Re: It’s JADR (Just Another Damm Registry)
In a best of breed world, Registry/Repository vendors will always try to differentiate their solution and provide extra "proprietary" capabilities. The Registry/Repository market is being commoditized as we speak. Every major platform vendor as well as some small vendors provides their own flavor of a solution. Expecting a standard to bridge the gap among the different Registry/Repository solutions is doomed to failure. Registry/Repository solutions should be chosen based on their fit to the specific environment and use case.
Bridging the gap today rather than hoping and praying for a standard in the future will leave you with no real solution.
"So, what can be done?"
One of the solutions that are available right now is vendor agnostic Policy Governance solution. This way you can benefit from the best of breed Registry/Repository while making sure it ensures consistent content across the different solutions you have or may have in the future. Just be careful not to fall into the "bundled"policy management solution pitfall, make sure they can run with other platforms you may have.
As explained in a recent Burton Group paper: "A pure-play policy management solution, such as WebLayers Center, offers the most comprehensive and flexible policy management capabilities of all policy management options."
Bottom line, for most enterprises, waiting is not an option.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
Opportunity Knocks
Last week I attended the IBM Venture Partnering Symposium at their Almaden Research Center in California. At first I was shocked that IBM announced this meeting the last week of the sales quarter. Would any senior IBM executives (and Partners) dare to leave the office during this week? The conference room held about 300 and over 350 people attended! The question for all of us is, “why”?
The simple answer is “opportunity”. I have been in the technology industry since (gulp) 1979. The energy around this event reminded me of other opportunities such as the introduction of HPs first LaserJet in 1984 and Scott McNealy’s brash statement in 1991 that he would create a Partner Channel that would exceed $1 Billion within 2 years. We still see the success of HPs LaserJet and Sun Microsystem Partner Channel exceeded $1 billion in the first year!
Yes, opportunity is knocking right now with IBM. Specifically, IBM has positioned its corporate strategy to win with Partners. Why else would all of IBM’s top executives attend a Partnering Symposium the last week of the quarter…because they are committed to their Partner strategy.
Top billing at the Symposium was SOA, SaaS, and delivering value around the convergence of Software and Services. As a SOA software vendor I walked away very excited. First, IBM was heightening the value and awareness of SOA as well as outlining a way for Partners to align with IBM. Robert LeBlanc said it best, “we (IBM) will look to our Partners to provide assets (solutions) to deliver business value and innovation to our customers”. Consider the magnitude of this statement; IBM is embracing its Partners around their multibillion dollar global services group. Sign me up.
So, how do WebLayers and its Partners make the most of this opportunity? First, we need to deliver a solid solution around SOA (WebLayers Center) wrapped with a service package that installs, implements and supports policy management needs of our customers. Second, we align ourselves with IBMs field sales force as well as their service groups. Together we then deliver the business value and innovation that customers are demanding.
Anyone interested? I am recruiting Partners that have an established SOA practice. You can email me at Partners@weblayers.com. I look forward to hearing from you.
The simple answer is “opportunity”. I have been in the technology industry since (gulp) 1979. The energy around this event reminded me of other opportunities such as the introduction of HPs first LaserJet in 1984 and Scott McNealy’s brash statement in 1991 that he would create a Partner Channel that would exceed $1 Billion within 2 years. We still see the success of HPs LaserJet and Sun Microsystem Partner Channel exceeded $1 billion in the first year!
Yes, opportunity is knocking right now with IBM. Specifically, IBM has positioned its corporate strategy to win with Partners. Why else would all of IBM’s top executives attend a Partnering Symposium the last week of the quarter…because they are committed to their Partner strategy.
Top billing at the Symposium was SOA, SaaS, and delivering value around the convergence of Software and Services. As a SOA software vendor I walked away very excited. First, IBM was heightening the value and awareness of SOA as well as outlining a way for Partners to align with IBM. Robert LeBlanc said it best, “we (IBM) will look to our Partners to provide assets (solutions) to deliver business value and innovation to our customers”. Consider the magnitude of this statement; IBM is embracing its Partners around their multibillion dollar global services group. Sign me up.
So, how do WebLayers and its Partners make the most of this opportunity? First, we need to deliver a solid solution around SOA (WebLayers Center) wrapped with a service package that installs, implements and supports policy management needs of our customers. Second, we align ourselves with IBMs field sales force as well as their service groups. Together we then deliver the business value and innovation that customers are demanding.
Anyone interested? I am recruiting Partners that have an established SOA practice. You can email me at Partners@weblayers.com. I look forward to hearing from you.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Policy Looms Large at BEA World 2007
Greetings from BEA World 2007. It’s been a great week in San Francisco and we’ve had some great conversations on SOA governance with customers, prospects and BEA personnel.
One of the most interesting presentations from BEA was entitled “The Importance of Policy in SOA.” BEA recognizes an appropriately broad definition of policy – from design to development to runtime. They see the agility from SOA coming from a policy-based approach versus the rigidity of embedding policy within application logic.
Today BEA has a number of products that each provides a stove-pipe approach to managing policies. They discussed their roadmap to address policy requirements. The first part of the roadmap was the delivery of the new AquaLogic Registry Repository (see below).
The next delivery will be a policy management platform to centrally author, manage and push policies to various decision points and enforcement points (agents) along the lifecycle.
BEA clearly understands the value of having policy management decoupled from the enforcement points. I applaud their vision.
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The new AquaLogic Registry Repository V3 was announced on Tuesday. BEA has packaged the enterprise repository (formerly Flashline) together with the service registry (OEM from Systinet). There are two interesting elements in this offering:
1) The integration of workflow capabilities – this helps automate the process of moving assets through the service lifecycle. This is a good first step but doesn’t address if the services/artifacts conform to standards or architectural policies in an automated fashion. This is critical information to have in making the decision to promote services through the lifecycle.
2) Metadata Interoperability Framework (MDIF) - is a Java-based API for reading metadata from BEA and third party products, expressing the metadata in SCA form, and interacting with ALRR (submit, link, search and download). This makes it easier for third parties to integrate once and eventually share throughout the BEA products. It is also useful in a broader context to express support for SCA.
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On a side note... VMworld was held adjacent to the BEA show and was packed. The official count was 11,000 participants and it sure had a positive vibe. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a show and seen so many free t-shirts, magicians, and the good old “money machine” (where people try to catch dollar bills being blown about in a glass booth).
One of the most interesting presentations from BEA was entitled “The Importance of Policy in SOA.” BEA recognizes an appropriately broad definition of policy – from design to development to runtime. They see the agility from SOA coming from a policy-based approach versus the rigidity of embedding policy within application logic.
Today BEA has a number of products that each provides a stove-pipe approach to managing policies. They discussed their roadmap to address policy requirements. The first part of the roadmap was the delivery of the new AquaLogic Registry Repository (see below).
The next delivery will be a policy management platform to centrally author, manage and push policies to various decision points and enforcement points (agents) along the lifecycle.
BEA clearly understands the value of having policy management decoupled from the enforcement points. I applaud their vision.
…..
The new AquaLogic Registry Repository V3 was announced on Tuesday. BEA has packaged the enterprise repository (formerly Flashline) together with the service registry (OEM from Systinet). There are two interesting elements in this offering:
1) The integration of workflow capabilities – this helps automate the process of moving assets through the service lifecycle. This is a good first step but doesn’t address if the services/artifacts conform to standards or architectural policies in an automated fashion. This is critical information to have in making the decision to promote services through the lifecycle.
2) Metadata Interoperability Framework (MDIF) - is a Java-based API for reading metadata from BEA and third party products, expressing the metadata in SCA form, and interacting with ALRR (submit, link, search and download). This makes it easier for third parties to integrate once and eventually share throughout the BEA products. It is also useful in a broader context to express support for SCA.
…..
On a side note... VMworld was held adjacent to the BEA show and was packed. The official count was 11,000 participants and it sure had a positive vibe. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a show and seen so many free t-shirts, magicians, and the good old “money machine” (where people try to catch dollar bills being blown about in a glass booth).
Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Five Steps to Succeed in SOA Governance
Please join myself and Dan Hynes, Principal Product Manager at Oracle, for our InfoWorld webcast next Wednesday, June 27th.
Learn 5 Key Steps for Successful SOA and an Effective Governance Strategy
Those attending the Webinar will also learn:
- How to get started with SOA governance?
- How to automate your current manual governance processes?
- What is the recommended reference architecture for SOA governance?
- What are the best practices and how can you leverage the experiences of others?
- How do I measure the impact of my governance initiative to both business and technical management?
- What is policy management and how does it complement a registry and runtime management system?
To register, click here.
Understanding Policy Management for Successful SOA Governance
SOA Architects - if you are considering attending the Open Group's Enterprise Architecture event next month in Austin, TX, please consider joining me at my session:
Understanding Policy Management for Successful SOA Governance
Understanding Policy Management for Successful SOA Governance
Industry pundits and vendors have preached the critical need for governance processes to SOA architects for some time. Yet the requirements for successful SOA governance consistently focus on the registry/repository. Experts have now defined the need for SOA Policy Management as a separate, yet essential component for ensuring control and quality throughout the entire service lifecycle. To deliver on your business objectives, SOA architects must understand what polices are needed for the various aspects of your SOA (design documents, processes, architecture, technologies, people, operations, etc.) and how they can be applied. In this session, attendees will learn how to apply a successful SOA policy management strategy across their organization, including:
- Policy Definition types of policies, standards and best practices needed at various stages in the lifecycle for development, IT and business
- Policy Enforcement how, where and when to enforce policy and maintain compliance
- Policy Adoption ways to encourage policy adoption by all SOA constituents to improve development processes and share SOA expertise
- Policy Change Management how to prevent business and service impact by analyzing the potential effects of changes to policies.
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