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SOA Software Announces Complete Mainframe SOA Solution
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Los Angeles, Calif., April 7, 2008—SOA Software, the leading Integrated SOA Governance vendor announced the release of SOLA 6.0 (Service Oriented Legacy Architecture), a major update to its market-leading mainframe SOA Solution.
SOLA is the most complete mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution in the industry. SOLA solves today’s most critical problem, making mainframe applications part of an SOA in a cost effective manner. SOLA provides customers with a fast and easy process to expose mainframe applications as secure Web Services, and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services. Using SOLA, customers can leverage billions of dollars of existing mainframe investments when building an enterprise SOA. The SOLA runtime environment runs entirely on the mainframe, eliminating the need for expensive, unreliable and unnecessary middleware. This coupled with SOLA’s Development Studio vastly increases developer productivity, providing faster time to market and lower application development cost. The combination of a highly optimized runtime, no middleware and improved productivity provide the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in the industry.
SOLA eliminates the need to integrate multiple mainframe and distributed products/platforms to create an enterprise class SOA. Unlike alternative solutions that only offer one or two components of mainframe SOA, SOLA offers a complete SOA solution further reducing TCO.
SOLA’s high performance and low CPU overhead enable customers to run the world’s largest mainframe SOA implementations in the most cost effective manner. SOLA is the only product proven in enterprise implementations to handle high volume (10 million+) transactions per day in mission-critical mainframe SOA environments.
Innovative SOLA features such as One-Click service creation and an easy to use drag-and-drop interface deliver the only secure, standards-based and governable SOA product in the mainframe industry. SOLA provides mainframe end-to-end governance with WS-Security, WS-Policy, mainframe optimized registry, integrated monitoring, logging, auditing and near limitless scalability, all implemented on the mainframe. This makes SOLA the only solution for companies seeking secure, high-volume, mission-critical mainframe SOA.
SOLA Advantages for mainframe SOA
- Most comprehensive mainframe SOA solution on the market
- Production proven track record in the Fortune 1000
- Lowest TCO (and highest ROI) in the industry
- SOLA is a Governed Service Platform, making it fully governable by SOA Software products like Workbench and Service Manager
- Standards-based, enterprise SOA ready
- One-Click Web Services
- BPEL support enhances efficiency of complex operations.
- No workstation software to install
- Centralized directory
- Mainframe operates as a server or as a client
“We are extremely pleased to provide a complete mainframe SOA Solution,” said Paul Gigg, CEO of SOA Software. “Our Fortune 1000 customers must have inclusion of the mainframe in their SOA and demand the benefits provided in SOLA 6.0 such as lower total cost of ownership.”
“We have a long established tradition of segment leading technology and innovation,” said Jim Crew, SOLA co-creator and Vice President of SOA Software. “We were the first to offer production mainframe Web Services, the first to implement WS-Security and the first to deliver the most complete mainframe SOA product.”
New features and benefits of SOLA 6.0
- More powerful Web 2.0 SOLA Development Studio with intuitive drag-and-drop capabilities. Workflow efficiency has been greatly enhanced without sacrificing ease of use.
- BPEL support provides orchestration of Services, allowing customers to combine Services into composite Services.
- Enhanced customization (environments, access controls, etc.) allows SOLA to adapt to customer’s environments.
- Improved performance through enhanced database and parser algorithms increase efficiency and boost ROI.
- Improved security such as identity mapping, SAML 2.0 authentication, XACML authorization, multiple certificates and TLS provide improved security to a product that already possesses the segment’s strongest and most efficient security.
- Multiple container and pipeline support boost performance and efficiency by taking advantage of architectural improvements of IBM’s CICS TS.
- Enhanced management and administrative capability provide added flexibility, security and control.
SOLA can function as a stand-alone solution for mainframe SOA and can be governed by SOA Software’s Integrated SOA Governance Automation Solutions, Workbench and Service Manager, acting as a Certified Governed Service Platform. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won’t compromise the fidelity of the governance systems and structures defined in an enterprise SOA program. The certification process ensures that Governed Service Platforms can implement and enforce governance policies providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process. The Governed Service Platform status ensures that SOLA can be consistently governed along with other enterprise service platforms.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class integrated SOA Governance solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management (Service Manager), and a mainframe Web services solution for CICS applications (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Workbench, Service Manager, SOLA, and Network Director are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners.
SOA Software and Solidsoft Announce Partnership
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Los Angeles, Calif. April 29th, 2008 - SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, and Solidsoft, the UK’s premier SOA and BPM Consultancy for the Microsoft platform, today announced the appointment of Solidsoft as Consulting Partner and Value Added Reseller for SOA Software’s suite of products.
SOA Software is recognized by its customers for providing enterprise-class, platform-independent, integrated SOA Governance automation solutions. The company’s products provide comprehensive, centralized SOA planning, lifecycle and operational governance automation through a single integrated solution. SOA Software is focused exclusively on enterprise SOA, delivering a fully integrated set of standards-based, high-performance products.
Recently SOA Software was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2007 Integrated SOA Governance Magic Quadrant [1]. SOA Software provides enterprise-class, platform-independent, integrated SOA Governance automation solutions. SOA Software’s products provide comprehensive, centralized SOA planning, lifecycle and operational governance automation through a single integrated solution. SOA Software is focused exclusively on enterprise SOA, delivering a fully integrated set of standards-based, high-performance products.
According to Gartner, “Most SOA Governance Technologies are not integrated into one suite but are provided from very different technology code bases. Policy management and enforcement engines seldom share the same integrated code base as registries and repositories.” [2] In addition, the report states that, “Gartner evaluates technology providers on their ability to convincingly articulate their current and future market direction, innovation, customer needs and competitive forces and how well these map to the Gartner position.” [2]
“We are excited to be able to bring SOA Software’s products to the UK,” comments Solidsoft’s CEO, Garth Pickup. “For a long time we have been advocating the need for design time governance to our customers as they seek to maximize the ROI from their SOA investments. With SOA Software’s Workbench and Service Manager, our customers get the powerful ability to monitor and enforce in run time the policies and SLAs defined during development.”
Paul Gigg, CEO of SOA Software, comments, “Solidsoft is a great addition to our partner community. They not only bring local support and consultancy services to our UK customers but they are already known for excellence in their field.”
“At Microsoft we are always pleased to see our partners get together to bring extra value to our mutual customers,” says Clive Donaghue, Solution Channel Development Manager for SOA and BPM, Microsoft UK. “It is particularly exciting to see SOA Software and Solidsoft building momentum for the Microsoft BPM Alliance.”
In addition to reselling SOA Software’s products, Solidsoft will be providing training, consultancy and local support for SOA Software’s products. For further information, please contact or call Juliet Heathcote on 01256 375700.
[1] Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007” by L. Frank Kenney, Daryl C. Plummer, December 31st 2007.
To read the full Gartner report, please visit http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=153858&format=html.
[2] Gartner, Inc. “Criteria for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2008” by Daryl C. Plummer, L. Frank Kenney, January 8th 2008.
About Solidsoft
Solidsoft is the UK’s leading provider of Microsoft based SOA and BPM solutions. Microsoft’s Global Partner of the Year for Business Process and Integration 2006/7, Solidsoft has the most extensive experience in deploying enterprise scale solutions based on Microsoft BizTalk Server and the.NET Framework. Solutions include Trading Partner Integration, Enterprise Application Integration, SOA and ESB design and delivery. Members of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Advisory Council for SOA and BPM and Microsoft’s UK Architect Council, Solidsoft are a Gold Sponsor of Microsoft’s Insight Conference. Please visit www.solidsoft.com.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class integrated SOA Governance solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management (Service Manager), and a mainframe Web services solution for CICS applications (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Workbench, Service Manager, SOLA, and Network Director are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners.
SOA Software Certifies Neuron as a Governed Service Platform
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Los Angeles, Calif. April 29th, 2008 - SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that it has certified the Neuron ESB from Neudesic as a Governed Service Platform.
Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won’t compromise the fidelity of the governance systems and structures defined in an enterprise SOA program. The certification process ensures that Governed Service Platforms can implement and enforce governance policies proving reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process.
“Governance Initiatives are rapidly gaining momentum amongst platform vendors, Governance solution providers, and end-user customers,” said Frank Martinez, Executive Vice President of SOA Software. “The addition of Neuron-ESB, as a Microsoft .NET and WCF based ESB to the list of Governed Service Platforms highlights the importance of this certification for platform vendors.”
Neudesic customers add SOA Software’s Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution to their Microsoft .NET and WCF based Neuron ESB to achieve the following benefits:
- Compatibility: Ensure that services they identify, design and build using their Neuron ESB are relevant and consumable to applications they design, build and deploy using other technologies like IBM, Microsoft or Oracle, or buy from other vendors like SAP.
- Visibility: Make services they expose from applications running on the Neuron ESB 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 enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across by their Neuron applications.
- Demand Management: Promote and ensure consistent alignment between demand from service consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract Provisioning. Contracts specify the formal relationship between a consumer, or group of consumers, and a provider, or group of providers. They specify access rights and times, SLAs and capacity, and can be used to specify policy requirements.
The certification of Neuron shows the rapid growth of SOA Governance as a leading driver of SOA adoption. The Governed Service Platform status ensures that Neuron can be consistently governed along with other enterprise service platforms.
“Neuron-ESB 2.0 represents a significant evolution for the Microsoft Platform while addressing the Enterprise Service Bus needs of every customer running Microsoft Windows. Our technology allows businesses to effectively leverage their Microsoft investments to deliver real-time solutions,” stated Marty Wasznicky, Vice President of Neudesic. “Our product provides a new level of flexibility and ease of use that will help companies increase their productivity while reducing their development and operational costs. Moreover we’ve formed a strategic partnership with SOA Software and achieved certification as a Governed Service Platform. Our customers can be confident that Neuron-ESB will enhance the fidelity of their Governance initiatives.”
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class integrated SOA Governance solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA Governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management solution (Service Manager), and a mainframe Web services solution for CICS applications (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon and Pfizer. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Workbench, Service Manager and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners.
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Webinar - Avoid the SOA Pitfalls that Prevent ROI
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May 15th, 2008, 2 PM EST
Service Oriented Architectures hold tremendous promise for reduced costs and increased agility. But how you implement SOA will determine whether or not you achieve your goals. Struggling with heavyweight, complex, and expensive proprietary SOA platforms can quickly sap any potential ROI gains. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is the first comprehensive open source SOA offering to integrate enterprise service bus, business process management and rules engine technology into a single platform. Designed to accelerate business process execution within and across enterprises, the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform can help enable greater business performance more simply, openly and cost-effectively than proprietary SOA platforms.
In addition to choosing the right SOA platform, it’s also critical to have a plan in place for SOA Governance in order to reach your ROI goals. SOA Software works closely with the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to provide comprehensive SOA Governance capabilities. The SOA Software certification of JBoss Enterprise SOA platform as a Governed Service Platform ensures that customers can preserve the benefits of their Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution when deploying the best-in-class open source SOA platform as a governable constituent within an enterprise SOA program.
Attendees will gain insight into:
- How to solve business and technical problems with open source SOA technology
- Overview of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform capabilities
- SOA Governance Strategies and Best Practices
- Benefits of governance associated with TCO and quality assurance
- Steps to put a plan for SOA governance into place
Featured Speakers:
- Frank Martinez
Executive Vice President, Product Strategy, SOA Software
- Pierre Fricke
Director of Product Management, JBoss SOA Products, JBoss
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SOA Software’s SOLA celebrates 5 years of 100% availability
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Los Angeles, Calif., April 9, 2008—SOA Software, a leading mainframe web services vendor, today announced that SOLA, its flagship mainframe SOA product, has reached the five year mark in running reliably extremely high volume production environments. During this period SOLA has not been responsible for a single production outage, despite handling tens of millions of transactions every day.
SOLA runs the world’s largest mainframe SOA implementations. A number of SOLA customers use it to run many millions of mainframe web services transactions per day, and many customers’ plans anticipate volume in the 20-30 million transactions per day range.
“Today marks five successful years of 100% availability, high volume production web services for our product. SOLA was the first product to deploy production mainframe web services and it has the best track record of any mainframe SOA solution“ said Jim Crew, SOLA co-creator and Vice President of SOA Software, ”SOLA handles tens of millions of secure transactions every day and has never caused a production outage.”
SOLA is an enterprise class mainframe web services solution that seamlessly integrates the mainframe into a Service Oriented Architecture, with end-to-end governance and unlimited scalability. With its run-time running exclusively on the mainframe, SOLA has proven to be an attractive solution for firms seeking secure, available, high-volume, mission critical mainframe integration with high performance and low CPU overhead.
SOLA owes its success in no small part to Merrill Lynch, where the product (then called X4ML) was created based on a set of uncompromising requirements for an enterprise-class mainframe web services solution and a lack of adequate solutions available in the market. “SOLA has allowed us to simplify and modernize our environment, while allowing us to eliminate complex and expensive gateway servers” said Henry Tsang, Vice President of Merrill Lynch. “What sets SOLA apart is that it offers integrated monitoring, logging, auditing, WS-Security and WS-Policy on the mainframe, all of which benefit from the mainframe’s performance, reliability and scalability while offering end-to-end transaction visibility.”
SOLA implements the entire SOAP stack on the mainframe, inheriting the mainframe platform’s legendary speed, reliability, scalability and manageability. SOLA keeps overhead to a minimum by implementing much of the SOAP stack in assembler. Customers report that SOLA adds around 2 milliseconds elapsed time to a transaction. The 2 milliseconds includes the complete SOAP stack, authentication, authorization, monitoring and SLA enforcement. SOLA’s efficiency is an important competitive differentiator; other products can add 100 milliseconds or more to a transaction.
No Last-mile security Issues
Running the SOAP stack on the mainframe offers significant advantages over competitors who run their processing on middle-tier gateways. For example, SOLA’s standards based implementation of WS-Security and WS-Policy runs entirely on the mainframe using the integrated cryptographic coprocessors available on the zSeries. This contrasts with other mainframe web services implementations which rely on partner products for security. Those products run on middle-tier gateways, exposing customer transactions to “last-mile” security vulnerabilities.
No Java on the Mainframe
SOLA’s assembler language SOAP stack implementation is so efficient that there’s only a small overhead when publishing a mainframe program as a fully secured, managed, monitored and governed Web Service. SOLA’s fully compliant DOM parser uses less general purpose CPU than an equivalent Java parser running on a zAAP – while taking less than 5% of the elapsed time. This makes SOLA more efficient and much faster than products which use Java running on a zAAP to parse XML.
Less Complex
Because SOLA offers a complete SOA solution there is no requirement to integrate multiple products when building an enterprise-class SOA incorporating the mainframe. SOLA includes a “drag-and-drop” graphical development studio, an integrated UDDI registry, WS-Security, WS-Policy, monitoring, logging, a management console and dashboard, SLA management, BPEL, SAML, X509 Certificates, LDAP and Active Directory. SOLA eliminates the complexity and expense of combining multiple products, such as CICS TS 3.x, WebSphere and RAD.
Closed-Loop Governance Automation
SOLA is the only mainframe SOA product to offer closed-loop Governance automation. A service is automatically governed from the point of creation because it inherits a security policy. Policy, by means of WS-PolicyAttachment, is associated with the service though all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle. It is not possible to create or run an ungoverned service.
Other features of SOLA include integration with enterprise change management, Global Dictionary, Logging, Auditing, Outbound SOAP requests, Batch support, Integration with external UDDI, version control, support for the Software Development Lifecycle, WSDL first and integration with SOA Management tools, making SOLA the only secure, standards-based, and Governable product in the space.
SOLA also offers XACML for authentication and a comprehensive identity mapping system that allows for the mapping of any credential (LDAP, etc) to a mainframe RACF ID.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class SOA Governance and Legacy integration solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA Governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management solution (Service Manager), and a mainframe Web services solution (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Verizon, and Pfizer. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Workbench, Service Manager, and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners
SOA Software Provides Governance for IBM WebSphere
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SOA Software Announces Integrated SOA Governance for IBM WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere ESB
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Los Angeles, Calif., April 7, 2008—SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that it has certified IBM WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus as Governed Service Platforms. This allows customers to use WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere ESB to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise services providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process as part of their enterprise SOA.
Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won’t compromise the fidelity of the governance systems and structures defined in an enterprise SOA program.
SOA Software’s Workbench and Service Manager ensure that WebSphere Process Server can facilitate and benefit from the core Integrated SOA Governance Automation best practices:
- Trust & Management Mediation – provide last-mile security, metric collection and reporting, SLA monitoring and management, to ensure that services exposed by WebSphere Process Server are governed, managed, and secured. Provide policy implementation and mediation to allow WebSphere Process Server to communicate with a wide range of mission critical business services exposed from non-IBM platforms.
- Service Virtualization – conveniently allow WebSphere Process Server to expose services to partners, and consumer partner services
- Governance Automation – automate the publishing of WebSphere Process Server services, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration services, and consumer contract provisioning
- Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and suitability of WebSphere Process Server services
- Metadata Federation - ensure that WebSphere Process Server services are visible to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms - and make services from other platforms visible to, relevant and consumable by WebSphere Process Server. Automatically discover services in Process Server and publish them into Workbench subject to governance policies
- Change Impact Mitigation - ensure that changes to WebSphere Process Server services don’t cause major outages by maintaining consumer contracts
- Uniform Policy Management - ensure that WebSphere Process Server services can be leveraged as first-class citizens throughout an enterprise SOA by complying with enterprise policies that are uniform across all platforms
SOA Software provides a fully functional Agent for Process Server. The Agent deploys into the container hosting Process Server and provides a management application, a policy engine, and a handler mechanism. The management application monitors Process Server’s management API for new services. When it discovers a new service, depending on its policies it will either automatically install a mediation primitive into the mediation flow to intercept messages for processing by the policy engine, or simply register the service with Workbench. Policies are defined using the WS-Policy language and the policy engine discovers its policies using WS-MetadataExchange and reports metrics, usage and exceptions to the Workbench.
SOA Software also provides a fully functional Delegate in the form of a mediation primitive. The Delegate deploys into mediation flows for WESB and WPS to abstract them from the location, transport and other policy representations of consuming services.
“We are pleased to announce the integration of our Integrated SOA Governance Automation products with WebSphere Process Server,” said Frank Martinez, executive vice president of SOA Software. “The certification of WebSphere Process Server as a Governed Service Platform gives customers confidence that the enterprise adoption of WebSphere Process Server will preserve the fidelity of the governance models, structures and mechanisms supporting their enterprise SOA program.”
SOA Software and IBM
IBM customers leverage SOA Software for seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, Security and Management integration with their IBM Middleware infrastructure to ensure interoperability across disparate partners and platforms. SOA Software’s products provide uniform lifecycle and policy governance across all existing platform investments with standards support for Governance automation and trust enablement and mediation.
SOA Software’s products govern IBM’s WebSphere SOA Foundation product family including WSRR, DataPower, Process Server, Application Server, and Message Broker.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class integrated SOA Governance solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management (Service Manager), and a mainframe Web services solution for CICS applications (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Workbench, Service Manager, SOLA, and Network Director are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners.
SOA Software Announces Integrated SOA Governance or IBM WebSphere
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SOA Software Announces Integrated SOA Governance for IBM WebSphere Message Broker
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Los Angeles, Calif., March 17, 2008—SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that it has certified IBM WebSphere Message Broker as a Governed Service Platform. This certification allows customers to use IBM WebSphere Message Broker to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise Web services providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process as part of their enterprise SOA.
Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won’t compromise the fidelity of the governance systems and structures defined in an enterprise SOA program.
SOA Software’s Workbench and Service Manager ensure that IBM WebSphere Message Broker can facilitate and benefit from the Integrated SOA Governance Automation best practices:
- Trust & management mediation – provide last-mile security, metric collection and reporting, SLA monitoring and management, to make services exposed by IBM WebSphere Message Broker business-class. Provide policy implementation and mediation enabling IBM WebSphere Message Broker to communicate with a wide range of mission critical business services exposed from any platform.
- Service virtualization - safely make IBM WebSphere Message Broker services available to partners and consume partner services
- Governance Automation – automate the publishing of IBM WebSphere Message Broker services, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration services, and consumer contract provisioning
- Continuous compliance and validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and suitability of IBM WebSphere Message Broker services
- Metadata federation - ensure that IBM WebSphere Message Broker services are visible to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms – and make services from other platforms visible to, relevant and consumable by IBM WebSphere Message Broker
- Change impact mitigation - ensure that changes to IBM WebSphere Message Broker services don’t cause major outages by breaking consumers
- Uniform policy management - ensure that IBM WebSphere Message Broker services can be leveraged as first-class citizens throughout an enterprise SOA by using policies that are uniform across all platforms
SOA Software provides a custom palette for the IBM WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit. The nodes can be dragged and dropped into the appropriate points in a process flow and provide the full functionality of the Agent for last-mile policy enforcement, and the Delegate for first-mile policy implementation.
“We are pleased to announce the integration of our Integrated SOA Governance Automation products with IBM WebSphere Message Broker,” said Frank Martinez, executive vice president of SOA Software. “The certification of IBM WebSphere Message Broker as a Governed Service Platform gives customers confidence that their existing investments in IBM WebSphere Message Broker preserve the fidelity of the governance models, structures and mechanisms supporting their enterprise SOA program.”
SOA Software and IBM
IBM customers leverage SOA Software for seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, Security and Management integration with their IBM Middleware infrastructure to ensure interoperability across disparate partners and platforms. SOA Software’s products provide uniform lifecycle and policy governance across all existing platform investments with standards support for Governance automation and trust enablement and mediation.
SOA Software’s products work seamlessly with IBM’s WebSphere product family including WSRR, DataPower, Process Server, Application Server, and Message Broker.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class integrated SOA Governance solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management solution (Service Manager), and a mainframe Web services solution for CICS applications (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Workbench, Service Manager, and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. IBM WebSphere Message Broker and Websphere are trademarks of IBM. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners.
Best practices for Service-Oriented Architecture Governance
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Recorded on October 31st, 2007 at the Microsoft 2007 SOA & Business Process Conference
Best Practices for Service-Oriented Architecture Governance
Frank Martinez, EVP Product Strategy, SOA Software
Marty Wasznicky, BizTalk Server Program Manager, Microsoft
Governance is the tail that wags the SOA dog. An organization that deploys Web Services without a solid governance program is headed for serious trouble in terms of reliability, security, and cost. While governance is a necessity for any IT endeavor, the open and potentially chaotic nature of SOA makes governance either a show stopper or a magic bullet for success, depending on how it is approached.
In this presentation, SOA Software’s Frank Martinez and Microsoft’s Marty Wasznicky discuss the best practices for Service-Oriented Architecture Governance, and how SOA Software’s products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA Governance solution.
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Speaker Bios:
Frank Martinez
Frank Martinez is a recognized expert in the area of distributed, enterprise application and infrastructure platforms. Mr. Martinez is focused on driving development of scalable service-oriented infrastructure software that integrates business processes and information enterprise-wide. Mr. Martinez’s reputation as a technological visionary is demonstrated by his record of bringing innovative and commercially successful software solutions to market. He has had operating roles as a senior executive of several VC-backed firms, and was instrumental in building Intershop Communications into a multi-billion dollar public company in less than three years. Mr. Martinez was recently named an InfoWorld Innovator by InfoWorld magazine and has also been named one of 25 leading IT innovators by CRN.
Marty Wasznicky
Marty Wasznicky is a Principal Program Manager for the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, where he focuses on Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Application Integration, and Business Process Management. He is responsible for helping customers and Microsoft partners in the US adopt and implement solutions in this space. Mr. Wasznicky has over 15 years of systems integration and custom business solution development experience in the IT industry. He joined Microsoft in 2001 and, prior to that, he worked for both Global 100 Companies and Microsoft Partners. Mr. Wasznicky has written nearly a dozen whitepapers and articles on various technologies, published by MSDN, Visual Studio Magazine and the Advisor Publications. Most recently, he was a contributing author for the Pro BizTalk 2006 book and leads the architecture and development of the Microsoft ESB Guidance.
Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit
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Overview
Budgets are tight. Demands for efficiencies and ROI are mounting. The organization must be more agile. You need to implement SOA, embrace new web-based applications and communities, but also make sure the integrity and complexity of your systems is under control. Oh, and by the way, IT needs to be better aligned with business goals, and if you don’t want to be obsolete in five years, you need to start thinking like a business manager.
Can you do it all?
Gartner is here to help. The 20th edition of the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit is the one event that will give you the most complete view of SOA, Web, application development, and integration trends available. In over 70 sessions, the Summit will give you a roadmap of emerging software and architecture trends, and answer your burning questions on how to implement SOA, agile methods, governance, application modernization, Web services and Web2.0, Software-as-a-Service and much more…
Key Topics
- SOA project best (and worst) practices
- SOA governance, roles and responsibilities
- Service-oriented development, process-centric development
- Emerging architectures: context-aware, web-oriented, event-driven…
- The future of development tools and languages
- Measuring the value of SOA and integration
- Web services, WS-* and SOA standards
- Web 2.0, Ajax, REST/POX, Enterprise Mashups
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and “Cloud computing”
- Agile development methods
- Application Portfolio and Lifecycle Management
- Requirements and change management
- Application and Web Security
- Application testing and quality
- Data integration and management
Plus NEW this edition:
- Analyst sessions on Virtualization, Mobile Web2.0, Web application frameworks, Cloud computing and Federation
- Workshops on how to engage the business, agile implementation best practices, assessing your application maturity and more...
Summit Features:
- learn from a team of 30 Gartner experts on SOA, software and Web infrastructure issues
- network with the largest pool of architects and application managers anywhere
- get specific answers to your issues through roundtables, Analyst One-on-Ones, and online communities
- check out the latest solutions and validate your shortlists
PLUS: FREE Gartner Roadmap to SOA poster (exclusive to summit attendees)
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SOA Software surges to Profitability on strong growth for Fiscal Year 2007
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Los Angeles, Calif., February 28, 2008—SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that it was profitable for FY2007 facilitated by a 113% growth in product business. SOA Software announced a net income of $2.2 Million for FY2007.
SOA Software is a leader in the emerging Integrated SOA Governance market, with the most comprehensive product offerings available. The company’s performance in 2007 was enhanced by a perfect storm in the market:
- SOA Software launched its Workbench product that combines with its market-leading Service Manager product in a closed-loop system to deliver the industry’s first Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution.
- The market evolved from distinct segments for Registry, Management, and Security to comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance.
- The adoption of SOA within large enterprises reached new levels driving significantly increased needs for SOA Governance.
“Our strong financial results driven by increased customer demand and the recent leadership position bestowed on SOA Software by Gartner Group, confirms that SOA Software has emerged as the clear leader in Integrated SOA Governance,” said Paul Gigg, Chief Executive Officer of SOA Software.
In 2007 SOA Software was selected as the enterprise SOA Governance solution for Fortune 100 enterprises in Finance, Pharmaceutical, Energy, and Telecom.
In 2007 SOA Software was recognized for business and market leading products with several industry awards:
- Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2007 Integrated SOA Governance Magic Quadrant
- Deloitte Fast 500 Company for revenue growth in 2007
- Deloitte Fast 50 Company for top company in Southern California
- Always On 100 Private Company Award Winner 2007
- Named one of “100 middle market companies you should know” by USBX
- Red Herring 100 Award Finalist
- Technology Council Finalist
In 2007, more than 40 consulting partners selected SOA Software as their SOA partner, including Bearing Point, Cognizant, Matlen Silver, Neudesic, Raytheon, and Zensar Technologies. Large companies looking for proven SOA solutions seek and respect the advice and implementation offerings of established services companies. The SOA Software product suite combined with the expertise of SOA Software consulting partners, gives companies a truly start-to-finish solution for their SOA initiatives.
In addition, SOA Software established technology partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, JBoss, JackBe, Systar, and SAP. Technology partnerships are important for Fortune 1000 customers requiring governance for heterogeneous systems in their enterprise SOA program. SOA Software certifies platforms as governed service platforms to ensure the platforms can be consistently governed along with other enterprise service platforms.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class integrated SOA Governance solutions. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA Governance solution (Workbench), a high-performance, scalable SOA security, mediation, and management solution (Service Manager), and a mainframe Web services solution for CICS applications (SOLA). SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer. For more information, please visit www.soa.com.
SOA Software, Workbench, Service Manager, and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners.
SOA Software Announces 30 New Integrator Partners
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Los Angeles, Calif., February 27, 2008—SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced 30 new consulting partners, now the program has expanded to a total of 40 partners.
The rapid growth of SOA Software’s program is attributed to an industry wide recognition of SOA Software’s leadership position by the system integrator community. Recently SOA Software was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2007 Integrated SOA Governance Magic Quadrant [1]. SOA Software provides enterprise-class, platform-independent, integrated SOA Governance automation solutions. SOA Software’s products provide comprehensive, centralized SOA planning, lifecycle and operational governance automation through a single integrated solution. SOA Software is focused exclusively on enterprise SOA, delivering a fully integrated set of standards-based, high-performance products. By taking advantage of SOA Software products, and by the phenomenal increase in the number of SOA projects, professional services organizations are experiencing their own growth with a greater number of clients demanding SOA. This relatively new specialization and revenue stream has become a significant value add that redefines their practices.
SOA Software partners include Value-Added Consultants (VACs), Value-Added Distributors (VADs), and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) who resell products and/or provide customized solutions across global markets. S
