According to Paul Krill of Infoworld Oracle is going to release a developer release of what it is calling its SOA suite – a term which is gaining ground to describe a fully featured ESB-based integration stack. According to Paul, Oracle is stressing the one-click install – presumably as a proof that they have managed to integrate the pieces of technology from various acquisitions notably Oblix and Collaxa. Although the focus on installation suggests to me that the underlying components may need a bit of work before they are truly integrated.
Telecoms has been at the forefront of SOA adoption – which is not surprising as it is an industry which has a deep understanding of architecture in general and integration architectures specifically (for instance they were probably the strongest adopters of CORBA – along with Wall Street). TMC covers remarks by Doug Tucker, Chief Technology Officer at Ubiquity Americas who believes that Telecoms are already increasing revenue by using SOA to offer enhanced services to subscribers. I would agree as I know that telecom operators worldwide have been building SOA based service delivery platforms for the last three years or so. These typically don’t get the same publicity as projects in other industries as can be seen from.
Dun and Bradstreet has announced a successful SOA program that already seems to be paying off in terms of reuse and in particular consolidation of legacy applications. Doug Smith, vice president for technology strategy at Dun & Bradstreet Corp. is quoted…
“As Smith saw it there were business processes that were used in perhaps 20 or 30 D&B information products. His thought was to commoditize those processes through a repeatable service that "time after time has some level of predictability in terms of service quality."
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