IBM and SOA Software

SOA Software partners with IBM on numerous fronts, including WebSphere integration, “Ready for Tivoli” certification, CICS compatibility, and IBM Global Services SOA Management solutions. Our suite of SOA Infrastructure and Governance products integrates deeply and effectively with a host of IBM solutions for true enterprise SOA.

If you are planning or implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture based on any part of the IBM SOA Stack, we can add a number of critical governance features that will result in an optimal enterprise SOA, including:

SOA Software Workbench - Lifecycle Governance

  • Measure and prove the business value of SOA to offset cost concerns
  • Control of (govern) the proliferation of duplicate or otherwise unnecessary services
  • Facilitate the identification of appropriate services by potential users to reduce initial development cost
  • Manage the lifecycle of services to minimize the cost and risk of ongoing maintenance and change
  • Simplify the actual USE of appropriate services (decoupling location, transport, policy, standards, messaging styles)

Service Manager - Run-time Governance

  • End-to-end security - trust and protect the privacy of message senders, receivers, and content
  • Identify, manage, and repair exceptions as they occur
  • Reliability and performance of a distributed set of services and consumers
  • Interoperability between different platforms and technologies
  • Decoupling of services and consumers

SOLA - CICS Web services:

  • SOA Software’s SOLA™ product exposes CICS transactions as Web Services and enables CICS applications to consume Web Services
  • SOLA is completely mainframe resident and does not require middleware
  • SOLA provides Web services tools for mainframe developers
  • Proven performance at multiple large financial institutions, processing more than 4,000,000 CICS Web Services per day using SOLA
  • Supports and expands on all of the new features of CICS TS v3.1, such as pipeline architecture and containers and channels while providing much needed features and capabilities, such as BMS3270 support and native encryption and WS security.

For WebSphere

Run-time and lifecycle governance of Web services endpoints consumed and provided by WebSphere products:

  • WebSphere Business Integration
    • Policy enforcement, implementation, and monitoring
  • WebSphere Message Broker
    • Dynamic discovery, policy enforcement, implementation, and monitoring
    • For information about integration of dynamic discovery of Web Services available through WebSphere message broker (View the webcast)
  • WebSphere Application Server
    • Policy enforcement, implementation, and monitoring

For Tivoli

  • Certified Ready for Tivoli
  • Extension of Tivoli Access Management access controls to Web Services throughout the enterprise and beyond
  • Integration of Tivoli Enterprise Console with Web Services critical to your organization, for real time notification of service levels

For IBM Global Services

  • SOA Software is a partner of the IGS SOA Management Practice
  • SOA Software Service Manager enables the IGS business process centric approach to enterprise SOA planning and implementation
  • SOA Software/IGS working relationship proven in multiple Fortune 100 production SOA environments

Read our press release,
“SOA Software Delivers Comprehensive SOA Infrastructure for IBM WebSphere”

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