Interview with Frank Kenney

I have a one on one with Frank Kenney Monday at 1:30  - Frank and I have had several conversations and I feel very comfortable with him.

Here are my  topics;  his answers are in italics

1. SOA Repository – our vendors, his ranks and what to look for – any concerns on the BEA/Oracle side

Flashline is most functional; Systinet version 3 coming up this summer and very functional. Today IBM is ahead of Systinet - so today BEA< IBM, and Systinet. Tomorrow flip IBM and Systinet.

Any product we use will have to integrate with data model - BEA Much further ahead than other tools in this aspect.

REACTION: Bullish on BEA at this point

- Enterprise repository vs SOA repository ( are folks looking for one solution or integrating best of breed many solutions to meet enterprise need)

Some but not alot - APM is a separate solution

- Federated registry/repository options and industry direction

All ETL - synchronization - push data around with master/slave with custom integration

2. SOA Registry – Our experience and the general impression

runtime service discovery is not a big play - maybe are not loosely coupling - description, searching and discovery - are registry - Google is registry .

NOTE: many of the feature we are describing in the repository solution would be the registry solutions he described. Interesting point that we need to clarify.

- GIF integration or any other spec IBM/HP are working for closed loop governance

HP/Software AG/Fujitsu -moving together - but not all across the aboard. The move beyond UDDI to something else is light years away

3. Data Power and Reactivity – what we are seeing and any reactions – who in Gartner is the right person

Data Power is no longer be seen as an ESB - can perform some transformation, does not control message - hardware solution is propietary - limits it ability . Starting to hear the horror stories with Data Power. Based upon the hardware solution. DP is "stuck"

NOTE: He is exactly opposite of where he ways in 1H2007 - amazing

Will found more value Reactivity - can virtualize the boxes - Can deploy Reactivity as an application on VMware on - virtualization is important - This space is still ripe

NOTE: Saw additional vendors in this space in the vendor hall

4. Service tiering from Gartner

Talk to Daryl about granularity of services Mike Blecker .

I am following with Paolo on SOA Governance thanks to Frank.

Couple of First day observations

• Live blogging has been very positive experience - good wireless support from Gartner and wonderfile has worked very well to date
• Wonderfile is built on S3 from Amazon - essentially a mashup on that facility
• Nice facilities - I like it much better than the last time at the Gaylord Palms - Gaylord was not great
• I can see WDW from my hotel - for those who know me well, it the big flame to me the moth. Resisting the urge to run over there and not in the sessions will be the challenge. Must not ride Space Mountain, must listen to Daryl Plummer :)
• I can believe all of the challenges I have had with technology here; day full of stupid gremlins

SOA Changes the Game: Compositions in the BPM and SOA World - Daryl Plummer

Presentation is here

Composition is a collaborative effort -- has more roles - Development is a programmer driven effort - need for modelers, analysts 

Services should be constantly evolving - else it is dying. I disagree - some services are static due to the nature of what it does -

 

Model Driven development view - looks like where we are trying to go with things like MCS and One App - This approach for model-driven is where we are going - need a more holistic view - and how this ties into our legacy modernization view.

Having a Process person who knows with the business - looks like the Lesa role

Multiple Lifecycles to manage - each circle is a lifecycle - Data changes the least (outer circle) - to compositions - One big aha here is that putting services on the same lifecycle as apps is a problem - seems to suggest that one SDLC for services and apps is not a good thing - the velocity of change is very different - Processes change slower then service but faster than apps

Must track the users of the service - Composite apps are making this much worse - When Daryl asked who was using a registry/repository to track users - I was the only one in a room of 60+ to raise my hand.

Composition is the big theme to date in the conference

The Web - Simplifying SOA for Internal and External Applications - David W. Cearley & David Mitchell Smith

Here is the presentation

Rise of the client wars - Rich web vs. Microsoft plus Adobe - I really like what Adobe's trying to do here - very innovative - But so is Silverlight

Nice mashup Slides

One on Governance that would should adopt -

Enterprise Mashup Architecture - who knew that was needed? There is a session on this later - may want to attend

Web 2.0 is not a destination but part of the journey

My Review of the session: The initial sessions after the keynotes are always setting the stage - so it is light on detail, with lots of breadth. Not bad and the a mashup reference architecture would be nice to have

Keynote with Schulte

Ok, I am live at the Summit.

Tangent: took me over 30 minutes to get a badge this morning; which is extremely unusual for me.

here is the keynote presentation

Focus on differentiation as the future -

• The benefit of IT is not in the initial invention but it is in successive refinements
• Major Design strategies/
  • Agility
  • Virtual Enterprise
  • Straight thru Process, near zero latency
  • Near real time  business intelligence - Situation Awareness
• SOA Term is 12 years old
• Optimizing integration across enterprise boundaries
• Virtual enterprise - across boundaries - Systems of systems
  • integration applications within your domain is different than tying into outside systems
  • Nice Chart here
  • 
• Speed is important - make it happen faster - cut processing time
• 
• Flooded with business events each day - looking at GBGT and all the events we process each day form ATM transactions, call center and teller transactions, etc.
• Business dashboards that provide visibility into these transactions
• GREAT SLIDE
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Note: Gartner made a major cool move, apologizing for the delay. Gave away IPod speakers and a travel mug. heck, I have been in worst lines at CIC for food.

Purpose of this Blog and Conference

This blog will follow my travails at the the Gartner Integration Summit conference June 8 through 11 in Orlando, Fl.  My goal is to publish as near time as is possible what I am seeing

I choose this conference based upon a few factors:

1. Location and timing - East Coast and end of the school year
2. Experience - I spoke at this summit 18 months ago and really enjoyed the conference
3. Size - size is not too small or big - feels more intimate than say Tech-Ed but a tiny niche conference
4. We are looking into SOA heavily

For tools, I am using blogger.com to actually write the blog, LiveWriter form Microsoft to write the blog in (nice functionality) and will host the files on Wonderfile (still passes the Wachovia proxy test)..