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by Diane Himes, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 5:50:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Infor Open SOA will be based on event-driven architecture that is built into new product releases; specific timelines to follow later in 2007. |
| Keywords: | Infor, Infor Open SOA, service-oriented architecture, SOA, industry standards, OAGIS, middleware, product roadmap |
In a move that will help the enterprise software vendor integrate its many acquired product lines, Infor on Tuesday outlined its service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy, called Infor Open SOA. On a conference call with members of the press, Infor CEO Jim Schaper and CTO Bruce Gordon said Infor Open SOA will differ from the SOA visions of the company's main enterprise applications competitors — SAP and Oracle — in two major ways. The first is that Infor Open SOA will be based on an "event-driven" architecture, whereby end customers can deploy and upgrade interoperable applications and software components with little or no disruption to other enterprise systems. Infor's middleware will remain platform-independent by adhering to industry standards such as the XML-based Open Applications Group Interoperability Standard (OAGIS). Infor officials said customers will be able to create their own ecosystems of Infor and non-Infor software components, without having to rip and replace systems to conform to proprietary middleware technology. [Click to continue] |
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