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To the extent that organizations use governance to harness the richness of
cloud environments, they will be able to supercharge their SOA initiatives
while radically improving scalability and cost-effectiveness. Unfortunately,
the cloud arena may continue to evolve so fast over the next several years
that it will be difficult for consensus service-governance practices to
coalesce.
Clouds are SOA 2.0. Cloud computing is to a great extent the future of SOA.
However, this paradigm raise the SOA stakes while also accentuating the
risks.
To the extent that organizations use governance to harness the richness of
cloud environments, they will be able to supercharge their SOA initiatives
while radically improving scalability and cost-effectiveness. Leveragin... (more)
Integration brokers are middleware platforms for complex enterprise
application integration (EAI), enterprise information integration (EII), and
business-to-business (B2B) integration.
They support flexible any-to-any integration and they provide orchestration
engines that allow organizations to implement business processes that span
various applications, including enterprise resource pla... (more)
Enterprises are demanding integration tools that enable more seamless
interoperability across diverse integration-ware paradigms: old, current, and
emerging. The industry has coined a new three-letter acronym - enterprise
service bus (ESB) - that speaks to the dream of standards-based integration
of legacy middleware with the new world of Web services.
ESB denotes an emerging segment of t... (more)