Product Overview - Comprehensive SOA Infrastructure

SOA Software™ is the only company offering a complete SOA infrastructure solution addressing SOA governance, security and management together with Legacy and B2B Web services requirements.  SOA Software’s Infrastructure Suite™ including Service Manager™, Workbench™, and SOLA™ products provide security, management, provisioning and governance for Enterprise and B2B SOA deployments.

Workbench™ provides a comprehensive, standalone SOA governance solution.  It can be deployed standalone as a powerful governance tool offering features including:

• Enforcement and monitoring of active service contracts
• Demand-side service provisioning – allow consumers to specify services and policies they would use and contracts with a development process to build or provide them
• Developer and architect collaboration tools around policy, services, contracts and other metadata
• Powerful workflow for service contract provisioning
• Lifecycle management for service, policy, schema and other artifacts
• Notify actual users of impending changes

It can also be deployed alongside SOA Software’s industry-leading SOA Management platform, Service Manager™.  Service Manager offers powerful SOA Management capabilities that set it apart from competitive products because it offers:

• Massively scalable, high-performance


• Widest range of intermediaries
• High performance router/proxy
• Most common Java app servers
• .NET
• Many ESB platforms
• Comprehensive security
  
  • Widest range of tokens supported for authentication, including: Kerberos, SAML, X.509 and many more
  • Certified by CA and IBM Tivoli for integration with SiteMinder and Tivoli Access Manager
  • Built-in PKI and key distribution model
• Client-side toolkits for policy, transport, standards, and location decoupling
• Powerful SLA and Exception management capabilities

Service Manager offers the industry’s strongest mediation capabilities with its Network Director™ components.  The high-performance Network Director™ provides Service Manager with intermediaries including the distributed SOA Software Management Point™ that implements a Policy Enforcement Point and the distributed SOA Software Gateway™ delivering a Policy Implementation Point. 

Workbench and Service Manager can be delivered together as the SOA Software Infrastructure Suite™ delivering the industry’s only closed-loop SOA Governance solution.

SOLA™
SOLA™ (Service Oriented Legacy Architecture) solves one of today’s most pressing problems – integrating new distributed applications with legacy mainframe applications. It provides customers with a fast, easy, reliable, and secure way to expose mainframe applications as Web services, and allows mainframe applications to consume Web services. SOLA runs as a set of mainframe applications to capitalize on the reliability and performance offered by this platform to deliver Web services with minimal overhead and low fixed costs.

Standards Supported
A list of the standards supported by SOA Software’s Infrastructure Suite and a description of how each standard is supported is provided here.