http://www.soa.com/news SOA Software published news and events. en info@soa.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-02T14:20:29+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_accelerates_enterprise_soa_with_advanced_planning_governance/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_accelerates_enterprise_soa_with_advanced_planning_governance/#When:13:20:29Z Portfolio Manager delivers end to end service visibility, extensible validation framework and leading Enterprise Architecture reference models Los Angeles, Calif., March 2, 2010— SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced today the availability of Portfolio Manager™ version 6.2.  Portfolio Manager™ is an innovative Planning Governance product that helps ensure the alignment of SOA Programs with strategic IT investment and business objectives, resulting in enterprises building the right services at the right time. Planning Governance is one of the most important aspects of SOA Governance. As SOA implementations mature and services thrive and proliferate in enterprises, planning stakeholders need to make sure that their SOA initiatives are aligned with their business and IT imperatives.  Portfolio Manager 6.2 makes it easier for enterprises to fortify their development and runtime governance with planning Governance. SOA Governance is not complete without Planning Governance, as Planning Governance provides business context and prioritization for services under consideration.  Portfolio Manager automates this planning process and maintains these associations throughout the service lifecycle via its integration with SOA Software’s Development and Operational Governance solutions. The combination of Portfolio Manager™ along with Repository Manager™, Service Manager™ and Policy Manager™ enables enterprises to build the right services, build their services the right way, and operate their services correctly. “Portfolio Manager™ makes it easier for enterprises to incorporate planning governance into their SOA initiatives,” said Brent Carlson, SVP of Technology of SOA Software, “Portfolio Manager brings unprecedented end to end service visibility and traceability from business strategy all the way down to runtime implementation.” Key benefits and features for Portfolio Manager 6.2 include: Browser based SOA Portfolio Management Impact Analysis Portfolio Manager 6.2 can dynamically generate visual maps of the interrelationships between enterprise business imperatives and the associated candidate services inside the browser. This visualization capability is a powerful tool for SOA planners and stakeholders to analyze inter-dependencies and discover gaps in the current service portfolio with respect to business strategy and imperatives. Understanding these relationships and gaps early in the planning process can result in a better allocation of resources to achieve optimal ROI from SOA initiatives. Enhanced Search Capabilities For effective service portfolio management, business stakeholders must be able to quickly and easily locate existing business capabilities and associated service candidates using industry and enterprise specific vocabulary. Portfolio Manager 6.2 has been enhanced with a configurable XML based search technology that presents powerful search options to the end user while shielding them from having to specify complex search rules. Support for Standard Enterprise Architecture Planning Reference Models Portfolio Manager can be easily customized to fit SOA portfolio management into existing enterprise architecture planning methodologies and reference models.  Portfolio Manager 6.2 accelerates SOA adoption by providing inbuilt support for leading Enterprise Architecture reference models such as the Zachman Framework, Federal Enterprise Architecture, ITL, APQC PCF and others. Service Planning Validation Framework Portfolio Manager 6.2 adds an extensible validation framework with sophisticated prebuilt validators. Customers can easily define conditional validation rules on any aspect of service planning information. For Instance, they can enforce that candidate services are prioritized before they can be approved for further analysis and implementation, or enforce that candidate services are associated with one or more business capabilities. These rules are enforced at the time planning information is edited; ensuring only valid planning information is shared across the enterprise thereby increasing the trust in planning information’s accuracy and completeness. Press Releases 2010-03-02T13:20:29+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/event_detail/ibm_impact_2010/ http://www.soa.com/news/event_detail/ibm_impact_2010/#When:16:37:13Z Join SOA Software at IBM IMPACT 2010 Meet SOA Software Staff and Executives in the Solution Center Dates : Sunday, May 2 to Wednesday, May 5 Location: Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas SOA Software is an IMPACT Silver Sponsor at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. We’ll be in the Solution Center Expo from Sunday, May 2 to Wednesday, May 5. Stop by our booth and talk with an SOA Software representative. See our latest demo. And learn how our SOA and Cloud Services Governance products can help your company work better in today’s economy. Details and Registration: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/events/impact/ Events 2010-02-12T16:37:13+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_expands_european_operation/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_expands_european_operation/#When:08:28:15Z Responding to Market Demand Company Drives Expansion Los Angeles, CA – February 9, 2010 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced that it is expanding European operations with the appointment of Steve Pope as Vice President of Europe, and Simon Parker as Director Technology Europe, to support and drive the company’s rapid growth in the European markets. SOA Software is expanding its European support, sales team and channel partners to meet the growing demand for SOA products. Current global alliances include IBM, Microsoft, JBoss (RedHat), and SAP. Steve Pope brings strong technology and business backgrounds with a proven track record of building successful customer relationship in the SOA Governance marketplace.  Mr. Pope spent the last 12 years in business management roles with webMethods (acquired by Software AG) and most recently AmberPoint, where he spent 5 years developing customer governance solutions to the Northern European marketplace.  Previously, Mr. Pope spent 10 years in management roles with Informix and Forte Software, leading the growth of both companies in the UK marketplace through the 1990’s.  He started his career pioneering the early deployment of UNIX/RDBMS technologies for the UK Ministry of Defence. Simon Parker joins as SOA Software as Director Technology, Europe and brings considerable technical expertise to the company, with over 20 years consulting and technical services management experience working in the distributed systems, integration and application development markets.  For the last 5 years Parker has specialized in SOA, web services security and XML networking.  Prior to SOA Software, Mr. Parker worked for Cisco Systems, Reactivity, Wily Technology, Active Software, Forte Software and Informix. SOA Software has continued to show remarkable results despite the challenging global economy.  Through 2009, the company grew revenue 55% and delivered an operating profit as a result of new customers deploying unified SOA governance automation solutions, and existing customers scaling up their SOA programs.  Large enterprise SOA programs are a reality today, with customers taking advantage of SOA to drive agility and redirect expenses from tactical to strategic initiatives. “Our business has continued to grow through our strong execution in the US marketplace and some flagship wins in Europe,” said Paul Gigg, president and CEO of SOA Software.  “We are excited to be able to continue our European expansion and accelerate our business with the addition of executives of Steve and Simon’s caliber and background.” Service-oriented architecture allows IT organizations to rapidly respond to the needs of a dynamic business environment, while improving efficiency and redirecting spend away from tactical infrastructure concerns to strategic initiatives.  To deliver on this promise, the IT organization has to understand and control the services it has in production, determine how new services are to be built, and how new services should behave in production.  The IT organization also has to understand which applications are being consumed and whether the services and their consumers are meeting contractual commitments for service-levels and other policy concerns.  SOA Software’s SOA Governance solutions deliver this understanding and provide these controls.  Enterprise IT organizations are now realizing that without SOA Governance, their SOA programs are unlikely to succeed. Press Releases 2010-02-09T08:28:15+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/event_detail/idcs_soa_and_beyond_conference/ http://www.soa.com/news/event_detail/idcs_soa_and_beyond_conference/#When:00:27:37Z IDC’s SOA and Beyond Conference The Agile Enterprise - A Unified SOA and Cloud strategy Alistair Farquharson, Chief Technology Officer, SOA Software Date : Wednesday, 24 March, 2010 11:35AM Event Web site Register for this event In 2010, the key theme for IT departments continues to be how to streamline operations. There is greater pressure on budgets and all spending must add demonstrable value to the business. With the business putting a more watchful eye on all departments, you will be under pressure to ensure that IT is better aligned with the goals of the business and this requires greater flexibility. SOA has been seen as a conduit for greater organisational flexibility, but this is no longer enough.IT professionals want to know how SOA can be best leveraged as the technical foundation for newer initiatives in order to become even more efficient in terms of both times and costs savings. If you are looking at how you can better align your current technical services. IDC’s SOA Conference will provide an invaluable power of advice combining SOA with BPM is seen as an opportunity to achieve greater efficiency. On the day the conference will also look at how SOA virtualisation and cloud concepts can provide support for each other. IDC’s 2009 Service-Oriented Architecture Conference will examine the hottest topics, including: Why SOA builds the common building block for BMP and cloud computing? What role does virtualisation play? Can SOA be implemented with open source components? How can IT leverage its SOA investment and communicate better with business folk? Keynote Presentation The Agile Enterprise – A Unified SOA and Cloud strategy Alistair Farquharson, Chief Technology Officer, SOA Software Cloud computing is rapidly becoming one of the most important parts of a company’s IT investment strategy. Cloud computing and SOA are both highly relevant to today’s enterprise, and are also highly synergetic. This presentation uses a set of real-world examples to highlight the alignment between SOA and cloud computing initiatives, and the ways in which companies can benefit from the synergies between them with effective cloud and SOA programs and solutions. Who Should Attend If you are responsible for developing and implementing your organisation’s IT strategy, this conference will provide you with the tools and information you need to implement a companywide SOA solution that deploys agile, manageable and secure technology. Typically, IDC’s SOA conference is attended by: IT directors IT managers Networking specialists Infrastructure specialists CIOs, COOs Wednesday, 24 March, 2010 09:00 - 17:00 Event Web site Register for this event Events 2010-02-09T00:27:37+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_55_annual_revenue_growth/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_55_annual_revenue_growth/#When:15:00:02Z Company Delivers Operating Profit for 2009 Los Angeles, CA – January 26, 2010 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced results for 2009. Revenues increased 55% from 2008 and the company delivered a full year profit for 2009.  The company won new business and expanded its footprint in existing accounts with its unified SOA governance automation solutions. “SOA Software had an outstanding year.  Unified end-to-end governance solutions are proving more attractive to customers than more limited point solutions,” said Paul Gigg, chief executive officer at SOA Software.  “Our continued investment in R&D has allowed us to bring innovative, top quality products to market.  It is gratifying to see the many large scale customer deployments and the benefits being gained from our solutions.  We would like to sincerely thank all our customers for their support in 2009.” SOA Software’s success through 2009 was the result of new customers needing unified SOA governance automation solutions, and existing customers scaling up their SOA programs and expanding their governance capabilities to take advantage of SOA Software’s comprehensive suite of products.  Large enterprise SOA programs are a reality today, with customers taking advantage of SOA to drive agility and redirect expenses from tactical to strategic initiatives.  Large enterprises are almost always heterogeneous environments with software applications provided by IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat JBoss, SAP and other providers.  These diverse environments need heterogeneous SOA governance systems to provide planning, development and operational governance capabilities across all platforms.  The deep integration and certification of SOA Software’s products with products from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat JBoss and SAP ensures that SOA Software’s products deliver exceptional value to any large enterprise. Service-oriented architecture allows IT organizations to rapidly respond to the needs of a dynamic business environment, while improving efficiency and redirecting spend away from tactical infrastructure concerns to strategic initiatives.  To deliver on this promise, the IT organization has to understand and control the services it has in production, determine how new services are to be built, and how new services should behave in production.  The IT organization also has to understand which applications are being consumed and whether the services and their consumers are meeting contractual commitments for service-levels and other policy concerns.  SOA Software’s SOA Governance solutions deliver this understanding and provide these controls.  Enterprise IT organizations are now realizing that without SOA Governance, their SOA programs are unlikely to succeed. Press Releases 2010-01-26T15:00:02+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_extends_ibm_wsrr_capabilities_to_heterogeneous_environments/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_extends_ibm_wsrr_capabilities_to_heterogeneous_environments/#When:12:00:10Z Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere Registry Repository product provides closed-loop policy governance between IBM WSRR and other enterprise service platforms Los Angeles, CA – December 9, 2009 – SOA Software today announced a new product to extend the capabilities of the IBM WebSphere Service Registry Repository (WSRR). This new product called Policy Manager for IBM WSRR complements the policy management capabilities of WSRR enabling customers to define policies for services and service consumers regardless of their platform and can audit the policies implemented and enforced by the platform in a closed-loop process. “SOA Software’s Policy Manager for IBM WSRR will complement our strong policy management capabilities helping our customers gain control of enterprise services and associated policies built with and running on any heterogeneous platforms,” said Dr. Angel Luis Diaz, Vice President, Product Management of Business Process Management and Connectivity at IBM Corporation. “By combining this solution with IBM’s comprehensive service visibility and governance solutions, customers are better able to broadly, flexibly and continuously automate and govern their business processes. Especially in today’s economic and hyper-competitive environment, this optimizes productivity and resources needed to achieve business agility.” Policy Manager™ for IBM WSRR provides comprehensive SOA Governance tools for all the different roles in the organization including; service developer, consumer developer, architect, business stakeholder, IT operations, security operations, and more. It uses a role-based security model for authorization of policy-driven SOA Governance process control such as service publishing and provisioning process approvals, and to protect sensitive information Policy Manager™ for IBM WSRR provides consistent governance by extending WSRR control to heterogeneous non-IBM environments. It provides: SOA Policy Federation for WSRR Publication of WSRR managed policies via WS-Metadata Exchange and WS-Resource Transfer Active contract management to manage relationships between consumers and providers The collection, processing and distribution of monitoring data Closed-loop policy definition, implementation, enforcement and auditing for WSRR services Policy Manager can be deployed stand-alone providing powerful SOA Governance. It integrates seamlessly with SOA Software’s Repository Manager™ for comprehensive metadata management and development governance, and can also be deployed with SOA Software’s Service Manager™, or any other standards-based SOA Operational Governance Automation solution. It defines, monitors, and manages Active Contracts™ between consumers and providers. These contracts can be enforced by SOA Software’s Service Manager™, an industry-leading operational governance solution. For more information, please attend the webcast on January 21, 2010. Please register here. For information about SOA Software value to IBM products, visit: www.soa.com/ibm. Pricing and Availability Available in Q1 2010, Policy Manager for IBM WSRR will start at $50k USD.   Press Releases 2009-12-09T12:00:10+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_atmosphere_initiative_for_cloud_services_governance/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_atmosphere_initiative_for_cloud_services_governance/#When:06:26:21Z Atmosphere products are first to offer unified SOA and cloud services governance Los Angeles, CA – December 07, 2009 – SOA Software today announced its Atmosphere cloud services governance initiative.  The Atmosphere initiative creates a unifying brand for a suite of SOA and cloud services governance products the company will deliver through 2010.  The Atmosphere products will help companies realize the enormous cost and agility benefits possible with the combination of SOA and Cloud services governance. “Governing the interactions between consumers and service providers will be a mandate for any company using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or other cloud services and offerings. Even when the need for trust is minimal, formally acknowledging that level of trust should be a mandate,” said Daryl Plummer, Managing VP & Gartner Fellow at Gartner.  “The more you increase your dependence on cloud services, the more you will need to establish and implement your required degree of trust between the consumers and providers of the service. It will not be a “one size fits all” determination.” The first product in the suite is Atmosphere Broker, a cloud services broker providing service governance capabilities including visibility, management, monitoring, measurement, provisioning, validation, and reporting for cloud services.  It can be deployed, at the service consumer, in the cloud at the service provider,  or as part of an independent cloud service brokerage to govern access, performance, delivery of cloud services.  Atmosphere Broker includes advanced registry/repository, policy validation, management, security and reporting capabilities. “Atmosphere products will help our customers and partners realize the enormous benefits offered by the combination of SOA and Cloud Computing,” said Paul Gigg, president and chief executive officer of SOA Software.  “SOA Software, already acknowledged by Gartner as a leader in integrated SOA governance, is uniquely positioned to deliver unified SOA and cloud services governance.” The Atmosphere product family will govern the plan, build and run processes for SOA and cloud services initiatives, helping customers in the following areas: Planning: Integrate other initiatives such as legacy modernization and a move to leverage open source into the overall planning process Consolidate reporting into a single dashboard reflecting the combined state of each Enterprise Service across all the strategic initiatives Drive the adoption of multiple disruptive technologies at the same time with an automated, predetermined process built into a single, consolidateddevelopment repository Development: Automate development process governance to align with strategic initiatives Understand dependencies between Business Processes, Services and Cloud service platforms Provide visibility and management of a complex SDLC across multiple development teams, actors, and disciplines,  for example, require application teams to submit appropriate service candidates before approving a business process design Operations: Enable component services to automatically inherit the SLA of the overall business process and use it to drive the performance profile of cloud platforms Ensure that running services, and the infrastructure running them, comply with policies identified for applications and business processes during the planning process Enhance the tasks supporting Root Cause Analysis across the enterprise landscape Provide automation of service SLAs & Capacity Management Atmosphere’s integrated set of products effectively implement, enforce and audit common policies through the various stages of the lifecycle and through process, service and cloud service platforms.  This allows cloud service platforms to automatically scale based on the SLAs and measured performance of the services and processes. Pricing and Availability Available in Q1 2010, Atmosphere Broker will start at $50k USD.   Press Releases 2009-12-07T06:26:21+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_roberto_medrano_recognized_for_leadership_in_the_it_industry/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_roberto_medrano_recognized_for_leadership_in_the_it_industry/#When:15:00:13Z Selected as one of The 2010 Most Influential Hispanics in Information Technology (TOP 100) Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 3, 2009 – SOA Software announced today that Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President, was honored for his leadership in the Information Technology (IT) industry by the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC). Heitzman’s Communication Solutions (HCS) unveiled the 2010 second edition of TOP 100 which recognizes the nation’s top Hispanic executives within the information technology industry. This year’s TOP 100 were chosen out of more than 4000 IT professionals. The nominees were selected by an independent four-member panel of judges. A full version of the Most Influential Hispanics in IT can be viewed at http://www.hitecglobal.org. The TOP 100 were selected based on a criteria that evaluated their individual achievements in the industry, professional level, scope of responsibility, position held in their companies, as well as their involvement in boards and diversity initiatives. About HITEC HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council) was founded by senior Hispanic IT executives who have built outstanding careers in information technology with a strong desire and passion to make an impact within the Hispanic IT community by helping others reach the highest levels. HITEC was formed in late 2006. These national leaders include executives leading Fortune 500 corporations on both U.S. and global initiatives while others lead some of the largest Hispanic owned IT firms in the United States. About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA Governance automation products that enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run enterprise services.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Verizon, and Pfizer use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. Press Releases 2009-11-03T15:00:13+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_extends_oracle_identity_management_capabilities_to_enterprise_/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_extends_oracle_identity_management_capabilities_to_enterprise_/#When:13:15:59Z Company certifies Oracle Identity Management with Policy Manager and Service Manager products Los Angeles, CA – October, 20, 2009 – SOA Software today announced Oracle Identity Management certification with Policy Manager and Service Manager products.  This certification allows customers to leverage their investment in Oracle Identity Management solutions to authenticate and authorize enterprise services and applications across their SOA initiatives as part of a comprehensive SOA Governance solution.  SOA Software lowers the cost of enterprise SOA Governance by providing a unified solution that leverages existing security and operations infrastructure. SOA Software provides a single unified solution for operational SOA Governance including service registry, monitoring, security, routing and virtualization.  By adding SOA Software’s Policy Manager to their Oracle Access Manager deployment, customers gain comprehensive support for advanced identity management standards including SAML, WS-Trust and XACML.  With SOA Software’s Service Manager, they can use Oracle Access Manager to authenticate and authorize enterprise service requests across a wide array of message styles, protocols and platforms.  For example, an application written using Microsoft WCF can use the Service Manager Delegate to request a SAML assertion for a user from Oracle Identity Manager and use this SAML assertion to identify itself to the enterprise services it invokes.  The services invoked by the application can then validate the assertion and can use Service Manager to authorize the request validating it against Oracle Access Manager. “Oracle Identity Management solution customers can now use our products to simplify the security administration and governance of their SOA,” said Alistair Farquharson, chief technology officer of SOA Software.  “By adding Service Manager and Policy Manager to their Oracle Identity Management solutions, customers can easily secure their services and enable their applications to authenticate themselves to these services using their existing identities and policies.” Available immediately, the Oracle Identity Management integration for Policy Manager and Service Manager provides: Enterprise Service authentication using Oracle Identity Manager Enterprise Service authorization using Oracle Access Manager Advanced standards support for Oracle Access Manager with SAML, WS-Trust, and XACML   Press Releases 2009-10-20T13:15:59+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_portfolio_manager_certified_as_powered_by_sap_netweaver/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_portfolio_manager_certified_as_powered_by_sap_netweaver/#When:11:00:22Z Solution Provides Planning Governance for Mission-Critical Enterprise Services Los Angeles, CA – October, 5, 2009 – SOA Software today announced its Portfolio Manager 6.1 product has been certified by SAP AG as “Powered by SAP NetWeaver®”.  The solution provides Planning SOA governance to help ensure that customers are exposing and consuming the right mission-critical enterprise services with their SAP® solutions. See http://www.soa.com/sap  for detailed information. The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that SOA Software Portfolio Manager 6.1 can be successfully deployed on the Java EE 5-based SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE) 7.1 component of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform to govern the development of applications that exchange critical data with instances of SAP Business Suite software. “We are delighted to announce the successful achievement of ‘Powered by SAP NetWeaver’ certification status for Portfolio Manager,” said Roberto Medrano, executive vice president of SOA Software.  “The ability of Portfolio Manager to help corporations determine their current state of their services, identify what services they have and need to plan, and to prioritize service development will prove highly beneficial to current and future SAP customers.” Portfolio Manager helps ensure the alignment of SOA Programs with strategic IT investment and business objectives and make sure that enterprises build the right services at the right time.  Portfolio Manager now allows customers to better leverage their existing investments in SAP solutions to build enterprise services and applications that can transform their business with SOA. Portfolio Manager™ is SOA Software’s innovative Planning Governance product that helps ensure the alignment of SOA Programs with strategic IT investment and business objectives and makes sure that enterprises build the right services at the right time.  It helps customers identify candidate services and build an SOA roadmap through SOA Modeling, Asset Identification, and a Portfolio Management process.  To achieve these goals Portfolio Manager functions as part of a unified SOA Governance automation suite with seamless integration with Repository Manager™ and Policy Manager™.  Key capabilities for Portfolio Manager include: Delivers packaged SOA planning governance methods and governance automation meta-models Dynamically represents current and future architecture models based on industry standards and internal definitions Leverages APQC business process frameworks to promote compliance with industry best practices Provides existing system capability discovery and candidate service identification Provisions prioritized services into Repository Manager for Development Governance Automation Ensures that SOA portfolio management remains a continuous dynamic process Portfolio Manager Product implements a three-part process for portfolio management: SOA Modeling: Model current and target architectures Leverage industry best practice models including APQC Import existing models Integrate with existing modeling environment Asset Identification Identify assets from Governed Development Platforms and Governed Service Platforms Manage asset relationships Portfolio Management Identify candidate services Prioritize service development Enforce enterprise architecture planning policies Create a service roadmap Provision prioritized services into SOA Software’s Repository Manager for Development Governance Automation   Press Releases 2009-10-05T11:00:22+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_repository_manager_certified_as_powered_by_sap_netweaver/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_repository_manager_certified_as_powered_by_sap_netweaver/#When:12:00:17Z Solution Provides Governance of Mission-Critical Enterprise Services for Customers Los Angeles, CA – September 9, 2009 – SOA Software today announced its Repository Manager 6.1 product has been certified by SAP AG as “Powered by SAP NetWeaver®”.  The solution provides SOA governance of mission-critical enterprise services exposed and consumed by SAP solutions. See www.soa.com/SAP for detailed information. The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that SOA Software Repository Manager 6.1 can be successfully deployed on the Java EE-based SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE) 7.1 component of the SAP NetWeaver technology. “We are delighted to announce the successful achievement of ‘Powered by SAP NetWeaver’ certification status for Repository Manager,” said Roberto Medrano, executive vice president of SOA Software.  “The ability of Repository Manager to be successfully deployed on SAP NetWeaver will prove highly beneficial to current and future customer engagements.” Repository Manager enables enterprises to understand what services and other software assets exist, where they’re located and how each fits into a company’s business and technical landscape. By providing a context for understanding and assessing existing software assets, Repository Manager serves to automate the path to SOA.  As a result of the certified integration, Repository Manager now allows customers to better leverage their existing investments in SAP solutions to build enterprise services and applications that can transform their business with SOA. Repository Manager is SOA Software’s industry-leading development governance platform that simplifies the creation, integration, management and promotion of enterprise assets and services throughout the complete development lifecycle.  Its strong integration with leading application development environments, federation with all major run-time registries like IBM WSRR, HP SOA Systinet, and other UDDI registries, and its integration with SOA Software’s Policy Manager TM enables customers from a single point of control to rapidly deploy services and other software assets within the SOA enterprise lifecycle. Now from a single point of control users can easily govern and manage services as they progress across the service development lifecycle and provide key feedback at critical checkpoints across the service lifecycle. Key capabilities for Repository Manager include the following: Development SOA Governance– Repository Manager enables enterprises to manage their heterogeneous asset types from a single source.  These assets can include services, components (.NET, J2EE, CORBA), legacy systems, and/or knowledge assets, such as patterns and best practices, used by development team. Strong Federation with Leading Service Registries – Support for native federated repositories allows organizations to share assets around the world, while tightly controlling how services are created, viewed and consumed. Deploy and Manage Assets and Services Effectively - Repository Manager can automatically invoke compliance policy validations implemented in Policy Manager.  The combination of Repository Manager and Policy Manager allows users to replace what was previously a time-consuming ad-hoc exercise with a scalable, automated governance process. Discover Assets and Services Collaboratively - Repository Manager’s discovery engine offers capabilities ranging from simple keyword searches to sophisticated, model-based searches. SDLC Automation - Repository Manager automates both development-time service production and consumption governance processes via its highly flexible imbedded event engine. Development System Federation - Through its XML-driven AnySource adapter framework, Repository Manager can be connected to any development system of record. IDE Integration - Repository Manager delivers certified plug-ins for the IBM Rational (RAD, RSM, and RSA) and Microsoft Visual Studio environments, and also provides equivalent capabilities for the hugely popular open source Eclipse IDE. Graphical Impact Analysis - Through its Asset Relationship Visualization feature, Repository Manager provides architects and other key SOA stakeholders with an interactive and dynamic graphical environment for understanding upstream and downstream dependencies so they can head off destabilizing changes. Rich Search Environment - Repository Manager provides the most extensive search capabilities in the industry, including its patented graphical reference model-based search. Complete SOA Governance - The combination of Repository Manager and Policy Manager allows users to replace what was previously a time-consuming ad hoc exercise with a scalable, automated SOA governance process spanning service development through operations.   Press Releases 2009-09-09T12:00:17+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_support_for_cxf_and_xfire_on_red_hats_jboss_enterpri/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_support_for_cxf_and_xfire_on_red_hats_jboss_enterpri/#When:08:03:07Z Solution Provides First and Last Mile SOA Security and SOA Management Los Angeles, CA – September, 01, 2009 – SOA Software today announced support for the CXF and XFire service stacks on Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.  This support provides customers with the industry’s best service SOA security and SOA management capabilities without requiring changes to their existing applications or development practices. SOA Software’s products provide Unified SOA Governance Automation for the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.  This allows customers to confidently use JBoss products as part of a heterogeneous enterprise SOA environment sharing services with other commercial SOA platforms like Microsoft, IBM WebSphere, SAP NetWeaver, BEA, and Oracle, as well as other open source providers to: Ensure that services they identify design and build using JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms are relevant to and consumable by applications they design, build and deploy using other platforms like SAP and IBM. Make services they expose from applications running on the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across other platforms; and make services they design and build using other platforms like SAP and open source environments visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across their JBoss Enterprise Middleware applications. Promote, ensure and formalize consistent alignment between demand from service consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract Provisioning and Enterprise Service Portfolio Management. SOA Software’s platform-independent Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution promotes the use of best-practices throughout an enterprise SOA program regardless of where services and consumers are planned, designed, built, deployed and operated. “The comprehensive governance capabilities delivered by SOA Software’s products are a strong complement to the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform,” said Pierre Fricke, Director of Product Marketing, Middleware Business Unit, Red Hat.  “Together, our products offer customers a truly enterprise class solution for enterprise services and SOA, allowing them to dramatically reduce their platform costs.” SOA Software offers agents and delegates for most common Java application servers, .NET, several ESB products and several business process management tools. The agents and delegates are fully functional, platform-native, and non-invasive offering complete last-mile policy enforcement and first-mile policy implementation including on-board cryptographic operations without having to change any deployed applications or services.  SOA Software’s Agent for JBoss SOA Platform deploys into the container to ensure first- and last-mile security and policy enforcement and implementation for services using any supported SOAP stack including CXF and XFire. We are excited to extend our support for the growing development community around leading open source service enablement platforms,” said Alistair Farquharson.  “Our customers can now be confident that applications built on their JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms can be seamlessly governed as part of their enterprise SOA programs.” SOA Software’s Policy Manager and Service Manager combine to add enterprise-class SOA Governance capabilities to the JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms: Define and manage run-time policies that will be enforced and implemented by Service Manager’s intermediaries and other standards-based intermediaries Security, routing, reliability, mediation, and other run-time policies Ensure that policies are being effectively enforced with a comprehensive metrics collection model Capture performance and usage metrics according to policies Statistically and algorithmically capture comprehensive message data Track and manage security and other policy exceptions Compare and reconcile collected metrics with policies for audit purposes Enforce policies managed by a centralized governance solution Consistently enforce policies across all popular service containers including, Java and .NET app servers, ESBs, mainframe, and packaged applications   Press Releases 2009-09-01T08:03:07+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_policy_manager_and_soa_software_service_manager_solutions_succ/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_policy_manager_and_soa_software_service_manager_solutions_succ/#When:11:00:13Z Company’s leading products also certified as “SAP Solution Manager Ready” Los Angeles, Calif. – May 11, 2009 – SOA Software, a leading integrated SOA governance vendor, announced today that its SOA Software Policy Manager 6.0 and SOA Software Service Manager 6.0 solutions have achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. “The certification of our products is an important step in our support of SAP solutions,” said Paul Gigg, President and CEO, SOA Software.  “Our solutions provide the governance capabilities – for use in SAP solution-based environments – that our customers are demanding. Through these certifications, these solutions have been proven to integrate with SAP solutions, allowing customers to confidently deploy SOA Software’s products alongside SAP NetWeaver in the following ways: To help ensure that services identified, designed and built using SAP solutions are relevant and consumable to applications designed, built and deployed using other platforms, technologies and products. To make services exposed from applications running on SAP solutions visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across other platforms; and make services designed and built using other platforms like Microsoft .NET, WCF and Oslo and open source environments visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across by their SAP NetWeaver-based applications. To promote, ensure and formalize consistent alignment between demand from service consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract Provisioning. SOA Software’s platform-independent Unified SOA Governance Automation solution promotes the use of best-practices across all platforms throughout an enterprise SOA program. SOA Software Policy Manager and SOA Software Service Manager integrate with development and runtime products from most commercial platforms from vendors including SAP, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle, as well as RedHat and other open source providers.  These certified solutions from SOA Software offer integration with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, including the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE), Enterprise Services Repository (ES Repository) and the SAP NetWeaver Application Server (SAP NetWeaver AS). The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that SOA Software Policy Manager 6.0 and SOA Software Service Manager 6.0 are certified for integration via the JAVA-EE-STD (Java certification) scenario based on a 64-bit Java EE 5 Edition-based deployment of SAP NetWeaver CE 7.1. In addition, both solutions have achieved “SAP Solution Manager Ready” status. Solutions that qualify as SAP Solution Manager ready are made visible to the customer’s SAP system landscape directory, displayed within the SAP Solution Manager application management solution at the customer site.   Press Releases 2009-05-10T11:00:13+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_honored_among_this_years_most_promising_private_technology_ven/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_honored_among_this_years_most_promising_private_technology_ven/#When:22:41:23Z LOS ANGELES, CA – MAY 7, 2009 –SOA Software, a leading provider of unified governance automation products for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA),  announced today its status as a finalist of the “Red Herring 100 North America” award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures in North America.  The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of 1,200. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries. “We are pleased to be honored by Red Herring,” said Paul Gigg, CEO of SOA Software. “It is further recognition of our success providing highly robust, enterprise ready solutions that can be deployed at scale by large organizations to deliver real world benefits.” This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry. “This year was especially difficult,” said Alex Vieux, Publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “There were so many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing it down to 200.  Now we’re faced with the arduous task of selecting the final 100. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far.” For over 10 years, The Red Herring 100 North America award, open to private technology companies headquartered in North America, has been given to the top 100 tech companies based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecom, communications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries sent in their submissions to qualify for the award. The CEOs of the 200 finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Conference in San Diego, where the Red Herring Top 100 will be announced. About Red Herring Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors, and business decision-makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation ecosystem, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.  For more information, visit http://www.redherring.com About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified governance automation products that enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run enterprise services. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Press Releases 2009-05-08T22:41:23+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_governance_product_for_ibm_websphere_datapower/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_governance_product_for_ibm_websphere_datapower/#When:12:00:27Z Company Extends Its Comprehensive Unified Governance Automation Capabilities to Leading SOA Appliance Los Angeles, Calif., May 1, 2009 - SOA Software, a leading provider of unified governance automation products, announced today the availability of Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower.  This product provides centralized policy definition and service monitoring for DataPower appliances, allowing customers to easily use their existing DataPower deployments to virtualize enterprise services for high-availability, load-balancing, and offloading of costly XML and security processing. Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Software’s deep integration with IBM WebSphere DataPower appliances provides customers with the ability to control the DataPower Appliance directly from the Policy Manager console, without the need to duplicate configuration manually. This provides customers with a ‘one-click’ management strategy leveraging DataPower as the runtime and SOA Software’s Policy Manager as the source of service and policy information as well as the reporting console for the monitoring data. SOA Software’s Policy Manager is unique in its ability to manage the catalog of services, drive policy definition and distribution, and collect and display monitoring data for the DataPower devices.  It allows customers to implement and enforce consistent, uniform policies throughout their infrastructure, and provides visibility into enterprise service usage, performance, and availability from network edge to application. Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower can provide operational governance capabilities supporting SOA Softwares’ Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager solutions for planning and development governance.  This helps ensure the fidelity of governance models, processes and structures throughout the enterprise service lifeycle. Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower allows customers to: Utilize DataPower as part of a unified governance automation solution Centrally define policies and apply them to services distributed across multiple DataPower appliances Manage a cluster of DataPower appliances as a single entity Gain visibility into service and appliance performance, individual messages, and business transactions from a single administration console Monitor and enforce SLAs for services distributed across a cluster of appliances generating alerts for faults, performance issues, and security violations Easily publish virtual services into DataPower appliances leveraging the performance and security capabilities of the appliance for enterprise service federation “This new product offers a perfect marriage of DataPower’s performance with SOA Software’s ease-of-use,” said Alistair Farquharson, chief technology officer at SOA Software.  “Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower allows our customers to make better use of their DataPower investments, extending their governance infrastructure into their network.” About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of unified governance automation products that enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run enterprise services.  The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Verizon, and Pfizer use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. 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