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IBM antes up $1 Billion for SOA
As mentioned on an earlier blog, with webMethods purchase of Infravio, BEA’s purchase of Flashline, and HP’s purchase of Mercury and Systinet, only LogicLibrary remains as an independent pure-play SOA company.
IBM has now announced that it will begin reselling and providing services for the LogicLibrary product Logidex. Maybe this could be the first step in a potential acquisition of LogicLibrary by IBM?
Along with that announcement, IBM made a number of other announcements last week too. They rolled out four new products, 23 enhanced versions of existing software and 11 new service offerings. IBM reiterated their broad company-wide support of SOA. The new SOA-focused software and services is based on IBM’s best practices developed on engagements with 2500 business partners and 3000 SOA customers.
IBM categorized their SOA announcement into four focus areas: Business Process Management (BPM); tools to expoit SOA benefits; SOA governance; and SOA infrastructure.
One of the new products introduced last week was based on software from Webify which IBM purchased in August. The three other new products were WebSphere Registry and Repository (WSRR), the Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database, and the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker.
As part of the announcement, IBM also shared results of a study commissioned by IBM done by the Institute for Business Value called The Business Value of Service-Oriented Architecture. In that study, 92 percent of IBM SOA customers started SOA to reduce costs, and 51 percent of the customers saw revenue growth because of SOA.
The SOA portfolio that IBM has put togehter competes most closely with that of Hewlett Packard. In all, it is estimated that IBM is investing $1 Billion this year in research, development and acquisition in the area of SOA.
Formtek is an IBM partner.
