SOA filling the Gaps

On March 24 th I participated in the STKI Summit by the local analysts company STKI . The company headed by Dr. Jimmy Schwartzkopf is focused on the Israeli market. The theme of this year conference was: Back to Basics. Presentations were based on an Israeli market survey performed by the company. The company's analysts' presentations topics were Infrastructure Trends, Applications Trends, Office of the CIO trends and Infrastructure Services Trends, followed by wrap up IT Trends presentation by Jimmy. The survey may not be accurate but the information is valuable and probably reflects the overall market status. A less accurate on the spot survey results were presented afterwards. The following bullets highlights SOA perspective as it was presented: Disappointments from SOA implementations results SOA implementations are lagging behind expectations: It takes longer time than expected and consumes more resources. Benefits form SOA projects i...

A new SOA product VeN4 ServiceWare developed by Venotion Technologies was presented in the 20 th meeting of the SOA Forum of the Israeli Association of Information Processing on March 12 th . Venotion Technologies is an Israeli startup, presenting a unique approach to SOA implementation. The presenter was Ronen Yochpaz the company's CTO. The product is focused on the Finance sector especially the Banking and Insurance industry. Many Core Banking application systems and Insurance applications are legacy systems developed over more than 20-30 years ago on IBM Mainframes and z/OS operating system. Venotion's product aimed at using existing assets as part of a SOA implementation. Currently the product is in Beta. General Availability is expected on April 2008. Basic Concepts and product highlights The product composes automatically the Business Model by Reverse Business Engineering of existing User Interface and IT assets. Execution is in the Testing environment and no...

ZapThink 's analyst David Linthicum wrote a zapflash titled: Avoid Vendor Driven Architecture (VDA).In this Zapflash David Linthicum describes two prevailing SOA implementation patterns: buying SOA products from existing vendors and letting these vendors to design and define the solution. According to his analysis the outcome of such approach will be a failed SOA implementation because SOA is Architecture and not Technology, so the expectation of out of the box magic technology solution to improper architecture is both unrealistic and misleading. As an experienced consultant I would add to this that whatever the technology or architecture is vendors are biased towards their own solutions and vendors employees rewards are dependent upon sales. This post is not about VDA but about VDS or V endor D riven S urveys. Same as Architectures build by vendors are suspect to bias towards their solutions; results of Surveys executed by vendors probably will be biased towards their so...