| Title: |
Managing Services - The IBM Story Continues … |
| Author: |
Richard Veryard |
| Publication Date: |
15 July 2003 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Vendor Insight |
| Abstract: |
We recently surveyed IBM’s growing collection of modeling tools, including software acquired from Holosofx and Rational. In this review, we look at the contribution of WebSphere and Tivoli to the management of complex networks of services.
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| Backgrounder: |
One of the paradoxes of the service-based economy is the fact that the growing availability of services doesn’t always make things easier to manage. As every manager (or parent) knows – it’s often easier, quicker and more reliable to do things oneself, rather than delegate. And much of the resistance to the wider deployment of web services comes from a similar reluctance to delegate –worrying that the potential economic benefits of using services may be outweighed by extra management costs and complexities.
Much of the debate about the manageability of service-oriented solutions has focused on security, and this remains a key issue. But security is not a stand-alone requirement, but is part of a larger manageability problem, which also includes key issues of management flexibility and control.
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