SOA Buying Trends: How SOA Platforms Are Evolving

Air Date: Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Cost: $250

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Who should attend: Enterprise Architecture professionals

Description:

As Forrester has been saying for some time, SOA is far from dead. Among Global 2000 organizations, 84% say they are now pursuing SOA or will be by the end of 2010. This doesn’t necessarily mean a boon for vendors of SOA-related products. Two major factors cause SOA buying plans to lag SOA adoption. First, because the most important aspects of SOA are fundamentally about design patterns and practices, not technology, you can get started on SOA-based design without buying anything. Second, when you upgrade core products like application servers and integration platforms, you automatically and freely get basic (and sometimes advanced) Web services and other SOA-related features, which further enhance your ability to start into SOA without buying.

Nonetheless, the SOA-centric feature sets of products like enterprise service buses, SOA management solution, SOA service life-cycle management, SOA registry/repositories, SOA appliances, and SOA testing tools can accelerate the benefit you achieve from SOA. This is particularly true when these products reinforce a strong approach to SOA governance. This teleconference outlines Forrester's functional model for a comprehensive SOA platform and shows how industry adoption of SOA products maps against Forrester's model.

Agenda:

• Forrester's functional model for a comprehensive SOA platform
• SOA governance focal points and their relationship to an SOA platform
• Industry adoption trends for key SOA product categories
• Recommendations for evolving your SOA platform

Vendors mentioned:Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Forum Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Layer 7 Technologies, Microsoft, Oracle, Progress Software, SOA Software, Software AG, TIBCO Software, Vordel

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