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.

Tidal Software launches intelligent reporting for Enterprise Scheduler

Last fall, I had the pleasure of participating in a live discussion on IT and SOA management at the Harvard Club of Boston with Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at analyst firm ZapThink. Moderating the discussion was Martin Milani, chief technology officer at Tidal Software, which sponsored the luncheon event. Jason and I explored how IT management will evolve in the world of service-based applications.

Read more at: ZDNet

Tidal Software Announces 2nd Annual International User’s Conference

Tidal Software, a leading provider of application scheduling and performance management software, announced that its second annual international user’s conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 20 – 22, 2008. Presenters include IT professionals from Staples and Home Depot.

Who: Tidal Software

Where: The Wynn, Las Vegas, Nevada

What: iTUG – Tidal Software 2nd International User Conference

When: April 20 – 22, 2008

Website: www.tidalsoftware.com/iTUG

Keynotes: Flint Brenton, President and CEO of Tidal Software; Milind Govekar, Research VP, Gartner; David Linthicum, Managing Partner at ZapThink; Home Depot’s Director of SAP Systems Support, Richard P. Dadez; Staples’ Senior Manager Robert Ciccarelli.

Read more at: Tidal Software Press Release

SOA: Tough to Manage, Tougher to Manage Without

During the hour-long “debate” ZapThink Managing Partner Jason Bloomberg and I explored how IT management will evolve in the world of service-based applications. The discussion delved into issues of new standards, how SOA demands that performance management and change management should augment and elevate the role of systems management, and on how the integrity of services delivery requires a deep and wide approach to “management in total” across a service’s lifecycle.

Read more at: eCommerce Times

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.

Analysts debate role of governance and ‘total management’ in the dawning era of SOA

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a live discussion (now a podcast) at the Harvard Club of Boston with Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at analyst firm ZapThink, on the current state and future outlook for governance and management in SOA environments.

Moderating the discussion was Martin Milani, chief technology officer at Tidal Software, which sponsored the luncheon event. We had dozens of enterprise IT executives from the Boston area in attendance, and they joined us in a questions and answer session after the presentations.

During the hour-long “debate” Jason and I explored how IT management will evolve in the world of service-based applications. The discussion delved into issues of new standards, how SOA demands that performance management and change management should augment and elevate the role of systems management, and on how the integrity of services delivery requires a deep and wide approach to “management in total” across a service’s lifecycle.

Read more at: BriefingDirect

Harvard Club Discussion on SOA Management and Monitoring Technologies

Edited transcript of SOA management trends and analysis discussion with Interarbor Solution’s Dana Gardner and ZapThink’s Jason Bloomberg, recorded before a live audience at the Harvard Club of Boston on Sept.14, 2007.

Listen to the podcast here. Sponsor: Tidal Software.
Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect presentation, an IT industry analyst panel podcast created before a live audience at the Harvard Club of Boston. Our sponsored discussion centers on the role of management on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) use and operations.

Our panelists consist of Jason Bloomberg, managing partner and senior analyst at ZapThink, and Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Moderating the discussion is Martin Milani, chief technology officer at Tidal Software. The in-depth presentations from the analysts are followed by questions from the live audience.

Read more at: BriefingsDirect

Analysts ‘debate’ to focus on SOA management issues and outlook

I’m really looking forward to this Friday, Sept. 14, in Boston when I join up on the podium at the Harvard Club with Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink, to dig into the current and future landscape of SOA management.

Jason and I will be examining such questions as:

• What should management look like in the world of service-based applications?
• How does SOA change the landscape of applications and systems management?
• Can traditional monitoring tools be effective at 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?

Read more at: ZDNet Blogs

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.