Roadmap

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Version 1 and open source

The main reason for the failure of many IT projects is the disconnect that exists between various IT professionals and core business stakeholders because of, the lack of a common language between these groups. Warewolf Easy Service Bus was designed from the ground up, to fix this problem.
The goal for version one was to put together a set of features that we believe, will allow business stakeholders to understand IT processes and IT professionals to understand business processes. Version 1 is now feature-complete.
What remains for version 1 is the following.

• Fix existing bugs and verify correctness
• Implement and refine our open source processes

Tools and connectors

Development using Warewolf involves the composing of various services and connectors into other reusable services. As such the evolution of systems architectures into cloud based offerings has played into the original vision for Warewolf.
What Warewolf lacks, is a set of prebuilt connectors that consume cloud based services or integrate into major enterprise systems. We want to be in a position where a user can consume or integrate with major consumer systems, without having to modify any source.
For example, using Warewolf composition, a user should be able to monitor her company’s twitter feed and automatically raise help-desk tickets in the company ERP system, without having to write any custom code.
This phase of the project involves the creation of connectors and tools for the major consumer enterprise application.

Scalability and speed

For version one of Warewolf, we prioritised correctness over speed and scalability. The goal of version one was; to have a correct system and as importantly, a test suite that verifies this correctness. This allows us to leverage existing test suites, and build a highly scalable and performant version of Warewolf in this phase of the project.

Version 2 and beyond

The Warewolf team are strong believers in agile processes, not just in software development, but in business processes and all facets of life. Agility allows evolution; therefore, the features for version 2 are not set in stone. They will be in direct response to market forces, and software development trends in the near future. Outside of these forces we will be heavily involved in Management Features, like logging and reporting.