Rakesh Saha

The way business applications are evolving, enterprises are learning to accept and embrace the notion of applications that they neither control nor host. Now enterprises are leveraging applications that run a business through the Internet platform. As these applications become core to many businesses, so does the need to incorporate these applications into the enterprise’s existing infrastructure and make them work together. Every on-demand application should function like any other enterprise application, both hosting and sharing critical business information as well as services. SaaS-based on-demand applications continue to grow at a staggering rate. According to software market analyst Gartner, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) represented approximately 5 percent of business software revenue in 2005 and, by 2011, 25 percent of new business software will be deliver... (more)

The Convergence of Web 2.0 Mashups & SOA

Enterprise mashups – the convergence of Web 2.0 mashups and service-oriented architecture (SOA) – can create a world of opportunities for enterprises to come up with internal and customer-facing self-service, composite and “situational” applications. These applications can be created just-in-time by empowered enterprise business users and by simply combining SOA-enabled information sources and services or SOBAs (service-oriented business application) on the intranet and Internet. To make this convergence even deeper, we need to borrow one important lesson ... (more)