Microsoft and SOA Software

SOA Software’s products (including Service Manager for Microsoft BizTalk) provide Unified SOA Governance Automation for Microsoft’s Enterprise SOA technologies.  This allows customers to confidently use Microsoft products as part of a heterogeneous enterprise SOA environment sharing services with other commercial SOA platforms like IBM WebSphere, SAP NetWeaver, BEA, and Oracle, as well as RedHat and other open source providers.

  • Ensure that services they identify, design and build using .NET and WCF are relevant to and consumable by applications they design, build and deploy using other platforms like SAP and IBM
  • Make services they expose from applications running on .NET and WCF 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 SAP and open source environments visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across their .NET and WCF applications
  • Promote, ensure and formalize consistent alignment between demand from service consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract Provisioning

SOA Software’s platform-independent Unified SOA Governance Automation solution promotes the use of best-practices throughout an enterprise SOA program regardless of where services and consumers are designed, built, deployed and operated.  Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager and Policy Manager integrate seamlessly with development and runtime products from most commercial platforms including IBM, SAP, Microsoft, BEA, Oracle and Serena, as well as RedHat and other open source providers.  SOA Software’s Solutions offer deep integration with the Microsoft SOA and Business Process solutions including: .NET, WCF, BizTalk, Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.

Unified SOA Governance for Microsoft

Microsoft does not focus on SOA Governance, although it does offer a UDDI Registry as part of the .NET framework.  Microsoft’s enterprise SOA products leverage and are extended by an enterprise SOA Governance Automation solution.

Microsoft customers are adding SOA Software’s Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager and Service Manager products to provide Integrated SOA Governance Automation for their Enterprise SOA solutions implemented using Microsoft’s products to provide a number of solutions:

  • Portfolio management of enterprise services regardless of delivery platform
  • Uniform lifecycle and policy governance across existing platform investments
  • Lifecycle Management workflow to implement building permit process
  • Ensure interoperability with other platforms
  • Seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, Security and Management integration with IBM Middleware infrastructure
  • Performance and reliability management
  • Interoperability across disparate partners and platforms
  • Integrated provisioning and lifecycle management
  • Inter-departmental consumer contract provisioning and negotiation
  • Standards support for Governance automation (UDDIv3, WS-MEX)
  • Trust enablement and trust mediation

SOA Software’s products support and promote common Integrated SOA Governance best practices, and enable the consistent execution of these best practices with the Microsoft SOA products.  They offer the added benefit that there is no requirement to introduce another non-Microsoft platform in order to support the required architecture.

Using Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager and Service Manager SOA Software certifies Microsoft’s products as Governed Service Platforms, or in the case of TFS, a Governed Development Platform.  Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms will preserve the fidelity of the governance models, structures and mechanisms supporting an enterprise SOA program. 

SOA Software’s products offer a comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution for Microsoft:

Microsoft Product SOA Software Added Value
.NET Framework Governance federation Metadata management Mediation for interoperability Policy enforcement, implementation, monitoring Security policy implementation and enforcement Automated PKI key distribution
BizTalk Server Governance federation Metadata management Policy enforcement, implementation, and monitoring Monitor any port type regardless of protocol
Office Dynamic policy implementation Abstraction of office application service programming model from complex policy semantics and operations
Visual Studio Easy access from the popular IDE to services and other assets stored in Repository Manager
Visual SourceSafe and Team Foundation Server Automated asset assembly to Repository Manager based on SDLC triggers Seamless artifact access to services and other assets stored in this system of record

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