| Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) |
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The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) market is concerned with the development, deployment, management, and optimization of software forming a fabric of loosely coupled business services in which distinct services can be brought together within broader, composite applications such that each service can be re-used within subsequent composite applications. These life-cycle functions require software products that are often marketed as a single suite, though through standards adherence, most can be purchased and employed as best-of-breed point solutions.
Presently, the SOA market is dominated by vendors focused on bundling these various applications within an SOA suite at the center of which resides an enterprise service bus (ESB) as a foundational middleware platform upon which more complex architectures can be built. There are still pure-play vendors focusing on ESBs. However, through acquisition and internal development, these vendors too are striving to provide a complete SOA environment. More on the SOA market
Current Analysis provides comprehensive research into the enterprise SOA market. Below you will find a list of Current Analysis SOA reports, presentations, analyst news flashes, competitive intelligence highlights, and other analysis and resources. Clients with subscriptions can access any report by following the Client Access links. Selected reports are available for purchase, and other are offered as free downloads.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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Alcatel-Lucent Integrates with HP to Secure and Govern SOA Communications
Competitive Intelligence Report | Feb 22, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent has moved to improve its ability to enforce security and compliance policies at runtime through a solution that combines HP’s Systinet governance platform with its recently network-embedded SOA appliance.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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JBoss World: Red Hat Ramps Up SOA Portfolio and Practices
Competitive Update | Feb 15, 2008
Red Hat has further solidified its leadership among open source players with the introduction of a single, supported SOA suite of products, an enterprise enablement program, and new open source projects focusing on governance and management.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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TIBCO Adopts Use Case Bundles with ActiveMatrix 2.0
Competitive Intelligence Report | Feb 13, 2008
TIBCO has upgraded its managed service platform for SOA, ActiveMatrix, adding a flexible bundling program, introducing an entry-level ESB solution, coupling with other TIBCO products, and improving heterogeneous application support.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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Workday Targets Packaged Application Big Guns with Cape Clear Acquisition
Competitive Intelligence Report | Feb 8, 2008
Workday has acquired ESB vendor Cape Clear, setting the stage for direct competition with application vendors SAP, Microsoft, and Oracle through a SOA-centric, SaaS-based ERP architecture focused on pre-packaged and custom integration services.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Moderate |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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Progress Revs Actional with Focus on BPM
Competitive Update | Feb 5, 2008
Progress Software has released Actional 7.1 with lifecycle- complete ties to BPM tools, a new API and non-XML payload support, solidifying Actional as a best-of-breed SOA governance platform on par with solutions from AmberPoint and SOA Software.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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HP Reinvests in Systinet with New Governance Software and Services
Competitive Intelligence Report | Jan 31, 2008
HP continues to move Systinet forward with an improved UI, cross-product integration, a developer edition, implementation services/software offerings and a new cadre of GIF supporters, all ushering the vendor back into forefront of SOA governance.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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IBM Reinvents CEP as BEP with AptSoft Purchase
Competitive Intelligence Report | Jan 28, 2008
IBM ups the ante within the SOA market with a CEP buy that puts line-of-business owners at the center of event processing via an intuitive GUI for the definition of event sources, event patterns and actions.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Very High |
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Oracle Finally Grabs Up BEA
Competitive Intelligence Report | Jan 18, 2008
Oracle, despite the slow burn of this acquisition, will boost its stature within the SOA marketplace by adding BEA’s J2EE and high-end messaging capabilities, profitable market reach into Asia Pacific and dominance within the telecom vertical.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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MuleSource Adopts Subscription Model and Launches Open Source Governance Solution
Competitive Intelligence Report | Jan 17, 2008
MuleSource has officially entered the SOA arena with a BAM tool and registry/repository solution, moving the vendor to the front of the open source community, but a broader portfolio and deeper tooling options will be necessary for the long haul.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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JavaPolis: Sun Sticks to Its Guns with NetBeans
Competitive Intelligence Report | Dec 14, 2007
Sun continues to expand the role and capability of its flagship IDE with the release of NetBeans 6.0, consolidating disparate development tools under NetBeans and adding expanded language support and improved developer productivity tools.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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BEAWorld Shanghai: BEA Rebuilds Positive Momentum with Bevy of Product Updates
Show Update | Dec 14, 2007
BEA has reinvigorated its AquaLogic and WebLogic product sets with announcements focusing on Eclipse tooling, cross-product integration, pro-active management, SOA- savvy data management and security, and ESB innovations and SaaS enablement.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Low |
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IONA Updates Both Closed and Open Source Solutions
Competitive Intelligence Report | Dec 12, 2007
IONA has fielded a wide array of updates across its Artix and FUSE product lines, focusing on interoperability, process orchestration, and management enhancements that will benefit both product lines as well IONA’s COBOL/mainframe offerings.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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Red Hat Rolls Out Java Development Tool
Competitive Intelligence Report | Dec 12, 2007
Red Hat has released JBoss Developer Studio, a fully open source and Eclipse-based Java development solution that couples tooling and runtime environments within a tested and certified package that leverages the firm’s Linux operating system.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Moderate |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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Oracle Adopts Experience Management with Moniforce Purchase
Competitive Intelligence Report | Dec 10, 2007
Oracle, in purchasing Moniforce, plans to add end-user performance monitoring capabilities to its existing database, applications and middleware management offering, Enterprise Manager, but support for BI and BPM won’t follow until later in 2008.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate/High |
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TIBCO Revs Rendezvous with an Eye on Performance and Management
Competitive Intelligence Report | Nov 30, 2007]
TIBCO reaffirms its leadership position within the low latency, high volume messaging market with a new embedded daemon as well as incremental innovations such as more finite network optimization capabilities and self governing peer nodes.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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Sun Enters Virtualization Market with Management-Focused Solution
Competitive Intelligence Report | Nov 16, 2007
Sun has leapt into the suddenly crowded virtualization market with a differentiated, open source solution that is management- conscious and builds upon both the Xen project and the company’s virtualization experience with Solaris and Java.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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Nortel Unveils Strong SOA Solution for Business Communications
Competitive Intelligence Report | Nov 16, 2007
Nortel has entered the SOA market for business communications with the introduction of a vendor- agnostic but still embryonic foundational software solution, a technology partnership with IBM, and the continued SOA-enablement of its portfolio.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference: Microsoft ‘‘Oslo’’ Project to Turn Applications into Models
Show Update | Nov 9, 2007]
Microsoft outlined a long-term set of technological investments for unifying disparate application development, composition, deployment, and management environments via a model-driven architecture spanning client, server, and on-demand offerings.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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SAP TechEd ‘07: SAP to Bring Advanced Rules Engine to NetWeaver
Show Update | Oct 22, 2007]
SAP bolstered its SOA story with the contribution of memory management technology to the Eclipse community, the creation of a SOA-specific certification program, and the intended acquisition of business rules engine manufacturer YASU.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Moderate |
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Market Impact: |
Low |
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Progress Software Adds Management Services for Large Scale Deployments
Competitive Intelligence Report | Oct 18, 2007
Progress, with Sonic Deployment Manager, brings lifecycle management capabilities to large scale and highly distributed environments. But the product’s relative immaturity and lack of support for third party solutions will limit its appeal.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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IBM Delivers Extensive Cadre of SOA Upgrades
and New Releases
Competitive Intelligence Report | Oct 05, 2007
IBM incorporated knowledge derived from more than 5,700 SOA customers within a series announcements covering end-to-end process integrity, data management, self- service configuration packages, online evaluation tools, and use case-based portals.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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Software AG Ships CentraSite Governance Edition Registry/Repository
Competitive Intelligence Report | Oct 03, 2007
Software AG’s new registry/repository pulls in technology acquired from Infravio to create an ROI-friendly solution based upon pre-loaded best practices, automated process provisioning/management and an open metadata model.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Moderate |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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BEAWorld 2007: Barcelona – BEA Bolsters Its Collaboration, Mainframe, and ESB Offerings
Show Update | Oct 03, 2007
BEA looks toward both the past and the future with the addition of a professional services program for its Web 2.0 initiative, a Web services-savvy update to its Tuxedo product family, and the introduction of a financially oriented ESB.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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Cape Clear Updates ESB with SaaS Capabilities
Competitive Update | Sep 27, 2007
With release 7.5 of its ESB platform, Cape Clear has moved its product forward through SaaS enhancements, improved support for BPEL, and full REST capabilities, but the vendor now faces stiff competition for its on-demand integration efforts.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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IONA Upgrades FUSE Family of SOA Products
Competitive Intelligence Report | Sep 27, 2007
IONA has updated its fledgling open source SOA product family, FUSE, combining a number of updates targeting high-end messaging environments, lightweight ESB integration patterns, and improved inter-product rationalization and integration.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Moderate |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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Oracle Adopts Bi-directional Modeling and Optimization
Competitive Update | Sep 24, 2007]
Oracle releases BPA Suite 10.1.3.3 with the ability to coordinate process development efforts between business analysts and IT architects. Though not able to close this loop on its own, the update gives Oracle a highly differentiated offering.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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Sun Revs Open Source Java Application Server
Competitive Intelligence Report | Sep 19, 2007
Sun has targeted competitors IBM and Red Hat with GlassFish V2’s improved management tools, subscription support, bundled .NET services, and enhanced clustering. However, tooling and branding constraints may push any competitive impact into 2008.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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Software AG Updates webMethods, Launches ESB
Competitive Update | Sep 14, 2007
Software AG rolls out webMethods 7.1, the company’s first product offering to combine technologies acquired from webMethods, featuring a B2B integration- savvy ESB, governance updates and a new BAM tool for B2B implementations.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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BEAWorld 2007: BEA Hangs its Hat on Virtualization, SaaS and Unified Tooling
Show Update | Sep 13, 2007
BEA showcased its Java virtualization platform, bolstered its SAO governance story, unveiled a broad plan to tackle the development lifecycle, and rolled out unified tooling and SaaS partnerships. But most of these won’t bear fruit until 2008.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate/High |
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Microsoft Ships BizTalk Server 2006 R2
Competitive Intelligence Report | Sep 11, 2007
With the release of BizTalk Server 2006 R2, Microsoft is taking advantage of .NET 3.0’s communication and workflow frameworks and expanding further into the competitive B2B integration space with the adoption of key protocols and standards.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Moderate |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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LinuxWorld: IBM and Novell Pen Linux/App Server Deal, and IBM Rolls Out New App Server
Show Update | Aug 09, 2007
IBM and Novell enter into partnership to counter Red Hat’s single-vendor, open source SOA solution. Novell will sell and support IBM’s WebSphere Application Server Community Edition in conjunction with its own SUSE operating system.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Moderate |
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Axway Launches Synchrony 4
Competitive Intelligence Report | Aug 03, 2007
Axway releases a major update to its core technology framework, Synchrony 4.0. Despite a lack of market-moving innovation, the 4.0 upgrade offers solid support for SOA standards and improved performance and vertical market solution enhancements.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Low |
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BEA Embraces Human Workflow Collaboration with BPM Upgrade
Competitive Update | Aug 02, 2007
BEA is tackling important market needs with the release of AquaLogic Business Process Management (BPM) 6.0, including improved human workflow capabilities, role-based design and development tools, and graphical modeling based upon BPMN.
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Current Perspective: |
Very Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Very High |
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EMC Rebuilds Documentum, Adopting SOA Best Practices
Competitive Intelligence Report | Aug 01, 2007
EMC makes a solid architectural play with Documentum 6, fully embracing SOA ideals of standardized interfaces, unified tooling, and configuration and inheritance to replace hand coding. But this upgrade will force customers to adopt SOA ideals.
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Current Perspective: |
Very Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Very High |
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Software AG Solidifies webMethods Acquisition
with SOA Suite Rollout
Competitive Update | Jul 27, 2007
Software AG formally unveiled the webMethods product suite that leads with full lifecycle SOA governance, BPM, and ESB technologies. But immediate products will be name only as the company builds its final configuration one product at a time.
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Current Perspective: |
Very Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Very High |
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Networkers at Cisco Live 2007: Cisco Unveils SOA-Savvy Virtual Datacenter Offering
Show Update | Jul 26, 2007
Cisco jump starts its Data Center 3.0 vision with VFrame Data Center, a hardware appliance capable of virtualizing compute, storage, and network resources, employing a SOAP-based messaging API in support of third-party management applications.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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BEA Ships Virtualized Java Application Server
Competitive Update | Jul 25, 2007
BEA has cleared its first SOA virtualization milestone with the release of WebLogic Server Virtual Edition, for which the company can already boast customer and partner wins. But reliance upon VMWare and a focus on Java may limit its appeal.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
Low |
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TIBCO Upgrades iProcess Suite, Improves Ties with SOA Stack
Competitive Update | Jul 05, 2007
TIBCO is shipping iProcess Suite 10.6, boosting monitoring capabilities and improving integration with Business Studio and BusinessWorks, but the company has some heavy lifting to do as it marches toward unification under its TIBCO ONE project.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Very High |
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AmberPoint Upgrades SOA Management System and SOA Validation System Offerings
Competitive Update | Jun 13, 2007
AmberPoint has strengthened its leadership position with expanded platform support and innovative features. But as SOA platform vendors focus on run-time governance, the company will face increased pressure and potential partner friction.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
Very High |
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Salesforce.com Jumps into the Hosted SOA Market
Competitive Intelligence Report | May 24, 2007
Salesforce.com has unveiled Salesforce SOA, a part of its forthcoming Apex programming language, paving the way for an online application marketplace and hosting service. However, the company has yet to deliver a fully baked solution.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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IBM Impact 2007: IBM Looks to Vertical Markets
to Spur SOA Success
Show Update | May 22, 2007
IBM introduces SOA Roadmaps, a set of comprehensive solutions focusing on specific business problems within unique industry verticals, combining pre-built business processes, models and methods with professional services and educational materials.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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Progress Software Deconstructs SOA Management Tool
Competitive Intelligence Report | May 18, 2007
Progress has broken Actional’s product family into three aggressively priced SOA management and governance products, each focused on specific stakeholders and levels of SOA maturity, spanning systems, processes, and policies.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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Progress Updates Sonic ESB with BPEL Engine and support for SOA and Data Management
Competitive Update | May 02, 2007
Following market SOA and data governance trends Progress has strengthened its Sonic ESB with release 7.5, which can connect directly with the company’s DataXtend and Actional products. Version 7.5 also supports BPEL 2.0 and includes a BPEL server.
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Current Perspective: |
Positive |
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Vendor Importance: |
Very High |
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Market Impact: |
High |
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Red Hat Refocuses Middleware Efforts and Expands into Data Management | |
