The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005

With enterprise SOA implementations on the rise, and many businesses seeing the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as the primary entry point for establishing SOA, the ESB market is booming. In its recent report, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005, Forrester found that Oracle leads all other vendors in the Comprehensive ESB suite category.

IBM SOA Spotlight (InfoWorld)

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Tibco erweitert sein SOA-Angebot mit Portalbuilder 5

TIBCO Software, Anbieter im Bereich Business Integration und Geschäftsprozessmanagement, hat mit der neuen Version PortalBuilder 5 ab sofort eine noch leistungsfähigere Portal-Lösung im Portfolio. Damit bietet TIBCO Unternehmen einen naheliegenden, kosteneffektiven Ansatz, um die Leistungsfähigkeit einer Service-orientierten Architektur (SOA) für ein Portal zu nutzen.

Salesforce.com Application Testing (Line56)

With Salesforce.com opening the gate to a host of applications, customers should pay attention to Sandbox

New SAP Initiative Will Help Drive SOA Adoption in Banking (Gartner)

An SAP-led working group will help banks implementing service-oriented architectures (SOAs). But broader industry participation and vendor-neutrality will be needed for the initiative to achieve widespread adoption.

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005


Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is hot: by the end of 2005, Forrester expects that 77% of large enterprises, 51% of medium enterprises, and 46% of small enterprises will be actively implementing SOA. The enterprise service bus (ESB) is today's primary entry point for SOA. ESBs provide Digital Business Architecture (see figure at right) with the messaging infrastructure to connect your business endpoints -- users, devices, and partners -- to the digital business engine of your business services. Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of ten vendors using 100 criteria, yielding the Wave™ above. Separate scorecard documents were created for BEA Systems, Cape Clear Software, Fiorano Software, IONA Technologies, Oracle, PolarLake, Sonic Software, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO, and webMethods. Included in this report is an interactive vendor comparison tool that provides detailed product evaluations and customizable rankings.

SAP in an SOA world (InfoWorld)

SAP is dismantling its business applications at a fevered pace to recreate them in an SOA environment, Frank Gens, IDC's senior vice president of research, reports in his blog from SAP's Analyst Summit in Las Vegas.

New SOA Specification Will Fill Niche Among Java Users (Gartner)

SCA, a new specification aimed at helping developers build services, will address gaps in existing standards. Support for Microsoft environments, and from service component providers, will be critical to its success.

SAP Buys Data Integration Software Developer (eWeek)

SAP AG quietly acquired a small data integration software developer, Callixa Inc., several months ago that it will use as a core component of its NetWeaver platform, according to SAP officials.

SAP Maps Out SOA Plans (eWeek)

LAS VEGAS—Despite an overabundance of buzzwords and tired acronyms around service-oriented architecture, there's a definite revolution brewing in the software industry, and SAP AG plans to be at the center of it.

Getting to the heart of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (IBM)

What is Service Orientation and SOA and why is it important for your business?