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Oracle Snaps Up SOA Management Vendor AmberPoint

With the buyout of Sun Microssystems having come to a conclusion, Oracle is now adding fuel to its SOA Middelware stack. The Redwood giant is continuing its shopping spree with the acquisition of AmberPoint, a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Management provider. AmberPoint’s solutions are aimed at endowing organizations with the ability to diagnose and resolve issues in application performance and business transactions, such as insurance claims processing or account provisioning where multiple applications need to work together.

AmberPoint’s SOA management products further extend Oracle Fusion Middleware’s SOA capabilities including Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle SOA Governance and Oracle Enterprise Manager improving the resolution of application performance and business transactions issues before the business is impacted.

The transaction is expected to close the first half of this year. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Commenting on the acquisition, Thomas Kurian, Oracle Executive Vice President, Product Development said, "AmberPoint and Oracle share a vision of providing customers with comprehensive SOA management capabilities that support modern IT environments and are also complete, open, and integrated. We expect the addition of AmberPoint's products to Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite will provide stronger end-to-end governance that allows customers to manage the entire lifecycle of SOA-based solutions, providing visibility and management across heterogeneous environments."

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Best Practices for Enterprise SOA Deployment Bob Marcus, the leader for SOA and Distributed Virtualization standards at the Network Centric Operation Industry Consortium (NCOIC.org), discusses requirements and best practices for enterprise SOA Deployment, in this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's Business Technology Summit 2008. The session is based on Bob's experience working with large enterprises such as General Motors and Boeing. It also includes recommendations from a Session on 'SOA Deployment: Industry Best Practices' that Bob has organized for several US government agencies.

Business Transformation vs. SOA Transformation - Can I do Both? Corporations are transforming their business models in an attempt to increase revenue, operational efficiency and global competition by designing innovative business models and processes to be disruptive in their market space. In this keynote, recorded at Saltmarch Media's Business Technology Summit 2008, the Vice President of IBM's Global Solutions and Assets division says business leaders are looking for IT to provide and support the disruptive business models. However, the majority of IT's budget and resources are spent in maintenance leaving little time and resources for IT to be innovative and meet the business demands. In addition, many IT Corporations have adopted SOA in adhoc fashion and achieved some maturity in the technology. The key to aligning the IT objectives with the business objectives is a structured approach. Come hear about new ways to develop the required capabilities and prioritize the initiatives to create a Business and SOA transformation roadmap.

State of the Union - SOA Standards The author of the seminal book "Great Global Grid: Emerging Technology Strategies" discusses the current status of SOA-related standards and their applicability in this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's Business Technology Summit 2008. This has been an active area over the last few years with multiple standards being developed and supported by different organizations. However there are still concerns about the complexity and maturity of SOA standards. The content will be based on Bob's recommendations for government agencies in the US and Asia. It will also include information from an "Emerging Standards for SOA" Session that Bob organized bringing together leading standards groups.

Software + Services: Fundamental Shifts in Platform Computing We are at the cusp of a big industry change. The way software is delivered and monetized is undergoing a fundamental shift. The multiple models for monetization are fundamentally shifting the software industry and business models. Traditionally software companies have made monies only in Licensing and now there are three additional models to monetize. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's Business Technology Summit 2008, Srikanth Karnakota says software licensing is going to continue to exist and grow. Online advertising will grow. Online transactions and subscriptions will grow. But perhaps most importantly for a number of our partners, the amount of value that will be delivered by humans providing customization services, application development services, management services, hosting services, will also continue to grow, and so we see a big opportunity for our partners as we make this transformation to Windows and Windows Live and the new software plus service user interface and computing model.

Designing Reusable Service Interfaces One of the challenges of SOA is the development of services, which are reusable. Such services can participate in several different processes and orchestrations. Experienced architects are aware that designing and implementing reusable services is much harder task than implementing services for single use. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's Business Technology Summit 2008, Matjaz B. Juric discusses best practices for designing reusable service interfaces. We will discuss the possibilities provided by WSDL. We will address the versioning issue, which becomes crucial when changing/modifying services in order to make them more reusable.

Doing More With Less In the Downturn - Interview with Embarcadero's Philip Rathle Having affordable access to the right tools at the right time has never been more important, especially with today’s intense scrutiny on budgets and expectations to do more with less. Centered on the theme of recession storming, over fifty top level IT decision makers joined Saltmarch Media and Embarcadero Technologies with the objective of demystifying the changing IT environment and its impact on global business. Watch this full interview with Philip Rathle, Director of Product Management, Embarcadero All Access.

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Customer Service Key Driver for IT Investments in Logistics: Survey

Softlink Logistic Systems, an Indian logistics software provider, today revealed the survey results on – ‘Adoption of Technology in Indian Logistics Sector-2009’, conducted amongst 700 Indian logistics players operating as Customs Clearing, Freight Forwarding, NVOCCs and 3PL players. The survey revealed that larger logistic players are opening up for technology investments in the year 2010. It highlights that the number of larger players, making technology investments up to Rs. 10 mn have been doubled to 14 percent in 2010 compared to last year.

Indians Most Trust its IT Sector and India Headquartered Companies

India-based companies have emerged as the most trusted ones, with the technology sector being ranked the highest in terms of transparency and credibility, according to the recently released report from Edelman Trust Barometer. India-headquartered companies are trusted by a majority of people in the country. While US' trust in technology is 78 percent and China is 83 percent, in India it is 88 percent. Technology is the most trusted sector in India at 88%, followed by banks, automotive (79%), pharmaceuticals (75%), healthcare (73%), entertainment (70%) and media at a relatively low 58%.

Top 10 SOA Trends for 2010

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Oracle Revs AutoVue Enterprise Visualization

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Microsoft Testing on Twitter-like Microblogging Service for Enterprises

Microsoft has been working on a micro-blogging tool for the enterprise and has christened it 'OfficeTalk'. With the new ALL IN campaign that Microsoft has launched for cloud computing, understanding how social media works at the enterprise level can give them the edge they have been looking for.

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