Webinars

Business Agility: Taming the Challenges of SOA Integration
Originally presented on 27 March 2008
Challenges, trends and blueprint for successful SOA integration
The choice for any enterprise operating in the global marketplace is simple: adaptation or extinction.
In today’s dynamic business environment, inflexible infrastructure can result in lost customers, lost revenue, late entry into emerging markets, and a lot of other bad news.
SOA Integration helps to clear the path to business agility by transforming brittle IT systems, applications, and data sources into highly flexible, reusable services that can be shared across the enterprise. Mar. 27, 2008

Articles

Blueprint for Successful SOA Integration
SOA Integration has emerged as the de facto standard for successful IT integration. Some architects mistake SOA Integration for the inclusion of an enterprise service bus or BPEL along with some adapters. There's more to it, and this article shows how it can be defined, what it solves, and some points to think about for your IT organization. Mar. 12, 2008

Understanding SOA Management: What’s in your SOA?
Author Dain Hansen defines the challenges that exist with SOA today and shows how SOA management can address many of those challenges. He includes a brief look at BEA's SOA management product offering. Jun. 12, 2007

Weblogs

Going beyond the Silo: 5 Steps to Federation: You have heard the buzz word of Federation as a silver-bullet to just about everything. In this blog we will show you 5 important steps to getting your IT federated and some key architecture patterns to consider as a way to leverage specific Federation practices to help you out of that siloed thinking. We will also discuss within those steps some of the benefits of Enterprise Wide SOA.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on April 21, 2008 at 13:08 PDT | Comments (0)  

Hotter than a Hedge Fund: SOA Integration: No there is actually no SOA-based ETF or hedge fund even. However, a recent report from Randy Heffner at Forrester seems to suggest that SOA may actually be a place that companies may want to invest; it extends the life of legacy and drives costs down through consolidation and risk avoidance. Gets you out of that rut that IT is in and helps you lower the costs while doing it.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on April 07, 2008 at 14:08 PDT | Comments (0)  

Solve your Agileocrity Part II: The SOA Integration Anti-patterns: 3 key patterns to watch out for when building out your Enterprise Architecture. SOA Integration can help you rise above it and create the right pattern to rise above the mediocrity and get you the agility you are looking for. We'll discuss the Service Enabled Spaghetti, Accidental Integration Architecture, and SOA Silos.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on April 04, 2008 at 15:51 PDT | Comments (2)  

Appliances or Software-based ESBs? The Million Dollar Question: Read Shiva's article on SOA he opens up one of the most talked about questions today's Enterprise Architects are wrestling with. When should you look at appliances or software ESBs? What are the differences? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Do I need both? And if I implement both is there a recommended architecture for that? In this article we give you an objective answer of the key questions you should ask.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on April 04, 2008 at 11:23 PDT | Comments (0)  

SOA Integration: Solve your Agileocrity: SOA Integration is about achieving flexibility for your IT. It clears the path for your business by transforming brittle IT systems, applications, and data sources into highly flexible, reusable services that can be shared across the enterprise. Service enable your business logic why and rise above the mediocrity!
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on April 02, 2008 at 17:53 PDT | Comments (0)  

AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0: Setting the New Benchmark for Enteprise-class ESB Performance: Is your ESB fast enough? Well you should definitely check out some of the new groundbreaking performance benchmarks for AquaLogic Service Bus along with some of the new improvements around scalability and support for large messages and large volumes. Ready to take a test drive?
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on March 17, 2008 at 15:15 PDT | Comments (0)  

Look out Godzilla here comes AquaLogic, "SOA Field" hits the Theaters on YouTube: In this clever spoof on Clover Field, watch as innocent bystanders flee in horror from competitive threats while a brave enterprise Architect (played by Annie) attempts to shield herself using what looks like… BEA AquaLogic?!
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on February 26, 2008 at 17:29 PDT | Comments (1)  

Ed the Enterprise Architect: Who is Ed? And why is it possibly you I am writing about? You are probably one of the few people who goes home at night thinking about big problems no one else can grasp; they are technical challenges but at the same time they are rooted in business problems as well. In fact the technical challenges are probably the least of your headaches right now. Its a lonely world championing problems that few can relate to.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on February 01, 2008 at 17:29 PDT | Comments (0)  

JBI is still dead: From polling our customers, partners and folks out there like you, we have seen that JBI 1.0 is not ready for prime time. The JBI 1.0 standard focuses primarily on a few vendors and does not deliver on the promise of ESB-portability or ease of creating SOA. As a result, it contributes little to the usefulness to business integration, one of the real pain points for our customers. In this blog, I'll look especially at the 2.0 plans to see if they can't bring it back to life!
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on January 31, 2008 at 08:22 PDT | Comments (0)  

Dell going Green against Big Blue: Michael Dell did a great performance at his keynote. It isn't just about service oriented and virtualization, it isn't just about consolidating your hardware, it isn't just about Software as a Service. It is about a new generation that is emerging.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on November 20, 2007 at 14:11 PDT | Comments (0)  

ESB vs. Hummer H2: Trying to lower your carbon footprint? Hate those pesky gas guzzlers? Want to go green and at the same time leverage agility for your Enteprise? Yes you can; yes you should; for the benefit of our environment learn more about Enterprise Service Bus.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on November 12, 2007 at 14:41 PDT | Comments (3)  

Tastes great but less functionality - Light ESB: Today the market needs a fully functional bus, but one that can grow and evolve as enteprise needs for SOA evolve and mature, but that starting point is an ESB. Call it what you want, light or heavy you decide. I like to call it AquaLogic Service Bus.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on November 05, 2007 at 10:19 PDT | Comments (0)  

The New Seven Wonders of ESB: What are the next steps for an ESB? I'll tell you about what I think are the Next Seven Wonders for ESB!
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on October 03, 2007 at 16:37 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEA Announces AquaLogic Service Bus - Financial Services Edition: Enter Financial Services Edition - a breakthrough in connecting payments to Service Oriented Architecture. Find out why this is a tipping point for ESBs
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on October 03, 2007 at 15:04 PDT | Comments (4)  

Mashing Up The Bus: Getting Ready for the Convergence of SOA & Web 2.0: Regarding Anant’s recent article on Mashups on “Are You Ready For Mashups�, he talks about something that we continue to hear: Web 2.0 technologies are converging to SOA and Enterprise IT technologies. In this article I'll talk about a sample I put together using ALUI & AquaLogic Service Bus to show how this convergence might be coming sooner than we expected.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on August 01, 2007 at 18:19 PDT | Comments (1)  

Introducing AquaLogic SOA Management 2.6: BEA has unveiled a new capability in BEA SOA 360 for better managing your heterogeneous and distributed SOA: enter AquaLogic SOA Management. AquaLogic SOA Management enables a managed SOA by simplifying visibility and control at each stage of the SOA life-cycle. Using AquaLogic SOA Management, enterprises implementing services-based applications can realize the full potential of their flexible, standards-based systems.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on May 04, 2007 at 13:31 PDT | Comments (1)  

ESB Con 3 - Tough Questions but Easy Answers for BEA: Please take a look at a recent ESB Con III Webinar where BEA participated in a debate-like panel to discuss our ESB SOA vision among a panel of other ESB vendors: Sonic, Oracle, and IBM.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on March 02, 2007 at 12:23 PDT | Comments (0)  

ESB Con 3 - Tough Questions but Easy Answers for BEA: Please take a look at a recent ESB Con III Webinar where BEA participated in a debate-like panel to discuss our ESB SOA vision among a panel of other ESB vendors: Sonic, Oracle, and IBM.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on March 02, 2007 at 11:39 PDT | Comments (0)  

Mixing Metaphors with ESB: I love to hear blog posts that talk about SOA and casually mention the solutions to business integration as silver bullets, holy grails, nirvana. And the only way I could think to possibly counter such a plethora of blogs was to write the most mixed metaphor catch-phrase ridden blog myself. I'll also mention SCA, one of my new favorite subjects.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on February 23, 2007 at 23:17 PDT | Comments (1)  

Who Needs Service Mediation?: Who needs Service Mediation? Well I for one think we all do, check out an interview which I did on the subject. I'll discuss some of the best ways to think about it, the obstacles, the benefits to adoption.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on February 15, 2007 at 23:57 PDT | Comments (0)  

New Samples in ALSB 2.6 Highlight Flexibility and Greater Control: Recently our team announced exciting new samples available on dev2dev for the AquaLogic Service Bus 2.6. These samples include a database lookup sample, import/export, service cloning + parameterized proxy, and a custom identity asserter
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on January 31, 2007 at 13:22 PDT | Comments (0)  

What's new in AquaLogic Service Bus 2.6: What is new about AquaLogic Service Bus 2.6? Read this blog post and find out. Also included are links to the download site and our edocs.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on January 10, 2007 at 09:19 PDT | Comments (0)  

AquaLogic Service Bus connects to OS/400, MSMQ, and Oracle AQ: Welcome back from the holidays and Happy New Year! This article describes the new AquaLogic Service Bus transports released on dev2dev including OS/400, MSMQ, and Oracle AQ.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on January 09, 2007 at 13:09 PDT | Comments (2)  

AquaLogic Service Bus: Leading the Race in Performance: BEA is no amateur in the race to make its systems best-in-class for performance and scalability. In this article I will describe some of the concerns around performance in ESBs and specifically how we address these with AquaLogic Service Bus.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on November 07, 2006 at 06:51 PDT | Comments (4)  

BEA Adds the Missing Ingredient to AquaLogic Service Bus: Today BEA Announced support for BEA AquaLogic Integrator, in this blog I'll describe how this improves our ESB and improves our overall Integration offerings for our SOA customers.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on November 06, 2006 at 12:58 PDT | Comments (1)  

Which is more flexible: Oracle ESB or AquaLogic Service Bus?: Recently Oracle announced their Enterprise Service Bus offering at OpenWorld and I thought it timely to review their ESB and make some comparisons of my own: namely, that BEA's Enterprise Service Bus offering, AquaLogic Service Bus, definitely excels above Oracle in some key areas.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on October 25, 2006 at 00:24 PDT | Comments (2)  

Is JBI Dead?: JBI, or Java Business Integration, certainly was in the limelight a year ago, but it hasn't gained much in traction today with organizations leveraging SOA. Here are a few ideas on why.
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on October 20, 2006 at 00:30 PDT | Comments (7)  

ALSB connects to Rendezvous natively using Custom Transport SDK: With ALSB, users can now connect natively to Tibco Rendezvous broadening its existing support for heterogeneous transports: HTTP/WS, JMS, MQ, Tuxedo, EJB/RMI, FTP, SMTP, File. The RV transport was developed using the new ALSB Transport SDK
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on October 18, 2006 at 10:07 PDT | Comments (1)  

Where the ESB is heading: Musings from Prague: Where is the Enterprise Service Bus heading? Lots of excitement from BEA World in Prague on the Bus. Included are some of my discussions with various folks in Prague, especially around Composite Applications, Lifecycle, Distribution, Lightweight ESBs
Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on October 17, 2006 at 12:49 PDT | Comments (0)