At MMS 2011 in Las Vegas, the next version of Opalis was announced.
The product is called "System Center Orchestrator 2012"
Adam Hall has published a first look of this which gives a good overview of what to expect!
I am really exited about
- No More Java based operators console, next version is Silverlight! which means it is run in IIS instead of java web server.
- New Web Service based on the OData protocol! enabling us to develop apps , excel sheets or similar, using live data from orchestrator
- PowerShell cmdlets and PS Drive Provider. enabling us to navigate the orchestrator server in the same way as our other drives.
You can look at the blog post here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/scorch/archive/2011/03/30/a-first-look-at-system-center-orchestrator.aspx