CORRECTING and REPLACING White Paper: Growing an Agile Service-Oriented Architecture.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CORRECTION...by Infravio CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2003 In BW5600 issued Sept. 24, 2003: Sixth graph, first sentence should read: The 16-page "Growing an Agile Service-Oriented Architecture See SOA. " technical white paper is available today by calling Infravio at (408) 861-3038, emailing to info@infravio.com, or from the Infravio Website through the following direct link http://www.infravio.com/whitepaper/. (sted The 16-page "Growing an Agile Service-Oriented Architecture" technical white paper is available today by calling Infravio at (650) 861-3038, emailing to info@infravio.com, or from the Infravio Website through the following direct link http://www.infravio.com/whitepaper/.) White Paper: Growing an Agile Service-Oriented Architecture; ZapThink and Infravio Investigate Achieving Reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. and Loose Coupling Refers to hardware and software components that interact when necessary, but remain uncoupled from each other. For example, computers in a network are loosely coupled. When the user's client machine requires data from the server, it sends a request to the server. through Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. Delivery Contracts Infravio, Inc., a leading provider of Web Services Management software, today announced the availability of an in-depth, technical white paper on "Growing an Agile Service-Oriented Architecture," written by ZapThink, an IT market intelligence firm that provides trusted advance and critical insight into XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , Web Services, and Service-Oriented Architecture. White Paper Abstract Web Services are lowering the costs of integration in companies around the globe today. Even small, point-to-point integration projects achieve substantial, rapid ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). using a Web Services integration approach. As companies become more Web Services savvy, the benefits of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) become apparent. SOAs provide a framework for flexible, low cost enterprise integration. They also lead to substantial business agility -- a primary goal in today's fast-paced business environments. Much of the ROI derived from an SOA comes from the ability to reuse Services. To maximize the reusability of Services in an SOA, it is critical to separate the business functionality provided by those Services from the information related to the delivery of the Services, such as security, data transformation and service-level agreements. Such delivery criteria are best defined in a Web Services delivery contract. Such contracts can be dynamically configured in the abstraction layer Software that translates a high-level request into the low-level commands required to perform the operation. The most common abstraction layer is the programming interface (API) between an application and the operating system. that the SOA provides between the applications that provide and consume the Services. Using delivery contracts simplifies the reuse of Web services and enables companies to maximize the benefits of an enterprise SOA, including rapid, low cost integration and the business agility needed to meet new business challenges, now and in the future. Analyst: Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst, ZapThink Availability The 16-page "Growing an Agile Service-Oriented Architecture" technical white paper is available today by calling Infravio at (650) 861-3038, emailing to info@infravio.com, or from the Infravio Website through the following direct link http://www.infravio.com/whitepaper/. About Infravio Infravio is a leading provider of Web Services Management software enabling (programming) software enabling - (Or "enabling") Modification of the design or implementation of software to allow internationalisation to take place. In particular, enabling may refer to the modification of software to support double-byte character sets, hence "Unicode Global 2000 companies to use the power of Web Services to deliver faster application interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and integration. Infravio delivers one of the only standards-based, platform-agnostic Web Services suites on the market today. The Infravio Ensemble(TM) platform uniquely delivers crucial design time, as well as run time Web Services management, enabling companies to build an agile Service-Oriented Architecture. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California and is backed by venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] , Walden International and Crystal Ventures. For more information, please call (408) 861-3038, email to info@infravio.com, or visit the Infravio Website at www.infravio.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: For direct access to white paper, follow this link: http://www.infravio.com/press/ (not for publication). Infravio Ensemble is a trademark of Infravio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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