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SOA Performance and Knowledge Kit (2008)

The Composition Approach To Building Large-Scale SOA

Resource Downloads
Media Announcement (PDF Format, 165K)
Video WebCast of Executive Summary
Executive Summary White Paper (PDF Format, 2.4 Mbytes)
Service Virtualization White Paper, (412K, PDF Format)
Executive Slide Presentation (2 Mbytes, PDF Format)
SOA Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Financial Model (145 K, MS Excel)
Download a brochure on the SOA Test Automation Bootcamp, (286K bytes, PDF format.)
Read Analyst Tony Baer's Thoughts
Each Knowledge Kit Contains All Use Cases, Source Code, Performance Tests, Developer Journals, Executive Summary, TCO Calculator
Oracle Kit, (24 Mbytes, RAR)
IBM Kit, (44 Mbytes, RAR)
BEA Kit, (48 Mbytes, RAR)
TIBCO Kit (14 Mbytes, RAR)

 Over the past year PushToTest observed a trend among the 160,000 people in our open-source community: Software developers, QA testers, and IT managers are looking for a better way to develop, orchestrate, deploy, and manage services. The Composition Approach to Building Large-Scale SOA

introduces a new service composition approach to building SOA services, explains composition, and provides a methodology and test kit to evaluate today's tools for developer productivity and ease of deployment/management.

PushToTest delivers this free open-source SOA Knowledge Kit to help you:

  • Understand the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) To Build SOA Successfully
  • Delivers Immediately Useful Technical Knowledge of the Strengths and Pitfalls of Building SOA on IBM, Oracle, BEA, and TIBCO Platforms
  • Performance Tests To Understand Your SOA Scalability and Performance
In an effort to quantify the benefits of this composition approach, as well as understand the impact of platform heterogeneity on SOA initiatives, PushToTest conducted an independent evaluation of SOA-related products from IBM, Oracle, BEA, and TIBCO. We did a time/motion analysis of each step of the services lifecycle to reveal the amount of time and effort required to build, integrate, deploy and manage a range of services needed to assemble a composite application. The goal of the study is to compare the cost savings that can be achieved through greater productivity resulting in significantly reduced TCO. The data presented in this report is the result of a seven-month long project that required nearly four man-years worth of effort.
TCO comparing TIBCO, BEA, ORACLE and IBM
Labor Cost To Deploy
Integration Activities Measured
•    System Setup
•    Adapter Setup
•    Design/Review
•    Project Management
•    Configuration
•    Service Construction
•    Service Orchestration
•    Deployment
•    Policy Management
•    Security Configuration
•    Monitoring and Mgmt (SLAs)
•    Change Management
•    QA

 
PushToTest looked below the surface-level marketing claims to understand the skill sets, domain expertise, and specialization that it takes to be successful. We discovered a wide variety of experiences: some highly successful and others rife with challenges. We measured the amount of developer effort to implement an SOA use case and summarize the findings in the following total cost of ownership (TCO) comparison chart.

Summary Study Results for Side-by-Side Product Implementation 

While all of the platforms offer basic competency to build SOA services, PushToTest observed the areas of greatest productivity gains in service construction, orchestration, policy management, security configuration, and change management. We found that TIBCO ActiveMatrix took 49% less time/costs against BEA, 35% less than Oracle, and 22% less than IBM. In other words, IBM took nearly 30% more time, Oracle over 50% more time, and BEA roughly twice as long as TIBCO. We list the products used and version numbers in the Resource section in Section 6 of this paper. 

Download The SOA Knowledge Kit Today, Then Apply PushToTest Methodology And Tools To Your SOA Initiatives

PushToTest expects that your experience may be different than ours. That is why PushToTest publishes all of the code, methodology, test suites, and deployment scripts we created during this project under a free open-source license. This gives you the freedom to build and operate the use case implementations in your own enterprise environment. Download the SOA Knowledge Kits now for your architects, developers, testers, and IT executives immediate benefits.

Apply The PushToTest Methodology and Tools To Your SOA Initiatives

PushToTest offers your organization free 2 hours of our Senior SOA Architect's time to apply the PushToTest methodology and tools to your SOA initiatives. In this time you will:

  • We Will Understand Your SOA Goals and Offer Immediate Feedback, Suggestions, and Refinements
  • Identify The Top 3 Most Likely Places For Your SOA Design To Fail or Suffer Scalability Problems
  • Install The Free Open-Source SOA Kit and PushToTest Load And Performance Testing Platform In Your Environment
  • Introduce The Topics of SOA Load and Performance Testing, Functional Testing, and Business Service Monitoring (BSM) To Your Technical Team
  • Access our technical sales support to help you design, size, configure and propose customer solutions based on IBM, Oracle, TIBCO, and BEA products and services.
  • Access information and support for architecture consulting, application porting, migration and testing, including information on PushToTest tools and resources.

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