Posts Tagged ‘soa’
SOA Upgrade to British Airways
- British SOA Air
British Airways (BA) is turning to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Progress Software to connect over 600 different electronic systems and processes involved in getting BA passengers in the air.
BA has more than 250 key applications distributed over 300 locations around the globe, which explains why they chose Progress. From an integration perspective, Progress® Sonic ESB® excels in those scenarios that require the integration and management of hundreds or even thousands of systems. One Progress customer was able to deploy its integration backbone out to 25 locations a day (and can update them in a fraction of that time).
“Moving this to a highly automated environment is a challenge, but SOA quickly proved itself to be the right approach to achieving our goal of a fully agile environment.”– Gordon Penfold, CTO, BA.
Who’s in Charge of the Architecture? You Are.
In Replacing Large Applications – Who’s in Charge?, Kathy Harris at Gartner writes:
Most of the organizations have no real architectural vision for their system. The result is that they are essentially allowing the vendor to establish their architecture. This may be ok in the long run, but for many organizations, it is a de facto decision rather than an active choice.
While many vendors have the expertise to make the right recommendations for their portion of a solution, things become much more complicated when you start integrating their applications with others. Complexity increases exponentially when you consider the changes being made by other departments, in other locations, and by your partners.
The complete picture can be daunting. Great enterprise architects understand that you don’t need an exact schematic of how infrastructure will evolve over the lifetime of the business. Rather, you need to take proactive steps to incorporate flexibility into your architecture. Read the rest of this entry »
Merger Shifts Progress’s Competitive Landscape
“Combined with IONA’s [enterprise service bus] and middleware products, Progress will emerge as a full-feature SOA infrastructure provider, but with a large installed base in deployed client-server and Web applications and a strong presence in IONA’s stronghold of finance and telecoms,” wrote Dana Gardner, principal analyst of Interarbor Solutions.