LogicLibrary Releases Logidex 2.0

“As companies undertake Web services projects and build out service-oriented architectures, they will find that tools that manage and map relationships among software development assets, including existing applications, are essential for maintaining the flexibility and agility of the architecture, as well as saving significant time and money,” said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink, LLC. “Logidex 2.0 enables enterprises to map assets directly to key business processes, which is a critical capability for an enterprise service-oriented architecture. Logidex 2.0′s integration directly within IDEs is also an essential feature that all enterprise application development tools must have in a service-oriented environment.”

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ZapThink Identifies Logidex as a Critical Tool for Building Service-Oriented Architectures

“Hundreds of companies are embracing Web services projects, squeezing value out of every software asset to reduce development costs significantly,” said Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink Analyst and author of the report. “Forward-looking enterprises are working to broadly leverage these initiatives and tools like Logidex are essential for creating and keeping SOA models current and complete.”

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Rational, IBM model a new world

Ron Schmelzer, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, a Cambridge, Mass. research company, said, “Rational has a great grasp on design-time modeling and business process representation. What Web Services and service-oriented architectures introduce is the notion of run-time modeling and run-time business process configuration. This is a new area, and Rational and IBM have yet to produce anything for this area… Maybe we can expect some serious progress in working to move UML and other modeling concepts closer to support the run-time nature of SOA/Web Services.”

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ZapNote: LogicLibrary

In order for enterprises to realize the promise of Web Services to make their businesses more agile and efficient, organizations need to be able to get a firm grasp of their existing computing assets that can be translated into Web Services at many different levels of granularity. Best practices for Web Services development demand an approach that begins with building a model of the capabilities needed within the context of the business, and then subsequently identifying the computing assets present in the organization that can support the model

LogicLibrary Logidex allows enterprises to capture their software components, map them to their business and technical models, and publish them to searchable online component libraries. It gives developers the ability to easily search, find and retrieve the software components that are required to fulfill their business requirements.

BEA Taking Developer Push on the Road

“BEA definitely wants to play in the big leagues with IBM and Microsoft [Corp.], and they’ve done a really good job of it so far,” said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, in Cambridge, Mass. “Both of the two titans have broad developer relations programs, so BEA has to devote the same kind of resources just to keep up. What I find most interesting about their strategy with the dev2dev program is that it looks like BEA considers Microsoft to be their biggest competitor for developer mind share, not IBM,” even though IBM–with its WebSphere platform–is the company’s top competitor from a market perspective.

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“LogicLibrary Checks Out $7.5M VC Round”

It’s no wonder. Gartner Inc. predicts the emerging Web services market will grow to $1.7 billion in 2003. Another industry watchdog, ZapThink LLC, projects that the market will be worth as much as $15.5 billion by 2005.

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