Publication date: 2007-07-19
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Review Zen and the Art of Rogue Employee Management:The evolution from mainframe to network computing, and all the stops in between, had one important commonality: centralized control. Command and control structures assured IT executives that the game was played on their terms. However, consumerization threatens to shake a fundamental tenet of technology management: central control.
Publication date: 2002-06-23
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Review XMLとWebサービス・セキュリティ Report / ZapThink, LLC:セキュリティは、企業全体にWebサービス・テクノロジを普及させるためにまず解決しなければならない課題である。そのため、多くのソフトウェア・ベンダがXMLやWebサービス・セキュリティ市場に参入し、実際のさまざまな問題に対して広い範囲にわたってソリューションを提供しているが、その数は多く、混乱しかねないほどだ。ただ、こうした努力のほとんどが、企業クラスのXMLやWebセキュリティ製品およびサービスに対する確実な需要ではなく市場地位の防衛に当てられている。結果として、企業が自社のメッセージを明確に伝え、製品の欠点を無くそうと努力する間、XMLおよびWebサービス・セキュリティ・ソリューションの新興市場では、一定期間の混乱が顕著にうかがわれることになると、ZapThinkは確信している。しかし、これからの数年間、XMLやWebサービスのセキュリティ市場は、Webサービス市場全体と歩調を合わせ、急速に拡大するであろう。2006年までには、ほとんどのアプリケーション・レベルのセキュリティ・ソリューションは、XMLおよびWebサービス関連のものになるだろうとZapThinkは考えている。
Publication date: 2002-11-19
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Review Service-Oriented Management Report: How Web Services Management is the Key to the Service-Oriented Architecture / ZapThink, LLC:Key Findings: Web Services management (WSM) software is software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services. Service-oriented management (SOM) software is software that supports the development and execution of a Service-oriented architecture. By 2007, 60% of the total system management market will consist of large vendors who offer SOM solutions, and a full 75% of the system management market (both small and large vendors) will be SOM-enabled. The market for Service-Oriented Management is expected to grow from $30 million in 2002 to $9. 2 Billion by 2007. Web Services Management solutions bridge the gap between the underlying systems and the Services that run on top of them. Starting in mid-2004, the large system management vendors will begin to dominate the SOM space, to the extent that the SOM point solutions segment of the market will reach its maximum in 2005. Table of Contents: I. Report Scope II. Context for Web Services Management 2. [+]1. Business Drivers for Service Orientation 2. 2. The Role of Web Services Management 2. 3. The Five Categories of Web Services Management Functionality III. Web Services Management Technology Landscape 3. 1. Architectural Approaches 3. 2. Architectural Elements 3. 3. Standards efforts IV. Market Segmentation 4. 1. Web Services Management Market Map 4. 2. System Management Platforms 4. 3. Web Services Security Platforms 4. 4. XML Proxies 4. 5. Private Web Services Networks 4. 6. Transaction/Workflow/BPM Platforms and Tools 4. 7. Web Services Development Platforms and Tools 4. 8. Web Services Testing Tools 4. 9. Web Services Management Platforms V. Current State of the Market 5. 1. Q4 ‘02 - Q1 ‘03: "Everybody in the Pool" VI. Business and Technology Trends 6. 1. Long Term Trends: Relationship to the System Management Market 6. 2. Long-Term Trends: Relationship to Web Services Market 6. 3. Inhibitors to Growth of Service-Oriented Management Market VII. Conclusions Related Research Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion About ZapThink, LLC.
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Review 2006 Western Europe - Broadband Statistics & Forecasts to 2015:This report is comprised of 167 statistical tables and covers 19 countries. For those needing high level strategic information and objective analysis on this region, this report is essential reading and gives further information on: The importance of LLU for competition; Increasing demand for VoD and triple play services; The implications of rapidly developing ADSL2+ networks; The changing face of converged media with widespread triple play services becoming a standard feature in homes; Future plans, strategies and results of home entertainment carried through broadband; Governments and municipalities investing in optimum fibre networks to bolster their economic welfare; Shifting mood throughout Europe to make broadband a Universal Service Obligation.
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- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review XML in Financial Services Report: The Whats, Whys, Whos and Hows / ZapThink, LLC:Key Findings: Financial Services role as a high-value information sector with the pressures of integrating complex, heterogeneous systems, the movement to "T+1" processing, and financial document preparation makes adoption of XML in the near term highly likely. The Financial Services sector spent over $195 Billion (US) in IT in 2001, with $985 Million invested on XML technologies in 2002. Expenditures on XML technologies in the Financial Services sector will grow to over $8. 3 Billion by 2005. Financial Services will seek to implement integration-centric XML approaches first, and content-management approaches second. The industry's focus on Straight-Through Processing and integration challenges will constrict IT budgets to XML solutions that specifically address these points. Budgets will greatly expand in late 2002 and 2003 for XML-based projects XML-based Content Management and Single-Source Publishing can reduce up to 75% of total publishing cost The proliferation of XML-based formats for Financial transactions will cause unnecessary headaches in the short term. Consolidation around the ISO 15022 specification is expected. Toolset immaturity and the impact of B2B and Web Services standards will impact Integration efforts and possibly make some XML specification efforts redundant Financial Services companies should seek to implement XML and Service-Oriented Integration to simplify STP and integration projects Financial Service Providers (FSPs) will need to have significant resources to invest in XML-based tools and technologies in 2002, although these needs will drop off in late 2003 as tools and technologies mature. Table of Contents: I. [+]Report Scope II. Financial Services: A Market Overview 2. 1 Definitions of the Financial Services Sector 2. 2 Financial Services Industries are Information Industries 2. 3 The Financial Services Sector Spends over $195 Billion in IT annually 2. 4 Typical Information Requirements for Financial Service Providers III. Drivers for XML Adoption in Financial Services Industries 3. 1 Integration and Interoperability 3. 2 Straight-Through Processing (STP) and T+1 3. 3 Financial Reporting Requirements - XML Mandated by Governments? 3. 4 Risk Management 3. 5 Future-Proofing the High Rate of Technology Change 3. 6 Competitive Advantage 3. 7 Effective Distribution of Print Materials IV. Solutions to Key Financial Services Industry Problems 4. 1 Web Services & Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) 4. 2 Financial Industry XML Vocabularies & Standards 4. 3 Single-Source Publishing V. ROI for XML-based Financial Services Solutions 5. 1 Immediate and Significant ROI: Service-Oriented Integration 5. 2 Immediate and Significant ROI: Single-Source Publishing 5. 3 Medium-term ROI: Content Syndication 5. 4 Long-term ROI: Adoption of Financial XML Standards 5. 5 Long-term ROI and Competitive Advantage: Device Integration VI. Barriers to XML Adoption and Growth Inhibitors 6. 1 Service-Oriented Integration Pre-Supposes Interoperability 6. 2 Lack of Standardized Security, Reliability, and Transaction Mechanisms 6. 3 External Integration Challenged Due to Lack of Control of End Points 6. 4 The Need to Support Multiple XML-based Specifications 6. 5 Impact of Web Services and B2B Vocabularies on Industry Standards 6. 6 Single-Source Publishing Requires Sophisticated Document Authors 6. 7 XML May Not be Suitable as a Long-term Archival Format 6. 8 Toolset Immaturity VII. Market Size and Future Trends 7. 1 Predicted Financial Services Expenditure on XML VIII. Conclusions 8. 1 Key Notes 8. 2 Decision Points 8. 3 Figures 8. 4 Tables IX. Profiled Vendors 9. 1 Service-Oriented Integration 9. 2 XML Content Creation 9. 3 XML Content Management 9. 4 Single-Source Publishing 9. 5 XML Content Syndication 9. 6 XML-based Risk Management 9. 7 XML-based Financial Services Companies A. Related Research B. Supporting Resources C. Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion About ZapThink, LLC XML Standards Featured: ACORD FinXML FIXML FpML IFX IRML ISO 15022 MarketsML MDDL MISMO OFX RETML RIXML STPML SWIFTML XBRL.
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- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review Service-Oriented Integration Report: Using Web Services and XML to Integrate Systems / ZapThink, LLC:Key Findings: Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) simplifies system integration by providing a single, simple architectural framework based on Web Services in which to build, deploy, and manage application functionality. The SOI market is expected to grow from $435 million in 2001 to about $6. 2 billion in 2006. The top three EAI vendors have over 43% of the overall EAI market. With the entrance of Microsoft and other vendors in 2002, this landscape is expected to change. Web Services isn't an integration technology, but a distributed computing technology that lends itself well to being used in integration scenarios. In a Web Services context, there really is no difference between EAI, B2Bi, and Data Integration. SOI solutions allow users to get a greater level of interaction and granularity with components deep within the application. SOI faces challenges in immature specifications, insufficient reliability, security, and transaction control. Microsoft and IBM have made strong entries into this space that will be a challenge for other providers of SOI solutions. [+]The potential ROI realized by adopting Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) far outweighs the slight benefits an organization gets from using Web Services as simply a "better API" for accessing application functionality. Integrating systems between two businesses is not only a technological problem; it requires pre-existing business relationships between the companies. Table of Contents: I. Report Scope II. Integration: The Challenges to be Solved 2. 1 The N-Squared Integration Challenge 2. 2 Classes of Integration Problem 2. 3 Traditional EAI and B2Bi Solutions 2. 4 Why Current EAI and B2Bi Solutions are Not Sufficient 2. 5 The Integration "Zipper" III. Service-Oriented Integration Approaches 3. 1 Using Web Services for Integration: Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) 3. 2 Methods for Implementing SOI 3. 3 SOI-enabled EAI and B2Bi Solutions 3. 4 Emerging SOI Solutions 3. 5 Data-focused SOI Solutions IV. Drivers for SOI Adoption 4. 1 Reduce the cost and complexity of managing IT infrastructures 4. 2 Provide a uniform platform for B2B exchange and marketplaces 4. 3 Move away from proprietary technologies and solutions 4. 4 Enable application and data reuse 4. 5 Simplify business modeling 4. 6 Provide fine-grained access to data, functionality, and logic V. ROI for Service-Oriented Integration 5. 1 TCO and ROI of Traditional EAI and B2Bi Solutions 5. 2 Improving the ROI Outlook with SOI 5. 3 The Movement to the "Agile Enterprise" Offers Greatest ROI 5. 4 Realize Integration ROI Internally First, Externally with Trusted Parties Second VI. Barriers and Challenges to SOI Adoption 6. 1 Interoperability of SOI implementations 6. 2 SOI specifications are far from complete 6. 3 SOI can require the re-architecting of systems 6. 4 Lack of Semantic Integration 6. 5 Web Services introduces its own level of complexity and inefficiency VII. Market Size and Future Trends 7. 1 The Convergence of EAI, B2Bi, and Data Integration Markets 7. 2 Market Opportunity and Sizing 7. 3 Current Vendor Positioning and Market Share 7. 4 Future Directions for Service-Oriented Integration VIII. Conclusions 8. 1 Key Notes 8. 2 Decision Points 8. 3 Figures 8. 4 Tables IX. Profiled Vendors 9. 1 SOI-enabled Web Services Platforms 9. 2 SOI-enabled EAI and B2Bi Solutions 9. 3 Emerging SOI Solutions 9. 4 Data-Focused SOI Solutions A. Related Research Reports Briefing Notes B. Supporting Resources C. Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion About ZapThink, LLC.
Publication date: 2002-08-23
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Review Testing Web Services Report / ZapThink, LLC:Key Findings: Web Services promise to fundamentally change the distributed computing landscape. This new landscape will present new testing scenarios and problems that companies using Web Services don't currently understand. Today’s enterprises that are dabbling in Web Services aren’t inquiring about or requesting testing solutions. The whole concept of a software development lifecycle will fall by the wayside as companies realize the advantages of orchestrating loosely coupled Services into coarse-grained business Services. As enterprises follow the Web Services model and move from phase one (through 2003) to phase three (2005 and beyond) many testing issues will arise that the current simplistic approach to Web Services testing will not cover. During phase one of Web Services adoption, Web Services are mainly just software components with SOAP interfaces. The dynamic, "publish, find, and bind" capabilities of Web Services characterize phase two of the adoption of Service-oriented architectures. In phase three, taking an agile approach to testing will make the most sense. Vendors of Testing tools do not see Web Services as heralding an emerging market per se; rather, they generally see Web Services as a relatively small evolutionary step in the development of software components. Test-first development will be a primary driver for Web Services testing. [+]Test-first development, where developers assist in the creation of automated test plans before a line of code is written, has been proven repeatedly to lead to better code, written faster, that meets the needs of stakeholders better. Table of Contents: I. Report Scope II. Context for Testing in the Web Services Model 2. 1 The ZapThink Web Services Roadmap 2. 2 Phase One 2. 3 Phase Two 2. 4 Phase Three III. Web Services Testing Capabilities and Trends 3. 1 Web Services Testing in the Current IT Environment 3. 2 Software Testing Capabilities from Now into the Future 3. 3 The Software Testing Tools Market in the Web Services Model 3. 4 The Convergence of Service Orientation and Agile Methodologies IV. Current State of the Market 4. 1 Web Services Testing Leaders and Followers 4. 2 Drivers for Web Services Testing Tools 4. 3 Barriers to adoption for Web Services Testing Tools V. Conclusions 5. 1 Key Notes 5. 2 Decision Points 5. 3 Figures 5. 4 Tables VI. Vendor Profiles A. Related Research B. Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion About ZapThink, LLC.
Publication date: 2007-01-22
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Review Counterfeit Software Is Counterproductive:If there is one issue upon which all software vendors are in total accord—and it may be the only issue—it is the damage wrought by consumers and corporations that knowingly or unwittingly use counterfeit software. The headlines invariably and almost exclusively focus on the issue of counterfeit software from the vendors’ perspective: legitimate revenue lost because of illegal software. Stories also abound of lurid punishments that range from true-up costs, fines and even criminal prosecution and jail time that potentially await end-user perpetrators when and if they get caught.
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Review Service-Oriented Architecture Consulting Report: Facilitating the Service-Oriented Enterprise / ZapThink, LLC:Key Findings: Today’s professional services firms are struggling to find their long-term value proposition in environments that are in constant change. There is a significant opportunity for PSOs in the short-term for helping companies implement and adopt SOAs, and in the long-term for providing critical business process expertise. As Service-oriented process tools mature, system integration will no longer be a separate activity, but will be subsumed into the process orchestration and choreography activities within the Service-oriented process tools. The business process design, optimization, and execution consulting market will come to displace the system integration market. System integrators will find the low-level integration work diminishing as their customers adopt SOAs, and therefore will need to transition their skills to the Service-oriented process arena to avoid having their market erode substantially. There is a significant opportunity for consulting firms in the next five years for helping companies implement and adopt SOAs, and in the long-term for providing critical business process expertise. Total SOA architectural and process consulting revenues will surpass those from system integration by 2006. System integration revenue by professional services organizations will decrease by over 70% by 2010, while Service-Oriented Business Process consulting will increase 20-fold in the same time period. Table of Contents: I. Report Scope 1. [+]1. Methodology II. The Context for SOA Consulting 2. 1. The Difference between Web Service and SOA engagements 2. 2. SOA Practice Contexts 2. 3. Meeting Customer Needs 2. 4. Raising the Perception of Architecture III. Conducting an SOA Engagement 3. 1. Selling an SOA Engagement 3. 2. Getting a Foot in the Door 3. 3. Aspects of SOA Engagements 3. 4. Technology Selection Considerations IV. Adopting an SOA 4. 1. Justifying an SOA Engagement 4. 2. SOA Enterprise Adoption Roadmap 4. 3. Managing an SOA Engagement V. Partnering with a Professional Services Organization 5. 1. Partnership Value Proposition 5. 2. Partnership Landscape VI. Current State of the Market 6. 1. Market Segmentation 6. 2. Adoption Picture 6. 3. Examples of SOA Engagements VII. Market Trends. Opportunities and Risks 7. 1. Compensation for the Standards Gap 7. 2. Long-term Shifts in Demand 7. 3. SOAs as the Key to the Real Time/On Demand Enterprise VIII. Conclusions 8. 1. Key Notes 8. 2. Decision Points 8. 3. Figures 8. 4. Tables IX. Profiled Professional Services Organizations 9. 1. Small Architectural Consulting Firms 9. 2. Small IT Consulting Firms 9. 3. Midsize IT Consulting Firms 9. 4. Large IT Consulting Firms 9. 5. Small/Midsize Full-Service PSOs 9. 6. Large Full-Service PSOs 9. 7. Software Vendors.
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Review AMI White Papers: The Evolving Roles and Opportunities for Small Business IT Solution Providers / AMI Partners, Inc.:
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- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review XML Data Store Multi-Client Study Report: Evaluating the "Sweet Spots" for XML Data Storage / ZapThink, LLC:Study Overview: This study is structured into two parts: a part that discusses the requirements for XML storage and the directions that the market is heading, and a part that profiles specific solutions and how they meet those requirements. PART I: Understanding the Market The first section of this Study explores the market and specific customer needs for XML data stores and answers the following questions: What are the business drivers for XML data storage? What are customers actually doing with XML data stores? What are the requirements for those different solutions? How are these requirements and needs shifting the market for XML data store solutions. PART II: Understanding the Vendors ZapThink worked with a few specific vendors to profile their solutions for XML Data Storage, and this study answers the following questions for each of those vendors: What is the value proposition for the XML data storage product, and for which applications is that solution best suited? What are the features of those products that enable those capabilities? How does the XML data storage solution index, store, query, and manage that data? How do these products perform? Table of Contents: PART I: THE EVOLUTION OF THE XML DATA STORE MARKET I. Setting the Stage: XML Data Storage Requirements II. The Multi-Client Study and Methodology 2. 1. Goals and Objectives of the Study III. XML Data Storage Approaches 3. 1. XML Storage Needs Differentiated from Previous Storage Needs 3. [+]2. The Emergence of the "Native" XML Indexing and Storage IV. Drivers for XML Storage 4. 1. Enabling the Content Lifecycle 4. 2. Facilitating Data and Application Integration 4. 3. Facilitating Business-to-Business Integration 4. 4. Facilitating and Enabling Web Services 4. 5. Supporting Business Intelligence and Analytics 4. 6. Enabling Rapid Application Development and Prototyping 4. 7. Serving as an Embedded Data Store for Third-Party Applications 4. 8. Serving as an Embedded Data Store for Hardware Devices 4. 9. Conclusion: There is no unified set of requirements for XML data stores V. "Native XML Data Storage" as Product Functionality, Rather than a Market 5. 1. A Short History of the Native XML Data Storage Market 5. 2. The Market Shifts in 2002 5. 3. General Purpose vs. Purpose-Built XML Data Storage VI. Current Market Positioning and Trends 6. 1. Market Positioning of Existing XML Data Storage Solutions 6. 2. Growth of the Market for Purpose-Built XML Data Stores 6. 3. Areas of Opportunity for Purpose-Built XML Data Stores PART II: XML DATA STORE VENDOR ANALYSIS Vendor Analysis: AGiLiENCE XPEERION VII. Overview VIII. Company Profile IX. Identifying the Value Proposition 9. 1. Unique Selling Points and Competitive Differentiation 9. 2. Realizing Return on Investment with AGiLiENCE XPEERION X. Product Features and Functionality 10. 1. Indexing and Storage Technology 10. 2. Document and Data Store Capacities 10. 3. Query Features and Mechanisms 10. 4. API features 10. 5. Supported Platforms 10. 6. Version History 10. 7. Additional Software and Services XI. Applying AGiLiENCE to Particular XML-based Business Requirements 11. 1. Content Lifecycle 11. 2. Efficient Search 11. 3. Knowledge Management 11. 4. Application Embedding 11. 5. Current and Future Application Use Profiles XII. Customers and Implementations 12. 1. Pricing and Channel Sales 12. 2. Sales and Technology Partners XIII. Product Performance Analysis 13. 1. Performance Analysis Setup 13. 2. XPEERION Indexing and Storage Performance 13. 3. XPEERION Insert Performance 13. 4. XPEERION Query Performance XIV. Conclusions Vendor Analysis: NeoCore XV. Overview XVI. Company Profile XVII. Identifying the Value Proposition 17. 1. Unique Selling Points and Competitive Differentiation 17. 2. Realizing Return on Investment with NeoCore XMS XVIII. Product Features and Functionality 18. 1. Indexing and Storage Technology: The Digital Pattern Processing (DPP) Mechanism 18. 2. Document and Data Store Capacities 18. 3. Query Features and Mechanism 18. 4. Access Control, Management, and Transaction Support features 18. 5. API features 18. 6. Supported Platforms 18. 7. Version History 18. 8. XMS Product Roadmap 18. 9. NeoCore Insight 18. 10. Additional Software and Services XIX. Applying NeoCore to Particular XML-based Business Requirements 19. 1. Content Lifecycle 19. 2. Data and Application Integration 19. 3. Business Intelligence and Analytics 19. 4. Rapid Application Development (RAD) 19. 5. Application Embedding 19. 6. Current and Future Application Use Profiles XX. Customers and Implementations 20. 1. Pricing and Channel Sales 20. 2. Sales and Technology Partners 20. 3. Brief Customer Case Study: TIBCO XXI. Product Performance Analysis 21. 1. Performance Analysis Setup 21. 2. XMS Indexing and Storage Performance 21. 3. XMS Insert Performance 21. 4. XMS Query Performance 21. 5. Performance by Number of Simultaneous Users XXII. Conclusions Vendor Analysis: Sybase ASE XXIII. Overview XXIV. Company Profile XXV. Identifying the Value Proposition 25. 1. Unique Selling Points and Competitive Differentiation 25. 2. Realizing Return on Investment with Sybase ASE XXVI. Product Features and Functionality 26. 1. Indexing and Storage Technology 26. 2. Document and Data Store Capacities 26. 3. Query Features and Mechanism 26. 4. Supported Platforms 26. 5. Version History 26. 6. Additional Products and Services XXVII. Applying Sybase to Particular XML-based Business Requirements 27. 1. Content Lifecycle 27. 2. Data and Application Integration 27. 3. Web Services Processing XXVIII. Customers and Implementations 28. 1. Pricing and Channel Sales 28. 2. Sales and Technology Partners 28. 3. Brief Customer Case Studies XXIX. Product Performance Analysis 29. 1. Performance Analysis Setup 29. 2. ASE 12. 5 Indexing and Storage Performance 29. 3. ASE 12. 5 Query Performance XXX. Conclusions Vendor Analysis: Xyleme XXXI. Overview XXXII. Company Profile XXXIII. Identifying the Value Proposition 33. 1. Unique Selling Points and Competitive Differentiation 33. 2. Realizing Return on Investment with Xyleme Zone Server XXXIV. Product Features and Functionality 34. 1. Indexing and Storage Technology 34. 2. Document and Data Store Capacities 34. 3. Query Features and Mechanisms 34. 4. Access Control, Management, and Transaction Support features 34. 5. API features 34. 6. Supported Platforms 34. 7. Version History 34. 8. Additional Software and Services XXXV. Applying Xyleme to Particular XML-based Business Requirements 35. 1. Content Lifecycle 35. 2. Data and Application Integration 35. 3. Application Embedding 35. 4. Current and Future Application Use Profiles XXXVI. Customers and Implementations 36. 1. Pricing and Channel Sales 36. 2. Sales and Technology Partners 36. 3. Brief Customer Case Study: Le Monde XXXVII. Product Performance Analysis 37. 1. Performance Analysis Setup 37. 2. Zone Server Indexing and Storage Performance 37. 3. Zone Server Query Performance XXXVIII. Conclusions.
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- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review Web Services Technologies and Trends Report: Q4 2001 / ZapThink, LLC:Key Findings: The Web Services market is segmented into three major segments: Web Services Platforms consisting of a Web Services Development Environment and Web Services Runtime Environment Web Service Application Development Suites Web Services Operations Management 75% of surveyed companies stated that their planned Web Service deployments will be internally-focused 64% of surveyed companies stated that Enterprise and Data Integration was the primary focus of their Web Service implementations 61% of surveyed companies plan a pilot test of Web Service-based applications within the next 12 months 58% of current Web Services pilots are being deployed on the Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) infrastructure Table of Contents: Executive Summary Scope of Report Web Services - Baseline Definitions Problems addressed by Web Services and ROI Current State of the Market of Web Services Market Sizing, Numbers, and Stats Pieces of the Puzzle: Standards and Specifications SOAP Implementations Portability and Interoperability Issues and Challenges UDDI Implementations Pieces of the Puzzle: Web Services Market Segmentation Web Services Platform: Development Environment and Runtime Web Service Transports Web Service Application Development and Delivery Web Services Operations Management Competitive Trends & Directions Missing Elements / Gaps Predictions What's Real and What's Not? End Notes and References Vendor Profiles
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Review Growth in Private IP Networking Nudges US Wholesale IP Market Past the $3 Billion Mark:Despite exponential growth in demand for wholesale IP transit, pricing pressure continues to hold revenue growth in check. Providers should capitalize on healthy margins of wholesale IP VPN to add momentum to Layer 3 services growth.
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Review AMI White Papers: Delivering ASP Services to SBs: Key Success Factors / AMI Partners, Inc.:
Publication date: 2007-05-21
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Review Beyond "What's On": Why the Electronic Program Guide Is Worth Fine-Tuning:The electronic program guide and its user interface are at the center of a revolution that will bring about the advent of the connected digital home by placing the TV front and center. This will serve as the first step in enabling the anywhere experience of accessing any content on any device in any location. Owning the user experience has provided advertising windfalls for Google and Yahoo!, and it can do the same for the device or service provider (SP) that bridges the gap between the PC and the TV.
Publication date: 2003-02-20
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Review SOA Tools and Best Practices Report: Beyond Point-to-Point Web Services / ZapThink, LLC:Key Findings: Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility. By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented. The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over $98 billion by 2010. Reworking existing brittle, high-cost IT infrastructures into flexible, Service-oriented architectures promises substantial long-term cost savings and revenue opportunities through increased business agility. Service orientation represents the latest distributed computing approach to affect IT - the fourth major shift since the mid-twentieth century. ZapThink predicts that companies will begin to accept Service orientation in 2003, and it will become the dominant distributed computing approach by 2006. Table of Contents: I. Report Scope II. Context for Service-Oriented Architectures 2. 1. [+]What is a Service-Oriented Architecture? 2. 1. 1. Evolution of Distributed Computing 2. 2. Business Motivations for SOAs 2. 2. 1. The Economics of Business Agility III. Foundations of SOA 3. 1. SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture 3. 2. SOA Foundation: Agile Methodologies 3. 3. The SOA Metamodel 3. 4. The 4+1 View Model of SOA IV. Best Practices of SOA 4. 1. Develop a top-down, extended enterprise SOA 4. 2. Build & maintain a platform independent Service model 4. 3. Maintain feedback at all points of the architecture 4. 4. Follow Agile Methodology principles & techniques within the context of the Service model 4. 5. Encapsulate existing/legacy functionality 4. 6. Embrace heterogeneity/follow a federation model of software 4. 7. Compose atomic Services into coarse-grained business Services 4. 8. Build for consumability/broad applicability 4. 9. Perform ad hoc upgrades 4. 10. Prioritize SOA transition activities on the fly V. Market Segmentation 5. 1. Current State of the Market VI. Business and Technology Trends 6. 1. Long Term Trends: A Shift in the Favored Approach to Distributed Computing 6. 2. Long-Term Trends: Grid/Utility Computing 6. 3. Inhibitors to Growth of Service Orientation and SOAs VII. Conclusions 7. 1. Key Notes 7. 2. Decision Points 7. 3. Best Practices 7. 4. Figures 7. 5. Tables VIII. Profiled Vendors.
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- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Review XML in the Content Lifecycle Report: Creating, Managing, Publishing, Syndicating, and Protecting Content with XML / ZapThink, LLC:Key Findings: The market for XML content lifecycle solutions is expected to grow from $1. 8 Billion in 2003 to over $11. 6 Billion by 2008. Producers of content in the enterprise spend over 60% of their time locating, formatting, and structuring content and just 40% of their time actually creating it. By 2008, about 60% of all content lifecycle products will be XML-enabled. the primary challenge in the enterprise for producers of content - information that is intended for human consumption - is content reuse: the ability to integrate content from disparate sources. Efforts to improve content processes have been slowed by efforts to extract and manipulate content from multiple, disparate data sources. Table of Contents: I. Report Scope II. The Growth and Management of Content in the Enterprise 2. [+]1. Sources and Growth of Content in the Enterprise 2. 2. The Content Management Challenge 2. 3. The Evolution of the Content Management System (CMS) 2. 4. Markup Languages and Content III. The Content Lifecycle 3. 1. Content Creation 3. 2. The Content Repository 3. 3. Content Management 3. 4. Content Publishing and Distribution 3. 5. Content Syndication 3. 6. Content Protection IV. XML-Enabling the Content Lifecycle 4. 1. Is XML Necessary for Improving the Content Lifecycle? 4. 2. Content Creation: XML-based Authoring and Conversion 4. 3. Content Repository: Native XML Storage and Search 4. 4. Content Management: XML-based Content Componentization 4. 5. Content Publishing and Distribution 4. 6. Content Syndication: XML Standards and Products 4. 7. Content Protection: XML-powered DRM V. The ROI of XML-enabling the Content Lifecycle 5. 1. Cost Savings: Content Reuse 5. 2. Cost Savings: Efficient Content Search 5. 3. Revenue Enhancing: Enabling Content Syndication 5. 4. Cost Savings: Integrating Islands of Content VI. Challenges in Implementing an XML-enabled Content Lifecycle 6. 1. Metadata-encoding Content is Difficult 6. 2. XML May Not be Suitable as a Long-term Archival Format VII. The Service-Oriented Vision of Content 7. 1. Shifting away from a Publish-oriented Mentality 7. 2. Content as Services: Service-Oriented Content 7. 3. Content Lifecycle Functionality as Services VIII. Market for XML-enabled Content Lifecycle Products 8. 1. Market Sizing and Growth 8. 2. Vendor Market Segmentation and Positioning 8. 3. The Future of Content Management Systems IX. Conclusions 9. 1. Key Notes 9. 2. Decision Points 9. 3. Figures 9. 4. Tables X. Profiled Vendors 10. 1. Content Creation 10. 2. Content Repository 10. 3. Content Management 10. 4. Content Publishing / Distribution 10. 5. Content Syndication 10. 6. Content Protection Related Research Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion About ZapThink, LLC.
Publication date: 2006-09-22
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Review US Enterprises Use Security As a Crutch To Ignore IP Telephony Operational Issues:The Yankee Group 2005 Economics of IP Communications Survey looked closely at how North American enterprises prioritize deployments of IP telephony (IPT), conferencing applications (audio, video, web) and other forms of IP communications. Because most organizations will deploy IPT as the underlying foundation for other forms of IP communications, the survey asked several questions to reveal the breadth of IPT adoption (that metric will be a leading indicator of how fast other forms of IP communications will be adopted). At first glance, the survey indicated broad strength for IPT: 85% of the respondents have either tested or deployed IPT. Digging deeper, the survey shows that a paltry 7% of the respondents have deployed IPT across the entire company. The majority of enterprises (75%) have IPT in only a few locations. The survey also investigated, among many things, the factors that continue to inhibit the wide-scale rollouts of IPT. Past Yankee Group research indicates that the primary inhibitor was uncertainty about the cost/benefit aspect of IP communications. We believe there are other operational issues directly related to TCO that must be examined for costs to come down and deployments to gain traction.
Publication date: 2004-02-16
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Review Fixed Line Telecoms: Global Industry Guide / MarketResearch.com:Datamonitor's Fixed Line Telecoms Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the fixed line telecoms industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis. Scope of the Report * Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation * Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and leading companies * Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets * Includes a five-year forecast of the industry Highlights Detailed information is included on market size, measured by both value and volume. Market shares are covered by manufacturer and by brand, including private label. Distribution channels are also analysed. Why you should buy this report: * Spot future trends and developments * Inform your business decisions * Add weight to presentations and marketing materials * Save time carrying out entry-level research.
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- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Review XML Proxies Report: XML-Aware Network Appliances and Firewalls / ZapThink, LLC:Key Findings: XML Proxies are hardware or software solutions that actively listen for XML traffic on the network and either pass it along unmodified or perform some action on the XML content. XML Proxies can operate transparently as an XML "gateway" or as auxiliary applications on the network. ZapThink estimates that XML represents less than 2% of all traffic on the enterprise network in 2002; however, this percentage is expected to increase to almost 25% of all LAN network traffic by 2006. Current firewall and proxy solutions are inadequate to handle XML traffic. Instead of being simply network protocol-aware, XML Proxies are XML-aware. XML Proxies are capable of examining traffic at the content level, and can optionally handle other message types such as HTML or EDI. XML Proxies will converge on a single set of functionality for handling corporate-wide XML security, management, routing, transformation, and performance enhancement. As XML Proxy solutions become increasingly visible in the corporate IT environment, "established" Network Appliance vendors will enter the market. XML Proxies can also allow users to implement XML and Web Services solutions without having to constantly modify those applications to comply with various corporate XML policies. The increasing need to gain more value out of the XML documents and traffic on the network will drive adoption of XML Proxy solutions. [+]Table of Contents: I. Report Scope II. The Role of the XML Proxy 2. 1 The Evolution of Networking Devices and Applications 2. 2 Why Current Network Protocol-based Solutions Are Not Adequate to handle XML Traffic 2. 3 XML Proxies 2. 4 Use and Context of XML Proxies III. XML Proxy Functionality 3. 1 Security 3. 2 Performance: Compression and Caching 3. 3 Monitoring and Management 3. 4 Routing 3. 5 Transformation IV. XML Proxy Solutions 4. 1 Hardware XML Network Appliances 4. 2 Software XML Proxies 4. 3 "Cross-over" Software and Hardware Solutions V Drivers for XML Proxy Adoption 5. 1 Managing increased volume of XML traffic on the network 5. 2 Enforcing corporate XML policies and normalizing XML implementations 5. 3 Simplifying external XML integration 5. 4 Providing Value-Added Services for XML VI. Barriers to Adoption of XML Proxies 6. 1 XML and Web Services Standards and Markets in Flux 6. 2 Increased Competition through Product "Scope Creep" 6. 3 The Rack "Stack" 6. 4 Processing Overhead VII. Future Trends 7. 1 Convergence on a set of functionality: the one-stop box 7. 2 Rapid growth of XML traffic on the network 7. 3 Entrance of the "Established" Network Appliance Vendors 7. 4 Further clarification of the role of SOAP Intermediaries VIII. Conclusions 8. 1 Key Notes 8. 2 Decision Points 8. 3 Figures 8. 4 Tables IX. Profiled Vendors 9. 1 XML-aware Network Appliances 9. 2 Software XML Firewalls and Proxies A. Related Research Reports Briefing Notes B. Copyright, Trademark Notice, and Statement of Opinion About ZapThink, LLC.
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