The invitation letter defines the parameters of and criteria to be used for the review.
Dear Vendor,
Network Computing will publish a comparative review of Enterprise Service Bus products for our March 16, 2006 issue and we would like you to participate. Our sister publication, Intelligent Enterprise, will participate in this package, and will run additional coverage of ESB in its April issue.
The testing will take place in our Green Bay, WI Real World Lab.
What do we consider appropriate for this review?
We will consider products offering enterprise service bus functionality.
We will judge products based on the following criteria:
• Routing capabilities
• Protocol support (HTTP, FTP, SMTP / JMS, MQ, Web Services, RV)
• Standards support
• Price
• Transformation support
• Features, including but not limited to:
This test will pit each product head-to-head for comparisons of its ability to accept, translate and route messages based on a set of defined business events.
Product Requirements
Products must provide:
• Routing
• Transformation
• Event handling
• Multi-protocol/multi-standard (specifically, must support Web Services / HTTP, SMTP and JMS for testing)
Products also must:
• be deployable on Windows 2000/2003 server
• be generally available to customers before testing begins. We will not accept beta products.
• include all applicable licenses. We do not test evaluation software. Please insure that the appropriate licenses are shipped with your product or your product will not be tested.
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