Posted by Matt Durham, VP Market Development, Software AG.

I am @matthewdurham on Twitter.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with the CIO of an innovative US passenger airline. This gentleman had just finished a presentation about how his organization is beyond aligned with “the business” at his employer, an acknowledgement of the popular “align IT with the business” mantra that has been so common for the past few years and remains very popular today. He described how IT must be much more than simply a service provider for the broader organization, and he made the case convincingly. 

Posted by Matt Green, VP Product Marketing, Software AG.

I was recently meeting with a customer in Europe about Complex Event Processing (CEP) topics when we wandered into the topic of Event Driven Architectures (EDA).  While the concept of EDA has been along for a long time, it seems that people still have a difficult time trying to understand in a personal way what is meant by EDA.  As we stumbled through various examples of how EDA exposes itself in everyday life, we stumbled upon Twitter.  Twitter has become more than just a micro-blogging site and as of last month it reached the level of two billion tweets per month, and has clearly established itself as a true internet phenomenon.  So how does this relate to EDA and CEP?  I would argue the Twitter is the worlds largest EDA and is gaining world wide acceptance because of this. 

Let’s look at a typical EDA architecture and see the overlap…

Posted by Matt Durham, VP Market Development, Software AG.

I am @matthewdurham on Twitter.

On April 19 Gartner published “Market Share: Application Infrastructure and Middleware Software, Worldwide, 2009” (membership required for access). In the report, Gartner showed pretty healthy year-over-year growth of about 8% for the middleware market (which they call “Application Infrastructure and Middleware”, or AIM). It’s great that the report shows that Software AG is about 12% bigger than TIBCO in this market and that Software AG grew about 9% in product while TIBCO shrank by a bit more than 1% (or grew by a bit more than -1%?!?). Software AG is also the largest SOA Governance vendor and in the top five in BPMS, ESB and B2B software (and ahead of TIBCO in all of those).

Posted by Jignesh Shah, VP SOA Product Management & Marketing, Software AG.

Twitter: @jshah0209

In his key note address at this year’s Gartner AADI Summit, Jeff Schulman, Vice President, Gartner, compelled everyone to focus on SOA Governance. He described SOA Governance as the key to adopting SOA and realizing its benefits. Further, he felt that SOA Governance was do or die and without governance one might as well flush their SOA investments down the drain and update their resumes! While this statement may sound a bit over the top, it simply emphasizes the fact that it is not possible to benefit from SOA without SOA Governance.

Posted by Jignesh Shah, VP SOA Product Management & Marketing, Software AG.

Last month I met several customers at Software AG Tech Fairs hosted in Boston, Chicago and DC. At each event, we conducted a special session to get feedback on our ideas for the future and what customers might expect from us. One of the topics was support for additional WS-* standards. Across the board, this topic drew blank stares, shrugs and an occasional cynical remark like – “the good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from”. The latest feedback from our Toronto event is more of the same – no interest. This lack of interest is a huge shift from just a couple of years ago when WS-* standards were highly discussed and hotly debated.