For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy

by Mike Gilpin, October 9, 2008

As large and heterogeneous enterprises reach greater service-oriented architecture (SOA) maturity, enterprise architects often find that different business areas or domains need different things from an enterprise-level SOA platform. Accommodating these . . .

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Canonical Information Modeling Is Key To Many Information-As-A-Service And SOA Strategies

by Mike Gilpin, November 15, 2007

Forrester recently surveyed 1,017 decision-makers at North American and European enterprises on the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and related technologies including information-as-a-service (IaaS). Compared to other SOA technologies . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

An Oracle-BEA Combo: How It Will Affect You

by John R. Rymer, Mike Gilpin, October 16, 2007

By acquiring BEA Software's wealth of large corporate customers and well-respected middleware products, Oracle would be second only to IBM in that key market. Oracle's Larry Ellison has long threatened to acquire BEA Systems, finally making an offer on . . .

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Long-Running Transaction Support Is Important To Your BPM And SOA Success

by Henry Peyret, Mike Gilpin, September 28, 2007

The growing enterprise adoption of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is driving increased demand to support the long-running transactions (LRTs) common to the loosely coupled systems that BPM and SOA enable. Doing . . .

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Learn How To Embrace Lightweight ESBs

Lightweight ESBs Should Be An Option Within Your SOA Strategy

by Mike Gilpin, Larry Fulton, September 12, 2007

Enterprise service buses (ESBs) come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, and some are so loaded with capabilities that they can take months to fully implement. Such complexity is one reason why developers often seek the simple solution: a lightweight . . .

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ESB Lessons Learned

Incremental Adoption And A Clear, Business-Focused Vision Are Key

by Larry Fulton, Mike Gilpin, August 21, 2007

Organizations adopting enterprise service bus (ESB) technology often encounter challenges with legacy technology, the need for new skills, organizational acceptance, and new service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance processes. Enterprise architects . . .

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Shaping Your Middleware Strategy To Benefit From ESBs

by Larry Fulton, Mike Gilpin, May 21, 2007

Many enterprise message-oriented middleware (MOM) infrastructures have evolved into complex assemblies of multiple proprietary products. Despite innovations like enterprise application integration (EAI) and Java Message Service (JMS), business software . . .

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Information Fabric 2.0: Enterprise Information Virtualization Gets Real

by Noel Yuhanna, Mike Gilpin, April 9, 2007

Forrester's information fabric vision of enterprise information virtualization has evolved as enterprises have implemented more parts of the vision and as vendors have extended information-as-a service (IaaS) products to deliver broader capabilities. . . .

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Information-As-A-Service: What's Behind This Hot New Trend?

by Mike Gilpin, Noel Yuhanna, March 22, 2007

Information-as-a-service has exploded on the scene over the past two years, moving from an obscure topic to one of the top usage scenarios in service-oriented architecture (SOA). Forrester expects that in 2007, a majority of large enterprises will add . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Role Overview: The Application Development Professional In 2007

Leading The Way To More Effective And Efficient Delivery Of Business Value

by Carey Schwaber, Mike Gilpin, March 19, 2007

Although the strategies and tactics of the application development organization have changed dramatically over the past decade, the primary purpose remains the same: driving application-related projects and programs. Forrester's research in this space . . .

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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2006

Cape Clear Software And BEA Systems Are The Top Performers

by Ken Vollmer, Mike Gilpin, June 30, 2006

Forrester evaluated leading enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors across more than 100 criteria and found that Cape Clear Software and BEA Systems were the top two performers overall. Other vendors in the leader category (from the highest score down) are . . .

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IONA Provides ESB Features For The High End

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2006

by Ken Vollmer, Mike Gilpin, June 30, 2006

IONA is the leader in multiprotocol support that is important at the high end of the ESB market. The vendor has also been a longtime leader in the object middleware business, and entered the enterprise service bus (ESB) market in late 2004 with the Artix . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

PolarLake Provides Strong, Targeted ESB Features

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2006

by Ken Vollmer, Mike Gilpin, June 30, 2006

The PolarLake enterprise service bus (ESB) is easy to use, highly productive, and incorporates rich service-mediation features. PolarLake is a small supplier, but the vendor's customers include several large financial services, telecom, and government . . .

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BEA Provides A Strong ESB Solution Within The Solid Overall SOA Vision

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2006

by Larry Fulton, Ken Vollmer, Mike Gilpin, June 30, 2006

BEA Systems' AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) provides a comprehensive set of well-integrated enterprise service bus (ESB) capabilities and also dovetails neatly into BEA's overall service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure strategy. Customers looking . . .

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Fiorano Provides An Easy-To-Use ESB

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2006

by Ken Vollmer, Mike Gilpin, June 30, 2006

Fiorano Software built a business as a Java Message Service (JMS) vendor, grew its JMS products into an early enterprise service bus (ESB) by adding Web services infrastructure as a layer over JMS, and has since expanded the features on its ESB core. . . .

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Software AG Makes A Strong Initial Showing In ESBs

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2006

by Ken Vollmer, Mike Gilpin, June 30, 2006

Software AG made a strong showing in its initial appearance in a Forrester enterprise service bus (ESB) Wave™, joining the ranks of the leaders. The vendor scored well in both the strategy and product offering and categories, providing exceptional . . .

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SOA Energizes Business Processes

Processes Play A Central Role In Achieving Flexibility

by Mike Gilpin, Jost Hoppermann, May 3, 2006

Business processes play a central role in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and in many other places such as workflow. Today's business process management (BPM) suites are often service-oriented and offer one way to implement composite applications . . .

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Emerging SOA Standards: SCA/SDO And JBI

Multiple Alternatives Aim To Ease SOA Implementation

by Mike Gilpin, March 30, 2006

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is hot, driving vendors to develop SOA technology faster than the development of standards that govern composition of services on multiple platforms. The result? Customer pain in the form of more complex and brittle . . .

The Interaction Platform: Widespread In 2006

SOA And Rich Clients Drive Front-End Platform Evolution

by Mike Gilpin, January 31, 2006

The interaction platform began as an architecture pattern enabled by service-oriented architecture (SOA), a common way to factor an application front end from the back-end services it uses, supported by frameworks and infrastructure. During 2005 a number . . .

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IBM Reshapes The SOA Platform Market

New Offerings Expand IBM's Comprehensive SOA Platform Solutions

by Mike Gilpin, Ken Vollmer, December 21, 2005

This past September, IBM reshaped the service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform market with a bang with its announcements of WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Process Server, and a new version of the WebSphere Message Broker. Then in October, IBM announced . . .

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Enterprise Service Bus Scorecard Summary: IONA Technologies

Key Findings From "The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005"

by Mike Gilpin, November 15, 2005

IONA Technologies is a longtime leader in the object middleware business, and entered the enterprise service bus (ESB) market in late 2004 with Artix. Building on IONA's experience at the high end, Artix is designed to be flexible in supporting many protocols . . .

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Enterprise Service Bus Scorecard Summary: Cape Clear Software

Key Findings From "The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005"

by Mike Gilpin, November 15, 2005

Cape Clear Software is one of the pioneers in the enterprise service bus (ESB) category, and continues to be among the leaders in technology innovation in some but not all areas. Aggressive pursuit of emerging Web services standards and communication . . .

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Enterprise Service Bus Scorecard Summary: Sonic Software

Key Findings From "The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005"

by Mike Gilpin, November 15, 2005

The Sonic Software service-oriented architecture (SOA) suite is a leader in the enterprise service bus (ESB) suite market today, in both market share and technology innovation. Sonic has been slow to embrace some of the latest Web services standards compared . . .

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Enterprise Service Bus Scorecard Summary: BEA Systems

Key Findings From "The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005"

by Ken Vollmer, Mike Gilpin, November 15, 2005

BEA Systems grew to $1 billion in sales on the strength of its WebLogic application platform. Although it was a first mover in offering a strong Java-based integration suite, WebLogic Integration (WLI), it only recently entered the enterprise service . . .

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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005

Evaluation Of Top Enterprise Service Bus Vendors Across 100 Criteria

by Mike Gilpin, Ken Vollmer, November 15, 2005

This Forrester Wave includes a detailed, customizable data spreadsheet; presentation resources; and in-depth evaluations of the following vendors: BEA Systems, Cape Clear Software, Fiorano Software, IONA Technologies, Oracle, PolarLake, Sonic Software, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO Software, and webMethods

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is hot. And as today's primary entry point for SOA, the emerging enterprise service bus (ESB) market is heating up, too. For example, within the last few months two major application platform vendors, BEA Systems and . . .