Oracle and IBM move BPEL to the BPI forefront
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Breaking down business processes into Web services components was the easy part. Weaving them together into manageable, useful services has proved more ambitious.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp. hopes to boost the adoption of BPM (business process management) applications by adding support for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) in the workflow layer of Windows Vista, the company said Monday. It also has formed an alliance of software vendors aimed at making BPEL a more mainstream technology.
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The software maker says the time has come to offer business software in versions that are both hosted and not hosted.
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InfoWorld - IBM released SOA products&#160;for integrating software applications and improving business processes, and said more customers are starting to understand the SOA concept.
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IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Computer Associates have jumped aboard in support of the WS-Eventing specification for subscribing to Web services-based events, joining original developers Microsoft, BEA Systems, and Tibco Software.
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This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. Oracle has begun selling business applications software to small companies in conjunction
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IT vendors are championing highly integrated and flexible systems through offerings such as IBM's 'on-demand computing' initiative and HP's 'adaptive enterprise' strategy. But what's really important, users say, is support for open standards.
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Open-source software company JBoss has introduced JBoss jBPM 2.0, a workflow engine developed in conjunction with the Java Business Process Management (jBpm) project.
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(InfoWorld) - In separate SOA-related announcements this week, BEA Systems is upgrading its repository while HP is adding to its roster of "SOA Competency Centers." BEA is introducing a BEA-branded version of the former Flashline repository, gearing it to SOA environments. BEA acquired Flashline in August. The BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository 2.5 is intended to assist customers with governance in SOA, specifically in dealing with managing IT assets in these architectures. Information is maintained about Web services types and definitions, service dependencies and ownership of services, said Paul Patrick, vice president and chief architect for AquaLogic at BEA. New features include support for XPDL (XML Process Definition Language) and support for the BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 application server. XPDL is used for business process assets management. "The real business value that [XPDL] brings is you can connect the business process management activities with SOA activities," said Charles Stack, BEA vice president of engineering. While SOA deals with Web services, WSDL, and schemas, business process management is concerned with business processes and workflows. WebLogic Server 9.2 features zero-downtime capabilities, although this was first offered in the Version 9.0 release of the application server, according to BEA. BEA's repository also can run on the IBM WebSphere and Apache Tomcat platforms. HP, meanwhile, is expanding its SOA Competency Center program, with the company planning to open facilities in Cupertino, Calif.; Singapore; and Bangalore, India. The Cupertino and Bangalore facilities open on Monday; the Singapore site opens next month. The company in 2005 opened its first SOA Competency Centers in Sophia Antipolis, France, and Tokyo. HP bills the SOA Competency Centers as "comprehensive experience centers" enabling customers and partners to evaluate SOA technologies and implementations. HP capabilities in IT architecture, management, security and governance are showcased at the centers. Customers at these facilities participate in executive briefings, discovery workshops, and demonstrations and learn about horizontal and vertical solutions for SOA, said Terri Schoenrock, executive director for SOA with HP Services Consulting and Integration. Partner technologies also are featured and proofs of concept are developed. "For our customers, one of the key questions around SOA is, is it going to work for me in my environment?" Schoenrock said. HP anticipates the three new facilities will host hundreds of visits per month. The centers are part of HP's $500 million investment in SOA, HP said. To HP, SOA is "an architectural approach to business services that a customer uses to really achieve a business initiative," said Schoenrock. Concepts such as loose coupling, reusability, discoverability and service composition are considered critical.
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JBoss (Profile, Products, Articles) Inc. has added business process management (BPM) to its growing roster of open source software.
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The door is open for Oracle to win its bid for PeopleSoft, and for midmarket ERP vendors to increase their business. By Elena Malykhina.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM is filling holes in its SOA (service-oriented architecture) product line-up, notably in the areas of business process management and industry-specific services. "Any holes are a recognition of what customers are trying to do," Steve Mills, senior vice president of IBM's software group, said. "Early SOA adopters may have found gaps and had to do some handcrafting. They can avoid doing that now." IBM Tuesday made what it billed as its most extensive rollout of SOA offerings to date, including four new products, 23 enhanced versions of existing software and 11 new services offerings. IBM positioned the news as demonstrating that the entire company is focusing its attentions squarely on the SOA space as a revenue driver. So far, IBM has helped close to 3,000 customers put in place SOA, Mills said. However, only a "relatively modest percentage" of those users have been using the SOA approach for a number of years, he added. Mills stressed IBM's need to be seen by customers as "the" industry provider of end-to-end SOA capabilities. While there are plenty of small niche SOA players, IBM mostly competes with Hewlett-Packard when pitching an SOA portfolio.Â IBM is investingÂ more than $1 billion in SOA-related areas this year, he said. One of the four new products IBM unwrapped Tuesday is WebSphere Business Services Fabric. The software is based on the technology IBM acquired when itÂ purchased niche SOA player WebifyÂ in August and also draws on services from IBM business partners. The product includes prebuilt accelerators, tools and frameworks to help ensure that SOA applications comply with specific industry regulations. Another new offering is WebSphere Registry and Repository (WSRR) to help customers manage their Web services and shared business processes. The software enables users to publish and find SOA services and can also hook into third-party registries and repositories. The two other new tools are Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database and Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker. IBM also has made SOA-related improvements in members of its WebSphere middleware, Rational development tools, Lotus collaboration and Tivoli systems management families. The new SOA services focus on three key areas -- security, service management and virtualization. Tracy LeGrand, chief architect and vice president of technology, strategy and architecture at Ameriprise Financial Inc., was particularly interested in the two new WebSphere products. The financial planning and banking brokerage company based in Minneapolis dates its move into what would later be termed SOA as beginning in 1999 and chose IBM as the IT vendor to help it adopt that new approach. Over the years, the customer has noted some gaps in IBM's offerings, which have required Ameriprise to act as a systems integrator. "This announcement has closed some major gaps for us," LeGrand said. "I'm not sure if there are more." IBM's WebSphere Business Services Fabric could help Ameriprise avoid duplicating work Webify and IBM have already done in providing industry-specific services relating to standards like ACORD in the insurance industry, LeGrand said. He's also interested in the vendor's WSRR since Ameriprise previously had to build its own registry.
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September 23, 2004 - PeopleSoft this week became the latest vendor converted by IBM&#39;s WebSphere gospel. The enterprise software giant announced from its Connect 2004 user conference that it has entered a
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CompaniesÂ Web services orchestration platforms share linkage through Collaxa
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SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM and PeopleSoft on Tuesday announced that PeopleSoft will standardize its applications on core IBM middleware products and that both companies will market the joint solutions.
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An IBM-PeopleSoft Inc. middleware partnership shared the spotlight with Oracle&#39;s looming takeover threat at PeopleSoft&#39;s annual user conference today.
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InfoWorld - Hoping to speed acceptance of its service-oriented architecture initiative, IBM at last has rolled out a new service to help corporate users shape their projects to better fit their business goals.