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Lustratus News
| 9th June 2009 |
SPECIAL OFFER!
*** As of 1st July 2009 this offer has now expired
For a limited period only, the Lustratus report, Comparing BPM from IBM, Oracle and SAP, is being offered at a 75% discounted price of $495. This reduction is available for all orders placed before June 30th 2009.
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2nd June 2009
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The Lustratus High Performance Messaging REPAMA SAS has been updated and now contains the reverse-engineered product marketing strategy for TIBCO's Messaging Appliance. |
| 10th May 2009 |
29West has asked Lustratus to moderate a panel discussion at their upcoming Zero Latency Tour event in London on Tuesday 19th May. It promises to be a good discussion as the participants all have solid real-world experience of building and implementing low-latency systems. We should have a lively debate attempting to answer the basic questions of how close to zero latency you can get and how you go about achieving it.
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| 2nd April 2009 |
The Lustratus 2008 report on SAP's Process Introduction solution is now available at no charge.
This offer is part of the ongoing Lustratus program to make selected priced reports available for free after a 6 month period. This report, previously available for $995, looks at the 2008 status of SAP's SOA-based integration solution.
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| 16th March 2009 |
Go to Las Vegas to learn about integration, and stay for FREE!
The Integration Consortium is holding its annual global summit in the Las Vegas MGM Grand Hotel, 3rd-4th June, with industry and end user speakers talking about different aspects of integration, including Lustratus' own Steve Craggs who is speaking about how to justify BPM in today's economic climate. The IC is also offering the first 200 registrants pre-paid rooms at the MGM for the summit.
View the full program of events here, or go the the Integration Consortium summit site.
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| 20th February 2009 |
The REPAMA Segment Analysis Study into the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) market is now available in both summary report and full REPAMA formats. Both reports provide competitive intelligence gathered by reverse-engineering the go-to-market strategies of the following organisations/products:
- Microsoft's ESB Guidance
- Oracle's Service Bus
- Progress' Sonic ESB
- TIBCO's ActiveMatrix Service Bus
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| 19th January 2009 |
Lustratus looks into its crystal ball once again with our 2009 predictions for the software infrastructure marketplace, including areas such as business integration, SOA, BPM, open source, cloud computing and business transparency. The key trends are identified and discussed here.
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| 16th November 2008 |
Lustratus has released the High Performance Messaging Segment Analysis Study (SAS). This document contains the findings of the REPAMA SAS and examines the strategies of three vendors looking to unseat TIBCO's leadership position in the High Performance Messaging segment. The Initial Vendors and products studied include:
•IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging (LLM)
•29West Latency Busters Messaging (LBM)
•Solace Systems Content Router
More information on REPAMA can be found here
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| 15th November 2008 |
The Lustratus REPAMA Guide is now available for download. The guide documents the REPAMA methodology for reverse engineering key strategic and tactical elements from the language that vendors use to reach their prospects and customers. The REPAMA Guide provides an introduction to the REPAMA methodology together with a detailed descritpion of each of 25+ REPAMA studies. |
| 17th October 2008 |
Lustratus asks whether TIBCO can retain its position in the high performance messaging market given some significant recent competitive developments. The High Performance Messaging Arms Race is a Lustratus Insight that looks at some of these developments, explains the background and lists some of the options presented to end users.
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| 1st October 2008 |
Lustratus has updated the decision makers guide for SAP's SOA-based process integration. It is a 2008 update of an earlier Lustratus Report, which was very well received, and has been produced in response to considerable user demand. This update includes a range of new functionality rolled out by SAP since the original paper was written. |
Featured Research
| A little SOA help goes a long way |
SOA promises great things, but many companies are struggling with its implementation. Projects are getting bogged down, strategic benefits are not being achieved and sometimes SOA strategy is failing to even get to the implementation stage. This paper looks at some of the causes, and the sort of extenral help and best practices that can help to cure the problems. |
| Closed loop notification software |
Alert handling has come a long way. Not only can a wide range of communications mechanisms be used, such as SMS Text, email, voicemail and fax, but the processing of the alert has become much more of a two-way process, moving from handling 'alerts' to 'notifications'. Latest developments in the space see users looking for more business value from notification handling, culminating in embedding this support as a key element of the overall process workflow. This paper discusses this trend and looks at the functionality required in notification software to deliver this 'closed loop' notification processing. |
| Message-driven SOA - getting rapid results with SOA application integration |
This Lustratus Report discusses a way to get quick value from SOA - message-driven SOA. The idea is to avoid getting tangled up in the complexities of process re-engineering and business transformation, and instead focus on 'quick-hit' business successes through the use of SOA for business integration. The message-driven part refers to the use of a message-based, loosely coupled flow approach which provides a high degree of flexibility that is non-invasive.
The paper looks at the drivers for message-driven SOA, the functionalities required from an SOA infrastructure to deliver it and where it is most applicable.
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| 2nd Generation Payment Processing Systems |
Payments processing is under immense pressure today, brought about by industry trends such as globalization and the need for differentiation combined with a continual need to do more with less. Lustratus looks at an emerging architectural model that is better positioned to respond to the needs of payments processing both now and in the future in our latest report on 2nd Generation Payment Processing Systems.
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| The Open Source Value Proposition for SOA |
Dr. Ronan Bradley examines the The Open Source Value Proposition for SOA in this Lustratus Report.
For readers who are considering the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in their service-oriented architecture deployments, Lustratus drills into the good and the bad of Open Source Software.
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| An SOA Primer |
This collection of papers gives a useful introduction to service-oriented architecture (SOA), including some important early lessons and tips. |
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LiteBytes - The Lustratus Blog...
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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:59:50 +0100
I was recently pointed to an articlein Mainframe Executive magazine written by David Linthicum on the subject of "Mainframe SOA: When SOA Works/When SOA fails". I think the friend who suggested I read it was making mischief, knowing my views... Read ‘SOA success, and what causes it’
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Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:10:14 +0100
Recently I have been involved in a discussion in the LinkedIn Integration Consortium group on managing data in a Cloud Computing environment, and the subject has turned to security. I had maintained that data security concerns may sometimes result in... Read ‘The REAL concern over Cloud data security’
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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:06:38 +0100
I have just returned from a couple of weeks around and about, culminating in presenting at the Integration Consortium's Global Integration Summit (GIS), where I presented the Lustratus 'BPM Sweet Spots' paper. One message seemed to come out loud and... Read ‘Pragmatism is the theme for 2009’
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Tue, 19 May 2009 09:04:40 +0100
There has been a lot of chatter recently about measuring SOA ROI - take a look at Loraine Lawson's recent blog for instance. or Gartner's results of a UK-based survey of SOA adopters. However, one of the benefits that I... Read ‘The forgotten SOA benefit - Visibility’
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