Monday, April 07, 2008

IMPACT2008 - Pre conference - Business Partners day


Finally made it to Vegas, total of almost 2 days. Never thought Vegas is so far.
Weather is great, people are enjoying the pool while the geeks (unfortunately I'm one of them) enjoy the convention.
I've managed to make it to few of the sessions after noon and the partners reception event at the evening.

IBM got ready to this event - there are many new announcements with SOA relevancy happening right at the conference.
Few notes I took that might be interesting to explore:
1. IBM attracted many SAP R/3 or AI1 (AllIn1) based customers with its AIM (Application & Integration middleware) offering and managed to achieve excellent ROI with placing IBM as the main integration platform instead of SAP XI/PI. This does not mean a complete replacement but rather a complementary. I have all the details and will continue to explore these case studies which seem very clear.
2. New SOA authorization policy model is introduced into the SOA environment, from the brand of Tivoli. It is federated authorization mechanism, allowing the definition of access control policies over services in all SOA platforms and can be governed by the platforms themselves or the governance products like DataPower or WSRR.

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