Over the last few months I've seen a very nice shift in the focus of software vendors away from SOA & Business Process towards their next
piece of string, Complex Event Process (CEP). Now this is being pushed as "
part of SOA" but this is really great as it really focuses the vendors as being in the
technical SOA space over the
business SOA space. Oracle are focusing on the
Grid infrastructure for scalable and reliable SOA infrastructures. These are all very positive things as they more firmly underline the difference between the technology enablement of SOA from its business definition. This is a very
good thingTM as it highlights the missing area much more effectively than the confusion that was caused by the Web Service and BPEL focus that claimed to be business oriented but in reality was not.
This represents a real evolution of the T-SOA market, in particular with Oracle focusing more on the operational side of the technology over the bells and whistles approach.
Now the question is can SOA as a business concept be revived and establish itself as the way to
think and deliver SOA with the vendors providing simply the
platform on which it operates.
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3 comments:
Sorry Steve, you can't (TM) "a very good thing" as there is prior art - 1066 and All That see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That (published 1930). Possibly the best history book ever written :-)
Hi Steve,
I read your current and old articles on SOA. They real fantastic. I am looking for a guidance to seriously start with SOA.
My email is Partha.Sengupta@capgemini.com
Bad news I'm afraid - Complex Event Processing is somewhat orthogonal to SOA (and BPM). For sure, Oracle/BEA and IBM are trying to jump on what they see as a "CEP bandwagon", but for sure they'll keep hands and feet on the SOA and BPM bandwagons too...
The good news is that CEP can help drive new BPM and SOA (and IMHO is a-kind-of service anyway), and us existing CEP vendors are indeed getting on with real work!
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