Business processes play a major role in complex, long-running business processes in the modern enterprise. Such business processes might automate such business tasks as ordering and billing, customer or employee account provisioning, financial recordkeeping, auditing, and archiving, supply chain management, … Continue reading →

The November WSO2 Workshop event schedule is the broadest and deepest yet, spanning five continents and seven different countries.  If you are planning to attend, I’m sure you will agree with our prior workshop attendees that the event is well … Continue reading →

I was looking at some of our download statistics and was pleasantly surprised to see that one of my favorite whitepapers, Practical SOA for the Solution Architect, is also on its way to becoming our most downloaded paper.  As of … Continue reading →

After watching the good work of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) for more than a year, WSO2 has joined as a Corporate Member. As you know, WSO2 offers the very first completely open source Platform as a Service (PaaS). Taking … Continue reading →

[First published at http://blog.cobia.net/cobiacomm/2011/10/25/wso2-soa-governance/] WSO2, the lean enterprise middleware provider, announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of a new report, Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies [1]. My analysis (from an ex-Gartner research … Continue reading →

At the foundation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) lies the concept of loose coupling. Modeling a complex system as a web of interacting services each of which are independent in their implementation, hardware, environment, physical location, and qualities of service, … Continue reading →