Monthly Archives March 2012

BATS’ "Own Goal" a Wake-up Call to Markets

March 31, 2012 SOA Infrastructure

In English football (soccer) an “own goal” is when a player scores against his own team (usually accidentally). Sports videos and books are full of own goal blunders and the players almost never live them down. The term has become synonymous with anything that backfires upon the perpetrator. So when BATS experienced an embarrassing technology problem on the day that…

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Therapy for Toxic FX Order Flow

March 31, 2012 SOA Infrastructure

As high frequency and algorithmic trading infiltrate foreign exchange markets some of the problems that dog equities, such as high order cancellations, are arising. Equities markets, which have seen HFT and algo trading go through the roof, have recently started clamping down on excessive and cancelled orders. As my colleague recently explored, Deutsche Börse, Borsa Italiana, NASDAQ and Direct Edge…

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Google Summer of Code: Students apply now!

March 30, 2012 BPM & SOA

JBoss is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2012 program, which means that students can work on their favourite open-source project during the summer and get ultimate glory and a nice paycheck in return.

Google Summer of Code is a global program that gives university students a stipend to write code for open source projects over a three month period. Accepted students are paired with a mentor from the participating projects, gaining exposure to real-world software development and the opportunity for future employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.

JBoss has created a list of possible ideas you can take a look at, but you can always propose us your own ideas as well !

For jBPM...

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JAX 2012, April 16-20th, Germany

March 30, 2012 BPM & SOA

I’ll be giving a presentation on the JAX conference this year in Germany. I’ll be giving an overview of not just business processes, but also business rules and complex event processing, and how they all come together in the JBoss BRMS / BPMS product. So if you’re already planning to go to that conference, make sure to add it to your time planner and I hope to see you there

Business Processes, Business Rules, Complex Event Processing with JBoss

Kris Verlaenen

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Icelands public administrations moving towards open source | opensource.com

March 30, 2012 SOA Solutions

Icelands public administrations moving towards open source | opensource.com.

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SOA Architect – CompuGain – Washington, DC

March 30, 2012 SOA Jobs

Our Client will be rolling out a Volunteer Management System (VMS) to recruit and manage volunteers. VMS will need to integrate with Learning Management System…
From CompuGain – 30 Mar 2012 04:25:32 GMT
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Director of Product Marketing – SOA Software – Los Angeles, CA

March 29, 2012 SOA Jobs

Management, done socially.

SOA Software is looking… Analyze and report on user activity data; develop SOA Software understanding of visitors behavior and…
From SOA Software – 29 Mar 2012 03:02:46 GMT
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Progress Software nominated for TM Forum’s Industry Leadership Award

March 29, 2012 SOA Infrastructure

I’m delighted to be able to share the news that Progress Software has been shortlisted as an official nominee at the forthcoming 2012 TM Forum Excellence Awards. The annual awards are held every year in Dublin, Ireland, with the aim of recognising global leaders in communications and highlighting service providers and supplier companies that demonstrate commitment to the industry. Progress…

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Hear Appian’s Vision for Business Process Management Software at Appian World 2012

March 28, 2012 BPM & SOA

Our CEO, Matt Calkins, calls the current state of Business Process Management software offerings “feature-incomplete.” The flurry of BPM technology acquisitions by stack vendors over the last two-plus years may create an attendant assumption that the market has “matured.” While important leaps forward have been made, Appian believes BPM software has yet to reach its true functional potential and organizational value.

The true value of Business Process Management software will not be realized through the improvement of discrete processes. Not even through the holistic and centralized governance of a variety of core processes. BPM software will truly emerge as the best way to organize and execute work when it becomes the single platform, and the single environment for unifying and presenting...

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Cloud computing, virtual image sprawl and labor costs

March 28, 2012 SOA Solutions

COMMENTARY – The virtual machine image, a powerful driver of cloud computing, may be described as a tiger few can easily ride. The VMs are proliferating. Earlier this month, no less a personage than IBM’s Daniel Sabbah forecast that virtual image sprawl would outgrow IT’s capacity to keep pace.

“Virtual images are tripling every two years, outpacing the doubling in compute power and essentially flat IT budgets,” IBM Tivoli Software General Manager Sabbah said in a statement coinciding with IBM’s Pulse Conference.

“With current operating practices, every two years you’d need 1.5 times the physical infrastructure to support cloud and twice the labor...

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