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1st July 2008

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.
21st June 2008 "Is it time for payment processing systems to go under the knife?" asks Steve Craggs in this Financial-i article.  See the article here (subscription required).
6th March 2008 Steve Craggs asks whether SOA could defuse the Mainframe skills time-bomb.  Read his column on EUBankers.net (sign-up and subscription required)
21st January 2008 Lustratus' annual predictions for the SOA and Integration market continues with our 2008 insight. 
15th January 2008  Lustratus runs the rule over Ivory - GT Software's Mainframe SOA solution. Lustratus examines the product, maps the functionality against the market needs and concludes with indepth interviews with current Ivory users.
3rd December 2007  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.
29th October 2007 MuleSource - validating open source for SOA and integration projects?  Lustratus examines the Mule project and the MuleSource community and asks if it is a suitable solution for enterprise integration challenges.

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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.
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.
 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...

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:30:41 +0100

Message-driven SOA - what goes around?

Starting from when I was running IBM's MQSeries business, in the 1990s, I learnt a big lesson about seeing things from the user point of view. We had a great messaging product, and it started the EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)... Read ‘Message-driven SOA - what goes around?’

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:08:08 +0100

Will Intel's attack on appliances work?

At the recent Gartner SOA show in London, I was surprised to see a stand from Intel. Turns out Intel are striking back at the burgeoning SOA Appliances market. The Intel claim is that its 'software appliance' performs at least... Read ‘Will Intel's attack on appliances work?’

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:38:42 +0100

Time for the emergence of SOA-Lite?

In a recent post, I was reflecting on the buzz about WOA (web-oriented architecture) - this subject has come up as a possible way to deliver something similar to SOA but in a more lightweight fashion. Now, as I discussed... Read ‘Time for the emergence of SOA-Lite?’

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:54:22 +0100

What is an SOA Service - reprise

It looks like there is still some level of debate over the definition of an SOA service, according to the excellent Loraine Lawson's recent post. This was a topic covered in detail in a free Lustratus paper in 2007, entitled... Read ‘What is an SOA Service - reprise’
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