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Building SOA-compliant business logic without programming According to IBM, Gartner, and other industry pundits, SOA applications will usher in a major replacement of the legacy systems that currently power organizations and commerce around the world. ZapThink, by contrast, ZapThink...sees SOA as an architectural approach that may also extend the value of existing legacy applications.
While SOA architectural components are well understood and available from a variety of vendors, organizations are fundamentally on their own to create the business logic essential introducing an SOA-compliant application. Many organizations experience a Trough of Disillusionment, as business satisfaction with IT declines, after the embracing of SOA actually slows the arrival of the next important application because of the problems associated with conceiving, designing, building, and testing business services. TenFold and its founders are business applications specialists and are pioneering a model-driven approach that exploits model-driven metadata to specify business logic without programming. A model-driven approach offers a tenfold improvement in applications development time and cost as it replaces the traditional requirements-design-develop (program or generate)-compile-deploy methodology with describe-render-publish. A recent pilot project yielded a new-generation application in two months compared to the prior J2EE-application that took over 24 months to build and deploy - a 12 to 1 improvement in cost.
Speaker Bio: Jeffrey L. Walker founded TenFold in 1993. From TenFold’s inception to October 1996, Mr. Walker was Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer. Before founding TenFold, Mr. Walker was an independent consultant from 1991 to 1993. From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Walker held several management positions at Oracle Corporation, including Executive Vice President and General Manager Applications Division, Chief Financial Officer (1987 to 1991), and Senior Vice President of Marketing (1986). Mr. Walker was the designer of Oracle’s applications products and founder of Oracle’s Applications Division. Before joining Oracle, Mr. Walker founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Walker Interactive Products, an applications software company, from 1980 to 1985. Mr. Walker was the designer of Walker’s products. Prior to Walker Interactive, Mr. Walker was the founder CEO and sole proprietor of Jeffrey L. Walker & Company, a software and applications consulting company. Mr. Walker holds a BA in mathematics from Brown University. TenFold’s technology.
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Jason Bloomberg 05/18/07 05:59:52 PM EDT | |||
You are incorrect when you say "ZapThink...sees SOA as a technology that will extend the value of existing legacy applications." A correct statement of our opinion would be "ZapThink...sees SOA as an architectural approach that may also extend the value of existing legacy applications." We definitely do NOT believe SOA is a technology, and we also don't believe that SOA will (or should) extend the value of existing legacy applications for every organization. Please correct the article. Thank you! |
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