The key suppliers
- Reduce text size Decrease text size
- Increase text size Increase text size
- Print article Print
- Jump to comments Comment
- Share this article Share
- Email article to a friend Email
Vendors and their products.
Application platform suite vendors
BEA
BEA's WebLogic Enterprise Platform is one of the main options available to enterprises for J2EE application development and deployment. The company now has its own vision of SOA - Liquid Computing - for which it is developing QuickSilver, a message broker and web services manager. Some argue that QuickSilver is comparable to an ESB.
www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=index.htm&FP=content/solutions/resources/soa
IBM
IBM and Microsoft together have been responsible for most of the industry momentum behind web services. IBM's stack includes messaging, integration, development, modelling and BPM tools. The addition of BPEL (business process execution language) capabilities to WebSphere to produce WebSphere Business Integration Server shows it wants to take a leading position in the move to SOA.
www.ibm.com/software/info/openenvironment/soa/
Microsoft
Microsoft is one of the big drivers of web services and is now talking about the SOA. Microsoft has released developer tools, programming languages, client-side software and server software as part of its .NET framework. Despite facing the massed ranks of J2EE proponents, Microsoft is at least head-to-head in terms of developer adoption and deployments and certainly has the mindshare.
Oracle
Oracle's recent acquisition of Collaxa and rebranding of the company's BPEL Server as its own means it finally has a full BPM and web services suite. In conjunction with Application Server 10g and Oracle's application suite and development tools, Oracle BPEL Process Manager (as it is now called) should put Oracle at the top of many IT shopping lists.
www.oracle.com/solutions/integration/index.html?feature_bpel.html
SAP
In 2003 the German ERP giant released SAP NetWeaver, its own integration and application platform. SAP is busy exhorting the benefits of SOA to its users, and is upgrading the still somewhat disjointed NetWeaver suite to the point where it can be used for SOA deployments.
The MySAP package is also being "service oriented" - a radical overhaul.
www.sap.com/solutions/netweaver/
Software suppliers for the service-oriented enterprise
Blue Titan
The venture capital backed US start up is winning enterprise customers with its SOA orchestration tool, Network Director.
Borland
A long-time favourite of developers, Borland has adapted its development tools to support web services and SOA on multiple platforms including .Net and J2EE.
Compuware
One of the big names in application development tools, Compuware has engineered its OptimalJ Java tool to create service-oriented applications using a model-driven approach.
Iona
Iona is using web services not just to integrate enterprise applications, but to integrate other integration technologies and middleware.
Novell
Novell's Linux expeditions, coupled with its Silverstream acquisition, have re-invigorated the company. Its exteNd Enterprise Suite, a web service oriented application development suite, is winning over new customers.
SeeBeyond
SeeBeyond, a longstanding EAI leader, has developed its Ican suite around J2EE and now claims to have the world's only complete composite application platform for building the SOA.
Sonic Software
A fast-growing entrant to the integration market, Sonic's low-cost ESB product line is winning customers from the low-end of the enterprise market upwards. Considered dangerously disruptive by competitors.
Sun
Sun has a complete range of development and deployment tools, including an application server and integration servers, that work with web services. But analysts still worry the company is unfocused.
Tibco
One of the big names in EAI, Tibco is hoping to repeat its success - and avoid extinction - as it moves into the BPM market. Recently acquired workflow specialist Staffware.
Vitria
Vitria was one of the first EAI vendors to branch out into other areas, and is now focused on business process integration via web services for select vertical markets.
webMethods
A long-time leader in EAI, webMethods has repositioned itself through clever acquisitions as a pioneer of SOA.
WRQ
WRQ is pushing its WRQ Verastream tool as a way to access code and data in legacy systems using web services.
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
