EMA Webinars
Click on a title to register for a live or on-demand EMA Webinar:

Utilizing Next-Generation Network Management Tools to Improve Service Delivery
Dennis Drogseth, VP, EMA
David Signori, CTO, Emprisa Networks
Tuesday 3/13 @ 2pm Eastern

Application Security:
A Strategic Domain of Enterprise Risk Management
Scott Crawford, Senior Analyst, EMA
Thursday 3/29 @ 2pm Eastern

Building a Successful SOA:
How to Lay the Foundation
Julie Craig, Senior Analyst, EMA
Albert Mavashev, CTO, Nastel
On-Demand Recording

EMA Analysts Speak
Look for EMA Analysts speaking at these upcoming events:

CA World 2007
Andi Mann
Senior Analyst, EMA
April 25, 2007
Las Vegas, NV

Analyst's Corner
SOA, Performance, and XML Gateways
by Julie Craig, EMA Senior Analyst

2007 is the year that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) goes mainstream. EMA's 2006 SOA research confirmed that multiple companies are already demonstrating SOA's considerable business value, especially in industry verticals such as telecommunications and finance, where fierce competition demands an agility that is beyond the capabilities of traditional distributed application architectures. From the EMA perspective, SOA crested early adoption in 2006 and 2007 will see SOA hitting the mainstream.

And while the good news is that SOA-based applications are flexible, platform agnostic, and standards based, the bad news is that they can also bring significant performance hurdles.

Enterprise IT Professionals:
Participate in EMA's New CMDB Study
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New EMA Research in February 2007
Advisory Notes
Check out actionable recommendations for enterprise IT professionals in the following new EMA Advisory Notes:

* Configuration and Change Control: An Anchor Point of IT Governance
(Scott Crawford)

* Lessons Learned from Managing Applications over the Network
(Dennis Drogseth)

* Service-Oriented Architecture for Communications Service Providers
(Jeff Cotrupe)

* Why Utility Computing is Driving New Standards of Value in IT Management and a New Model for IT Management Technology (Jeffrey Nudler)

* Why You Should or Shouldn't Worry About SOA (Julie Craig)

* New OSS/BSS Shopping List for 2007: Part 1 - Integrated Capacity and Network Planning (Jeff Cotrupe)

* Convergence Defines the Emergence of IT Service and
Control Management (Scott Crawford)

Subscribe to EMA's Research Library
Access these informative reports and more in EMA's comprehensive IT Management Research Library. For more information on becoming a subscriber, please contact your EMA Business Development Manager:

Enterprise IT Professionals
Bruce Lehman, blehman@emausa.com, 303.543.9500 x112

IT Management Vendors (A-K)
Kevin Hecht, khecht@emausa.com, 303.543.9500 x124

IT Management Vendors (L-Z)
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Notable Quotes: EMA Analysts in the News
"... Sun with Solaris + AMP had taken the best parts of the LAMP stack, swapped out Linux with Solaris, and added other open-source technologies ... In terms of standing a chance against LAMP, absolutely, I think it's a very strong offering ... [but] it's going to be difficult just to get mind share over Linux."
- EMA's Andi Mann (InfoWorld - February 12, 2007)

"Most big companies have updated systems to address [the earlier onset of daylight-saving time] ... but many haven't done enough."
- EMA's Andi Mann (USA Today - February 9, 2007)

"[I]t remains to be seen how extensive any industry consolidation could be over the next few years. But it does seem unlikely that the security industry will see many large pure-play security vendors in the future."
- EMA's Scott Crawford (Computerworld - February 6, 2007)

"IT managers need a policy-based means to access all this configuration information to enable higher-level management of performance across network, server and applications ... The number one question asked when diagnosing a performance issue among enterprise IT managers is, 'What changed?' and with quick access to that data, IT managers can fix problems more quickly."
- EMA's Dennis Drogseth (CIO Today - January 30, 2007)