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CBDI Announces WS-R: The Web Services Roadmap
July 3rd 2003, London. CBDI, the leading source of depth
information and insight on Web Services, Service Oriented Approaches and
Software Componentization has announced WS-R: the Web Services Roadmap, a
new Internet based resource focused on practice guidance to organizations
adopting SOA and Web Services.
Introducing Web Services and SOA requires change right across the
organization for end user enterprises and the software industry. These
changes, technical, organizational, process and project related, will
happen over a period of time and with varying levels of coordination. Some
of the changes will be obvious, others need to be identified; many will
need organization specific solutions. To assist organizations making these
changes CBDI has created a new set of resources at
http://roadmap.cbdiforum.com/ dedicated to providing practice guidance
in this area.
David Sprott, CBDI Chief Executive Officer and Principal Analyst
commented, "Fundamentally Web Services represent a better form of software
component. Whilst early usage of SOA will be focused on better
interoperability, the long term promise is to deliver genuinely adaptable
applications. This is an important business issue and it is imperative
that all enterprises, governments and software industry organizations
establish and maintain a comprehensive roadmap in order to accelerate and
manage their transition."
Lawrence Wilkes, Technical Director and Principal Analyst said, "There are
plenty of resources available that tell you what Web Services are and how
to use them at a programming level, but very little guidance to managers
and architects in how to form their strategies and shape their projects as
they move to SOA and Web Services. WS-R provides a very different type of
guidance than you can find elsewhere."
The WS-R approach and website is organized into six topic streams,
providing a clustering around critical activities as follows:
Plan & Manage. The activities involved
in managing the transition to a more federated environment, enabled by SOA;
the development and coordination of common policies and practices between
the parts of the federation.
Infrastructure. Guidance on the
strategies, activities and timing involved in transitioning existing
infrastructures.
Architecture. Architecture is a major
issue. As an organization moves forward it is looking to integrate Web
Services into core business processes, to progressively establish the
service as the unit of reuse across an organization. The Service Oriented
Architecture is a key strategy to achieve pervasive shared business
services.
Process. In the service oriented
world, the management life cycle changes in a profound manner.
Organizations need to alter their application acquisition and delivery
processes to reflect this.
Projects. As an organization matures
in its use of services, the project profiles change considerably.
Vendor Strategies. Analysis and
assessment of the strategies and capabilities of the leading vendors in
the Web Services and SOA market.
In its work with enterprises CBDI has recognized the need for guidance in
moving from application and component oriented environments to Service
Oriented Architectures. The new resource site is already populated with a
considerable body of Web Services Roadmap knowledge, and will be
constantly updated to reflect best practice and to provide a focus for
practitioners to exchange experience.
The WS-R Web Services Roadmap resources are available at no charge, with
no registration required. To support this business model, CBDI has initial
sponsorship from IBM, Microsoft, Compuware and Select Business Solutions,
and welcomes other industry organizations' participation in this
interesting project.
CBDI, July 2003
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Background to CBDIforum |
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CBDI is well known
among enterprise architects and industry experts as an
authoritative source of information and commentary. CBDI provides
insight and guidance on Web Services, SOA and software component
practice through subscription reports, education and consulting.
Many leading organizations worldwide have consulted CBDI and
undertaken Roadmap Workshops, intensive planning and briefing
sessions to jump start and manage an organization's change
management activities. The CBDI Journal is widely recognized as
providing unique insight to technical management and industry
leaders. Our subscribers and members include technical leaders,
architects, CIO's, business analysts and industry experts
worldwide.
For more information see
http://roadmap.cbdiforum.com/ and
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Background to CBDI Roadmap |
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CBDI analysts have
been working on the roadmap concept for many years. David Sprott
and Richard Veryard developed the original Roadmap concept
together with other colleagues in the late 1980's as a vehicle for
managing the transition to Information Engineering. More recently
CBDI has been developing the base method and concepts to apply to
SOA, and we introduced a reporting stream in July 2002 which has
developed into a comprehensive body of thinking which is now
offered to CBDI customers as a comprehensive information and
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