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Industry News
Skyway Software Springs into New Strategy with Release of Open Source RIA Platform
April 2008
Read the analysis by Vishwanath Venugopalan, Analyst at The 451 Group, as he assesses Skyway Visual Perspectives and discusses the benefits available to developers as a result of Skyway Software’s latest product release. Read More >>
Business Best Practices for Service-Oriented Architecture
February 2008
To better understand best practices for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), it’s best to begin with the end in mind. Knowing what the goals are for implementing SOA eases the understanding of how to get there and which business-best-practices enterprise organizations should target. The purpose of implementing SOA is to enable IT and business agility. But virtually all organizations face limitations in their ability to change due to the speed and accuracy of the software powering the business. Read More >>
Can Agile Development & Model-Driven Design Solve the Broken Delivery Process?
November 2007
The software delivery process has long faced many challenges, many of which are exacerbated by the need for organizations to update their internal architectures and the methodologies they use to build and deliver solutions. Read an article by Skyway Software’s co-Founder, Jack Kennedy, as he describes how model-driven design combined with agile development eliminate the gap between business and the underlying technology so that enterprises finally can accelerate the pace of innovation. Read More >>
October 2007
Many organizations have begun to reap the benefits of agile development on their internal projects—shorter time-to-market, better quality software, more team productivity. Now, they want to know how to get those same advantages when doing agile development throughout a distributed team. Skyway Software uses visual requirements gathering techniques to accomplish this, unlike anything else on the market today. Read More >>
SOA Isn’t Just for IT Guys to Worry About
September 2007
Applications based on service oriented architecture are enabling companies to achieve new levels of flexibility and responsiveness. Supply chain managers need to understand what the fuss is all about. Read More >>
ZapThink ZapNote™ - Skyway Software a Collaborative, Model-Driven Approach to Service Development
September 2007
Read the analysis by Ronald Schmelzer, Senor Analyst at ZapThink LLC, as he describes certain key issues with application delivery today, the role of SOA in solution delivery, and a discussion of Skyway Visual Workspace as a potential response to today’s software delivery challenges. Read More >>
Modeling, Prototyping, and Software Development
September 2007
From simulation to real-world applications, read a Q&A session between Jonathan Erickson, Editor of Dr. Dobbs Journal and Jared Rodriguez, CTO and Founder of Skyway Software. Read More >>
Techniques to Help Prevent Software Project Failure
August 2007
Prototyping improves software requirements gathering, while model-driven development (MDD) helps speed code generation. By doing both of those, development groups will meet business needs and deliver projects on time and within budget. Read More >>
Software Requirements: Visual Prototyping Worth a Thousand Words
July 2007
Using Skyway Software's Visual Workspace, an application development and deployment framework, Southern States Cooperative has improved its software requirements and development processes and moved into SOA application development. Read More >>
Skyway Software’s UK Stepping Stone to EU
July 2007
US-based software technology and services provider Skyway Software has recruited Domain Technologies, traditionally an implementation consultancy, as its first reseller in the UK and as a stepping stone to further European expansion. The recruitment comes after a successful two year working partnership on a SOA project at British American Tobacco based on the affinities between Skyway Virtual Workspace and Domain's developer teams. Read More >>
Model-Driven Delivery Tool Facilitates Software Development
April 2007
The software development life cycle (SDLC) is encumbered with time, budget and communication restrictions. Aiming to loosen these restrictions is application development vendor Skyway Software. Read More >>
Farmers Cooperative Extends Rollout of SOA Tool
April 2007
Southern States Cooperative Inc. is rolling out a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) tool companywide in an effort to boost the efficiency of developers now using several different technologies. The decision to roll out Skyway Software Inc.’s Visual Workspace tool came after one development team began using it a year ago to build a pricing application that the farmers cooperative estimates has since generated $1.4 million in new revenue. Read More >>
Skyway Lights Up Visual Workspace 5.0
April 2007
Skyway Software has lit up Skyway Visual Workspace 5.0. The software, which is first available today, is Skyway's flagship product for developing, deploying and maintaining service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications throughout the application life cycle. Read More >>
GT and Skyway Software Announce Partnership
May 2006
Skyway Software, a provider of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design and delivery solutions, and GT Software, a provider of rapid SOA development tools for mainframes, today announced a formal partnership encompassing sales, marketing, and product integration. Read More >>
IT Outsourcing Firm Selects Skyway Visual Workspace
April 2006
Skyway Software, the award winning provider of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design and delivery solutions announced today that VietSoftware is now a Certified Skyway Software Channel Partner. The impressive client roster of VietSoftware includes IBM, Design Reactor, Toyota, and Fujitsu which keeps their more than 200 employee staff very busy. Read More >>
Skyway Software Unveils Developer Edition of SOA Software
March 2006
Skyway Software last week unveiled a scaled down Developer Edition of its Skyway Visual Workspace, a Java-based application modernization suite designed to transform OS/400 and mainframe green screens into graphical user interfaces or deliver them as Web services in a services-orientated architecture (SOA). Read More >>
Skyway Visual Workspace Adds Southern States to Client Base
March 2006
Karen Lankford, VP of Information Systems at Southern States, adds, "The magnitude of the impact Skyway's SOA Platform has on real business issues can be measured by our Zone Pricing project which alone is projected to generate millions of dollars per year in revenue for Southern States." Read More >>
January 2006
On average, Garcia says, developers can get up to speed with a new application built with Skyway in a week, enabling him to shift developers easily among projects. Now Garcia doesn't have to turn to offshoring. Problem solved. Read More >>
Skyway Software Offers J2EE-Compliant SOA Web Service Solutions
December 2005
Skyway Software is offering J2EE-compliant code without the proprietary runtime extensions. The company's SOA platform covers data structures and data stores. The software also creates processes and user interfaces. Read More >>
The Skyway Is Open For Complete SOA Development
December 2005
While the old EAI vendor lock-in is still plaguing many SOA products today, savvy vendors such as Skyway Software are offering vendor-agnostic SOA solutions that generate J2EE-compliant code without the use of proprietary runtime extensions. CRN Test Center engineers agree that Skyway’s Builder does “hide” all of the complexity of generating J2EE-based services. Read More >>
iSeries ISVs React to SOA Standardization Initiative
December 2005
On December 1, IBM announced it had joined with seven other major industry players in an effort to create standardized specifications for services oriented architecture. Read More >>
A Special Guide to SOA Tools &Trends: Beyond the Buzz
December 2005
Service Oriented Architecture is hot. Vendors are rapidly creating or repositioning solutions to offer SOA business process efficiencies. Yet with all the buzz about SOA's promise, it's hard to separate the architecture from the "marketecture." Read More >>
British American Tobacco builds SOA one step at a time
November 2005
For British American Tobacco (BAT), SOA success came early. The challenge now lies in determining how quickly SOA should be scaled across the enterprise, and for which functions. Read More >>
August 2005
Service-oriented architecture may be a hot buzzword to some in IT right now, but when it comes to implementing a comprehensive IT-business strategy, buzzwords don't mean much. That's especially true for a $45 billion multinational company such as British American Tobacco. Read More >>
Mike Smith, iSeries Chief Architect, Speaks Out on SOA
July 2005
Three weeks ago, The Four Hundred took a look at Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the application development methodology that makes use of reusable components that contain application logic to perform a single business function. We talked with a variety of iSeries software developers that are employing SOA in their applications. They all touted the benefits--flexibility, agility, decreased cost, and platform independence--of SOA and some predicted that SOA will give new life to those aging iSeries boxes and increase the odds that new i5s will find their way into the enterprise. Read More >>
New rules govern SOA lifecycle
July 2005
Moving to SOA requires a strategic commitment to create a more flexible IT system that maps closely with business processes, instead of trying to retrofit business requirements into technology decisions. Once the commitment is made, the path to SOA can be very difficult or very straightforward based on the enabling technologies and practices. Read More >>
Business focus is vital for SOAs, says BAT IT chief
June 2005
Web services should be introduced as part of a business architecture, not a technology architecture, if organizations are to gain maximum benefit, Kevin Poulter, application technology manager at British American Tobacco, told last week's Corporate IT Forum (Tif) conference. Read More >>
SOA Equals Faster Enterprise Class Development
June 2005
Capitalizing on two of the hottest IT topics for 2005 according to Gartner – SOA and open-source software – Skyway Software is shipping a version of its SOA platform for the open-source Linux operating system. Dubbed Skyway SOA, the platform was designed from the ground up for SOA to build, govern and deploy business solutions, processes and services, according to company officials. British American Tobacco, worth $45 billion, wanted to move from a traditional approach to integration and application development to more of a leading-edge SOA across its global operating company of 86,000 employees. Read More >>
SOA Comes to Linux: Skyway's SOA Platform Now Certified For Linux
June 2005
Skyway Software lays claim today to be the the first "sophisticated SOA platform provider for open-source implementations," a claim related to the fact that its service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform is now certified to deliver SOA solutions for Linux. By adding Linux to the list of certified operating systems, says Jared Rodriguez, CEO of Skyway Software and one of the authors of the UDDI specification, Skyway "provides another option for customers to lower the TCO of their SOA business solutions." Read More >>
Tobacco Firm Shifts Development to SOA
May 2005
British American Tobacco PLC this week will start moving developers at 180 locations worldwide to a new development platform as the company begins to build most new applications as services. The London-based supplier of tobacco products plans to move developers using tools from Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp. and IBM to service-oriented architecture (SOA) tools from Skyway Software for almost all new custom development, said Kevin Poulter, application technology manager at British American. Read More >>
World Class Product Award - Skyway SOA Builder
April 2005
Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) rarely start from scratch. In most enterprises, they are built in gradual steps as part of an overall migration and architectural strategy. Along the way, existing legacy systems must be enhanced to support the required interface technologies, service gaps have to be filled by building new systems or acquiring and leveraging external services through third party providers, and all elements in the architecture must be orchestrated and combined to form the final catalog of services. One solution that helps address these challenges is Skyway Builder from Skyway Software. Read More >>
Tobacco company BAT realizes the Enterprise Services Architecture vision
March 2005
With the introduction of service-oriented architecture, British American Tobacco is creating a standardized platform for its international group of companies. The regions can retain their autonomy and implement enterprise services according to their own requirements. Read More >>
January 2005
A company’s geographical dispersal can cause problems for IT, but British American Tobacco (BAT) is implementing a service oriented architecture (SOA) to gain a consistent platform for its global systems, with-out constraining local regions which retain significant autonomy. Read More >>
Rethinking the Business Case for Java
August 2004
In this article, Max Goff rethinks the business case for Java to provide important insights for software developers and corporate decision makers involved in the planning of software development. Read More >>
