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Software AG consolidates governance products for SOA

Software AG took the "big picture" view of governance for service-oriented architecture SOA with the announcement today of the CentraSite Governance Edition. The approach aims to enable governance more broadly across the enterprise, with policy enforcement capabilities building on the webMethods Infravio X-Registry (acquired by...

Tags: WebMethods Inc., Software AG, Infravio, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-01

IONA registry product enters the SOA governance fray

The relatively uncluttered landscape of SOA governance/registry products has another player with IONA’s announcement today of its Artix Registry/Repository. IONA says its new offering stands out from other such products because its more than a static archive and allows customers to design, build, deploy and revise services into a distributed...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, NETWORKING, OPEN SOURCE, Iona Technologies, Systinet Corp., Infravio, SOA, Artix Registry/Repository

Blog posts 2007-03-26

The suite life of webMethods and Infravio

As I said a couple of weeks ago, is this a great time to be an SOA vendor, or what? Now, webMethods has announced it is acquiring Infravio for a cool $38 million. Infravio is a registry solution provider for SOA and Web services. WebMethods said Infravio's main product,...

Tags: SOA, Infravio

Blog posts 2006-09-11

SOA governance consolidation spree nets Infravio for WebMethods

Managing a hot rod SOA has become the burning question mark for SOA infrastructure providers. And the question is not just when, or even how, but if.That is, if you build a SOA and they do come, will there be adequate means to control, scale, provision, and automate the parameters...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-09-11

Registry of choice?

Can a small and young, yet ambitious company define the Web services registry standard? That's what Infravio, which was started by two Stanford studentsand brothers in 1999, intends to accomplish. As Phil Wainright notes at Loosely Coupled, registries are one of the higher-level SOA layers thatWeb services players are beginning...

Tags: Web services, registry, Infravio, Web service, Web services registry, Web

Blog posts 2005-03-16

Additional Resources

Where have all the (SOA) flowers gone? Gone to bigger companies every one...

Well, not quite every one. MomentumSI has actually published a list of the SOA-related companies that have been acquired, and those that are still sitting at home Saturday nights, waiting for suitors. (Thanks to James Hamilton for the pointer.)Last week, I relayed Dave Linthicums concern that a shrinking pool...

Tags: Vendor Watch, General

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Another SOA-inspired consolidation: Software AG buys WebMethods

Software AG just announced it is acquiring SOA and integration vendor WebMethods, and ZDNet blogging colleague Dana Gardner is on top of it with this perspective, posted here.The purchase price was $546 million. Within that acquisition, of course, comes Infravio, the SOA registry provider, which WebMethods bought last September for...

Tags: Vendor Watch, General

Blog posts 2007-04-05

SOA consolidation ramps up with Software AG's purchase of webMethods

German IT software infrastructure vendor Software AG is buying webMethods for nearly $550 million in cash, pulling together a larger solution set but perhaps more importantly straddling the Atlantic to serve both the North American and EU markets in ways many U.S. SOA components firms alone cannot.WebMethods has itself recently...

Tags: management, IT Service Management, HP, IT Management, Developer Tools, database, business intelligence, SOA, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, Oracle

Blog posts 2007-04-05

IONA registry product enters the SOA governance fray

IONA registry product enters the SOA governance frayQuestion for you...Dana-Do you think this recent announcement is indicative of a trend toward registry/repositories that are tailored toward a particular platform, with "checkbox" support for registry/repository federation and/or interoperability? Let's face it, probably all of the ESBs, WSMs, and XML gateways...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, registry product, Miko, SOA governance, Systinet Corp., Iona Technologies

Discussion threads 2007-03-26

SOA analysts examine TIBCO's SOA tools, ESBs as platform, webMethods Fabric 7, HP's foray into BI

Read a full transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 9, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine TIBCOs latest SOA tools news, the role of ESBs as...

Tags: .NET, database, datacenters, HP, IBM, Interarbor Solutions, Microsoft, Oracle, Podcasts, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems, Virtualization, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-02-18

ESBs, acquisitions, and Java EE topped SOA news in 2006

ZDNet Blogging colleague Dana Gardner just surfaced Michael Meehans top eight picks for SOA and Web services stories of 2006.Mike does a great job of spotting the most important news shaping the SOA world, starting with number eight here and wrapping up the top four here. In ascending order,...

Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, Standards Watch, General, SOA

Blog posts 2006-12-27

Other views: Oracle doesn't need more big acquisitions

My last post, detailing predictions that Oracle and SAP will be scooping up SOA companies, raised a few eyebrows.Neil Macehiter of Macehiter Ward-Dutton, for one, dubbed the notion "bizarre." Neil writes: "I am more than a little surprised by these suggestions from the Gartner analyst: Oracle has Web services orchestration...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SOA

Blog posts 2006-10-01

Gartner: SOA will drive next round of acquisitions by Oracle, SAP

Gartner: SOA will drive next round of acquisitions by Oracle, SAPBizarre suggestions for possible acquisitionsI am more than a little surprised by these suggestions from the Gartner analyst: Oracle has web services orchestration with the BPEL capabilities it acquired with Collaxa and has web services management by virtue of Confluent...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Web services, Oracle Corp., SOA, Gartner Inc., acquisition, SAP AG, Web

Discussion threads 2006-09-30

So much metadata, so little time

So much metadata, so little timeTodd's ReppistryHey!Tom Critser of Infravio coined the term "Regozitory" to speak of Registry and Repository quite a few years ago! So he deserves credit for that one.Just to be clear, Registry in SOA has become pretty synonymous with "implements UDDI". Now I've seen other registries...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Todd, Source Code Control System Repositories, SOA

Discussion threads 2006-09-01

So much metadata, so little time

Registry and repository are hot commodities in SOA, but where is it all leading us? I few days back, I posted some observations about the evolving dynamics between registry and repository. Some other industry observers have also been examining the implications of registry/repository. Miko Matsumura Infravio says...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, registry, SOA

Blog posts 2006-09-01

Pouring cold water on SOA 'reuse' mantra

Pouring cold water on SOA 'reuse' mantraOnce more for the hard of hearingReuse has 2 major problems that have NEVER been solved or even addressed they are:1. How do I find what I need?2. If I can't find it, is it because it doesn't exist or my searching is inadequate?Having...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, cold calling, Reuse Reduction, SOA, redundancy

Discussion threads 2006-08-30

Need for SOA governance spurs another buy as BEA acquires Flashline

BEA Systems today snatched up SOA governance provider Flashline in a move that in one part expands BEA's SOA capabilities but in another smacks of a quick reaction to HP's buy of Mercury/Systinet.BEA uses the Systinet UDDI registry within its AquaLogic-branded registry. But BEA must have seen the writing on...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., SOA

Blog posts 2006-08-23

HP's Mercury acquisition fortells changes for SOA infrastructure

As Dan Farber mentioned earlier this week, HP acquired Mercury. Not long ago, of course, Mercury acquired Systinet, who's product line includes a very capable SOA registry (I reviewed Systinet's registry last year for InfoWorld.) This makes the HP acquisition very interesting from...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury, Systinet Corp., SOA

Blog posts 2006-07-28

Mashup vs. SOA app: what's the difference?

Don Hinchcliffe, who has broken a lot of new ground over the past year in his assessments of SOA-Web 2.0 convergence, picked up on my post about IBM's mashup server, and delves deeper into what, exactly 'enterprise mashups' are, and how they can make a difference.Dion cautions that "mashup"...

Tags: mashup, SOA

Blog posts 2006-06-21

Under the governance umbrella

In a recent post, I quoted Brenda Michelson's view of the three places where SOA needs more work, including service definitions, semantic understanding, and establish formal SOA programs. A couple of readers have added their input. CBenedetto suggests adding SOA testing as another key area of SOA-based development and...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-05-12