Friday, February 16, 2007

Vista opens the door to SaaS Vista opens the door to SaaS. Vista certainly makes a good (or bad depending on who you work for) contrast with what is happening to the software market. 1:35:13 PM    comment []

Thursday, February 08, 2007

James Pasley's Just Enough XML to Survive Excellent video presentation from James Pasley, Cape Clear's CTO, on XML, XML Schema, SOAP and WSDL. 15 minutes that could just change your (professional) life for the better! 12:56:35 PM    comment []

Monday, January 22, 2007

Cape Clear one of the Top 20 Products of 2006 Network Technology Magazine has voted Cape Clear one of the Top 20 Products of 2006. This adds to our already impressive bag of awards for 2006 and demonstrates once again that the Cape Clear ESB is the product to put top of the list when evaluating SOA platforms. 4:03:06 PM    comment [] Top 10 SOA Worst Practices webinar It seems every software company is pitching some form of SOA Best Practices. But even ignoring the built-in bias, some of the best advice can still go very wrong. Instead, by understanding the pitfalls and landmines of SOA implementations, you will be in a better position to create a strategy that makes doing the right thing easy. Learn from Cape Clear’s expertise across hundreds of SOA deployments and avoid critical mistakes that could spell failure for your SOA initiative. Join Cape Clear’s CEO Annrai O’Toole for a down-and-dirty discussion on the Top 10 SOA Worst Practices. General topics include: Short-cuts you can’t afford to take Using services the wrong way What not to do with BPEL Performance testing no-no’s Executing projects without the proper tools This webinar will take place on January 31st, 2007 (08:00 PST, 11:00 EST, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET) and you can register here. 9:48:46 AM    comment []

Monday, January 15, 2007

OSGi-everywhere There was a lot of buzz in 2006 around OSGi and it looks like 2007 will be the OSGi-everywhere year. One of the more interesting posts I've come across is this one, a reference to a talk about the Newton open source project and dynamic service grids in the enterprise and OSGi as a basis for SOA. I'm hoping to try some of this out for large-scale (and large scaling) distributed systems shortly. More on that in due course. 6:10:23 PM    comment []

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Neat things to do with your ESB I just love this post from James. 3:26:22 PM    comment []

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Cape Clear 7.0 BETA is now available Happy New Year and Happy New BETA! The Cape Clear 7.0 BETA is now available for download. Check out the brief summary of some new features, participate in the BETA on developer.capeclear.com and have a look at the detailed What's New. I reckon its going to be a great 2007 :-) 8:23:57 AM    comment []

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Workday Selects Cape Clear for SOA Integration Workday launched their company and first product offering this morning, with Cape Clear as a strategic partner enabling Workday customers to better integrate with third-party applications. Workday, founded by Dave Duffield, the founder of Peoplesoft, is a highly anticipated, on-demand solution for Enterprise Business Services, and has selected Cape Clear for SOA integration. As a native web services SOA company, Workday needed an agile ESB platform – as opposed to a complex legacy EAI solution – to aid customers in integrating with third-party applications. They chose the Cape Clear ESB Platform to handle their SOA integration because 1) we are the leading ESB platform, and 2) we are the visionaries in ESB technology. We’re really excited here at the Cape because Workday is a first-mover in delivering a software-as-a-service offering based on a SOA, enabling easier and richer service-level integration with customers and their native systems.      8:20:52 AM    comment []

Friday, September 29, 2006

Taking advantage of BAM derived business intelligence For many years I developed real-time data distribution, display and analysis software for the financial markets front office. Traders are a great example of a human BAM. Traders watch real-time data feeds for business activity that interests them. They filter it using both their mental skills and their workstation software. They bring historical context to their analysis, doing complex event processing and running rules in their heads and in their spreadsheets. They make decisions and execute trades that affect the state of the market, altering the business activity they are monitoring. The trader is looking for opportunities with their "business", as opposed to looking for problems. The goal of BAM is not just to know that everything is running smoothly, its to look for opportunities to improve things. It is not surprising that Business Activity Monitoring and Business Intelligence software has its origin in the financial markets. Having a real-time view of our business operations is largely pointless if we cannot rapidly effect change to put problems right and take advantage of new opportunities. Building business processes on the agile, SOA-enabling, orchestration and services technology provided by an Enterprise Service Bus is the key to taking advantage of new opportunities and fixing problems before they cost us money. The ESB is a natural way to collect, correlate and feed the raw data required by the BAM layer, it then allows us to rapidly improve our processes in response to changing conditions. Feeding aggregated business intelligence back into processes in real-time creates interesting possibilities. Suppose we’re orchestrating a supply chain. If we have a number of Courier services in the supply chain, that the Shipping service can request pickups from (i.e. pickup packages at the various Warehouses for delivery to customers), we can monitor the timeliness of the pickups and check for Couriers falling behind, failing to pickup on time and failing to deliver at agreed SLAs. We can feed this business intelligence back into the Shipping service, so that it favours couriers meeting their SLAs. 3:39:31 PM    comment []

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