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| 16th November 2008 |
Lustratus has released the High Performance Messaging Segment Analysis Study (SAS). This document contains the findings of the REPAMA SAS and examines the strategies of three vendors looking to unseat TIBCO's leadership position in the High Performance Messaging segment. The Initial Vendors and products studied include:
•IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging (LLM)
•29West Latency Busters Messaging (LBM)
•Solace Systems Content Router
More information on REPAMA can be found here.
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| 15th November 2008 |
The Lustratus REPAMA Guide is now available for download. The guide documents the REPAMA methodology for reverse engineering key strategic and tactical elements from the language that vendors use to reach their prospects and customers. The REPAMA Guide provides an introduction to the REPAMA methodology together with a detailed descritpion of each of 25+ REPAMA studies. |
| 17th October 2008 |
Lustratus asks whether TIBCO can retain its position in the high performance messaging market given some significant recent competitive developments. The High Performance Messaging Arms Race is a Lustratus Insight that looks at some of these developments, explains the background and lists some of the options presented to end users.
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| 1st October 2008 |
Lustratus has updated the decision makers guide for SAP's SOA-based process integration. It is a 2008 update of an earlier Lustratus Report, which was very well received, and has been produced in response to considerable user demand. This update includes a range of new functionality rolled out by SAP since the original paper was written. |
| 17th September 2008 |
Lustratus' Danny Goodall has launched a new blog dedicated to discussing how vendors position and market their products and services. The REPAMA Strategic Marketing Analysis blog can be found here. |
| 16th September 2008 |
Is data the forgotten element of a SOA strategy? Can organisations create data services to ensure consistent, accurate and timely access to information? Lustratus' Steve Craggs will moderate a webinar discussion for the Integration Consortium on Thursday 18th September. Registration details can be found here. |
| 1st September 2008 |
SOA promises great things, but many companies are struggling with its implementation. Projects are getting bogged down, strategic benefits are not being achieved and sometimes SOA strategy is failing to even get to the implementation stage. This paper looks at some of the causes, and the sort of external help and best practices that can help to cure the problems. |
| 30th August 2008 |
Alert handling has come a long way in both in terms of the wide range of communication mechanisms supported as well as user requirements. Latest developments in the space see users looking for more business value from notification handling, culminating in embedding this support as a key element of the overall process workflow. This paper discusses this trend and looks at the functionality required in notification software to deliver this 'closed loop' notification processing. |
| 14th July 2008 |
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Featured Research
| A little SOA help goes a long way |
SOA promises great things, but many companies are struggling with its implementation. Projects are getting bogged down, strategic benefits are not being achieved and sometimes SOA strategy is failing to even get to the implementation stage. This paper looks at some of the causes, and the sort of extenral help and best practices that can help to cure the problems. |
| Closed loop notification software |
Alert handling has come a long way. Not only can a wide range of communications mechanisms be used, such as SMS Text, email, voicemail and fax, but the processing of the alert has become much more of a two-way process, moving from handling 'alerts' to 'notifications'. Latest developments in the space see users looking for more business value from notification handling, culminating in embedding this support as a key element of the overall process workflow. This paper discusses this trend and looks at the functionality required in notification software to deliver this 'closed loop' notification processing. |
| Message-driven SOA - getting rapid results with SOA application integration |
This Lustratus Report discusses a way to get quick value from SOA - message-driven SOA. The idea is to avoid getting tangled up in the complexities of process re-engineering and business transformation, and instead focus on 'quick-hit' business successes through the use of SOA for business integration. The message-driven part refers to the use of a message-based, loosely coupled flow approach which provides a high degree of flexibility that is non-invasive.
The paper looks at the drivers for message-driven SOA, the functionalities required from an SOA infrastructure to deliver it and where it is most applicable.
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| 2nd Generation Payment Processing Systems |
Payments processing is under immense pressure today, brought about by industry trends such as globalization and the need for differentiation combined with a continual need to do more with less. Lustratus looks at an emerging architectural model that is better positioned to respond to the needs of payments processing both now and in the future in our latest report on 2nd Generation Payment Processing Systems.
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| The Open Source Value Proposition for SOA |
Dr. Ronan Bradley examines the The Open Source Value Proposition for SOA in this Lustratus Report.
For readers who are considering the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in their service-oriented architecture deployments, Lustratus drills into the good and the bad of Open Source Software.
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| An SOA Primer |
This collection of papers gives a useful introduction to service-oriented architecture (SOA), including some important early lessons and tips. |
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LiteBytes - The Lustratus Blog...
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:05:57 +0000
When I hear from a vendor about massive reductions in processing time or cost savings associated with the use of its products, I must confess to getting deeply suspicious. This is because when I dig a little deeper, the trumpeted... Read ‘Software AG and a dramatic example of SOA success in government’
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Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:11:34 +0000
Five or ten years ago, this sort of question would have been unthinkable, but now mainframe users are increasingly facing a choice between whether to use Linux on System z or z/OS to host new mainframe workloads. These new workloads... Read ‘Linux v z/OS on IBM mainframes’
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Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:52:56 +0100
The problem with Open Source has always been to my mind that the myth of Open Source slowed down the development of mature business models. The myth is that OSS is an almost altruistic endeavour when end-users cooperate to produce... Read ‘Viable open source business models emerge’
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Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:30:18 +0100
I was reminded how easy it is to get marketing completely wrong today when I saw (on UK television) an advertisement for New York Bagels. Bagels are not as heavily embedded in the UK psyche as in the US, I... Read ‘Mistakes marketeers make - and how NOT to make them’
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