Policy Manager for Microsoft Biztalk

Policy Manager™ for Microsoft BizTalk is a comprehensive integrated SOA Governance solution for Microsoft BizTalk.  It is a package that includes SOA Software’s Policy Manager™, Service Manager Agent for Microsoft BizTalk, and Service Manager Network Director products to provide governance, security, mediation, and management capabilities for companies deploying BizTalk.

The combination of Microsoft BizTalk with this package creates a high-performance, fully-functional enterprise service bus at a fraction of the cost of many other ESB solutions, and with much richer governance, security, mediation, and management features.

Policy Manager for Microsoft BizTalk combines 3 SOA Software products:

Policy Manager– a comprehensive SOA governance solution offering an integrated serviceregistry with unique workflow and collaboration capabilities to instill consistency and accountability and encourage desired behavior.  It combines an enterprise-class UDDIv3 registry with a powerful, innovative policy compliance engine.

Service Manager Agent for Microsoft BizTalk – deploys as a BizTalk pipeline component to monitor any BizTalk process passing performance, usage, and message data back to Policy Manager.

Service Manager Network Director – high-performance, reliable, security and reliability policy enforcement, mediation and management, SLA monitoring and management, and exception handling.  Network Director enforces policies defined by Policy Manager and passes audit data back to Policy Manager allowing for closed-loop SOA Governance.

Policy Manager for Microsoft BizTalk delivers mission-critical SOA Governance capabilities to customers:

• Closed-loop Governance – define, manage, and govern policies through a central registry/repository, enforce them through distributed service platforms such as BizTalk Server, and audit that the policies are being enforced
• Uniform Policy Management –Service Managerensures that services consumed and provided by BizTalk Server enforce, implement, and comply with a common set of centrally defined and governed policies
• Heterogeneous Governance Automation –Service Managerprovides comprehensive lifecycle management, policy management, and consumer management workflow capabilities to automate the governance processes for services exposed and consumed by BizTalk Server and any other enterprise service platform
• Dynamic Policy Enforcement and Implementation – BizTalk Server, through Microsoft ESB Guidance, leverages Policy Manager’s WS-MEX interfaces enabling dynamic policy discovery and implementation, as well as dynamic binding and end-point resolution
• Trust Mediation and Bridging –Service Managerensures seamless interoperability between the various security mechanisms used by the different platforms throughout the enterprise.  It allows users to leverage desktop authentication mechanisms like Kerberos and smartcards, providing a mediation solution that ensures end-to-end single-sign-on with backend services provided by a wide range of enterprise platforms

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