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SOP combines an in-memory service composition technique with
service-oriented and model-driven programming constructs to create application
modules as services without coding or scripting. SOP with “SOA inside,” unifies
application componentization and integration functionality and, thus, eliminates
the need for a bundle of application and SOA integration servers. Because the
SOP paradigm is already model-driven, there is no need for tens of complex
add-on “middleware” products ranging from Workflow and Business Process
Management (BPM) tools to Data Exchange tools. Model-driven SOP changes the
economics of software automation by eliminating the need for the entire SOA middleware
stack. SOP models, defined through a
single design-time environment, are automatically run and managed by a Multi-tenant
Service Virtual Machine (SVM) at runtime.
In SOP, service interfaces form the unit of in-memory
encapsulation and can be transparently externalized at runtime regardless of
where they are used in the hierarchical stack of composition. This transparent
ability to externalize any sub service-component of a higher level service
module is at the heart of the convergent property of SOP. It is the key to
built-in virtualization of all the subcomponents across multiple cores and
servers, inside-out SOA integration, and many other innovative mechanisms that
are enabled through SOP.
Today, the main platform differentiation between traditional
applications delivered on-premise and the one used by a SaaS application vendor
is in the multi-tenancy of the SaaS application platforms. Besides the multi-tenant
delivery model, the paradigm and techniques used for development of SaaS and
on-premise applications is fundamentally the same. Using a multi-tenant SOP
platform for developing and running SaaS application components brings the
advantages of 100% model-driven development, inside-out SOA, and automatic
component virtualization to the existing economics of SaaS delivery. SOP is the
convergence point of SaaS, SOA, and Virtualization.
Ventyx supplies ERP applications for Service Delivery Management
used by corporations to manage customers, workforce, spare parts inventory,
tools and documentation. They serve more than 400 companies in over 40
countries, including nuclear power companies who operate energy facilities that
generate and distribute electricity. Because their customers typically
customize the business logic in the application software, Ventyx migrated to an
SOP platform that could better support customers by ensuring a high level of
integration while maintaining optimal computer performance.
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Ash Massoudi is CEO & Co-Founder of NextAxiom Technology. He is a proven entrepreneur and a software inventor with the vision to incrementally unify all IT assets unleashing a new wave of business automation. Massoudi founded NextAxiom in May 2000 and led the creation of a patented software platform that significantly eases new software development on top of existing application functionality. He played the pivotal role in successfully propelling NextAxiom through the concept, R&D production, and customer acquisition stages into its current expansion phase. Before co-founding NextAxiom, as Director of Integration Technologies at PeopleSoft, he was responsible for delivering PeopleSoft’s complete suite of integration technologies, including PeopleSoft’s business components and near real-time application messaging solutions, which was deployed at over 4000 customers worldwide. He also managed the assimilation of Advance Supply Chain Planning products within the PeopleSoft technology platform as a result of PeopleSoft's $275 Million dollar acquisition of Red Pepper Software.
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Rakesh Saha 01/02/08 02:34:37 PM EST | |||
It is a very intriguing article addressing new technology treand. Mixing SOP and SaaS will be really a good benefit to the customers. But do you think when there are available platforms with strong support for stds like WS-* , SCA people will go for non-std based proprietary platforms ? |
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