Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies®

Chapter 28. And That's Not All! Even More SOA Vendors

In This Chapter

• Integrating SOA

• SOA BPM

• Testing SOA

• Governing SOA

• SOA for specific industries

We hope that by now we've convinced you that SOA is a comprehensive way to move your business and IT organization forward. Although we highlight the strategies of the leading SOA infrastructure vendors back in Part V, we would be doing you a disservice if we didn't mention some of the vendors who are an important part of the overall ecosystem of SOA. None of the vendors we discuss in Part V exist alone. Each of them is increasingly partnering with a large number of important emerging vendors specializing in SOA. In this chapter, we divide these partner-oriented SOA players into five categories:

• SOA integration providers

• Business process management specialists

• SOA quality assurance and testing companies

• SOA governance

• Industry-specific SOA offerings

Read on to find out more about some important players in each of these categories.

Integration Providers

While some customers will buy their integration capabilities from the vendors we discuss in Part V, other key vendors offer independent integration capabilities. Here are some of the notable ones:

TIBCO Software

www.tibco.com

The company now known as TIBCO started life in 1985 as Teknekron Software Systems, Inc., with Vivek Ranadivé at the helm. The company's original product was called The Information Bus™ (TIB), which specialized in the integration and delivery of market data such as stock quotes, news, ...