Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite Solution Assessments

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite Solution Assessments

The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite Solution Assessments encapsulate a broad and constantly evolving facet of the application infrastructure market, namely software solutions that aim to reinvent enterprise software as a flexible, service-based medium that can quickly respond to business drivers without imposing the costs normally associated with flexibility and agility.

These solutions, called Service-Oriented Architecture SOA Suites, comprise a series of design, development, runtime and management tools that are closely intertwined. Together, these tools help customers stop wasting development and management dollars on discrete, monolithic applications and instead create, deploy and then re-use discrete services. Built using highly codified interface standards, these services can be combined (and recombined) to form very agile applications capable of running within heterogeneous environments and interacting with a wide array of other applications through these standard interfaces.

With our coverage of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA Suites, we will:

• Evaluate software and service solutions from leading Service-Oriented Architecture SOA Suite vendors including IBM, Oracle, TIBCO, BEA, Software AG, IONA, Red Hat, Microsoft, Sun, Progress Software and SAP.
• Define individual suite components, discussing the capabilities of each.
• Evaluate suite components as a holistic solution from the perspective of a potential buyer.
• Weigh each vendor's ability to meet specific selection criteria such as packaging, services, interoperability, standards support, market and geographic reach, cohesion of the overall portfolio as well as deployment and administration.

What's more, Service-Oriented Architecture SOA Suite Solution Assessment subscribers will be able to see how these vendors compare, side-by-side, mapping out pros and cons for each criteria and overall solution. And as the market changes, so too will this Solution Assessment. If a vendor purchases a leading runtime governance vendor, that vendor's evaluation and the relevant evaluations of competing vendors will reflect that change in the market, making this a perfect tool for competitive intelligence.