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Archive for the ‘Web Services’ category
Introduction to DataPower – a nice Video
June 16th, 2010WebSphere Business Services Fabric (WBSF) or the SOA Fabric
April 26th, 2007Been busy with a new baby at home. U know the sleepless night and stuff. Did not get a chance to post any articles recently.
Anyway, lately have been hearing again a lot about SOBAs (refer to my previous post on SOBAs). IBM is showing some heat again in this space with it recent acquisition of Webify and by branding it as part of their Flagship brand WebSphere. IBM’s WebSphere® Business Services Fabric (WBSF – formerly the SOA Fabric from Webify), is the new name for the acquired product SOA Fabric from Webify. WBSF provides a complete process integration solution with SOA governance added to that. Using the WBSF, common business services can be used across multiple business processes across the enterpise, which enables IT to deliver solutions that can dynamically provide customized content based on the business context of the services in use.
BTW, you are in luck if you are in Insurance Industry or if you are in the Healthcare industry – as you can take advantage of WBSF’s pre-built industry SOA content. These industry specific content packs are only avaialble for these two industries and they are building more soon, I guess. The content in these packs include various industry specific commonly used business services & SOA models to make it easy for interoperability among IT systems & partners; to facilitate SOA reuse and to achieve industry standards compliance like HIPAA and ACORD.
Cheers,
Steve Lokam
SOA Entry Points
November 29th, 2006New to SOA?? Dont know where to start? Then IBM’s SOA entry points is the best place to start with to read more about how you should start with SOA. Remember SOA is not just for the big guys but also for the small and medium sized companies. Actually, I look at SOA as one of the best things ever that could happen to the SMB companies. There is no better time to jump into this, if you have not already gotten into this in some form or fashion. Jump in..
SOA entry points talks about the 5 entry points into SOA. Any one of IBM’s five entry points can provide an effective and efficient way to get started with SOA. Read more about that here.
Cheers,
Steve Lokam
SOI – Services Oriented Integration and the Role of an ESB in SOI
August 11th, 2006I get this question all the time from some of my sales teams: If it is all about SOA, Web Services and the likes, what will happen to all the integration tools? The tools are still there, but a slight shift in the paradigm happened, forcing vendors to come up with new tools to support that shift.
Organizations are looking for web-services based connectivity and service-oriented integration between their applications. For such organizations, IBM came up with a solution: the WebSphere ESB. WebSphere ESB is based on open standards and SOA and is built on the robust WebSphere Application Server platform.
Now there is a the WebSphere Message Broker a.k.a WebSphere Advance ESB. Now how different is this from the regular ESB. Question that all us face all the time from the customers. Like I mentioned above, if it is all about SOI and Web Services based integration, then all you need is a WebSphere ESB, but if you need any-to-any tranformations to be done and you want universal connectivity and highly scalable routing, then you go for the Advanced ESB (WMB). Basically, Advanced ESB does all that the WebSphere ESB does, but also has additional functionality as well.
So, for more information, click on this linke: WebSphere ESB.
Cheers,
SOA Governance – WebSphere Services Registry and Repository
June 30th, 2006As companies continue to build their SOA infrastructures and build more and more web services, there comes the need to manage them effectively.
IBM is in the process of bringing the WebSphere Services Registry and Repository to do the same. This is all about SOA governance. This product will be released soon for customers to purchase. Chris Boulton talks in his article "IBM Steps Up SOA Effort For Partners" on how IBM is taking lead in this space and also talks briefly about the SOA Business Central that IBM is building.
Birtton Manasco writes in his article about how Starwood hotels is managing their SOA infrastructure using tools from Systinet and Actional.
So, if you are currently implementing SOA and planning to build a full service-enabled enterprise, think about SOA governance.
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