WebMethods

Cox was using webMethods by Software AG as an integration broker for its systems. It was struggling with the outdated technology, which was becoming increasingly expensive and complicated to maintain. The developers at Cox called Software AG a ‘closed proprietary black box’ that gave them little control over the solution. They had to contact Software AG for most issues and often times the solutions to these issues would disturb other system functionalities resulting in more manual processes. This was the ‘suitable opportunity’ we have been preparing for – to introduce JBoss Fuse as a superior integration…

of their design [Abrams & Schulte, 2008]. Consider that in April 2003 in a report, Service-Oriented Architecture: Mainstream Straight Ahead, Gartner, Inc. predicted that by 2008, SOA will be the prevailing software engineering practice, ending the 40-year domination of monolithic software architecture. An article in the October 2007 edition, of CIO Magazine noted that over 50% of clients in a survey were already engaged in some form of SOA development. A report in the Wall Street Journal in…