SAP and Microsoft help found Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN)
SAP and Microsoft join together with leading industry players and global banks in a new association to help banks establish a service-oriented architecture.
Messaging, Workflow Roadmap Announced (.doc file, 53 KB)
The Vision: Significantly simplifies the effort required to design, build, deploy and manage distributed applications within and across organizations.
Microsoft SOA and Business Process Pack Promotion β Limited Time Offer
Accelerate your SOA or BPM project and access an integrated set of capabilities with the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Pack. Microsoft is providing an extra incentive to get started with your project with a limited time offer of 10% discount from the total price of the individual products.
Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers
Gartner (June 3, 2008) Service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, international e-commerce, proliferating business-to-business projects and changing user requirements are driving vendor innovation and consolidation in the B2B gateway software market. Gartner positions Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers.
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2Q08
(Gartner, April 24, 2008) Foundational EAS technology is evolving to meet the challenges of constant innovation in business software. Gartner positions Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers.
Analyst Opinion: Microsoft's Project Oslo
(Directions on Microsoft, Oct. 30, 2007, .pdf, 377 kb)
Oslo supports principles—service-oriented architecture and composite applications—that Microsoft believes will drive future business application development.
SOA: The State of the Market
(AMR Research, Dec. 18, 2007, .pdf , 705 kb)
In this market roundup, AMR defines the structure of the SOA market, identifies the most influential players, and makes some predictions about the future. βThe mega-vendors, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and Oracle,
are exploiting their deep pockets to build broad product suites. They also use their powerful relationships with customers to actively direct the market.β
Microsoft Is a Leader in Application Server Platforms
Forrester Research (July 11, 2007) Microsoft has a very comprehensive application server platform. Its platform is very well integrated and provides both the widely used features of today's Web applications and many of the advanced features that will drive the next generation of SOA.
Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure For New Service Oriented Business Application Projects, 2Q07
Gartner (May 31, 2007) This Gartner Magic Quadrant by Yefim Natis evaluates those vendors within the Application Infrastructure market who proved the end-to-end enabling technology for building new service-oriented business applications. Gartner positions Microsoft in the Challengers quadrant. According to Gartner, "Challengers excel in their ability to attract large user following, but owe that ability to a relatively narrower focus on a particular usage pattern or user type."
Southwest Florida Water Management District Wins RDN's SOA Innovator Award
The Southwest Florida Water Management District gained acclaim, in the SOA category of RDN's First Annual Innovator Awards in the SOA category, with a well-construction permitting application that ties into a host of legacy systems. The SOA implementation, built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, ties together disparate Cobol applications, Oracle databases, an enterprise content-management repository, and a geographic information system to process 86 percent of the nearly 17,000 permits processed electronically.
Microsoft Does Have a SOA Strategy
Redmond Magazine (August 1, 2007) Microsoft is not selling a big, fat SOA stack, (Steven) Martin argues. Instead, the company is taking its "traditional" technical approach to the SOA market — one that is focused on empowering individuals, he says.
Microsoft and Service Orientation
Redmond Magazine (August 1, 2007) From our (Microsoft's) perspective, SOA is a "how." It's a way to accomplish something, and BPM is a "what." SOA isn't very interesting by itself if it's just being a new version of EAI. It could be better, faster, cheaper — and there's great economy in that. But with service orientation you have access to applications in a high-fidelity way, and that's the BPM side of things. The types of apps we see users building now that sit on top of SOA are things that truly differentiate the business and aren't things they can buy off the shelf. They are their organization's secret sauce.
Microsoft's BizTalk Services Simplify SOA
eWeek.com (April 24, 2007) Microsoft has delivered a set of new services based on its BizTalk Server technology to help developers build new SOA-oriented applications. Microsoft BizTalk Services, announced on April 24, includes BizTalk Identity Services, which provide authentication, access control and federated identity based on the WS-Trust specification. The new BizTalk Relay Services facilitate the traversal and bridging of physical networks, enabling high-fidelity interconnection between cooperating systems for cross-organizational messaging behind firewalls.
Microsoft: The SOA Road Less Traveled
SearchWebServices.com (April 16, 2007) (ZapThink analyst Ron) Schmelzer doesn't like portraying Microsoft as if it were in an alternative matrix with .NET as compared with the players in the Java world such as IBM. He said criticism that everything Microsoft does related to SOA is .NET centric, misses the point, or just reflects a Java-bias. "If you went to IBM and said you want WebSphere but they have to deploy it on the .NET platform," Schmelzer said, "The answer is no. WebSphere is a Java thing. IBM is just as much Java centric in their approach as Microsoft is .NET centric in their approach."
Microsoft Forms Business Process Alliance, Develops BPM Roadmap
eWeek.com (February 27, 2007) The company announced Feb. 26 at the Gartner BPM Summit in San Diego that it has formed the Microsoft Business Process Alliance, a group of about 10 companies dedicated to building out BPM functionality on Microsoft's BPM platform. The companies include IDS Scheer (a key process modeling partner with SAP and Oracle), Fair Isaac, Global 360, Metastorm, Ascentn, SourceCode Technology Holding, AmberPoint, InRule, PNMsoft and RuleBurst. The goal of the alliance is to break down barriers to BPM deployment—particularly for small and midsize businesses—by providing a less expensive BPM technology deployment option for companies.
Microsoft Voted Best BPM Vendor in Intelligent Enterprise's Reader's Choice Awards
Intelligent Enterprise (January 1, 2007) Intelligent Enterprise awards Microsoft "Best BPM vendor", confirming that "there's no denying that [Microsoft BizTalk Server is] helping more readers improve business processes than many of the pure-play BPM suites combined."
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