For the last couple of years I've done a vendor assessment on what I thought of the various vendors. This year I've decided to do a Web 2.0 style ;) of thing as well. I've put online a survey form at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pz8YmsABxikMi-h8lTZTuQA where anyone can add in their assessment of vendors and how they are doing. What I will do once there is a reasonable bit of data in it is start publishing the graphs in summary form first and then at the end I'll release all theinfo so anyone can have a look at the raw stuff.
If there are any vendors I've missed off who matter let me know.
Cheers for the help
To be clear on the scoring - 1 = Rubbish or zero functionality, 10 = PERFECT and could NEVER be improvedThe odds on a ten are pretty low.
Technorati Tags: SOA, Service Architecture
6 comments:
So basically you are just looking at technical SOA vendors, right?
Could you please clarify the purpose of this survey? Let's imagine IBM ends up with a score of x, and Oracle ends up with a score of y. What would this actually mean, and what practical implications would it have either for corporate procurement and strategy, or for the vendors themselves?
Sebastian raises a fair question about the exclusion of service providers (Google, Salesforce) and system integrators (er, Capgemini). I also wonder about the granularity - does it make sense to score IBM as a whole, or should you score each of the IBM brands (Websphere, Rational, Tivoli) separately?
Sorry,
I don't understand the point of this blog. You keep saying SOA is not about technology. So how does SOA vendors come in to play?
Nigel
Sebastian - yes
Richard - The point is to the same as last year but this time to also have other feeding back. On the other service providers its a good point... but probably not for me to do. I'd say look at the vendors as a whole so yes look at IBM Software with all its brands and then ask how integrated, clean, simple and seamless it is.
Anon - There are two worlds of SOA, the Business SOA and the Technical SOA, its a shame they have the same name but its still important to understand what happens when the rubber hits the IT road.
Steve,
I wanted to contact you about including Intalio in the survey but couldn't find a contact for you.
Please feel free to contact me at the email address provided if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Jonathan Crow
Intalio
When can we see the results?
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