In december, the company bought an internal mainframe web services product called x4ml from merrill lynch. Frank martinez, cto, chairman and cofounder of blue titan will explain how an soa fabric can be used to create integrated services networks that are adaptable, scalable and resilient providing unified control and coordination of shared services across a global, distributed enterprise, and how this approach differs from emerging enterprise. Soa softwares blue titan soa governance ibms tivoli composite application manager for soa allows organizations to monitor and adjust resources for soa applications allow us to implement a strong soa governance solution that maximizes the value of it investments, improves communication between business and it, resulting in efficient use. Explore soa serviceoriented architecture, an important stage in the evolution.
Evolution of the enteprise service bus part i of ii soa software integrates blue titan. The company plans to provide soa policy enforcement over running services as well as service governance. Business activity monitoringbam the business activity monitoring functionality can be used by the products to display the runtime details in the graphical system. Application of the serviceorientation principles to the software solutions will produce services. Blue titan adds reliable messaging to soa tool network director rm is readied as an alternative to esb products. Soa software, a rising standalone vendor in the soa and web services space, has bought web services networking specialist blue titan for an undisclosed sum. Nov 25, 20 memory layout transformations overview this chapter examines a useful user code transformation. Lcblog why soa software bought blue titan may 10th 2006.
Dec 06, 2007 soa softwares blue titan soa governance ibms tivoli composite application manager for soa allows organizations to monitor and adjust resources for soa applications allow us to implement a strong soa governance solution that maximizes the value of it investments, improves communication between business and it, resulting in efficient use. The changes to the process or application can be directed to a particular component without affecting the whole system. On monday, the san franciscobased web services management wsm company unveiled two new product enhancements to its enterprise soa fabric offering network director rm 3. Jun 27, 2006 the field also has narrowed considerably, with the remaining players in this space evolving through consolidation with security players actionalwestbridge, partnerships datapowerca, and acquisitions soa software flamenco networks blue titan software. An soa fabric is a network overlay which provides a unified control layer for web.
When mainframe meets soa reg developer 7th february 2006 soa software has big plans for blue titan internet news, may 8, 2006 why soa software bought blue titan loosely coupled, may 10, 2006 soa software buys logiclibrary infoworld, may 12, 2008. Soa software plans to continue support for blue titan s network director software and will retain the products name, according to roberto medrano, executive vice president at soa software. Soa is a method of integrating business applications and processes together so as to meet the business needs. A user can act as a service provider so that he can set soa user interfacesoaui design into an overall system design where the user interaction workflow is a part of system workflow. In may 2008, the company acquired logiclibrary, an soa. Aug 01, 2007 prior to kapow, hasen was ceo and cofounder of blue titan software, an early pioneer in soa infrastructure, where he helped guide the company to its successful acquisition by soa software. Blue titan software acquired by soa software in 2003. Blue titan updates soa fabric searchapparchitecture.
Dec 06, 2005 soa software shared the following details. Soa software announced today that it has acquired web services networking company blue titan. Before blue titan, hasen served as executive vice president of global field operations for pivotal corporation, and led the companys stellar growth and. Blue titans main product is a web services management platform that enables companies to provision, secure and manage lots of different web services. Soa software did not disclose the terms of the blue titan acquisition. In software engineering, soa provides agility and flexibility to business processes. Most notably were blue titan, a web services networking company, in may 2006 and logiclibrary, an soa repository and governance vendor, in may 2008. Soa software acquires mainframe services platform from. Memory layout transformations overview this chapter examines a useful user code transformation. Having no technical documentation available online, its hard to tell what their products actually cover. The programs include some areas such as managing services, operation and implementation of service domains, roles of soa project, conversion between roles and tasks. Soa implementations are made of various products, technologies, programming interfaces for applications, and other different extensions. But i havent encountered soa software here in europe. The soa user interface follows mvc model view controller architectural pattern.
The company was founded to address the unique requirements of missioncritical web services, which enables companies to realize the promises of serviceoriented. Apr 29, 2020 soa is a method of integrating business applications and processes together so as to meet the business needs. Blue titan software, a new company formed from the merger of two web services software providers, has introduced the first complete web services networking solution designed specifically for missioncritical enterprise architectures. Akana was founded in 2001 under the name digital evolution. The californian venture capital backed company opened up in europe this autumn with some bold claims. Blue titan fine tunes soa tool attempting to finetune its software for use in businesscritical applications, blue titan software will unveil network director. Soa software plans to add messaging and mediation expertise to its serviceoriented architecture platform with the acquisition of blue titan software. Akana provides a comprehensive suite of api managementsecurity.
You can imagine my surprise when blue titans frank martinez stepped. The middleware infrastructure for the soa will be the enterprise service bus, says massimo pezzini of the gartner group. Soa software integrates blue titan, pushes esb federation. Loosely coupled a reputable industry analysis firm specializing in soa concludes that the acquisition of blue titan consolidates soa software s position as the leading pureplay soa vendor. Up to now, weve seen more activity in this market by segment leaders such as actional, amberpoint, blue titan, soa software formerly digital. Going forward, frank martinez, blue titan s founder and ceo, will be an executive vice president at soa software, responsible. Soa software provides service oriented architecture soa governance, security and management tools. Phil oreste chief financial officer phil oreste is the. In may 2006, the company acquired blue titan, a web services networking company. The author eric pullier is chairman of soa software. Soa software, a maker of serviceoriented architecture and web services software, announced may 8 that it has acquired blue titan software, a web services networking company. Soa software has acquired blue titan, a web services networking company that offers tools for highperformance message management and policybased mediation.
The californian venture capital backed company opened up in europe this autumn with some bold. This week, for instance, soa software purchased blue titan, a leader in web services networking see soa software bulks up with blue titan. Soa software, a provider of comprehensive soa and web services management, security and governance solutions, today announced the acquisition of the x4ml mainframe web services platform from merrill lynch. This is sweet music to a small handful of suppliers that are positioned as esb specialists and pioneers such as sonic a subsidiary of progress software, blue titan and cape clear. Going forward, frank martinez, blue titans founder and ceo, will be an executive. Soa applications provide the model layer, and user interfaces occupy the view. Soa software has acquired blue titan so that it can address the many fragments of that continuum, from highly controlled, governancestrong soa style architectures to highly devolved, governancelite web 2. Industry luminaries to debate implementation for service. In 2005, the company changed its name to soa software, after which a number of software vendors were acquired. In the programming world, an interceptor allows developers to factor out redundant code into aspects. The field also has narrowed considerably, with the remaining players in this space evolving through consolidation with security players actionalwestbridge, partnerships datapowerca, and acquisitions soa softwareflamenco networksblue titan software. Soa software adds pureplay string to its bow the register. Apr 08, 2002 blue titan software, a new company formed from the merger of two web services software providers, has introduced the first complete web services networking solution designed specifically for missioncritical enterprise architectures. The purchase of this patentpending technology provides soa software with a production proven, unique mainframe web services solution that complements soa software s existing products to create a complete soa infrastructure solution addressing b2b, legacy and distributed applications.
Soa software has big plans for blue titan internetnews. The name soa software pops up here and there as a vendor of ws mediation solutions. Loosely coupled a reputable industry analysis firm specializing in soa concludes that the acquisition of blue titan consolidates soa softwares position as the leading pureplay soa vendor. Independence blue cross ibc of philadelphia implemented an soa. Akana offers flexible deployment options to best meet the need of their customers business, i. An analyst concurred with blue titans view of the product. They can be deployed as a proxy in front of the web services platform or deployed as an interceptor within the wsp, according to manes. Soa software has acquired blue titan so that it can address the many fragments of that continuum, from highly controlled, governancestrong soastyle architectures to highly devolved, governancelite web 2.
Ql2 software appoints glenn hasen as president and ceo prweb. Alternative soa infrastructures like esbs rely upon specific messaging bus technologies to provide the integration infrastructure. Akana is a provider of computer software products for application programming interface api. Prior to kapow, hasen was ceo and cofounder of blue titan software, an early pioneer in soa infrastructure, where he helped guide the company to its successful acquisition by soa software. Previously, phil was president and coo for blue titan software, a web services company, that was sold to soa software in 2006. With blue titan, soa software can now offer soa security, governance, management, and the mediation provided by blue titan network director, which. The rise of multiple esbs are a result of iterative soa implementation. May 08, 2006 soa software said on monday that it has acquired blue titan systems, filling out the product line for building applications around a serviceoriented architecture, a modular system design. Blue titan adds reliable messaging to soa tool infoworld. Jun 12, 2006 the new funding will be used to support cape clears global expansion and continued growth in the service oriented architecture soa market. Network director 3 adds tools to better spot errors in network traffic and to ease the management of thousands of web services.
Soa software said on monday that it has acquired blue titan systems, filling out the product line for building applications around a service oriented architecture, a. Soa software provides serviceoriented architecture soa governance, security and management tools. However, without its own bestofbreed solution, from which it can expand the capabilities of its sonic and actional product lines, the company will be at a disadvantage compared with competitors, which can market a single process management solution, including bea with flashline, webmethods with infravio and soa software with blue titan. With blue titan, soa software can now offer soa security, governance, management, and the mediation provided by blue titan network director, which smoothens runtime interactions among. Their main competitors are amber point and soa software which was supposed to present at this conference but canceled at the last moment.
Lcblog why soa software bought blue titan may 10th 2006 10. Soa software plans to continue support for blue titans network director software and will retain the products name, according to roberto medrano, executive vice president at soa software. Soa software ratchets up servicesmanagement competition. Blue titan makes network director, a package of message management and policybased mediation software that helps developers build web services networks. Prior to blue titan, parand was cofounder and chief architect of velocigen inc, a venture backed web application acceleration and. When mainframe meets soa reg developer 7th february 2006 soa software has big plans for blue titan internet news, may 8, 2006 why soa software bought blue titan loosely coupled, may 10, 2006 soa software buys logiclibrary infoworld, may 12, 2008 external links. Wsm products from amberpoint, blue titan and soa software support at least two types of configurations. In march 2005, the company changed its name to soa software. Gitlab can proclaim diversity all it likes, but it seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management microsoft teams starts february with a good, oldfashioned titsup. Soa software said on monday that it has acquired blue titan systems, filling out the product line for building applications around a serviceoriented architecture, a modular system design.
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