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Telsima Corporation, a provider of WiMAX based Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) and Mobility solutions, has secured $50 million in new funding. It includes commitments from the initial investor syndicate: NewPath Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, CMEA Ventures, JAFCO Asia, and other strategic investors. Telsima is rapidly growing its customer base with commercial deployments in emerging markets such as India, and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). “With several multi-million dollar contracts from Tier 1 operators, Telsima has proven it understands the challenges and opportunities carriers face when deploying WiMAX networks,” said Telsima CEO, Dr. Alok Sharma. “This capital infusion allows continued innovation and deployment of our systems on a global scale � taking Telsima to the next level: a flagship telecom equipment company.”
Reliance, which made heavy investments in 2003 in technology to tightly monitor and control the supply, delivery and dispensation of fuel products throgh its network of petrol pumps, is looking at extending the good experience to its retail venture. Reliance is considering an investment of at least Rs. 1,000 crore in technology, reports LiveMint. Apart from suitable hardware including networking and communication equioment, the company is likely to deploy SAP to run the business and Retalix to manage ‘point of sale’ terminals. Reliance, according to the report, has lined up a battery of consultants, technology providers and systems integrators like IBM, TCS, Satyam, Cap Gemini, Ernst and Young, Technopak.
Non-proprietary software development received a thumbs up from investors with Spring framaework creator, Interface 21, securing a USD 10 million funding from Benchmark Capital. Benchmark has previously invested in RedHat, MySQL and JBoss [which was eventually bought by RedHat for USD 420 million in 2006]. Spring is an open source web application framework for the Java platform. It was developed as a light-weight solution to make Java coding more flexible, easier, and competitive with other languages like RoR (Ruby on Rails). Unlike other heavy-weight APIs Spring is modular, meaning you can use parts of it; for example, like a bean container with Struts on top of it, or use only the Hibernate integration or the JDBC abstraction layer. Dependencies on the framework can be minimal, depending on the area of use.
Just came back from an all-day offsite with the EA team in Microsoft IT. It occurs to me, in speaking with my collegues and in side conversations, that we have a good idea of what Enterprise Architecture is, and how it benefits the company, but many of our stakeholders do not. That's not to say that we are perfect, or that other people should just "guess" our value. The Value of EA needs to be carefully tailored to fit the actual needs of the organization and we have to do a good job of making that value visible and sharing it with others. On the other hand, I know that some good folks in both business and the rest of IT have different impressions of what "enterprise architecture" is and what it does for an enterprise. Some may feel that the value of architecture is to design the solutions that the company needs to consume (build the solutions right!). The real value, in my mind, is to help make sure that the money spent on IT is building agility and not complexity (build the right solutions).
David Linthicum is opening up his voice mail to anyone looking to implement SOA, or consultants working on such a project for end-user organizations. The way it works is simple: Call in and leave a 3-minute (tops) message and contribute your tales, make suggestions for other SOA developers, comment on issues or ask questions. Find guidelines, plus phone and Skpye numbers here.
SDA India magazine and JAX magazine announced an Indian edition of their conferences at Bengalooru, India starting 28th May 2007. There are three conferences * JAX India 2007 * Enterprise Architecture Conference (EACon) India 2007 * Eclipse Forum India 2007 The last date for submitting papers is 6th Feb 2007 (for all the three conferences)
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions are capturing the interest of many IT vendors around the world, partly due to the high services-to-software dollar ratio. Asia Pacific (AP) is no exception, and a number of countries there lead the world in their deployment of SOA. Interviews with IT vendors in AP enterprises and data from Forrester's Business Data Services show that the short-term opportunities for SOA adoption lie in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, while the longer-term potential will be greatest in China, India, and Japan.
