Oracle sponsored the recently concluded CloudCon Virtualization online event.

Jyothi
Swaroop, Product Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware – talked about the
need to "bullet-proof" your Cloud and SOA in a couple of webcasts at the
event.

Abstract:Cloud computing is changing how enterprises
look at end-to-end IT operations. As cloud adoption soars, CIOs want to
“bullet-proof the cloud” to ensure business-critical manageability and
governance. Watch this webcast to learn how SOA Governance is being tuned for
Cloud Governance, including security, policy compliance and even SLAs.

View the webcasts here

While the enterprise software business remains a good one, integration hardware appliances continue to grab headlines. With Oracle’s Exalogic and, now, IBM’s PureSystems, unveiled at Impact 2012, the integration hardware appliance product pipeline seems primed.

These machines are said to cope with complexity, one of the biggest hurdles to software integration today, by ”canning” known good integration configurations. As with a prefabricated house, there is room for customization, but the appliance may not meet the special needs of all integration developers.

Ease of integration is the basic raison d’etat  behind IBM’s PureSystems box, shown above. Integration has become such a tangle, that there is little doubt some shops will consider the box as a way to cope.  The path has been set for Big Blue shops by DataPower, the XML appliance that IBM acquired a number of years ago from start-up DataPower and took to market in a big way. For many IBM-oriented undertakings, ”DataPower” is almost synonymous with ”ESB.” Its utility was especially enhanced with the addition of object brokering and data caching capabilities.

If you’d like to see more of PureSystems and other doings at IBM Impact 2012 check out SearchSOA.com’s Impact 2012 in pictures slide show.

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Jyothi Swaroop, Product Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware – talked about the need to "bullet-proof" your Cloud and SOA in a couple of webcasts at the event.

Abstract:Cloud computing is changing how enterprises
look at end-to-end IT operations. As cloud adoption soars, CIOs want to
“bullet-proof the cloud” to ensure business-critical manageability and
governance. Watch this webcast to learn how SOA Governance is being tuned for
Cloud Governance, including security, policy compliance and even SLAs.

View the webcasts here

Next week there will be BizTalk event in Milan. Overnet Education in collaboration with Microsoft Italy and User Group Italiano Connected System will organize, for the first time an interesting event related to BizTalk Server and integration services with the presence of international speakers. Myself, Sandro, Tord and Saravana will speak at this event.

Event is organized by Nino Crudele in collaboration with me and few others. Nino is the founder of the User Group Italiano Connected System and will be our host. I would like to invite you all to join us next May 24, 2012 in Milan, Italy.

The agenda for the event:

13:45 – 14:00: Registration;

14:00 – 14:15: Welcome;

14:15 – 15:00: BizTalk Host thresholds and automatic throttling
by Tord Glad Nordahl;

15:00 – 15:45: BizTalk360
by Saravana Kumar (MVP BizTalk Server)

15:45 – 16:00: Break;

16:00 – 16:45: Adapter Pack Integration Capabilities (BizTalk)
by Steef-Jan Wiggers (MVP BizTalk Server)

16:45 – 17:30: Introduction to the Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI features
by Sandro Pereira (MVP BizTalk Server)

17:30 – 18:00: BizTalk Innovation Event Wrap up
by Nino Crudele (MVP BizTalk Server)

18:00: Closure

Click here to ensure your registration or to get more information’s about this event.

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an immediate need for an SOA developer based out of… Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) interfaces utilizing Oracle SOA 11g suite (BPEL, OSB, AIA, Weblogic…
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If you’re innovating with Oracle Fusion Middleware, then you need to know that the Call for Nominations for the 2012 Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards is open now through July 17, 2012.

#bizarch The obvious ones – Apple, Amazon, Microsoft

General comments

“The new market disruption is the migration of a large number of
demanding customers away from phones-as-voice-products to
phones-as-computing-products. The low-end disruption is the migration of
a large number of less demanding customers from branded phones to
unbranded, commodity phones. … The new market disruption is evidenced by the shift of fortunes to Apple and Samsung and away from every other device maker.” Horace Dediu, The phone market in 2012: a tale of two disruptions (May 2012)

“Apple is the most valuable company in technology (and indeed in the
world) because it integrates hardware, software and services. It’s the
first, and only, company to do all these three well in service of jobs
that the vast majority of consumers want done.” Horace Dediu, Which is best: hardware, software or services? (May 2012)

Disney

• John Hagel, Disney, Pixar and Jobs (February 2006)

• Disney, Pixar, Apple and Jobs (February 2006)

Back in 2006, people like Hagel thought that Steve Jobs didn’t understand platforms. Maybe he didn’t then, but he certainly caught up later. 

eBay

• Dare Obasanjo, eBay Web Services: A Marketplace Platform for Fun and Profit (March 2006)
• Haydn Shaughnessy, eBay’s Platform Strategy (Oct 2011)

Elsevier

• Smart Content (Oct 2011)

Nike

• Nick Vitalari, Competition and the Elastic Enterprise: Business Platforms, Personal Biometrics and Strategic Options: Nike and FuelBand (Jan 2012)

• Art Petty, Systems Thinking Meets Platform Strategy and Social Media via Nike+ (March 2012)

Nokia

• Ron Adner, A Sad Lesson in Collaborative Innovation (HBR May 2012)
• The partnership between Nokia and Microsoft “is a clear admission that Nokia’s own-platform strategy has
  faltered,” said Ben Wood, an analyst with research firm CCS: Insight. (BBC News, Feb 2011)

Walmart

• Nick Vitalari, Walmart and The Power of the Business Platform (Sept 2011)

and finally Google

• Steve Yegge, “Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant” (Oct 2011)
• Christopher Meyer, Steve Yegge’s Google Platform Rant (Oct 2011)

Steve Yegge compares Google with Amazon: Google has a lot of things in its favour, but its platform strategy is not one of them. See my comment Google as a Platform (NOT) (Oct 2011) 

• “Page and his management team have mandated that all Googlers focus on
  seven business areas, and that they don’t look to expand Google’s reach
  beyond these core initiatives.” Farhad Manjoo, Google’s Grand Plan (Slate, March 2012)

• “Page’s emphasis on streamlining Google’s product line has made the
  company’s thousands of employees focused on how — and if — a tool
  adequately fulfills users’ needs.” Bianca Bosker, Google’s Future (Huffington Post, March 2012)

 That’s not a platform strategy, that’s a traditional product portfolio strategy!

• Eric Jackson, Google’s Paranoid Structure has made it less innovative, not more (Forbes, April 2012)

The concept of code ownership is always a touchy topic. When a vendor builds a custom application for you, who owns the code of that application? Your contract hopefully says that you do, but what does that really mean? Can you access the source code of the application, and if so, can you understand the source in order to fix a bug or make enhancements? Unless your developers were embedded in the contractor’s development team, chances are that you can’t.

This ability to “view the source” is at the heart of the various advantages a BPM software platform has over packaged applications, also known as Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software.

The beauty of building applications using a BPM platform like Appian is that you truly own your applications. This is because all decent BPM platforms include a graphical modeler where an application’s pieces are configured, not coded. Instead of needing access to the underlying Java/C++ code, you only need access to the underlying configuration for Process Models, Rules, User Interfaces, etc.

For example, at any time you can view the source configuration for a BPM application simply by opening the Process Models in the modeler. And of course, because all good BPM suites use BPMN notation, the Process Models can be understood by anyone familiar with this industry standard notation. The same concept of configuration over coding applies to Rules, Constants, Data Structures, etc.

This is important because having access to your application source means you can see exactly how and why your application is working the way it is. Need to trace back and see why a certain decision was made? Just open the history of the model and view the gateway and rule logic that led to the final state. In addition, if you see an opportunity to improve your business processes, you can easily enhance your application if you have access to the source. You aren’t at the mercy of a consultant’s coding expertise (and hourly fee) or a vendor’s development roadmap.

In addition, truly advanced BPM suites provide full export capability, allowing you to export an entire application as a collection of XML files. This is especially important if you are running your BPM applications in the cloud. The website CIO.com recently highlighted the problem of cloud providers holding customer applications hostage. With responsible cloud BPM suites like Appian, customers need not worry because the customers themselves have the ability to export their entire application whenever they like.

With a BPM platform like Appian, you always have access to the source configuration for your applications. With that comes a degree of control that is simply not possible with COTS software. To learn more about the advantages of BPM software over packaged applications, read our “Don’t License Another Software Application Until You Read This!” white paper.

- Jed Fonner, Principal Consultant