Active Intermediary Product Comparison

I've done a number of reviews of active intermediaries for InfoWorld. In order to give people some context, I wrote a piece on Pipelining the Web. This table classifies, in a way at least useful to me, some of these products. I'll be adding to it as I do other reviews and probably changing and expanding some of the classifications as I understand these products better.

Vendor

Product

Service or Software

Primary Strength

Architecture

Features

Grand Central Communications

My review

Service

External partner integration

Messaging oriented bus

Message Store and Forward

Security

Routing

Message transformation

Logging

Event Moniitoring

Sonic Software

Sonic ESB

My review

Software

Widely distributed, lightweight EAI

Messaging oriented bus

Message Store and Forward

Security

Message transformation

Programmability

Event Moniitoring

Confluent Software

CORE 3.0

My review

Software

Distributed services management & monitoring

Distributed intermediaries with centralized configuration engine

Security

Message Transformation

Distributed architecture

Logging

Service Call Switching

Event Moniitoring

CommerceOne

Conductor

Software

Vendor neutral EAI

Integration server platform

Service adaptors

Security

Message transformation

Process management

Event Moniitoring


Last Modified: Wednesday, 20-Apr-2005 13:52:35 MDT