ALSO CALLED: Enterprise Service Bus and Enterprise Services Bus DEFINITION: An enterprise service bus (ESB) is a software architecture for middleware that provides fundamental services for more complex architectures. For example, an ESB incorporates the features required to implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In a general sense, an ESB
Definition continues below.
WEBCAST: Posted: 07 Apr 2008 | When: Available On Demand
SUMMARY:
In this Webcast, Forrester analysts discuss the key elements of a successful ESB adoption and how to overcome the common challenges and pitfalls associated with implementation.
WEBCAST: Posted: 07 Apr 2008 | When: Available On Demand
SUMMARY:
Hear the challenges and strategies for addressing them.
By learning how SOA runtime governance can directly impact your business, you will have the key information needed to build a business case to justify the investment in SOA solutions.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 17 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
SUMMARY:
Discover a unique approach to SOA deployment that reuses IT infrastructures by exposing them as services without additional hardware requirements. Eliminate your dependencies on middleware, reduce IT complexity and lower operational costs.
SUMMARY:
This case study describes how a telecom company calculated and compared costs of a traditional EAI approach to an Enterprise Service Bus solution and which solution yielded the most efficient cost savings.
PRESS RELEASE: Posted: 29 Jun 2004 | Published: 25 May 2004
SUMMARY:
The Cape Clear Business Integration Suite for BEA WebLogic, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) built around Web Services standards, which has been specifically fine-tuned to support the full range of BEA? WebLogic? features.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Posted: 30 May 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2003
SUMMARY:Fusion Server is a powerful integration platform designed to connect and streamline applications, data and business systems across networks and enterprises.
ESB DEFINITION (continued): can be thought of as a mechanism that manages access to applications and services (especially legacy versions) to present a single, simple, and consistent interface to end-users via Web- or forms-based client-side front ends.
In essence, ESB does for distributed heterogeneous back end services and applications and distributed heterogenous front-end users and information consumers what middleware is really supposed to do: hide complexity, simplify access, allow developers to ESB definition sponsored by SearchSOA.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
TechTarget provides enterprise IT professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs
- from developing strategy, to making cost-effective IT purchase decisions and managing their
organizations' IT projects - with its network of
technology-specific Web sites, events and magazines