Conference

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the cloud complement each other and at the same time are in different stages of their lifecycles. At WSO2Con 2011, Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder and CTO, led a panel to discuss three aspects of these technology approaches. First was an examination of SOA, which has been through the hype cycle and out the other side, and how hindsight here might help understand cloud computing. Second, was to examine the interaction between SOA and the cloud, and third was to look to the future and what is next. Joining Mr. Fremantle were panelists Sastry Malladi, eBay distinguished architect; Brad Svee, Concur Technologies senior manager of IT development and engineering; Narendra Nathmal, Cognizant Technologies Advanced SOA Center of Excellence chief architect; and Afkam Azeez, WSO2 director of architecture. Here are highlights from their discussion.

Moderator: Paul Fremantle, Panelists: Sastry Malladi, Afkham Azeez, Brad Svee, Narendra Nathmal

Increasingly, enterprises are turning to the cloud as a cost-effective way to extend the reach of their applications. However, Gartner forecasts that vendors will not have true, integrated and complete middleware platforms and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) frameworks until 2015. In his presentation at WSO2Con 2011, Azeez explored basic cloud middleware platform and PaaS principles, using WSO2 Stratos and WSO2 StratosLive as examples.

Azeez joined WSO2 in December 2005 and currently works in the capacity of Director, Architecture. He is an elected Member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and also a Project Management Committee (PMC) member and committer on a number of projects at ASF.

Current Analysis provides a competitive analysis to support many roles in your business to identify threats, take counter measurements to them and win more business. Rating criteria is based on Service/Support, Packaging/Pricing, Product Maturity and few other business elements. Current Analysis rated four stars for WSO2 Cloud platform and PaaS solutions in the cloud services market.

Alfa-Bank Ukraine, part of the international Alfa Group Consortium, is recognized as one of the “Top 10 Trustworthy Banks” in Ukraine according to Banker Magazine. To enhance its services, Alfa-Bank has implemented the Temenos T24, one of the most technically advanced banking systems available today. In his presentation at WSO2Con 2011, Mr. Lukyanov described how the T24 has been integrated with several legacy banking systems through Web services powered by the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus and WSO2 Data Services, as well as the bank’s reasons for selecting WSO2. Here are highlights from his talk.

Dmitry Lukyanov, Head of Integration Solutions Department, Alfa-Bank Ukraine, has over 14 years expereince in IT sofitware development and has a keen interest in SOA and open source technologies. He has been the Head of Integration Solutions Department of Alfa-Bank Kiev, Ukraine for more then 3 years. He is responsible for all integration processes and projects.

Many organizations today use Open Source Software in an effort to improve productivity and substantially reduce costs. Understanding Open Source development, contribution, and communities is paramount to creating an enterprise-grade Open Source policy and ensuring its successful adoption.

In this SOA workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka (September 17, 2009), Asanka Abeysinghe - WSO2 Architect demonstrates mapping of several enterprise SOA patterns to a few real world business requirements.

Sumedha Rubasinghe - WSO2 Product Manager for the WSO2 Governance Registry product, presented about the need for governance in an enterprise at the SOA workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka (September 17, 2009).