundamentals of Business Process
      • 3.1. Business Process Terms and Concepts
      • 3.2. Business Process Definition
      • 3.3. Process Execution
      • 3.4. Transactions and Exception Handling
      • 3.5. Process Monitoring and Management
      • 3.6. A History of Business Process Management and Workflow Solutions
    • IV. Applying SOA to Business Process: Service-Oriented Process
      • 4.1. Web Services and SOA Approaches for Process Definition and Execution
      • 4.2. Workflow
      • 4.3. Transactions
      • 4.4. Reliability
      • 4.5. Guidance on the Specifications
    • V. Connecting the Dots: Process, Management, and Integration
      • 5.1. Proper Mindset for SOA: Process-Orientation
      • 5.2. Asynchrony and Coarse-Granularity: Enabled by Process
      • 5.3. Fulfilling the Requirements for Loose Coupling with Service-Oriented Management
    • VI. Market Opportunity for Service-Oriented Process
    • VII. Future Trends for Service-Oriented Process
      • 7.1. Smarter Invocation of Services
      • 7.2. Portals and Processes
      • 7.3. Enterprise Applications and Processes
      • 7.4. Processes and Peer-to-Peer Implementations
    • VIII. Conclusions
      • 8.1. Key Notes
      • 8.2. Decision Points
      • 8.3. Figures
      • 8.4. Tables
    • IX. Glossary
    • X. Profiled Vendors

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