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Quinton Wall is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Integration at BEA
where he is responsible for articulating the strategic vision and direction
of the products such as WebLogic Integration and AquaLogic Integration.
Quinton, a certified Enterprise Architect and member of BEA's internal SOA
Practice prides himself with looking at technology and the business of IT 'a
bit different from the rest'. He firmly believes that tomorrow's problems
can not be solved by today's thinking; rather a fresh perspective is often
needed.
Originally from Australia, Quinton has been involved in the Java community
since early 1996 where a number of colleagues formed Australia's first Java
Users Group. Quinton now resides in Pacific Grove, California with his wife
and 5 year old daughter (and about 50 Barbies, My Little Ponies etc..).
Disruption is the new black!
Posted by quinton_wall on March 20, 2008 at 7:35 AM | Permalink
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I just finished blogging about the new AquaLogic 3.0 line of products and their tight integration to promote repeatable and manageable enterprise SOA and then along comes the icing on the cake!, a great article on searchsoa.com about AquaLogic 3.0. According to Seely, the articles author, and quotes from Chris Haddard, Vice President and Service Director, Burton Group Inc. AquaLogic 3.0 is "a comprehensive SOA platform offering that is highly competitive, includes best of breed components, and is the foundation for a cohesive suite of SOA infrastructure products".
If that is not enough validation that the 3.0 line of products are going beyond the rest to address the enterprise SOA requirements Haddard even suggests that ALSB will be disruptive to the ESB market.... hey who wants to be the same when you can change the game!
Where in the World?
Posted by quinton_wall on March 19, 2008 at 3:07 PM | Permalink
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For the past 5 weeks or so I have been traveling pretty extensively through America and the Asia Pacific region working with our sales and partner teams talking about AquaLogic 3.0, SOA Integration, Information As A Service and Connectivity. It is always interesting to recap and reflect on some of the geographical differences that arise in regards to SOA adoption, perspective and of course food!
Americas: In general America seems pretty mature in regards to SOA and their requirements are now driving the next wave of service orientated differentiation through aspects such as Information As A Service, Event Driven Architecture and social computing. The teams that I spoke with are engaging daily with customers already doing SOA but are hitting against the concerns associated with driving to enterprise adoption, in particular governance and making SOA success repeatable. Here is where the AquaLogic 3.0 line excels with ALER at its core and organic meta sharing of information and models between all the products. A great example of this is AquaLogic Integrator 3.0 where you can seamlessly traverse from a Service Assembly Model, develop some ALSB pipelines and drilldown through a doubleclick into a WLI based process and back again all without leaving the one IDE. What makes the process managable, repeatable and visible (all the important things to any of us who have been responsible with running engineering teams and being measured on project efficiency metrics!) is that all of this meta data is automagically populated into ALER!.
So for the Americas the message was loud and clear - we are beyond simply exposing services and calling SOA; the next phase of repeatable, enterprise wide SOA is here. Unfortunately I didnt take any photos on my Americas travel but I hit Napa, New Jersey and South Beach Miami.
APAC: For the past 2 1/2 weeks I tripped through Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Sydney, Singapore and New Delhi. Here the SOA story was a little different. In many cases customers are still focusing on solving EAI based solutions and WebLogic Integration was very popular here. I spent a lot of my time talking AquaLogic Integrator which resonates very well considering it is based on WLI and ALSB but allows customers to continue to invest in enablement activities but seamlessly evolve their solutions to take advantage of service orientation and begin to expose assets as shared services. This was of particular interest where many customers had packages applications that could now be leveraged within their SOA environment through the unique BEA SmartConnect 3.0 product. I couldn't help but think this picture I took in Korea really summed up the APAC technical landscape which was stepped in existing application infrastructure but a firm embrace of new technology leading the region solidly forward (even the guy in the picture seems to be looking forward dont you think?). Aside from a cool picture I thought I could draw a better analogy from that one than this picture of cows tongues in Korea that Steven Leung, our Financials Services Marketing go-to-guy and Thanh Tran, SVP and GM of AquaLogic devoured as I stuck to my noodles (Im a vegetarian after all) - although we all tastes the local beer which was pretty good!
But the fun in AsiaPac didnt finish there, many customers were very interested in our Financial Service Bus solution that provides SWIFT certification and a great graphical message designer to solve payments gateway and trading requirements. This was especially true in Australia, my home country. Aside from some great conversation the team managed to spend some time in Bondi at the very cool Flying Squirrel, which is kind of an Australian version of a Tapas Bar
Well training is now over, I am back and focused on rolling out another year of cool products and cool solutions and customer successes built on AquaLogic 3.0.
Tis the season of SOA Events
Posted by quinton_wall on March 13, 2008 at 11:43 PM | Permalink
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I am always on the lookout for good SOA related material so when Ron Schmelzer from ZapThink reminded me about the Practical SOA events making their way around the country and the globe I was certainly happy to hear about it.
Aside from obviously spending your hard earned dollars and time attending BEA events such as the Dev2Dev days rolling out to a town near you, I have always been a fan of ZapThinks no hype approach to SOA so the event is surely worth attending.
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