IDGNS: Are there other interpretations of SOA with the library?
Kürpick: You really can't run a large scale SOA landscape without a central library. As with any library, you need to know
where the books are. With SOA, you need to know where all the services are you want to link and how to link them.
IDGNS: And you help with your own proprietary technology?
Kürpick: Our technology is entirely based on open standards. We see ourselves as a neutral player in the integration space.
We're not biased toward SAP or Oracle or any other vendor of business applications for that matter. Our mission is to integrate
heterogenous IT landscapes. Businesses prefer to enable new processes on what they already have. They don't want to embark
on huge conversion programs.
IDGNS: When companies follow a SOA path, do they need to invest heavily in consultants?
Kürpick: They need some level of consultancy. SOA is a learning process. We can guide businesses and help them avoid interruptions.
Our technology is based on standard ways of doing things -- for instance Eclipse as a development environment or Java as a
standard way of developing code. Large companies can do much in-house. So it's really a question of how large you are and
how much you want to do in-house.
IDGNS: So no more XLM -- SOA is the future. But SOA can go away too, right?
Kürpick: SOA is an architectural concept and I expect it will be around for at least the next 10 years or longer. The concept
is really only at the beginning.
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