The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Bus

Forrester did evaluate the ESBs that are out there on the market and found Sonic ESB being the leader of the pack…

Although ESBs are seen more and more as a commodity, it is still the heart of an SOA. Depending on the requirements in terms of reliability, failover and performance, it makes sense to spend some time and money here. Customers should avoid a vendor lock-in or missing standards-support, etc.

When it comes to SOA 2.0, an ESB has to allow collaboration in development, deployment and operation. The more standards are supported, the better, when business partners or customers are looking to (re-)use some of the services connected to the ESB.

OpenSource can be an alternative if budget is tight (e.g. FUSE).

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SOA 1.0 + EDA = SOA 2.0 ??

It looks like Gartner has a different interpretation of SOA 2.0...

In my context SOA 2.0 is of course the merger between SOA and the Web 2.0. It is interesting to see this definition, though. It highlights the importance of realtime which ultimately allows to react to any type of event much faster than by using a data warehouse and any sort of BI.

But is this a reason to promote it to version 2.0?

Progress Software has a leading tool for Complex Event Processing (Apama) that gains more and more visbility within the installed base of SOA customers.

So let's see how the term SOA 2.0 will be defined in the future. Maybe I should call my blog SOA 3.0 or SOA 2.5?  We'll see :)

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