First MWD FM SOA interview: David Clarke, Cape Clear
We interviewed David yesterday and asked him our
standard SOA vendor questions. Considering it was the first interview, we think it went OK...
There were a couple of interesting things to come out of the interview:
- Cape Clear markets itself as an ESB vendor, but its view of what is "in" an ESB is much broader than that of most other vendors - David in particular calls out BPEL-based service orchestration
- the sweet spot for the company is really a "mainstream", "mid-market" company which may not have much in the way of deep in-house web services or SOA technology skills
- the company is currently working quite a lot in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and other commercial service delivery scenarios - helping companies in the digital service delivery business create more sophisticated and valuable services
- David also specifically calls out the need for potential SOA "customers" to make clear distinctions between management of SOA-related technology, and management of the automated processes supported by that technology. These are two separate problems with different solution needs, and they should be evaluated as such
- it's pretty obvious from the conversation, we think, that Cape Clear is very firmly a technology company selling its capability as a standards-based middleware solution to integration problems. This makes it quite different from many of the other SOA players, which position themselves almost as business change agents.
The interview lasts 32'55". The audio file containing the interview with David Clarke is
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Labels: Cape Clear, MWD, podcast, SOA
