I read last week in some print publication (that's right, people still read magazines) about a growing "superstructure" of GRC (Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance) and how it starts to address some of the shortcomings of SOA (Service-Oriented Architectures), meaning the stuff in between all the loosely coupled data flying around.
This top 10 list of Identity Management trends explores GRC and some other interesting facts. Personally I am all about trends No. 3 and 4.
Trend No. 3: Open systems and modules instead of monolithic suites
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Hosted business application provider Workday said Wednesday that it has acquired Cape Clear to create an integration on-demand offering.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Launched in 2006 by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield, Workday sells online versions of traditional ERP business applications, such as human resources management and accounting.
Cape Clear's standards-based integration software, called an enterprise service bus (ESB), will form the basis for an integration on-demand offering the company plans to add to its products. The integration service will allow people to exchange information between Workday applications and those from other providers, including Microsoft Office programs.
Workday said it would continue to support Cape Clear's existing customers who use the software on-premise. Cape Clear founder and CEO Annrai O'Toole will join the company as vice president of integration.
Started in 2001, Dublin, Ireland-based Cape Clear was one of the first companies to build a product on nascent Web services communications protocols. Its job got harder once all of the large software providers built their own ESBs.
In his blog, O'Toole said the acquisition signals how integration software technology is essential to on-demand software and services-oriented architectures.
"It is this vision, that integration is at the heart of hosted applications--and not an on premise, bolt-on like other enterprise vendors believe--that separates us from the rest of the pack," he wrote.
Open-source start-up WSO2 on Monday released an open-source enterprise service bus based on any Apache Synapse project.
Called WSO2 ESB, the server software is designed to integrate different applications by translating between different protocols and converting different XML formats.
The product is based on Synapse, an open-source ESB done at the Apache Foundation with the participation of WSO2 employees.
The company adds additional features on top of Synapse including a Web-based administration console and a registry and repository, said Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder and its vice president of technical sales.
There are several open source ESB product in the marketplace, such as MuleSource, as well as those from entrenched integration vendors, such as IBM.
WSO2, which was
"If you're pushing XML around your network and slowly moving to complete services oriented architecture for distributed applications, this is where the product is targeted," he said.
The company's revenue model is to provide services, come including installation and support for the product which is available under the Apache license.
MuleSource said on Tuesday that it has raised a second round of $12.5 million, adding to an
MuleSource provides support services around Mule, an open-source integration server based on standards, a product category referred to as an enterprise services bus (ESB). The software provides the plumbing for moving information between applications.
"Open source is effecting the same type of evolution in enterprise integration that it brought to the operating system and application server,? said Ravi Mhatre, general partner at Lightspeed in a statement. "Mule has by far the largest installed base, the most mature technology and the most active developer community. We believe MuleSource has the opportunity to dominate this category."
There are several other open-source ESBs and integration products based on different integration standards, including products from JBoss, Sun, and Iona, which last month
MuleSource said that there have been 650,000 total downloads of Mule and more than 1,000 enterprise production deployments. It released results of survey on Monday indicating that 57 percent of the 500 Mule users surveyed said they take advantage of source code access to make customizations.
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