http://www.soa.com/news SOA Software published news and events. en info@soa.com Copyright 2010 2010-09-01T13:00:52+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_ibm_ims_transformation_product/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_ibm_ims_transformation_product/#When:12:00:52Z SOLA for IMS Facilitates Agile Reuse of IMS Applications Los Angeles, Calif. – September 1, 2010 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance vendor, today announced SOLA for IMS, a legacy modernization solution that transforms IMS applications into high-quality, high-performance enterprise services, allowing the mainframe to be a full participant in an Service Oriented Architecture enabled environment. SOLA is a comprehensive mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution that cost effectively turns the mainframe into a seamless part of an SOA enabled environment.  SOLA provides customers with a fast and easy way to expose mainframe applications as secure, high-performance enterprise services and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services.  Using SOLA, customers can leverage millions of dollars of existing mainframe investments as part of their enterprise SOA environment.  The SOLA runtime environment resides entirely on the mainframe, eliminating the need for expensive, unreliable and unnecessary middleware. Coupled with SOLA’s Development Studio, this vastly increases developer productivity, providing faster time to market and lower application development cost. “Many Fortune 1000 companies use IMS,” said Jim Crew, Vice President of SOA Software. “This product extends existing investments and provides growth opportunities for IMS applications that can be reused in new business initiatives.” SOLA for IMS runs independently of any transaction management software, making it ideal for IMS-only environments.  SOLA for IMS handles IMS transactions written in COBOL, PL/I or Natural, with multiple input and output segments.  SOLA for IMS also allows any mainframe program to easily consume services.  SOLA’s orchestration capabilities allow multiple IMS transactions to be executed on a single trip to the mainframe, vastly reducing latency.  SOLA for IMS can also service-enable DB2 stored procedures and SQL statements. SOLA is highly optimized, making it the most efficient option for service-enabling mainframe transactions.  Much of SOLA is written in assembler language, so the SOLA runtime offers lower MSU consumption and higher throughput than alternatives that use Java and rely on zAAP specialty engines. Unlike alternative solutions that only offer one or two components of mainframe SOA, SOLA offers a comprehensive SOA solution, further reducing TCO. SOLA eliminates the need to integrate multiple mainframe and distributed products/platforms to create enterprise-class services.  SOLA is a Governed Service Platform, making it fully governable by SOA Software products like Policy Manager and Service Manager. Innovative SOLA features such as One-Click service creation and an easy to use drag-and-drop interface deliver the only secure, standards-based and governable SOA product in the mainframe industry.  SOLA provides end-to-end SOA governance for the mainframe with WS-Security, WS-Policy, optimized registry, integrated monitoring, logging, auditing and near limitless scalability, all implemented on the mainframe.  This makes SOLA the only solution for companies seeking secure, high-volume, mission-critical mainframe SOA. SOLA is the only product proven in enterprise implementations to handle high volume (10 million+) transactions per day in mission-critical mainframe SOA environments. Press Releases 2010-09-01T12:00:52+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_repository_federation_solution/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_repository_federation_solution/#When:15:57:05Z Repository Manager supports downstream, horizontal, vertical, and custom federation scenarios Los Angeles, CA – July 26, 2010 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced the availability of comprehensive SOA federation capabilities in its Repository Manager product. These capabilities help customers share software development asset information effectively within and outside the enterprise, govern how this information is shared, and integrate this information throughout the organization’s heterogeneous software development ecosystem. These federation capabilities benefit IT organizations by: Providing a single point for software information across disparate systems in the development environment Automating enterprise wide SOA policies and industry SOA best practices Driving checkpoint-based development governance (e.g., triggering, coordinating and documenting code reviews, requiring complete end-user documentation for enterprise-shared services), thereby making better use of high-demand architectural and technical resources Leveraging existing investments in platform SOA service repositories to be used in an enterprise SOA Software development today is typically geographically distributed and often requires working closely with offshore teams and partners.  A software asset repository is a key part of any distributed software development environment. Such repositories not only need to be able to govern production and consumption of software information, but also govern what information needs to be shared, and with whom; both within and outside the IT organization. By integrating effectively with other systems in the software development ecosystem such as source code control systems, defect management systems, requirements management systems and others, repositories provide a normalized and consolidated view over these systems.  Effective repositories should also integrate seamlessly with downstream systems such as runtime registries. “The ability to effectively automate and enforce SOA policies and best practices is critical for a successful enterprise wide SOA program. Enterprises need a single point for consolidating software information from multiple systems in their development ecosystem to make and automate effective governance decisions,” said Brent Carlson, senior vice president of technology at SOA Software. “Companies also need a single point of control for one or more SOA registry/repositories such as IBM WSRR, HP Systinet, and others. Repository Manager’s strong federation capabilities ensure that SOA standards and policies are enforced consistently throughout the enterprise”. Repository manager provides comprehensive support for multiple repository federation scenarios: Downstream Federation Horizontal Federation Vertical Federation Custom Federation Downstream Federation: Repository Manager’s federation capabilities for leading service registries, including SOA Software’s Policy Manager, IBM WSRR, HP SOA Systinet, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and SAP ESR, automatically synchronize service definitions, supporting information and governance states both to and from the run-time environment.  This is unique in the market and provides customers with granular control of their various registries from a single platform, adding consistency and automation to their development governance processes. With Repository Manager’s Asset Import Center, users can scan UDDI V2 and V3-compliant registries, IBM WSRR, HP SOA Systinet, TIBCO ActiveMatrix, and SAP ESR based registries for commonly used services, easily extracting them into a governed service lifecycle process.  Once in Repository Manager, these services can be governed based on user requirements for enterprise service deployments; reducing the risk of application failure, security exposure or other application stability issues caused by ungoverned or rogue services. Horizontal Federation: Repository Manager supports separation of software development asset information based on organizational needs.  For example, in an enterprise with multiple functional business units, each business unit can have a separate library as well as a consolidated library that is shared across the enterprise. In such a scenario, an enterprise may use a certification level classifier to then determine which assets should be available in the enterprise.  Repository Manager can also support sharing of asset information across these libraries based on filters.  For example, an enterprise with commercial and defense organizational units can be configured to uni-directionally share services from the commercial library to the defense library, thereby providing the defense organization with a broader set of capabilities while preserving security boundaries. Geographically distributed companies can use federation to co-locate library instances closer to multiple physical locations, providing local access not dependent upon Internet/intranet bandwidth at each location while maintaining software asset ownership in a distributed manner. Vertical Federation: Through its XML-driven AnySource adapter framework, Repository Manager can be connected to any development system of record.  Requirements management tools, document management systems, SCMs, defect tracking tools and test automation environments are a few examples of the types of systems. Repository Manager can aggregate into its Software Development Asset (SDA) repository environment.  AnySource is designed to automate the SDA assembly process based on development events (e.g., code promotion), extracting asset information, building references to work products managed by development tools, and establishing relationships to other assets based on development tool-managed information, and presenting the results for optional role-based governance approval.  Repository Manager provides prebuilt integrations with the leading SCM platforms including IBM Rational ClearCase (standard and UCM mode, including cross-integration with ClearQuest), Microsoft Team Foundation System version control and Visual SourceSafe, Serena Dimensions and PVCS, open source Subversion and CVS, and any WebDAV-enabled platform. Custom Federation: Repository Manager provides extensive web service APIs to allow access to its repository and governance automation capabilities. It also provides a flexible and configurable event infrastructure that can be used to tie in events from other development systems. For example, federation with identity management systems, HR Systems (to obtain users and roles) and custom build systems can be accomplished using this API. External events in these systems can trigger changes to asset information in Repository Manager, presenting end users with a single point of view and control over their software assets. Press Releases 2010-07-26T15:57:05+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_wins_the_2010_sd_times_100_award_for_soa_and_middleware/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_wins_the_2010_sd_times_100_award_for_soa_and_middleware/#When:13:42:53Z Los Angeles, CA – June 14, 2010 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced it had been selected as one of the SD Times 100 winners for 2010. For the past eight years, the SD Times editors have used the award process to spotlight the industry’s top leaders, innovators and influencer. The editors look for companies that set industry’s trends that become market standards. This year the 100 winners were placed into 12 separate industry categories. “The software development industry is led by innovative companies like SOA Software,” said Alan Zeichick, Editorial Director of BZ Media’s SD Times. “When choosing the 2010 SD Times 100, we carefully considered each organization’s products and services, reputation with software development managers, and the new ideas and thought leadership that it brings to the industry. Thanks to companies like SOA Software, named to this year’s list, the art and science of software development continues to advance at a rapid pace.” “We are proud to be a recipient of the 2010 SD Times 100 award. Moving forward we plan to further expand our leadership position in the SOA and Cloud Services Governance marketplace,” said Roberto Medrano, executive vice president of marketing at SOA Software. “We have successfully specialized in understanding the needs of our clients and in turn providing them with the right products.” SOA Software products enable customers to confidently share services between commercial SOA platforms like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle, as well as Red Hat and other open source providers. The company has stayed ahead of the curve by developing products that have the agility to work well in a heterogeneous environment. Press Releases 2010-06-14T13:42:53+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_enterprise_and_cloud_service_federation/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_enterprise_and_cloud_service_federation/#When:12:00:35Z Service Manager 6.0 Delivers Enterprise and Cloud Service Virtualization, Management and Mediation Los Angeles, CA – June 8, 2010 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced its award winning Service Manager product version 6.0.  Service Manager 6.0 provides advanced virtualization, management, security, monitoring and mediation capabilities for SOA and Cloud Service, implemented using a state-of-the-art OSGi-based architecture.  SOA provides the foundation for a successful transition to an Enterprise Cloud Operating Model.  SOA Software products allow customers to confidently share services between commercial SOA platforms like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle, as well as Red Hat and other open source providers. Service Manager is the industry’s leading SOA Management and Security product. It delivers comprehensive standards-based security, routing, mediation, monitoring, and management. Service Manager implements and enforces policies, generates usage, performance and policy compliance metrics used to enable a closed-loop process for auditing and making sure policies are being correctly enforced. Service Manager 6.0 delivers: Policy-based Mediation for integration with multiple platforms: Policy sharing and enforcement between commercial platforms becomes easier with Service Manager. Service Manager enforces and implements policies through advanced service virtualization, allowing declarative enterprise service federation to create relevant and consumable service interfaces across any platform, policy, message type and transport Extensible binding framework: Service Manager provides out of the box support for SOAP, REST and POX services with an extensible framework allowing customers to add other binding with ease Security Federation: Service Manager supports advanced security federation standards, providing enterprise-class token, authorization, and PKI capabilities for SOA and Cloud Services Open Architecture: Service Manager leverages an OSGi-based architecture providing a flexible, reliable, and high-performance solution for the most demanding enterprise environments “Enterprise Services initiatives are about more than just SOAP Web services, they need to include REST, RSS, Atom and other web 2.0 and emerging technologies, such as Cloud Computing,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software.  “Service Manager 6.0 provides an extensible operational governance solution that allows customers to implement and enforce uniform policies across a wide array of service types, message exchange patterns, and transports, helping ensure the security and availability of critical assets across a wide range of business initiatives.” Policy-based Mediation between SOA Platforms Service Manager 6.0 enforces and implements policies through advanced service virtualization, allowing declarative enterprise service federation with SOA platforms like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP, and Oracle to create relevant and consumable service interfaces across any platform, policy, message type and transport.  It provides support for a range of policies compliant with WS-Policy including: WS-Security Policy WS-Addressing Policy WS-Auditing Policy WS-TransactionTracking Policy WS-HTTPSecurity Policy In addition to the advanced support for policy enforcement and implementation, Service Manager 6.0 provides dynamic policy mediation, accepting messages for virtual services enforcing one policy, and send messages to physical services implementing different policies.  This provides some sophisticated security token mediation capabilities, encryption and decryption, and signature verification and signing.  Additionally, Service Manager 6.0 provides declarative binding and message exchange pattern mediation through its built-in JSR-208 JBI bus. Extensible binding framework Enterprise services are increasingly developing beyond SOAP Web services,  REST is increasingly important, along with many other binding types.  Service Manager provides out of the box support for SOAP, REST and POX services with an extensible framework allowing customers to add other binding with ease. Service Manager 6.0 allows customers to create virtual services with multiple different interfaces, providing REST interfaces to SOAP services and vice versa. Service Manager 6.0 allows customers to create virtual services with multiple different interfaces, providing REST interfaces to SOAP services and vice versa. Security Federation Service Manager 6.0 provides a powerful security federation solution with a security token server for authentication and token exchange, an authorization server for distributed SOA and Cloud services authorization policy enforcement, and a built-in Certificate Authority and Public Key Infrastructure solution allowing for public/private key-pair generation, management and automated distribution.  Amongst other things, Service Manager 6.0 includes: A SAML authority for the generation and signing of SAML assertions, and comprehensive SAML processing and validation capabilities A WS-Trust service for authentication and token exchange enabling sophisticated security token mediation use-cases such as exchanging username/password tokens for SAML assertions or X.509 certificates An XACML service for processing authorization requests against a local authorization policy store or via distribution to most common identity and access management systems WS-SecureConversation support for high-performance, session-based secure SOA and Cloud service consumption OSGi-based Service Manager 6.0 is based on the OSGi specification delivering exceptional operational readiness with automated online update capabilities, easy extensibility and proven performance and scalability for the world’s most demanding enterprise and cloud services environments. Pricing and Availability Available in Q2 2010, Service Manager 6.0 starts at $50k USD.   Press Releases 2010-06-08T12:00:35+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/california_dwr_optimizes_it_efficiency_with_soa_software_and_red_hat/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/california_dwr_optimizes_it_efficiency_with_soa_software_and_red_hat/#When:04:43:34Z Enterprise Services and SOA help the State of California Department of Water Resources realize early ROI by rapidly responding to new State and Federal requirements Register for the complete Case Study Los Angeles, Calif., May 17, 2010— SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced today that the California Department of Water Resources has realized immediate value with an enterprise SOA Governance infrastructure build using SOA Software’s industry-leading products. The State of California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is the operator of the State Water Project, the largest State-built multipurpose project in the United States.  DWR’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Tim Garza, and Chief IT Architect Steve Croft are driving the Agency to move from a set of application silos to a Platform where IT functionality can be shared within the entire enterprise.  Leveraging an SOA paradigm and enterprise services to create an agile and efficient infrastructure allows DWR to rapidly respond to new State and Federal requirements, delivering new applications quickly and inexpensively.  DWR has adopted SOA to enable core business opportunities: With a growing number of new development initiatives starting in an 18 month period, DWR had to reduce the development time and cost of these initiatives compared to previous projects.  Even though these projects were each driven by different business units, a quick study revealed enough similarities to identify significant savings potential by using service reuse to eliminate duplicate development efforts for the same functionality.  As part of an IT Modernization Project, DWR was replacing or upgrading a number of Core systems running on different platforms, including SAP, Documentum, ESRI, and Adobe software stacks.  This modernization effort presented the opportunity for DWR to begin eliminating redundant systems.  One example is leveraging COTS packages within an environment such that functionality is widely accessible.  All of the new software stacks provided Web Service support, although each implementation was slightly different. DWR recognized that, in order for these initiatives to succeed, they would need to upgrade their infrastructure and processes with an effective enterprise service and SOA Governance solution combining best-of-breed products from Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Middleware and SOA Software into a comprehensive SOA Platform.  The platform includes: SOA Software’s Policy Manager for registry/repository, policy management, consumer contract provision and lifecycle management SOA Software’s Network Director for service virtualization, routing, security, service-level management, and auditing JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as an adapter framework and underlying reliable messaging infrastructure “After a rigorous product selection and evaluation process we chose SOA Software’s products to provide our governance solution because they met our requirements for a unified solution with production-proven performance and reliability,” said Tim Garza, Chief Information Officer of DWR.  “We are extremely happy with the smooth and efficient deployment of this solution and are very pleased to report that the solution has paid for itself in less than a year.” This solution is now in production delivering immediate return on DWR’s investment. The platform: Ensures that services DWR identifies, designs and builds are relevant to and consumable by their own application portfolio and partners Makes services DWR exposes from applications running on all their platforms, including SAP, Documentum, Adobe, Java, open source and Microsoft visible across all platforms and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across all platforms Promotes, ensures and formalizes consistent alignment between demand from service consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract Provisioning. Provides a mechanism to ensure a consistent security, monitoring, and auditing model The value of a well implemented SOA Governance solution and SOA Platform continues to grow over time; however, the solution at DWR has already more than paid for itself.  DWR originally intended to implement a limited scope SOA platform to support a bonds and grants application it had committed to build to satisfy state government reporting requirements.  Tim Garza and Steve Croft recognized the longer-term value potential in enterprise SOA governance and so decided to expand the scope of the solution to provide enterprise wide capabilities. The first application to benefit from DWR’s SOA Platform was the bonds and grants reporting application.  This application allows interested parties to examine how bond and grant monies allocated to specific initiatives to determine how are being spent.  The application needs to connect with multiple different data sources from SAP and custom databases.  In the past this integration would have been implemented by building proprietary connectors for each data source with considerable development, operations, and maintenance costs associated with each.  By exposing the data as services and normalizing the services through its SOA Platform, DWR is able to abstract the application logic from the data and has reduced the development time and cost of the application by more than half. DWR information technology shop is also offering its SOA Platform as a service to other department business areas and Natural Resources Agency partners that have developed their own services locally.  These areas need ways to offer their services to business partners and other agencies statewide.  In the past they would have to hard code access, logging, and management capabilities for each connection, often creating more than 10 different versions of each service to satisfy the needs of their consumers.  Using DWR’s SOA Platform to virtualize their services and provide these infrastructure capabilities they can create a single service consumable by multiple agencies and partners.  While this doesn’t reduce the initial development cost, previously they would have incurred an additional 40% of the initial cost for each consumer of their service.  Using the virtual service infrastructure this per consumer effort is eliminated, reducing the overall development cost significantly. Register for the complete Case Study Press Releases 2010-05-17T04:43:34+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_portfolio_management_for_ibm_websphere_service_regis/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_portfolio_management_for_ibm_websphere_service_regis/#When:13:49:35Z Portfolio Manager helps executives make effective resource allocation and prioritization of SOA projects. Los Angeles, CA – May 4, 2010 – SOA Software,  a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced today a new SOA Planning Governance product that augments the SOA Governance capabilities of IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). Portfolio Manager for WSRR helps to maximize the efficiency of investment in SOA initiatives by automatically provisioning into IBM WSRR services that have been planned and prioritized according to strategic business and IT objectives.  It helps management 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 product family for IBM WSRR with seamless integration with IBM WSRR and SOA Software’s Policy Manager for IBM WSRR. “SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager for IBM WSRR will complement our strong service lifecycle management capabilities helping our customers identify candidate enterprise services 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.” “Planning Governance helps enterprises achieve a quicker return on investment in SOA, making sure that they build to plan and build to priority,” said Brent Carlson, senior vice president of technology at SOA Software.  “Unplanned SOA Programs will fail because project-specific services will not be flexible enough to support generalized reuse, and without early success, application development teams won’t see the potential value in working to move to SOA and the organizational culture will not evolve as needed to support a successful SOA program.” Business/IT Alignment and Collaboration is paramount to achieve the benefits of SOA such as Agility and increased ROI.  Planning Governance involves the appropriate stakeholders in business and IT to prioritize and approve new service and service enablement requests.  Furthermore, Portfolio Manager for IBM WSRR, with its tight integration with IBM WSRR and Policy Manager for IBM WSRR, will provide enhanced visibility of where services are in their service lifecycle to all practitioners including business stakeholders. By using Portfolio manager for IBM WSRR™, customers can trace services in any part of the service lifecycle in IBM WSRR™ back to the business capabilities that they sustain. Portfolio Manager for IBM WSRR™ provides unprecedented visibility and traceability supporting Business/IT Alignment and collaboration. Portfolio Manager for WSRR will help existing IBM WSRR users better understand the current state of the portfolio of services, identify the gaps, plan and prioritize services to maximize return on investment and reduce risk to their SOA initiatives by aligning them with their business goals. Key capabilities for Portfolio Manager for WSRR 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 planned and prioritized services into IBM WSRR Changes in service state in IBM WSRR are automatically propagated back to Portfolio Manager for IBM WSRR providing unprecedented visibility Ensures that SOA portfolio management remains a continuous dynamic process Pricing and Availability Available in Q2 2010, Portfolio Manager for IBM WSRR starts at $50k USD.   Press Releases 2010-05-04T13:49:35+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_repository_manager_to_simplify_building_enterprise_s/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_repository_manager_to_simplify_building_enterprise_s/#When:14:44:13Z Adds Advanced Asset Search, Validation and Integration Capabilities Los Angeles, CA – April 21, 2010 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced Repository Manager Version 6.2.  Repository Manager enables enterprises to understand what services and 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 and Cloud, enabling customers to rapidly develop, govern and deploy services within the SOA service lifecycle. 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 will all major run-time registries like IBM WSRR, HP SOA Systinet and UDDI registries, and its integration with SOA Software’s Policy Manager enable customers from a single point of control to rapidly deploy services and other software assets within the SOA enterprise lifecycle. Repository Manager is used by Fortune 500 customers to drive application agility and reduce cost and risk in their SOA deployment. Repository Manager version 6.2 extends the federation framework with support for more development platforms, adds SOA impact analysis, adds an extensible validation framework, additional operational governance integration options, and greater flexibility in defining specialized searches for assets and services. Key deliverables for Repository Manager 6.2 include: Asset Relationship and SOA Impact analysis:  Repository Manager 6.2 can dynamically generate and show relationships between assets such as Applications, Services, Schemas, Components and other SOA development assets. Maintaining application stability as an SOA matures is one of the greatest challenges to any SOA initiative, and SOA Software’s rich visualization capabilities aids architects and other key stakeholders in visualizing the impact of changing a particular service or a schema on related services and schemas. Synchronous Asset Validation: Repository Manager 6.2 adds an extensible validation framework with sophisticated prebuilt validators. Customers can easily define conditional validation rules on any aspect of an asset (for example, enforcing use of a designated set of enterprise-specified schemas for governed services, requiring a user guide document if a service is specified as “enterprise certified”). These rules are enforced as the asset is edited, ensuring that only valid assets are submitted to governance and shared with the user community and thereby increasing the trust in each asset’s accuracy and completeness. Asset Search Enhancements:  Customers can add their own specialized search types to the default choices provided by Repository Manager. This XPath based capability shields end users from specifying complex search rules while presenting them with sophisticated search options aligned with customer needs and enterprise lexicon. Enhanced Integration with Policy Manager: Support for acquiring virtual services generated via SOA Software’s Policy Manager and support for importing bundled WSDL/Schema packages has been added into this release, expanding each customer’s seamless integration options for unified SOA governance and ensuring good alignment with their SOA strategy “Repository Manager continues to make it easier than ever for developers, architects and business analysts to create and manage world-class business applications,” said Brent Carlson, senior vice president of technology at SOA Software.  “Customers are leveraging Repository Manager as part of a unified governance automation solution to increase the business value they derive from their service-oriented architecture initiatives.” Repository Manager Capabilities include: Development Governance – manage heterogeneous asset types from a single source.  These assets can include services, components (.NET, J2EE, and others), legacy systems, and knowledge assets, such as patterns and best practices, used by development teams.  Repository Manager provides seamless integration with Microsoft, SAP, IBM, and other development platforms. Federation with Service Registries – discover and publish services from and to service registries including HP SOA Systinet, IBM WSRR and any UDDI registry to ensure consistency of service definitions through the enterprise. Asset Import Center Enhancements – Repository Manager Import Center supports discovery and synchronization from IBM WSRR and UDDI registries. Integration with Leading Software Development Platforms – reference and replicate assets and artifacts from common SCM solutions.  Provide seamless governance processes across all enterprise software development platforms including Microsoft, SAP, IBM, Eclipse and others. Configuration Designer Plug-In – This Eclipse plug-in enables users to graphically design governance processes for deployment to their Repository Manager installations. Deploy and Manage Assets and Services Effectively – deep integration with SOA Sofware’s Policy Manager to provide compliance policy validation, thereby ensuring the relevance of services and other software assets. Repository Manager processes can automatically provision service and schema definitions under development to Policy Manager, which in turn automatically applies the correct compliance policies for those definitions. Strong integration with development tools ensures efficient operation of the development process. Discover Assets and Services Collaboratively – comprehensive technical and business search capabilities to ensure that created applications meet business needs. Press Releases 2010-04-21T14:44:13+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_advanced_policy_and_security_federation_for_soa_and_/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_announces_advanced_policy_and_security_federation_for_soa_and_/#When:12:29:52Z Policy Manager 6.0 Provides Planning, Development and Operational Policy Governance for SOA and Cloud Services Los Angeles, CA – March 24, 2010 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced Policy Manager 6.0 with advanced Policy and security Federation for SOA and Cloud Services.  SOA provides the foundation for a successful transition to an Enterprise Cloud Operating Model.  Providing the right level of control over distributed, heterogeneous systems and platforms requires the effective policy governance provided by Policy Manager version 6.0. Policy Manager 6.0 is an important step forward for existing and prospective customers in 3 main areas: Heterogeneous Policy Management: It offers advanced policy management, distribution and federation capabilities for the federation of planning, development and operational policies across a broad range of platforms including IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and RedHat Security Federation: It supports advanced security federation standards, providing enterprise-class token, authorization, and PKI capabilities for SOA and Cloud Services Open Architecture: It leverages an OSGi-based architecture providing a flexible, reliable, and high-performance solution for the most demanding enterprise environments “Large enterprises today have to expand their focus beyond Web services and SOA to incorporate cloud services and other emerging technologys,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software.  “Policy Manager 6.0 provides an extensible policy governance solution that allows customers to implement and enforce uniform policies helping ensure the security and availability of critical assets across a wide range of business initiatives.” Heterogeneous Policy Management Policy Manager 6.0 is a comprehensive policy administration and management system for all platforms.  It provides customers with a delegated administration system for authoring, managing and distributing policies across a heterogeneous environment to ensure consistency and relevance of SOA and Cloud services and other assets.  It includes: Comprehensive support for the WS-Policy specification allowing advanced containers such as Microsoft WCF to enforce security and other policies without an agent in the transaction path.  It supports the common policy assertions and introduces some new standards for monitoring and auditing: WS-Addressing Policy WS-Auditing Policy WS-TransactionTracking Policy WS-HTTPSecurity Policy Delegated policy administration allowing administrators to delegate the responsibility for specific policy management activities through their organization helping enable the efficiency and applicability of local policies while still ensuring enterprise wide policy compliance. Support for composite policies, allowing customers to easily create sophisticated policy configurations that remain manageable at an enterprise and local level. Automated compliance policy validation, allowing users to easily ensure the relevance, applicability and suitability of services and other assets throughout their enterprise. Platform-independent policy distribution and enforcement with proven support for IBM WebSphere Registry Repository and SAP Enterprise Service Repository. An open architecture allowing easy integration with solutions that don’t support WS-Policy, for example SOA Software has already released Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower offering comprehensive governance of DataPower appliances. Security Federation Policy Manager 6.0 provides a powerful security federation solution with a security token server for authentication and token exchange, an authorization server for distributed SOA and Cloud services authorization policy enforcement, and a built-in Certificate Authority and Public Key Infrastructure solution allowing for public/private key-pair generation, management and automated distribution.  Amongst other things, Policy Manager 6.0 includes: A SAML authority for the generation and signing of SAML assertions, and comprehensive SAML processing and validation capabilities. A WS-Trust service for authentication and token exchange enabling sophisticated security token mediation use-cases such as exchanging username/password tokens for SAML assertions or X.509 certificates. An XACML service for processing authorization requests against a local authorization policy store or via distribution to most common identity and access management systems. WS-SecureConversation support for high-performance, session-based secure SOA and Cloud service consumption. OSGi-based Policy Manager 6.0 is based on the OSGi specification delivering exceptional operational readiness with automated online update capabilities, easy extensibility and proven performance and scalability for the world’s most demanding enterprise and cloud services environments. Pricing and Availability Available in Q2 2010, Policy Manager 6.0 starts at $50k USD.   Press Releases 2010-03-24T12:29:52+00:00 http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_cto_to_explain_why_cloud_requires_soa_at_idc_conference_keynot/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_cto_to_explain_why_cloud_requires_soa_at_idc_conference_keynot/#When:09:00:18Z Presentation at IDC’s SOA and Beyond Conference to Discuss the Alignment of SOA and Cloud Computing Los Angeles, Calif., March 2, 2010— SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced today that its chief technology officer, Alistair Farquharson will present a keynote address describing why successful cloud programs require SOA at IDC’s SOA and Beyond conference in London on March 24th 2010. Mr Farquharson’s presentation discusses that while Cloud computing is rapidly becoming one of the most important parts of a company’s IT investment strategy, it cannot succeed without SOA.  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. Mr Farquharson will discuss how SOA is required by cloud initiatives in 3 main areas: Press Releases 2010-03-09T09:00:18+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/press_detail/soa_software_expands_european_operation/ http://www.soa.com/news/press_detail/soa_software_expands_european_operation/#When:08:28:51Z 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 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. 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 an executive of Steve’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 2010-02-09T08:28:51+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