In the digital world requires new levels of collaboration, knowledge and streamline processes to improve business agility and help respond faster to business needs. Oracle, Red Hat and IBM are offering to build this platform.
is an English word called "middleware" and most users of information technology (IT) are unaware of what it is. But programs that represent the concept encompassed by the term Anglo-Saxon are key to organizational life and constitute an area where heavy fighting was concentrated between global technology giants.
In today's digital world, we need new levels of collaboration, knowledge and dynamic business processes to improve business agility and help them respond faster to changing business needs. In this framework, the middleware is a kind of backbone of the software technology that makes possible a wide range solutions.
is a connectivity software that provides a set of services that make it possible to run distributed applications on heterogeneous platforms. As defined by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, works as an abstraction layer for distributed software that sits between application layers and the lower layers (operating system and network).
This platform away the user to the complexity and heterogeneity of the underlying communications networks and operating systems and programming languages, providing an application interface for easy programming and management of distributed applications. Depending on problem to be solved and the necessary functions will be useful different types of services middleware.
internal pressure
The economic crisis forced the departments of technology companies suffer a great deal of pressure to use these technologies in order to support business innovation.
This new focus on IT as a key enabler for competitive advantage and growth of the company reveals the challenges that prevent technologies to provide greater business value.
Most of these challenges is concentrated around the applications and business processes disconnected, the management of information is multiplying exponentially, and the ability to implement technologies aligned with company objectives.
All these challenges are faced by the middleware in common. It is located between your business processes and infrastructure necessary to implement them. Thus, this platform is where everything (people, processes, information) can come together to create a continuous flow of information across the enterprise.
By allowing the permanent integration of the level of applications to the infrastructure, the middleware can help to optimize the environment technology of an organization, generate higher returns from IT investments and produce greater business value and innovation.
Benefits The benefits of middleware are:
* Create an agile infrastructure that allows the integration of business processes.
* Increase business flexibility and reduce IT complexity.
* Reduce the costs of business integration.
* Improve management of infrastructure.
* Improve time to evaluate and optimize existing technological knowledge.
* Increase visibility and improve management and quality of IT services.
* Creating an IT infrastructure that is designed to address regulatory requirements.
* Increase the value of existing IT investments.
* Improve the quality, availability and value of information.
Innovation Bases
One of the main players in this market is Oracle, a company he bought in the last 5 years more than 50 software companies. In a presentation to the press, the firm announced the availability in Argentina's Fusion Middleware 11g.
is an application infrastructure that seeks to improve the agility and intelligence of business applications, and allows businesses to make use of new hardware and software architectures for efficient implementation and IT and cost savings.
This new version provides a unique platform processes, such as unification of the system, human processes and documents, plus an event-driven architecture (EDA, for its acronym in English) with a range of capabilities in SOA (SOA), from development to security and governance.
includes Oracle WebCenter Services to be connected to any kind of portal, intranet, composite applications, communities through the Web-to enhance social contacts and personal productivity.
"This is a major release for the Argentine market, one of the fastest growing middleware in the region, since this is the first full release after the purchase of the company BEA. This release consolidates the offer of a converged platform a year after the announcement of the new roadmap, "said Mark Pupo. Open Source
other tech giants that are targeted to "middleware" IBM and Red Hat, the latter, one of the biggest companies from the world of open source which this month announced the availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0.
This commodity middleware platforms represents next-generation Java applications and form an integral part of the basis for computing cloud ("cloud computing", in English) from Red Hat.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0 supports the choice of developer and intends to provide bases to support a range of programming models and Java components, including Plain Old Java Objects, Java EE, Spring Framework, OSGi, Google Web Toolkit and a range contexts of rich Internet applications and dynamic languages.
features JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0 include: second-generation architecture based on services, better management and configuration, support for Java EE, principal component updates. Banks
looks
For IBM, this month presented a unified software platform to help banks to be more efficient, improve their flexibility and adapt more easily to new business challenges and regulatory requirements .
Under the strategy, "An intelligent world" (Smart Planet) from IBM, the new platform enables banks to streamline the modernization, management and monitoring technological systems, while reducing risk, avoiding the disruptive consequences of businesses that have characterized these activities in the past.
The Banking Industry Framework (IBM Banking Industry Framework) gives financial institutions an alternative to the traditional approach and high risk of 'rip and replace. " The framework uses a smooth transition with proven models and processes data from the industry and used by over 250 financial institutions. As a result, banks can now update their infrastructure and the flight safely.
Among the most attractive attributes of the new framework introduced by IBM may be cited its focus on the heart of the infrastructure. In this area, maintenance and management of core banking systems generally represent more than half of total IT spending. These costs do not only consume funds that could be allocated to upgrades and innovations, but also growing steadily.
The new open platform "silos" that often exist between the departments of a bank, and allows transparency of data and application sharing.
For example, using the new framework, the staff of the bank can trace transactions across multiple business lines to identify fraudulent activity before it occurs, while other employees of the entity can use the same analytical tools to understand the behaviors and preferences of customers. Cesar Dergarabedian
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