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| 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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| 1st July 2008 |
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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| 21st June 2008 |
"Is it time for payment processing systems to go under the knife?" asks Steve Craggs in this Financial-i article. See the article here (subscription required). |
| 6th March 2008 |
Steve Craggs asks whether SOA could defuse the Mainframe skills time-bomb. Read his column on EUBankers.net (sign-up and subscription required) |
| 21st January 2008 |
Lustratus' annual predictions for the SOA and Integration market continues with our 2008 insight. |
| 15th January 2008 |
Lustratus runs the rule over Ivory - GT Software's Mainframe SOA solution. Lustratus examines the product, maps the functionality against the market needs and concludes with indepth interviews with current Ivory users. |
| 3rd December 2007 |
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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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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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:10:28 +0100
I have been doing some research recently on how the world of alerts has changed, and I am now a convert in the alerts vs notifications debate to the notifications team. The change of terminology is not just cosmetic -... Read ‘Alerts vs Notifications - moving to a business focus’
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Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:30:41 +0100
Starting from when I was running IBM's MQSeries business, in the 1990s, I learnt a big lesson about seeing things from the user point of view. We had a great messaging product, and it started the EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)... Read ‘Message-driven SOA - what goes around?’
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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:08:08 +0100
At the recent Gartner SOA show in London, I was surprised to see a stand from Intel. Turns out Intel are striking back at the burgeoning SOA Appliances market. The Intel claim is that its 'software appliance' performs at least... Read ‘Will Intel's attack on appliances work?’
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Mon, 12 May 2008 15:38:42 +0100
In a recent post, I was reflecting on the buzz about WOA (web-oriented architecture) - this subject has come up as a possible way to deliver something similar to SOA but in a more lightweight fashion. Now, as I discussed... Read ‘Time for the emergence of SOA-Lite?’
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