| Title: |
Service Oriented Platform Strategies |
| Author: |
David Sprott |
| Publication Date: |
10 December 2003 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Market Analysis |
| Abstract: |
It is now clear that model based approaches are going to be foundational technologies in the near future, driven by the requirements of SOA and the utility computing. But this is not your father’s model based development! The industry is responding to real business pressures to deliver productivity across the entire life cycle, and to enable incremental, finer grained deployment. In this report we examine the underlying reasons for this key technology trend and discuss how this relates to the MDA standards initiative. We explain how IBM and Microsoft are making real progress in this area, and show how new application of the model based approach will deliver the Service Oriented Platform.
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| Backgrounder: |
From around 1985 through 1992 the software industry was gripped in a frenzy of excitement about development productivity, and how dramatic improvements could be achieved through automation of development using Computer Assisted Software Engineering tools or CASE, comprising modeling tools and code generators. There was a big industry push led by notable companies such as Knowledgeware and Texas Instruments, strongly supported by IBM that developed a grand plan under the name AD/Cycle1, for an open architecture integrating the life cycle from requirements to application operation.
More recently the OMG has been promoting Model Driven Architecture (MDA), which might be seen as a modernization of CASE concepts - for more details see our report on New Age Model Based Development Tools2. MDA has provided a more practical approach to model based development, and there is widespread support for the broad concept, although there is less support for the specifics of the MDA approach.
Today there is strong demand for automation and productivity improvement but the requirements are much broader than purely development driven productivity. The core requirement driving the industry is the need to create agile information services that are highly responsive to change in both functionality and life cycle economics.
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| Report Size: |
6 Pages |
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