Report: SOA Market To Jump FourFold by 2014

SOA News : Report: SOA Market To Jump FourFold by 2014

A new report on the surging SOA market predicts that the size of the SOA infrastructure market will grow by more than fourfold over the next six years, to more than $9 billion.

SOA markets at $2 billion in 2007 are expected to reach $9.1 billion by 2014, according to according to “Services Oriented Architecture SOA Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014,” prepared by WinterGreen Research Inc.

Authors said the surge in SOA infrastructure growth will come as vendors create ways to help enterprises reduce the costs of running their IT departments by developing a more automated process from software and freeing the budgets for investment in flexible response to changing market conditions, the report said.

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SOA World - SOA SDLC: On-Demand

SOA News : SOA World - SOA SDLC: On-Demand

Spending time with my parents over the holidays got me thinking about the differences between my generation and the previous one.

My parents expect to spend a certain amount of time and effort managing particular aspects of their lives. For example, when they drive to an unfamiliar vacation spot, they inquire about directions and even write or plot the route before they head out. Whereas for me, it’s a matter of popping out an iPhone or a GPS device, saving time, improving accuracy, and avoiding the mistakes of manually drafting the directions.

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AJAX World - SOA Created AJAX and Rich Internet Applications

SOA News : AJAX World - SOA Created AJAX and Rich Internet Applications

SOA has come a long way from a concept to wide-scale adoption by the enterprise at multiple layers of IT. SOA implementation at the UI layer is the latest in SOA adoption trends. SOA has manifested itself in a number of flavors such as the creation of a rich user experience by using technology like AJAX (e.g., Google Maps), provisioning value-added services by mashing up data from multiple sources (e.g., chicagocrime.org), community-based peer-to-peer interactions (e.g., Facebook and Flickr), creating collective intelligence (e.g., Digg and del.icio.us), creating collaborative platforms often catering to a trusted community, and creating modular content-based sites (e.g., Marumushi.com).

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SOA Software Vendors

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Vendors List

There are many software companies offer SOA solution today. In general term, all SOA software is the same. However, in details, there are some feature or function is different. To success in implementing SOA, buyers need to study in details and doing POC (prove of concept) is a must.

Below is some software venders that offer SOA solution:

SOA Software AG SOA
SOA Software BEA SOA
SOA Software BEA WebLogic
SOA Software Fiorano SOA
SOA Software HyPerformix IPS
SOA Software IBM SOA
SOA Software IBM Tivoli
SOA Software IBM WebSphere
SOA Software JBoss SOA
SOA Software Mercury SOA
SOA Software Microsoft SOA
SOA Software Oracle BPEL
SOA Software Oracle SOA Suite
SOA Software SAP Enterprise SOA
SOA Software SAP NetWeaver
SOA Software SAP SOA
SOA Software Tibco SOA

The SOA implications of Oracle's BEA purchase

SOA News : The SOA implications of Oracle's BEA purchase By Rich Seeley

This fall, leaves will turn bright colors in New England, Americans will elect a new president and what Oracle Corp. plans to do with BEA Systems Inc. after the $8.5 billion acquisition closes may be clearer.

Until then little is certain beyond the "do-the-math" facts that BEA shareholders, led by investor Carl C. Icahn, will make money on the sale and Oracle, led by CEO Larry Ellison, expects to make money from BEA's continuing software licenses and sales.

At a teleconference to announce the deal on Wednesday, Ellison said Oracle expects BEA software sales and license fees to increase Oracle's earnings per share by one to two cents per share in the first 12 months after the deal closes. That apparently assumes that BEA revenues will be robust even if there is a U.S. economic recession.

Dana Gardner, principal analyst of Interarbor Solutions LLC., suggests that recession fears may have played a role in convincing a reluctant BEA board of directors to accept Oracle's offer, which amounted to $19.38 cents per share in cash for shares that closed Tuesday on the NASDAQ stock exchange at $15.58. With the stock markets closing lower almost every day, there may have been a sense that this was going to be as good as it would get perhaps for several years.

"Just fear of a recession has whacked tech stocks, so it would be harder for BEA to hold out for more from any buyer for next year or two," Gardner said. "Second, BEA needs to show strong growth in revenues, especially new licenses, to validate the higher price it was seeking. Next one or two quarters might not work out to prove that in a recessionary or fearful climate."

With no other buyer appearing interested and Oracle offering a cash price significantly higher than the recent share closing in a market spiraling downward, Icahn, who owned 13 percent of BEA shares may not have wanted to risk a prolonged holdout.

"So the recession or just fear of recession made BEA's notions of getting much more than Oracle was proposing less and less likely," Gardner said. "Plus, we can assume that activist investor Carl Icahn also saw the writing on the wall for tougher times and probably put added pressure to sell when an Oracle deal was possible."

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Can You Have Soa Without It?

SOA Articles : Can You Have Soa Without It? Author: 10x Marketing

There have been recent conversations whether a Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA) could replace an IT department of an organization. The answer is no. It is common to put SOA governance and IT in the same basket but the two don’t have that much in common.

SOA is an architectural style with a goal to achieve loose coupling among interacting software agents, helping to manage business services, whereas IT governance is focused on managing technology.

For example, SOA is like owning a burger franchise that is also like the other burger franchises, anyone can go to the different burger places and expect to get the same thing, but at different locations. Everything is great as long as the service is running smooth. If there is a bump in the road, say the burger recipe for all of the stores went missing, they would need to call in an expert, (IT help) to find a solution. Once the recipe was found, (the bug fixed by the IT person), the SOA system would then continue to run fine, but IT is an essential part of the SOA ebb and flow. Granted, imagine if an IT person was the only one who manually made sure that each transaction within each burger franchise went smoothly? It would be a burger franchise disaster. Therefore, a service oriented architecture helps keep all burger franchise systems working smoothly with an IT person on call. Can businesses save money by purchasing an SOA system in conjunction with their current system?

Businesses can save money with an SOA system and scale down their current IT department but not remove the IT department all together. In fact, business processes are only streamlined by having the two together. According to a recent report, in 2007, companies spent $1.4 million on SOA. The report found in a survey among IT executives from China, US and Germany that 22% claimed faster speed and less risk was the main reason to get an SOA , 18% claimed reduce IT costs and %17 claimed reuse. An SOA provides all of these things and more. You could say that an SOA is enterprise governance only, not governance over IT. With the two together, businesses are finding so many ways to reorganize, restructure and reuse their current database and in turn create profits.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/can-you-have-soa-without-it-358855.html

About the Author:
About the author: Melissa Peterman is a web content specialist for Innuity. For more information about SOA go to Mark Logic .

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Integrating Six Sigma With Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

SOA Articles : Integrating Six Sigma With Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Author: Tony Jacowski

Businesses need to realize the fact that SOA works well only when it is integrated with time-tested quality improvement initiatives such as Six Sigma.

For proof, they just need to look at the work records of businesses that are reaping the benefits of SOA after integrating it with Six Sigma concepts and methodologies.

The Integration Process

SOA basically deals with the planning, conceptualizing and designing of new customer oriented services from scratch in line with organizational goals and objectives. This is why the success of SOA depends a lot on the decisions made by management during the initial stages of SOA implementations. Since SOA does not provide for the necessary checks and balances, it has to depend on highly effective Six Sigma methodologies such as Design For Six Sigma (DFSS).

DFSS may not have been originally designed for use with SOA, but still it helps because it ensures that all decisions related to the design and development of new services are made on the basis of sound logic and verifiable scientific and statistical theories. Explained below are the five phases involved in the Six Sigma and SOA integration process.

Define: In this phase, DFSS helps in defining the goals and objectives of the SOA implementations. When SOA goals and objectives are set using DFSS, the chances of failures get automatically reduced, something that is quite necessary, considering the fact that the set goals and objectives will ultimately have a direct bearing on customer satisfaction levels.

Conceptualize: The conceptualization phase, which involves plenty of innovation on part of the developers, is made easy with DFSS, as it helps the developers to design the best possible services with the available human and financial resources. If DFSS is not applied in this phase, it could easily lead to project delays due to indecisiveness on part of the developers.

Design: In this phase, DFSS helps in charting out the design details of the newly conceptualized customer oriented service. Elaborating on the details helps the SOA implementation team to understand the rationale behind the new service design and how it can be used for satisfying customer needs and expectations.

Validate: If DFSS is used right from the first phase, it is highly unlikely that the SOA initiative will fail to deliver the desired results, but since the probability of errors can never be denied, it makes sense to conduct the validation process. If the SOA initiative passes the validation test as specified by DFSS, then it can be given the green signal for organization-wide implementations.

Control: In this phase, DFSS plays the role of a manager and a controller so as to ensure that the desired results are achieved through the SOA implementations. DFSS is based on the concept of continuous improvements, something that it passes onto SOA so as to make it just as effective and efficient.

SOA certainly holds great potential, especially for businesses that rely heavily on the use of technological infrastructure. By integrating SOA with Six Sigma, businesses can easily unlock the inherent potential of SOA and transform themselves into highly efficient organizations.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/management-articles/integrating-six-sigma-with-service-oriented-architecture-soa-348354.html

About the Author:
Tony Jacowski is a quality analyst for The MBA Journal. Aveta Solution's Six Sigma Online offers online six sigma training and certification classes for lean six sigma, black belts, green belts, and yellow belts.

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