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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
Web Services Analyst Spotlights
Ascential Software Leadership
Ascential Software Corp, an enterprise data integration leader, is featured
in
a new report focused on the future of XML, Web services and service-oriented
architectures (SOAs).
Ascential Software is the only enterprise data integration vendor listed in
the report, "Service Orientation Market Trends: Predicting the Future of XML &
Web Services," by leading technology analyst ZapThink, LLC. The study was
published in late December 2003 and highlights Ascential Software as an
established "incumbent" vendor with Web services/service orientation
capabilities throughout its product line.
"Ascential Software is occupying a prominent place in the Service
Orientation
market, a market where its customers are clearly headed," said Ron Schmelzer,
senior analyst with ZapThink. "The total SOA implementation framework market
opportunity will go from $4.4 billion in 2005 to $43 billion by 2010. The
Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite 7.0 and Ascential Real-Time Integration
Services are well positioned in that market, elegantly extending the reach of
Ascential Software's powerful data profiling, data quality, data
transformation, parallel processing, meta data and connectivity solutions to
organizations' service-oriented architectures -- a critical need in today's
enterprise for realizing the potential of Web services."
The report defines Web services as standards-based interfaces to software
functionality. Service orientation is an approach to distributed computing
where software functionality is available as discoverable Web services on the
network.
In the report, ZapThink identifies Ascential Software as an incumbent in
the
emerging Service Orientation information integration segment, projected to
rise as high as $4.7 billion in 2010, and the SO application integration
segment, projected to rise as high as $7.9 billion by 2010. The coverage
reinforces Ascential Software's leadership in the market, recognized in
September when ZapThink named Ascential Software a "ZapThought Leader" for
helping customers understand how to use XML, Web services and SOAs to build
agile, cost-effective architectures.
"This report is a very detailed, objective discussion of the Web services
and
service-oriented architecture market. Enterprise architects and other IT
professionals who are implementing or considering using Web services or
deploying a service-oriented architecture will find this report very
instructive," said Bob Zurek, vice president of advanced technologies and
product management at Ascential Software. "ZapThink's report takes what has
been one of the information technology industry's most complex markets and
makes virtually perfect sense of it with credible predictions. It also places
Ascential Software in its proper context as the only enterprise data
integration vendor that has made a meaningful contribution to the SOA state of
the art."
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