SOA Software’s products provide Integrated SOA Governance Automation for the IBM WebSphere SOA Foundation. This allows customers to confidently use IBM WebSphere products as part of a heterogeneous enterprise SOA environment sharing services with other commercial SOA platforms like SAP, Microsoft, BEA, and Oracle, as well as RedHat and other open source providers.
IBM WebSphere customers add SOA Software’s Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution to the IBM WebSphere SOA Foundation to:
- Ensure that services they identify, design and build using their WebSphere products are relevant and consumable to applications they design, build and deploy using other technologies like Microsoft or Oracle, or buy from other vendors like SAP.
- Make services they expose from applications running on WebSphere products 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 Microsoft and open source environments visible to and compliant with enterpise policies defined, enforced and audited across by their WebSphere applications.
- Promote and ensure consistent alignment between demand from service consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract Provisioning.
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 designed, built, deployed and operated. Workbench and Service Manager integrate seamlessly with development and runtime products from most commercial platforms including IBM, SAP, Microsoft, BEA, and Oracle, as well as RedHat and other open source providers. They offer deep integration with WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Application Server, and IBM z/OS.
Integrated SOA Governance for IBM WebSphere
IBM offers several SOA Governance products in its SOA product portfolio. Most notable are WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, and Tivoli CAM for SOA. These products are platform optimized for the IBM product family, and are extended by an enterprise Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution.
IBM customers are adding SOA Software’s Workbench and Service Manager products to provide Integrated SOA Governance Automation for their IBM platform to provide a number of solutions:
- Uniform lifecycle and policy governance across existing platform investments
- Lifecycle Management workflow to implement building permit process
- Ensure interoperability with other platforms
- Seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, Security and Management integration with IBM Middleware infrastructure
- Performance and reliability management
- Interoperability across disparate partners and platforms
- Integrated provisioning and lifecycle management
- Inter-departmental consumer contract provisioning and negotiation
- Standards support for Governance automation (UDDIv3, WS-MEX)
- Trust enablement and trust mediation complementing IBM’s threat prevention systems
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SOA Software’s products support and promote common Integrated SOA Governance best practices, and enable the consistent execution of these best practices with the IBM platform. They offer the added benefit that there is no requirement to introduce another non-IBM platform in order to support the required architecture.
Using Workbench and Service Manager SOA Software certifies IBM’s products as Governed Service Platforms, or in the case of WSRR, a Governed Service Repository. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms will preserve the fidelity of the governance models, structures and mechanisms supporting an enterprise SOA program.
SOA Software’s products offer a comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution for IBM:
| IBM Product |
SOA Software Added Value |
| WebSphere Message Broker |
Dynamic discovery, policy enforcement, implementation, and monitoring. |
| WebSphere Application Server |
Policy enforcement, implementation, and monitoring. |
| WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances |
Policy and service lifecycle management.
Configuration and monitoring integration. |
| WebSphere Service Registry Repository |
Governance Federation. |
| WebSphere Process Server/ESB |
Dynamic policy enforcement and monitoring.
Dynamic policy discovery, implementation, binding, and endpoint resolution. |
| z/OS |
Easy, high-performance Web service creation, publishing, and consumption for mainframe SOA.
Dynamic policy discovery, enforcement, implementation and binding. |
SOA Software’s Integrated SOA Governance Solution
SOA Software builds its Integrated SOA Governance solution around its Workbench™ product for SOA service and policy lifecycle governance, policy management and governance metadata federation. Workbench™ integrates seamlessly with Service Manager™ for operational governance providing a comprehensive operational policy implementation and enforcement solution.
SOA Software’s Workbench™ and Service Manager™ combine to form a comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution.
SOA Software’s Workbench provides a comprehensive SOA lifecycle governance solution, and extends it adding powerful governance automation capabilities. Governance automation minimizes the overhead associated with governance processes, and turns governance from a painful workload into a productivity tool.
Workbench provides a registry/repository solution for SOA asset lifecycle management. Using this solution architects, developers, security administrators, and operations managers can define and govern policies that are applied to services throughout the appropriate stages of their lifecycle. These policies are automatically implemented and enforced by SOA Software’s industry-leading Service Manager, and other standards-based SOA runtime products. Service Manager generates usage, performance and policy compliance metrics that it delivers back to Workbench so that Workbench can audit that its policies are being enforced in a closed-loop process.
Workbench
Workbench™ is a comprehensive SOA Lifecycle Governance solution offering an integrated metadata repository and UDDIv3 registry with unique workflow and collaboration capabilities to instill consistency and accountability and encourage desired behavior.
Workbench can be deployed stand-alone providing powerful SOA governance capabilities with built-in design-time policy enforcement and run-time policy management. It can also be deployed with SOA Software’s Service Manager™, or any other standards-based SOA management and security solution, to deliver comprehensive closed-loop SOA infrastructure. Workbench provides:
- Metadata Federation
- Seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, Security and Management integration with IBM Middleware infrastructure
- No requirement to introduce another platform to support the required architecture
- Governance Automation
- Lifecycle Management workflow to implement building permit process
- Integrated provisioning and lifecycle management
- Inter-departmental consumer contract provisioning and negotiation
- Uniform Policy Management
- Uniform lifecycle and policy governance across existing platform investments
- Continuous Compliance and Validation
- Change Impact Mitigation
Service Manager
Service Manager™ provides a comprehensive set of SOA intermediaries to implement, enforce, and audit policies defined in Workbench. It works seamlessly with Workbench to provide an Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution delivering comprehensive standards-based security, routing, mediation, monitoring, and management for SOA and Web services. Service Manager offers:
- Service Virtualization
- Performance and reliability
- Standards support for Governance automation (UDDIv3, WS-MEX)
- Standards-based closed-loop governance system
- Trust and Management Mediation
- Interoperability across disparate partners and platforms
- Trust enablement and trust mediation complementing their threat prevention system
To contact an SOA Software representative to discuss your SOA based on Microsoft systems, please contact us at info@soa.com
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