ZapThink » Segue Software 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 Web Services Management http://www.zapthink.com/2004/05/11/web-services-management-3/ http://www.zapthink.com/2004/05/11/web-services-management-3/#comments Tue, 11 May 2004 00:05:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTR-WS112-1 In spite of significant press and early adopter attention to the vendors in this space, there have been too many vendors chasing too few deals, and as a result, most WSM vendors have reconfigured their product and marketing strategies at least once, as they seek the right niche to build the customer traction so critical to their survival. As a result, the WSM market is filled with short-term fragmentation, as vendors jockey for position, and longer-term consolidation, as incumbent vendors make strategic acquisitions and build their WSM capabilities as the market matures.

This report provides WSM vendors with the perspective they need to focus their market and product strategies for the next one to two years, and it illustrates the complete WSM landscape for end-users, enabling them to understand which vendors will be able to provide the capabilities they require, both now and as they build out their Service-Oriented Architectures.]]> Key Points:

  • The short term trend in the WSM market is primarily one of fragmentation. The longer term trend is to the SOAIF, as customers look to vendors to provide coordinated frameworks that offer not just management capabilities, but all the components needed to build, run, and manage SOAs.

  • The opportunities for new entrants in the Web Services Management market will peak in 2004-2005, and drop off rapidly thereafter as incumbents move to consolidate the market.
  • There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity for new entrants in the WSM space to achieve sufficient customer traction to establish themselves as successful WSM vendors.
  • Companies building enterprise SOAs require SOA enablement capabilities, including dependency management, active routing, protocol translation, metadata management, and Service provisioning.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Web Services Management: A Transitional Market
  • II. State of the WSM Market
    • 2.1. Vendor Landscape
      • 2.1.1. SOA Enablement
      • 2.1.2. Web Services Security
      • 2.1.3. Business Management
      • 2.1.4. Web Services Testing and Diagnostics
      • 2.1.5. Web Services Configuration and Provisioning
      • 2.1.6. Metadata Management
      • 2.1.7. Business-to-Business Web Services Management
      • 2.1.8. Core Web Services Management
      • 2.1.9. Vendor Landscape Summary
    • 2.2. Customer environment
  • III. Market Trends
    • 3.1. Market Numbers
  • IV. The ZapThink Take
    • 4.1. Key notes
    • 4.2. Decision points
    • 4.3. Figures
    • 4.4. Tables

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2004/05/11/web-services-management-3/feed/ 0 ZapThink: Web Services Management Market Set To Expand Dramatically; Growth Tempered by Fragmentation of Market Leading to Dominance by Incumbent Vendors http://www.zapthink.com/2004/05/11/zapthink-web-services-management-market-set-to-expand-dramatically-growth-tempered-by-fragmentation-of-market-leading-to-dominance-by-incumbent-vendors/ http://www.zapthink.com/2004/05/11/zapthink-web-services-management-market-set-to-expand-dramatically-growth-tempered-by-fragmentation-of-market-leading-to-dominance-by-incumbent-vendors/#comments Tue, 11 May 2004 00:05:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=1053 Read more at: BusinessWire]]> “Companies are coming to understand that Web Services Management is critical for both the operation of Web Services as well as SOAs,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst with ZapThink. “As a result, vendors in this space are finding customer traction by offering a range of different capabilities, from monitoring, to SOA enablement, to metadata management.”

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2004/05/11/zapthink-web-services-management-market-set-to-expand-dramatically-growth-tempered-by-fragmentation-of-market-leading-to-dominance-by-incumbent-vendors/feed/ 0 Testing Web Services http://www.zapthink.com/2002/08/23/testing-web-services-2/ http://www.zapthink.com/2002/08/23/testing-web-services-2/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:08:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTR-WS105 Key Findings:
  • Web Services promise to fundamentally change the distributed computing landscape. This new landscape will present new testing scenarios and problems that companies using Web Services don’t currently understand.
  • Today’s enterprises that are dabbling in Web Services aren’t inquiring about or requesting testing solutions.
  • The whole concept of a software development lifecycle will fall by the wayside as companies realize the advantages of orchestrating loosely coupled Services into coarse-grained business Services.
  • As enterprises follow the Web Services model and move from phase one (through 2003) to phase three (2005 and beyond) many testing issues will arise that the current simplistic approach to Web Services testing will not cover.
  • During phase one of Web Services adoption, Web Services are mainly just software components with SOAP interfaces.
  • The dynamic, “publish, find, and bind” capabilities of Web Services characterize phase two of the adoption of Service-oriented architectures.
  • In phase three, taking an agile approach to testing will make the most sense.
  • Vendors of Testing tools do not see Web Services as heralding an emerging market per se; rather, they generally see Web Services as a relatively small evolutionary step in the development of software components.
  • Test-first development will be a primary driver for Web Services testing. Test-first development, where developers assist in the creation of automated test plans before a line of code is written, has been proven repeatedly to lead to better code, written faster, that meets the needs of stakeholders better.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. Context for Testing in the Web Services Model
    • 2.1 The ZapThink Web Services Roadmap
    • 2.2 Phase One
    • 2.3 Phase Two
    • 2.4 Phase Three
  • III. Web Services Testing Capabilities and Trends
    • 3.1 Web Services Testing in the Current IT Environment
    • 3.2 Software Testing Capabilities from Now into the Future
    • 3.3 The Software Testing Tools Market in the Web Services Model
    • 3.4 The Convergence of Service Orientation and Agile Methodologies
  • IV. Current State of the Market
    • 4.1 Web Services Testing Leaders and Followers
    • 4.2 Drivers for Web Services Testing Tools
    • 4.3 Barriers to adoption for Web Services Testing Tools
  • V. Conclusions
    • 5.1 Key Notes
    • 5.2 Decision Points
    • 5.3 Figures
    • 5.4 Tables
  • VI. Vendor Profiles
  • A. Related Research
  • B. Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion
  • About ZapThink, LLC

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2002/08/23/zapnote-segue-software/feed/ 0 Testing Web Services http://www.zapthink.com/2002/03/25/testing-web-services/ http://www.zapthink.com/2002/03/25/testing-web-services/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:03:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTB-0107 Web Services today are often little more than software components wrapped in SOAP interfaces, and as such, today’s software testing tool vendors need only add simple XML support to their product lines to offer Web Services testing capabilities to their customers. However, over the next five years or so, Web Services herald a shift in distributed computing toward loosely coupled, standards-based, Service-oriented architectures. Testing these architectures and the Web Services that constitute them is another matter entirely. Only a few testing tool vendors have any expressed strategy for offering testing tools that work in a Service-oriented environment, and no vendors have a clear product roadmap that addresses all the Web Services testing needs that enterprises will face between now and 2006. Zapthink recommends that testing vendors evaluate their Web Services testing capabilities based not on current requirements, but upon emerging requirements for Web Services testing.Download File

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