September 2005

Welcome to our September newsletter - to help you keep up with the rapidly evolving SOA market.

When Forrester asked 145 business and IT managers to identify their top gripes with today’s packaged enterprise applications, nearly 90% of the business respondents:

• Indicated disdain for the inability of today's apps to support cross-functional business processes—a critical business inhibitor.
• Wanted better visibility into process results and wanted to extend processes to partners.

Kinikin says that embedded application vendors are seriously lagging in meeting these needs so end users are taking matters into their own hands. They are developing their own "composite applications" to connect siloed apps and increase business relevance. Their preferred platform to bring it all together? Infrastructure vendors, NOT app vendors.

Read this study to find out about Forrester's recommendations for building a stable infrastructure foundation to meet these evolving business needs.

ebizQ Webcast, September 20, 9 am PT
Featuring Gartner Analyst, Daryl Plummer

Composite Applications – Understanding the Next Generation of Software Development

With the emergence of Web services, developers are shifting to composite applications because they provide unequaled flexibility, adaptability and usability to rapidly address today’s dynamic business needs and requirements.

Join us for an information-rich hour with two revered industry luminaries: Gartner’s Daryl Plummer, an internationally-respected authority on Web services and Roger Sippl, technology pioneer and serial entrepreneur founding: Informix, Visigenic, Vantive, and Above All Software.

Learn why traditional development or integration methods are no longer the answer. Understand how the ability to Mine, Refine, Assemble and Deploy is critical to creating and delivering business services.

Attend this webcast to learn about:

• The benefits of composite applications and how they fit into a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Ways to optimum reuse with a virtual application portfolio.
• IT infrastructure requirements for composite applications.
• The newest innovations and best practices for delivering composite applications.
• Common scenarios where application developers are delivering composite applications to meet business demand.

Also, don’t miss seeing the industry’s leading innovation – The Above All Composite Application Platform demonstrated by Deborah Scharfetter, VP of Products, Above All Software.

We hope you enjoy this whitepaper and Webcast.

Until next time,

John Sovik
Above All Software
Western Regional Sales Manager
Office Phone: (650) 641-4600 x140

ebizQ Webcast
9/20 9 am PT
Composite Applications– Understanding the Next Generation of Software Development

Forrester Research Trends:
Packaged Apps Lag Business Requirements, Need For Process and Context Drive New Composite Architectures