ZapThink » Shinka Technologies 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 ZapNote: Infravio http://www.zapthink.com/2002/03/01/zapnote-infravio/ http://www.zapthink.com/2002/03/01/zapnote-infravio/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:03:00 +0000 Ronald Schmelzer http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTZN-0226 One of the challenges of Web Services is the ability to reuse Web Service components and address lower-levels of data integration, such as matching data formats and the underlying data structures. The critical problem with existing approaches is that most enterprise systems that need to be integrated, such as SAP, provide schema rather than compiled objects for their interfaces, and so there is a need for a middle-layer to move between the schema and the SOAP message layer. The Infravio Web Services Management System (WSMS) provides a foundation-level architecture for Web Services development, deployment, and management. The Infravio WSMS provides a model for component re-use, code generation, and normalization of functionality through a standards-based, rather than single-vendor, platform-based approach to Web Services management.Download File

]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2002/03/01/zapnote-infravio/feed/ 0 Web Services Technologies & Trends http://www.zapthink.com/2001/12/20/web-services-technologies-trends/ http://www.zapthink.com/2001/12/20/web-services-technologies-trends/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:12:00 +0000 Ronald Schmelzer http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTB-0101 The business value of such architectures in terms of the business agility they provide is substantial, but as of early 2003, only a few early adopter enterprises have built such architectures, partly because few tools for building Service-oriented architectures are available on the market, and furthermore, there is little understanding of the best practices companies should follow to build such architectures. This report seeks to clarify the requirements for realizing the value of Web Services by providing a set of emerging best pra]]> From its inception through 2002, the primary application for Web Services in the enterprise was to simplify point-to-point integration between systems, thereby reducing the cost of integration. This application of Web Services, however, only scratches the surface of the true potential of Web Services — enabling companies to build agile business processes and IT systems that can respond to change through the use of loosely coupled, standards-based Service-oriented architectures.

The business value of such architectures in terms of the business agility they provide is substantial, but as of early 2003, only a few early adopter enterprises have built such architectures, partly because few tools for building Service-oriented architectures are available on the market, and furthermore, there is little understanding of the best practices companies should follow to build such architectures. This report seeks to clarify the requirements for realizing the value of Web Services by providing a set of emerging best praDownload File

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2001/12/10/zapnote-shinka/feed/ 0 Web Services Technologies and Trends http://www.zapthink.com/2001/12/10/web-services-technologies-and-trends/ http://www.zapthink.com/2001/12/10/web-services-technologies-and-trends/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:12:00 +0000 Ronald Schmelzer http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZT-WEBSRV Key Findings:
  • The Web Services market is segmented into three major segments:
    • Web Services Platforms consisting of a Web Services Development Environment and Web Services Runtime Environment
    • Web Service Application Development Suites
    • Web Services Operations Management
  • 75% of surveyed companies stated that their planned Web Service deployments will be internally-focused
  • 64% of surveyed companies stated that Enterprise and Data Integration was the primary focus of their Web Service implementations
  • 61% of surveyed companies plan a pilot test of Web Service-based applications within the next 12 months
  • 58% of current Web Services pilots are being deployed on the Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) infrastructure

Table of Contents:

  • Executive Summary
  • Scope of Report
  • Web Services — Baseline Definitions
  • Problems addressed by Web Services and ROI
  • Current State of the Market of Web Services
  • Market Sizing, Numbers, and Stats
  • Pieces of the Puzzle: Standards and Specifications
  • SOAP Implementations
  • Portability and Interoperability Issues and Challenges
  • UDDI Implementations
  • Pieces of the Puzzle: Web Services Market Segmentation
  • Web Services Platform: Development Environment and Runtime
  • Web Service Transports
  • Web Service Application Development and Delivery
  • Web Services Operations Management
  • Competitive Trends & Directions
  • Missing Elements / Gaps
  • Predictions
  • What’s Real and What’s Not?
  • End Notes and References
  • Vendor Profiles

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