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SOLA can function as a stand alone solution for mainframe Web Services or integrate into SOA Software’s enterprise Integrated SOA Governance Automation Suite, comprised of Service Manager, WorkBench and Network Director.
In today’s enterprise, IT needs requires careful planning. If you ask the people in your organization about the three most important things in a mainframe SOA, you’ll find the answer varies according to the person’s role.
An architect will focus on:
- Security: The advent of the internet created a new level of vulnerability for business operations that exists 24x7x365. Having a mainframe connected via web services poses a bigger challenge as the value of the mainframe – it’s quality of service – can be negatively impacted. SOLA addresses this by offering the strongest possible security using Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption (WS Security, & SAML etc.) and by providing mapping between various identities to the mainframe security paradigm (for example, mapping from SAML, X509, AD/LDAP to mainframe RACF/ACF2/TOP-Secret). Furthermore, the architect’s authorization choices range from the most basic available on the mainframe (such as RACF) to XACML PDP residing on or off of the mainframe.
- Adoption of widely used standards: Standards increase the chances of success and reduce the risk of committing to a technology that will be unsupported in future. They also allow greater choice of vendors and the availability of a larger talent pool. SOLA is committed to providing open interfaces in all aspects of the product. The standards adopted by SOLA other than basic SOAP and WSDL include BPEL, WS-TRUST, WS-SECURITY, WS-POLICY, UDDI, XACML and WS-ADRESSING.
- Governance: The availability of governance features in a product are essential for ensuring the success of mainframe SOA implementation. For the architect, SOLA’s governance capabilities are by far the most advanced in the industry.
An infrastructure and operations team will focus on:
- Performance: Performance is one of the most important features in an infrastructure product. SOLA far exceeds expectations because its code base runs using native language support (such as Assembler) on the mainframe and thereby avoids any overhead caused by JVM, zAAP, LE overhead for C, etc..
- Reliability: SOLA runs over 8 million mission critical transactions per day at one customer site, with no failures in the last several years.
- Monitoring, SLA management and Logging: SOLA provides the ability define SLAs and monitor/log transactions that can be plugged to any existing infrastructure used by your data center.
An Application group will focus on:
- Ease of Use: An easy to use product provides the highest developer productivity by shortening the time it takes to develop an application. The SOLA tool set runs in a browser (accessible from anywhere) and its web 2.0 interface provides easily understood drag and drop service development.
- Impact analysis: In a complex team structure it is important to have a product that blends in with existing release management and impact analysis tools rather than forcing a team to guess the impact of any changes they may be making SOLA integrates with any release management system and exposes interfaces for impact analysis.
- Capabilities: The features available in a tool set can dramatically cut the time to market. SOLA offers a rich set of features that make service development and deployment a breeze.
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