ZapThink » WebPutty 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 ISEs Give Developers a Helping Hand http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/21/ises-give-developers-a-helping-hand/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/21/ises-give-developers-a-helping-hand/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2003 00:04:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=512 Read more at: eWeek]]> “WebPutty’s key strength is that they offer the tools to provide a level of abstraction above each of the tiers in an n-tier architecture,” said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, a Cambridge, Mass., market research firm. “In other words, a WebPutty developer is working on the presentation tier, middle tier and data tier all at once, in the same tool, without having to jump back and forth. The WebPutty Application Platform handles all the plumbing issues behind the scenes–maintaining consistency, preserving scalability, etc. Furthermore, WebPutty does it all with XML metadata–which means that the entire service-oriented architecture can be moved from one set of servers and applications to another without any recoding.”

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/17/overview-of-web-services-management/feed/ 0 WebPutty Molds Tool For .NET Web-Enabled Apps http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/17/webputty-molds-tool-for-net-web-enabled-apps/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/17/webputty-molds-tool-for-net-web-enabled-apps/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2003 00:04:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=492 Read more at: eBizQ.net]]> “The WebPutty Application Platform stands out as one of the most comprehensive tools for enabling developers build service-oriented architectures (SOA) on top of existing architectures on the market today,” said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink. “WebPutty has thought through the capabilities needed to build SOAs, and incorporated these abilities into a set of tools that can help developers both understand service orientation and build working SOAs quickly and efficiently.”

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/17/webputty-molds-tool-for-net-web-enabled-apps/feed/ 0 WebPutty Announces General Availability of the WebPutty Application Platform 7.0 http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/14/webputty-announces-general-availability-of-the-webputty-application-platform-70/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/14/webputty-announces-general-availability-of-the-webputty-application-platform-70/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2003 00:04:00 +0000 admin http://test.zapthink.com/?p=481 Read more at: WebPutty Press Release]]> “The WebPutty Application Platform stands out as one of the most comprehensive tools for enabling developers build service-oriented architectures (SOA) on top of existing architectures on the market today,” said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink, LLC. “WebPutty has thought through the capabilities needed to build SOAs, and incorporated these abilities into a set of tools that can help developers both understand service orientation and build working SOAs quickly and efficiently.”

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2003/04/14/webputty-announces-general-availability-of-the-webputty-application-platform-70/feed/ 0 Solving the IT Impasse with Service Orientation http://www.zapthink.com/2003/03/01/solving-the-it-impasse-with-service-orientation/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/03/01/solving-the-it-impasse-with-service-orientation/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:03:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=WP-0110 Such architectures, however, take time and effort to put in place -- time that many organizations may feel they can’t afford to spend. As a result, companies should take a step-by-step approach to implementing architectural change in their IT organizations. Fortunately, regardless of whether the existing architecture is n-tier, client/server or even centralized mainframe, these organizations have the ability to build SOAs by providing a working layer of abstraction on top of their existing architecture, as long as they have the appropriate tools. The WebPutty Application Platform provides such tools.]]> There’s been a lot of talk about Web Services and Service-oriented architectures, but today’s IT managers aren’t looking for talk — they’re looking for practical solutions to today’s tough IT problems that are effective, yet inexpensive to implement. Fortunately, companies can use Web Services today to reduce the cost of integration substantially, and used strategically, Service-oriented architectures can reduce the complexity, inflexibility, and brittleness that plagues so many IT organizations.

Such architectures, however, take time and effort to put in place — time that many organizations may feel they can’t afford to spend. As a result, companies should take a step-by-step approach to implementing architectural change in their IT organizations. Fortunately, regardless of whether the existing architecture is n-tier, client/server or even centralized mainframe, these organizations have the ability to build SOAs by providing a working layer of abstraction on top of their existing architecture, as long as they have the appropriate tools. The WebPutty Application Platform provides such tools.Download File

]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2003/03/01/solving-the-it-impasse-with-service-orientation/feed/ 0 SOA Tools http://www.zapthink.com/2003/02/20/soa-tools/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/02/20/soa-tools/#comments Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:02:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTF-WS115 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]]> Key Findings:
  • Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility.
  • By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented.
  • The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over $98 billion by 2010.
  • Reworking existing brittle, high-cost IT infrastructures into flexible, Service-oriented architectures promises substantial long-term cost savings and revenue opportunities through increased business agility.
  • Service orientation represents the latest distributed computing approach to affect IT — the fourth major shift since the mid-twentieth century.
  • ZapThink predicts that companies will begin to accept Service orientation in 2003, and it will become the dominant distributed computing approach by 2006.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. Context for Service-Oriented Architectures
    • 2.1. What is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
      • 2.1.1. Evolution of Distributed Computing
    • 2.2. Business Motivations for SOAs
      • 2.2.1. The Economics of Business Agility
  • III. Foundations of SOA
    • 3.1. SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture
    • 3.2. SOA Foundation: Agile Methodologies
    • 3.3. The SOA Metamodel
    • 3.4. The 4+1 View Model of SOA
  • IV. Market Segmentation
    • 4.1. Current State of the Market
  • V. Business and Technology Trends
    • 5.1. Long Term Trends: A Shift in the Favored Approach to Distributed Computing
    • 5.2. Long-Term Trends: Grid/Utility Computing
    • 5.3. Inhibitors to Growth of Service Orientation and SOAs
  • VI. Conclusions
    • 6.1. Key Notes
    • 6.2. Decision Points
    • 6.3. Best Practices
    • 6.4. Figures
    • 6.5. Tables
    • VII. Profiled Vendors

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2003/02/20/soa-tools/feed/ 0 SOA Best Practices http://www.zapthink.com/2003/02/20/soa-best-practices/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/02/20/soa-best-practices/#comments Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:02:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTF-WS116 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]]> Key Findings:
  • Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility.
  • By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented.
  • The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over $98 billion by 2010.
  • Reworking existing brittle, high-cost IT infrastructures into flexible, Service-oriented architectures promises substantial long-term cost savings and revenue opportunities through increased business agility.
  • Service orientation represents the latest distributed computing approach to affect IT — the fourth major shift since the mid-twentieth century.
  • ZapThink predicts that companies will begin to accept Service orientation in 2003, and it will become the dominant distributed computing approach by 2006.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. Context for Service-Oriented Architectures
    • 2.1. What is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
      • 2.1.1. Evolution of Distributed Computing
    • 2.2. Business Motivations for SOAs
      • 2.2.1. The Economics of Business Agility
  • III. Foundations of SOA
    • 3.1. SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture
    • 3.2. SOA Foundation: Agile Methodologies
    • 3.3. The SOA Metamodel
    • 3.4. The 4+1 View Model of SOA
  • IV. Best Practices of SOA
    • 4.1. Develop a top-down, extended enterprise SOA
    • 4.2. Build & maintain a platform independent Service model
    • 4.3. Maintain feedback at all points of the architecture
    • 4.4. Follow Agile Methodology principles & techniques within the context of the Service model
    • 4.5. Encapsulate existing/legacy functionality
    • 4.6. Embrace heterogeneity/follow a federation model of software
    • 4.7. Compose atomic Services into coarse-grained business Services
    • 4.8. Build for consumability/broad applicability
    • 4.9. Perform ad hoc upgrades
    • 4.10. Prioritize SOA transition activities on the fly
  • V. Conclusions
    • 5.1. Key Notes
    • 5.2. Decision Points
    • 5.3. Best Practices
    • 5.4. Figures
    • 5.5. Tables
    • VI. Profiled Vendors

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2003/02/20/soa-best-practices/feed/ 0 SOA Tools and Best Practices http://www.zapthink.com/2003/02/20/soa-tools-and-best-practices/ http://www.zapthink.com/2003/02/20/soa-tools-and-best-practices/#comments Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:02:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTR-WS107 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.]]> Key Findings:
  • Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility.
  • By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented.
  • The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over $98 billion by 2010.
  • Reworking existing brittle, high-cost IT infrastructures into flexible, Service-oriented architectures promises substantial long-term cost savings and revenue opportunities through increased business agility.
  • Service orientation represents the latest distributed computing approach to affect IT — the fourth major shift since the mid-twentieth century.
  • ZapThink predicts that companies will begin to accept Service orientation in 2003, and it will become the dominant distributed computing approach by 2006.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. Context for Service-Oriented Architectures
    • 2.1. What is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
      • 2.1.1. Evolution of Distributed Computing
    • 2.2. Business Motivations for SOAs
      • 2.2.1. The Economics of Business Agility
  • III. Foundations of SOA
    • 3.1. SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture
    • 3.2. SOA Foundation: Agile Methodologies
    • 3.3. The SOA Metamodel
    • 3.4. The 4+1 View Model of SOA
  • IV. Best Practices of SOA
    • 4.1. Develop a top-down, extended enterprise SOA
    • 4.2. Build & maintain a platform independent Service model
    • 4.3. Maintain feedback at all points of the architecture
    • 4.4. Follow Agile Methodology principles & techniques within the context of the Service model
    • 4.5. Encapsulate existing/legacy functionality
    • 4.6. Embrace heterogeneity/follow a federation model of software
    • 4.7. Compose atomic Services into coarse-grained business Services
    • 4.8. Build for consumability/broad applicability
    • 4.9. Perform ad hoc upgrades
    • 4.10. Prioritize SOA transition activities on the fly
  • V. Market Segmentation
    • 5.1. Current State of the Market
  • VI. Business and Technology Trends
    • 6.1. Long Term Trends: A Shift in the Favored Approach to Distributed Computing
    • 6.2. Long-Term Trends: Grid/Utility Computing
    • 6.3. Inhibitors to Growth of Service Orientation and SOAs
  • VII. Conclusions
    • 7.1. Key Notes
    • 7.2. Decision Points
    • 7.3. Best Practices
    • 7.4. Figures
    • 7.5. Tables
    • VIII. Profiled Vendors

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2003/02/20/soa-tools-and-best-practices/feed/ 1 Service-Oriented Management Technology Landscape http://www.zapthink.com/2002/11/19/service-oriented-management-technology-landscape/ http://www.zapthink.com/2002/11/19/service-oriented-management-technology-landscape/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:11:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTF-WS114 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.]]> Key Findings:
  • Web Services management (WSM) software is software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services.
  • Service-oriented management (SOM) software is software that supports the development and execution of a Service-oriented architecture.
  • By 2007, 60% of the total system management market will consist of large vendors who offer SOM solutions, and a full 75% of the system management market (both small and large vendors) will be SOM-enabled.
  • The market for Service-Oriented Management is expected to grow from $30 million in 2002 to $9.2 Billion by 2007.
  • Web Services Management solutions bridge the gap between the underlying systems and the Services that run on top of them.
  • Starting in mid-2004, the large system management vendors will begin to dominate the SOM space, to the extent that the SOM point solutions segment of the market will reach its maximum in 2005.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. Context for Web Services Management
    • 2.1. Business Drivers for Service Orientation
    • 2.2. The Role of Web Services Management
    • 2.3. The Five Categories of Web Services Management Functionality
  • III. Web Services Management Technology Landscape
    • 3.1. Architectural Approaches
    • 3.2. Architectural Elements
    • 3.3. Standards efforts
  • IV. Conclusions
  • Related Research
  • Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion
  • About ZapThink, LLC

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]]> http://www.zapthink.com/2002/11/19/service-oriented-management-technology-landscape/feed/ 0 Service-Oriented Management http://www.zapthink.com/2002/11/19/service-oriented-management-2/ http://www.zapthink.com/2002/11/19/service-oriented-management-2/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:11:00 +0000 Jason Bloomberg http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTR-WS106 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.]]> Key Findings:
  • Web Services management (WSM) software is software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services.
  • Service-oriented management (SOM) software is software that supports the development and execution of a Service-oriented architecture.
  • By 2007, 60% of the total system management market will consist of large vendors who offer SOM solutions, and a full 75% of the system management market (both small and large vendors) will be SOM-enabled.
  • The market for Service-Oriented Management is expected to grow from $30 million in 2002 to $9.2 Billion by 2007.
  • Web Services Management solutions bridge the gap between the underlying systems and the Services that run on top of them.
  • Starting in mid-2004, the large system management vendors will begin to dominate the SOM space, to the extent that the SOM point solutions segment of the market will reach its maximum in 2005.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. Context for Web Services Management
    • 2.1. Business Drivers for Service Orientation
    • 2.2. The Role of Web Services Management
    • 2.3. The Five Categories of Web Services Management Functionality
  • III. Web Services Management Technology Landscape
    • 3.1. Architectural Approaches
    • 3.2. Architectural Elements
    • 3.3. Standards efforts
  • IV. Market Segmentation
    • 4.1. Web Services Management Market Map
    • 4.2. System Management Platforms
    • 4.3. Web Services Security Platforms
    • 4.4. XML Proxies
    • 4.5. Private Web Services Networks
    • 4.6. Transaction/Workflow/BPM Platforms and Tools
    • 4.7. Web Services Development Platforms and Tools
    • 4.8. Web Services Testing Tools
    • 4.9. Web Services Management Platforms
  • V. Current State of the Market
    • 5.1. Q4 ‘02 – Q1 ‘03: “Everybody in the Pool”
  • VI. Business and Technology Trends
    • 6.1. Long Term Trends: Relationship to the System Management Market
    • 6.2. Long-Term Trends: Relationship to Web Services Market
    • 6.3. Inhibitors to Growth of Service-Oriented Management Market
  • VII. Conclusions
  • Related Research
  • Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion
  • About ZapThink, LLC

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