Stefan Ried

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

PaaS is a major new trend. Some SaaS application vendors of maturity level 3 will move into this model or are already on their way to it like salesforce.com with force.com. In a second move, the large systems integrators will evolve their major outsourcing and ASP business into a enterprise mash-up of Legacy applications and PaaS services complemented by ISV business logic. Finally there will be more PaaS opportunities than companies creating their own technology stack. This will be the chance for new software vendors creating PaaS infrastructure addressing new needs to new buyer groups. Call for action for all vendors of integration infrastructure NOW.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Forrester PaaS market sizing for the next 10 years!

Stefan

Review of the IP Strategy of the major software vendors.

Coming soon …

Claiming ground against the ESB gorillas

How Open Source can challenge established ESB vendors

Many software vendors are providing an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), which is one key infrastructure required for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Now the market is prepared for the competition of commercial and open source license models. Very special to the ESB market is its combination of maturity and agility, product requirements are still emerging. A new open source offering either has to face a long race for features or can succeed based on a fast mass adoption with lightweight capabilities.

NOW published on Forrester.com

Complex Event Processing grows up

How is complex event processing related to SOA?
Will it be mature enough to create any real value?
Will CEP and SOA merge to a new generation of Business Event Networks (BEN)?

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Business Intelligence and Business Activity Monitoring Vendor should marriage

After the recent acquisitions (IBM-Cognos, SAP-BO, Oracle-Hyperion) the large brand vendors their appetite for BI. As a consequence the left over innovative BI vendors face a huge problem. Either their sales opportunities are threatened by the big brands or their company evaluation is dramatically decreasing, as no potential buyers are left.

Which strategy will help vendors like Qliktech or Arcplan to survive?

Read how they could drive the next hype cycle merging BI with process related KPIs, coming soon…