Soa News & Articles

Even with the Thanksgiving Weekend, there’s been a lot in the GRC space, including the recent upgrade from Laserfiche, SOA’s enhanced Repository Manager, the EU has said it is going to tighten up on data privacy, Compliance 360 looks into its crystal, while Iron Mountain and O’Neil partner.

Our friends at Gartner kick off their latest "summit" this week in a chilly but vibrant Las Vegas, Nevada. The focus of the conference, when not at the slot machines or blackjack tables, is Application Architecture, Development and Integration.

This week in the GRC space, HP continues its cloud charge, SOA offers governance for .NET web services, Perimeter offers email compliance across Office 365, Norman Marks from SAP talked to us about GRC for life and Avior upgrades its GRC suite.

The big event in the GRC space this week was the release of Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for e-Discovery. Otherwise, RSA and SOA have integrated to provide cloud security, OpenLogic offers new collaboration capabilities for compliance, Iron Mountain shows that enterprises are still struggling to find files, while companies worried about GRC can learn it from ARC Logics.

There have been a number of interesting announcements in the GRC space this week. First, we had the release of a new governance product from SOA to manage IBM’s WebSphere, followed by a physical records management release for SharePoint 2010 and Mimecast support for BPOS. In the meantime, Autonomy was making its move into the healthcare market.

Last week we saw a considerable amount of movement in the document management software industry, not the least of which was the closure of the Xerox –ACS deal. The wheeling-and-dealing continues this week with the acquisition of AmberPoint by Oracle while AIIM and Gartner get back into gear with some research published recently.

All the potential advantages of a service-oriented architecture are out the window if developers lose sight of the forest for the trees. Adjoovo has come up with an ingenious registry solution to keep businesses out of the potential pitfalls of the service-oriented approach: metadata cataloguing and Web 2.0 visualization.

More good things are coming from old partnerships, the latest being a global strategic alliance between Ricoh Americas Corporation and the ever-popular IBM, spearheaded by Ricoh's new offering - Document Security and Management Services.

Being that Clearview Enterprise Content Management is, as they say, the first SharePoint-based solution, we think they rock pretty hard. Well, in the world of Microsoft at least.

And now, not even six months since we last reported an upgrade to Clearview ECM, they’ve gone and released version 5.0 (more rockage). The release offers lots of exciting changes and new features, including a new Business Process Management module and compatibility with Kofax 8.0.

It has been a little less than two months since the news of a proposed new enterprise content management standard hit the streets. The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) spec, created jointly by Microsoft, IBM, EMC and a few other Enterprise CMS providers, was the talk of the town — for better or for worse.

But it’s been relatively quiet these days and we find that strange considering the importance of a standard like this to the industry. Maybe it’s not so important. Maybe it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Maybe it’s simply a done deal and no one needs to say more…

Two words: Las Vegas. Two more words: Malcolm Gladwell. Granted they are not the words usually associated with the city of lights, but in this case they make sense.

December 8-10, Gartner presents its Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, a conference dedicated to service-oriented architecture (SOA).

BEA, a leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has harnessed the powerful forces of the sea, resulting in the new BEA AquaLogic User Interaction Suite. It promises to help organizations roll with the power of the changing IT landscape, notably, the recent popularity of SOA, by driving new modes of collaboration, and improving productivity and participation.

With compliance issues top of mind for companies today, Identity and Access Management are critical components of any application. Keeping track of many users and their access to many different systems is often difficult and time consuming.

The Dot Net Factory understands this and has released the latest version of its EmpowerID suite. EmpowerID v4 is a Role-based Access Control (RBAC) suite for all enterprise resources.

EmpowerID offers a complete identity lifecycle management suite built on a .Net-based Service Oriented Architecture that utilizes Windows Workflow Foundation. And it’s based on Business Process Management.

Now if that doesn’t peek your interest….

In a move sure to shock no-one at all, RedHat has announced the launch of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.

The new product brings Service Oriented Architecture to the JBoss application platform for the first time, as well as the exemplary integration of applications and processes which we’ve come to expect. Red Hat calls the new package ‘the first comprehensive open source SOA product offering’. Three cheers for Red Hat, then.

According to the analyst firm CMS Watch, enterprise content management vendors are failing to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

They claim that, after evaluating a number of ECM technologies, these products are “lacking key security pre-requisites” and are “ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)”.

Ouch! say the big boys leaning forward in their leather massage chairs.