Electricity provider cites SOA for efficiency gains
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Cooperative completes service work in one third the time, reduced complaint process from 15 steps to four, and doubled the rate of delinquent collections.
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IBM released SOA productsÂ for integrating software applications and improving business processes, and said more customers are starting to understand the SOA concept.
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HP is announcing on Monday SOA governance software and services aimed at helping companies accelerate SOA adoption while reducing risks.Also on Monday, HP is expanding its GIF (Governance Interoperability Framework), which features specifications for governance interoperability and deepens the company's support for heterogeneous environments.Monday's announcements include a new release of HP SOA Systinet software for design and runtime governance of SOA services and services lifecycle management via an enhanced integration with HP SOA Manager."The key thing here is we've enhanced these two products so you have integrated design time and runtime governance," said Ian Bruce, HP SOA marketing manager. Design time governance covers issues around developing and deploying services as well as discovery; runtime governance entails dynamic invocation and discovery and factors like policy management and enforcement.HP SOA Systinet enables developers to check services against policies through an Eclipse-based policy validation plug-in to ensure that services conform to requirements before being published. The software also supports significantly enhanced graphical navigation, advanced reporting, searching, and expanded lifecycle support.HP's new HP SOA Registry Foundation software, meanwhile, is designed for ISVs as a standards-based way to publish and discover SOA services and artifacts. It can be embedded in packages applications.Through the new HP Validation and Implementation Service for SOA Governance, HP consultants can help customers validate SOA services by implementing a governance model using HP Systinet software. The service is intended to help predict and optimize performance of SOA applications and infrastructure. An HP Validation Service for SOA Quality, meanwhile, establishes processes for managing the business risk of SOA-enabled services, HP said.Additionally, HP is introducing services to install and configure HP SOA Systinet and HP SOA Manager to help customers get a quicker return on investment. Also being offered are new SOA education and SOA training courses.The company is also announcing an expansion of its HP Governance GIF, designed to simplify the exchange of information between HP SOA Systinet software, acting as a system of record, and third-party technologies. Ten additional partners are joining, including Active Endpoints, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, JackBe, Layer 7 Technologies, LogicLibrary, Nexaweb, Oracle, Sonoa Systems, and Vordel.HP also will make GIF specifications available at hp.com and Wikipedia. GIF partner support is being expanded as well.
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The two companies are targeting customers that have invested in a services-oriented architecture.
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(InfoWorld) - Iona Technologies hopes toÂ strengthen its positionÂ in the middleware market with a new version of its Artix SOA Infrastructure Suite released Monday, which includes several updates and two components. Big vendors including IBM, BEA Systems, and SAPÂ have been expanding their suites of SOA (services oriented architecture) products, making it harder for smaller vendors like Iona to compete. Iona's strategy is to emphasize its independence and provide tools that customers can use to bridge environments based on the big vendors' products, such as IBM's WebSphere and BEA's WebLogic. "They're not going to compete in terms of breadth of products or services, but where they do play well is in heterogeneous environments, because of their great adherence to standards," said Brad Shimmin, principal analyst for applications infrastructure software with Current Analysis. Iona's software is also known for good performance, which includes being able to parse a high volume of messages between applications quickly, and has carved out a niche in vertical industries such as telecommunications and finance, Shimmin said. Iona hopes to defend its niche further with Artix 5, an update to its software tools for SOA development that can be bought in separate components or as a suite. It includes a new component called Artix Data Services, which transforms messages into the correct data format automatically as they pass between applications, said Sean Baker, Iona co-founder and chief corporate scientist. Two financial applications might be using different versions of the SWIFT banking standard, for example, and Data Services will transform the data as it's exchanged. Data Services is based on technology from Iona's acquisition of C24 earlier this year. The other new component in the suite isÂ Artix Registry/Repository, a "catalog" listing the software services available to a company's developers, including information about who can use the services and how they should be deployed. The software was announced in April and is now available as part of the suite for the first time. Iona also updated the three existing Artix components. A new version of Artix ESB (enterprise service bus) adds support for JAX-WS 2.0 and WSDLGen, which should help boost developer productivity, Baker said. Artix Orchestration adds support for version 2.0 of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language); and Artix Mainframe has several performance improvements. The company has also finished rewriting the core of the Artix suite in Java, which will be offered alongside the existing C++ version, Baker said. The job took 15 months and will mean better performance for developers writing to Artix in Java, he said. Some of the updates to Artix 5 are required to keep pace with competitors, like the support for BPEL 2.0, but others, like the Data Services component, are quite forward looking, Shimmin said. Even the BPEL update is well done, he said, because Artix 5 will migrate BPEL4WS 1.1 processes automatically to BPEL 2.0. The performance increases are necessary to keep pace with rivals such as pure-play ESB vendor Cape Clear, which also emphasizes performance, he said. Artix 5 is available now. Pricing for the ESB and Orchestration components start at $10,000 per CPU (central processing unit), Artix Data Services starts at $7,500 per CPU and the Registry/Repository begins at $45,000 for a starter kit supporting up to 10 services. Â
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Emerson Network Power says its cooling technology is more energy efficient than more traditional systems.
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Key investments are starting to pay off for the enterprise software operator.
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LIVE WEBCAST  (Source: Systinet) Organizations recognize the benefits of SOA but struggle identifying an adoption strategy that will leverage existing IT investments, meet business objectives, and guard against risks to existing business processes.Join us and hear Larry Fulton, senior analyst, Forrester Research review lessons learned form early adopters of SOA, and essential considerations for successful adoption. Larry's expertise spans infrastructure, implementation strategies, and governance related to the effective use of service-oriented architecture (SOA).
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This market demand growth for SOA products evidences the need of simple and cost-effective solutions for systems interoperability.
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An analyst firm predicts ISPs could start charging websites for faster, prioritised access to its customers.
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Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results.
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Electricity bills must go up so the government can meet its renewable energy target, a report finds.
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New version of accounting software for small businesses has also been designed to increase efficiency.
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Solar-wafer maker allays investor concerns of rising costs.
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IBM has announced a slew of new or upgraded products and services aimed at helping companies better integrate business processes and make their operations more efficient through the use of service-oriented architectures.
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UK's biggest energy provider announces price rise for gas and electricity customers
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Company's infrastructure software will be optimized to promote services-oriented architectures.