SOA and Virtualization are currently considered to be two separate disciplines, but they no longer need to be. SOA offers the enterprise the benefits of increased agility and cost efficiency in terms of application development, reuse, and making connections across heterogeneous applications and business partners
Native test interaction with leading system metrics dashboards and reporting environments provides improved control over performance and reliability.
This paper will refer to government organizations as a case study on SOA Governance. However, architects and developers in the business computing arena can draw valuable lessons from the complex integration and quality challenges faced by federal agencies.
LISA's Evolution Mitigates IT Risk through SOA Testing, Integration Support and Policy Validation
iTKO, Inc., the leading provider of testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, announced the availability of the new version of its flagship product suite, iTKO LISA 4 SOA Testing and Validation. LISA expands upon iTKO's delivery of the Three C's of testing - complete, collaborative and continuous - by adding key functionalities that mitigate the business risk of ever-increasing change and complexity in enterprise IT.
John has over fifteen years of experience as a technical leader at all organization levels, designing, developing, and managing large-scale, object-oriented solutions in traditional and network architectures.
He is the chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing product and a leading industry advocate for software quality.
Before forming iTKO, Michelsen was Director of Development at Trilogy Inc., and VP of Development at AGENCY.COM. He has been titled Chief Technical Architect at companies like Raima, Sabre, and Xerox while performing as a consultant. Through work with clients like Cendant Financial, Microsoft, American Airlines, Union Pacific and Nielsen Market Research, John has deployed solutions using technologies from the mainframe to the handheld device.
We've talked a lot in previous posts about how the practice and technology of Virtualization really has legs -- it keeps moving forward, from hardware virtualization, virtual test beds, to virtual endpoints, to actually simulating the behavior of the software itself, which we're calling Service-Oriented Virtualization (or "SOV" if you need a TLA for it).