Swingtide releases industry-tailored XML line

ZapThink senior analyst Jason Bloomberg, in a release, calls the software “a complete solution for discovering, visualizing and auditing XML traffic on the network. Swingtide Monitor goes one step further and understands the semantics of industry-specific XML schemas.”

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Swingtide Announces Industry-Tailored Auditing and Monitoring Software for XML Web Services

“As companies increasingly rely upon XML and web services in their day-to-day business, the need to understand the nature of the XML traffic on their networks becomes a critical concern,” said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink, LLC. “Swingtide Monitor offers a complete solution for discovering, visualizing and auditing XML traffic on the network. Swingtide Monitor goes one step further and understands the semantics of industry-specific XML schemas, making it stand out from the competition in its focus on vertical industry needs.”

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Web Services Tools Take Different Tacks

Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, Cambridge, Mass., said he views Swingtide as unique in its category. “Instead of rushing the first version of their software product to market, they developed an extensive professional services offering to build relationships with their customers, build awareness within their selected target industry, and to gather a detailed understanding of their customers’ needs,” Bloomberg said. “Swingtide has thus been able to build a significant revenue stream in advance of launching their first software product, and that product promises to be of a higher quality than competing products that were rushed to market.”

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Swingtide Gets Into Swing Of XML Web Services Networks

“As companies increasingly rely upon XML and web services in their day-to-day business, the need to understand the nature of the XML traffic on their networks becomes a critical concern,” said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink, LLC. “Swingtide Monitor offers a complete solution for discovering, visualizing and auditing XML traffic on the network. Swingtide Monitor goes one step further and understands the semantics of industry-specific XML schemas, making it stand out from the competition in its focus on vertical industry needs.”

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Startups push services-oriented architectures

Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst at Web services research company ZapThink, inWaltham, Mass., agrees: “The quantity of XML traffic on the network is exploding. XML itself is verbose.”
As a result, the current generation of systems management tools is generally incapable of effectively managing XML traffic, Bloomberg said. As an example, XML traffic can be invisible to the network. Unauthorized SOAP requests or arbitrary method calls routed through port 80 can bypass firewall defenses.

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Overview of Web Services Management

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SOA Tools and Best Practices

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 practices as well as an analysis of the tools that are currently available for building Service-oriented architectures.

Surf’s up for Swingtide’s Web services ‘product’

Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst with ZapThink who follows the Web services and management space, agrees.

“What’s happening with Web services is that there’s a critical mass of companies using Web services for integration for simple integration projects,” Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg said ZapThink projects the market for managed Web services to grow from $30 million a year this year to $9.2 billion by 2007.

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Swingtide Announces Industry’s First Pre-Emptive Software for XML and Web Services Management

Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink, said: “Service-oriented architectures based on XML and web services offer enormous benefit to enterprises in terms of cost savings and business agility. But building such architectures is a complex task that requires careful planning and design, especially in heterogeneous environments. Swingtide offers companies an in-depth, vendor-neutral approach to building the necessary skills real companies need to get started with SOAs. Of all the web services offerings we’ve seen, Swingtide’s QoB Lab and QoB Assistant are unique in their ability to meet customers’ need to understand how to leverage the power of XML and web services to build SOAs.”

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Service-Oriented Management Technology Landscape

Web Services management applications provide software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services implementations. The Web Services management products on the market today offer functionality in five basic categories: system management, lifecycle management, business management, security management, and the most important, Service-Oriented Architecture enablement.

The latter category is especially important because many Web Services management products provide the critical infrastructure necessary for companies to take their fine-grained, atomic Web Services and other data sources and encapsulate and compose them into coarse-grained business Services that make up a Service-Oriented Architecture. Such architectures offer far more long-term business value than the point-to-point applications of Web Services common today.