Tough economic times have made mergers and acquisitions an attractive business option to gain market share, but there are some key issues business and IT must take into account.
Forrester evaluated leading standalone service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services
management solution (or simply, SOA management) vendors across 100 criteria and found that Progress
Software and AmberPoint, by virtue of their singular focus on the space, have the richest and cleanest
solutions. IBM’s offering is also strong, and it has many points of integration with the rest of IBM’s Tivoli
product line. SOA Software’s solution includes SOA governance, but it lacks deep visibility into service
implementations. Hewlett-Packard’s solution has the best monitoring console and availability reporting,
as well as integration into the vendor’s IT management products. Java and .NET users will find much
to like in CA’s solution, which has the deepest visibility for service implementations centered on Java
and .NET. When evaluating options for SOA management, in addition to these standalone solutions,
it is very important to consider the embedded SOA management features of your existing application
platform and integration platform vendors.
Composite Software Construction - The goal of this book is start by understanding today's software construction processes and technologies and explore why and how it should be evolved to support core composition mechanisms.