SOA Continues to Gain Momentum

This week heralds announced a wealth of new SOA focused tools -NetManage OnWeb 7.2 from NetManage

OnWeb 7.2 is now delivering support for .NET and Java based connectors, which enables customers to connect to and leverage data from mission critical enterprise applications including SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel, JD Edwards and more. OnWeb 7.2 also has improved support for SSH and SSL and integration capabilities to ERP and CRM systems, databases, and middleware as well as Microsoft BizTalk 2004.

Also announced by NetManage is RUMBA 7.4, which offers increasing support for Windows based host access, complete with SSO (single sign on) capabilities.

Synapta from Attachmate

Synapta Services Builder and Synapta Presentation Builder lead the way for Attachmate's move into the SOA space. Both build on Attachmate's long experience and are focused on empowering end-users through SOA.

Presentation Builder is the first step in a series of moves to provide a comprehensive SOBA (service oriented business application) environment in which end-users can easily create composite applications from web services - complete with a user interface. Services Builder provides the framework for turning virtually any data source - application, databases - into a service consumable by end-users.