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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
- SOA Insights analysts probe Software AG's webMethods buy, wikis for SOA governance, and SOA hype curves
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.How good of a match-up was the recent Software AG acquisition of WebMethods? Was is strictly a geographical sales force synergy? Or will webMethods become the de facto R&D arm of Software AG while the parent firm's legacy cash flow sustains the movement toward...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, Podcasts, management, Interarbor Solutions, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- Analyst: Software AG-WebMethods more about geography than technology
- Neil Ward-Dutton of Macehiter Ward-Dutton has weighed in on todays announcement that Software AG intends to acquire WebMethods, but doesnt see it as a highly effective union.Neil is not surprised that a larger company swooped in and grabbed WebMethods -- which has been an active player and thought leader in...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- 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
- 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
- Where SOA reuse is already at work
- Where SOA reuse is already at workReuse is partly about planning and partly about being resourcefulwebMethods' Gary So had an interesting post on the subject a couple of days ago - As Gary suggests, "The latter is about taking a service-oriented approach to computing where services are the by-product of...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Gary, SOA, WebMethods Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-05
- 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
- Benchmark Report for WebMethods Broker 6.5 on an HP Integrity Server Running HP-UX
- The purpose of the webMethods Broker benchmark is to document the performance results of Broker on the HP Integrity server platform running HP-UX, under different scenarios. It is a lab test not a real-life customer environment. HP ran the standard benchmark script from the webMethods Broker team in April 2006....
- Tags: HP Integrity, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., WebMethods Inc., Web Services, Performance Management, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Benchmark Report for WebMethods Integration Server 6.5 on an HP Integrity Server Running HP-UX
- This paper is a continuation of a series of reports from HP that communicate the performance and scalability of webMethods' Integration Server on HP servers running HP-UX. It is for pre-sale solution architects, system engineers, and professional services consultants who are interested in the Integration Server performance on HP-UX. The...
- Tags: HP Integrity, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., WebMethods Inc., Integration, UNIX, Servers, Web Services, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Across the board and across the bow
- One of the most valuable aspects of WebMethods' new study on SOA is that it forces us to recognize the weak focus of our current efforts to position and market the idea of SOA. As I wrote in my last piece, we are now struggling to identify the levers of...
- Tags: WebMethods Inc., SOA
- Blog posts 2005-10-10
- Survey: JBOWS will be around for a long time
- In his post above, Britton dissects today's webMethods survey news, and wants to know if it tells us what the levers of opportunity are to SOA. The survey results are inconclusive on that count. What the survey does tell us is we've only just begun our evolution from JBOWS, or...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-10-10
- Ten Points to Consider in a Business Integration Vendor
- Selecting a business integration solution may be one of the most important decisions a company makes. Choosing the right platform from a vendor that is committed to making that solution a success in an enterprise will result in a strategic corporate asset that will yield returns for the long term....
- Tags: Business Integration, Return, WebMethods Inc., Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-04-14
- webMethods Sarbanes-Oxley Solution
- webMethods Fabric, the most mature and comprehensive business integration product suite, provides a sophisticated process management and monitoring solution that meets Sarbanes-Oxley's regulatory requirements. In contrast to traditional analytic applications that can only give you a quarterly or even annual view of your business, a Sarbanes-Oxley solution with webMethods Fabric...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, WebMethods Inc., Web Services, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise Software, Software, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2004-11-02
- HP and webMethods Facilitate Business Reengineering at Herman Miller
- Offering affordable and stylish furniture, Herman Miller's market extends from the home to large international corporations. Facing the challenges for comprehensive redesign of global business processes, complete reengineering of order management process, integrate technology into mainframe-based order fulfillment process, improve customer satisfaction with 100 percent on time order delivery and...
- Tags: Fulfillment, Hewlett-Packard Co., WebMethods Inc., Order Management, Business Reengineering, Web Services, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
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- Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?
- Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables
- SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tablesand Software AG webMethodsI dont know if it's because we are not NASDAQ traded, but it always seems to slip your mind Dana...=)MikoNo, it was intentionalI just don't think you all matter as much as...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Advertising & Promotion, Miko, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOA
- I've been following the technology industry for years now, and there's always been talk about a "revolution" or "evolution" underway. I've come to the conclusion that "revolution" has been too extreme of a term to describe most of the paradigm shifts we've seen, which therefore relegates most...
- Tags: Biology, Evolution, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Software AG and Cognos bring BI and BPM into common orbit
- The much-discussed marriage of business intelligence BI and business process management BPM may be a step closer to the altar with last week's announcement by Software AG that it will embed Cognos 8 BI with the webMethods product suite. ...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., BPM, Software AG, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Natural 2006, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Business Operations, It Operations, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
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