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SOA Software launches first API Gateway with developer community

SOA Software launches first API Gateway with developer community

HP Discover 2013

Sands Expo Center
Las Vegas, NV

Join exhibitor SOA Software executives and staff at HP Discover in Las Vegas from June 11-13. This is HP�s premier event for its customers and partners in North America. CIOs, VPs, directors, IT managers and directors, architects and engineers will attend for an up-close look at game-changing innovation in infrastructure, networking, software and strategy that will shape annual IT spending for the next decade. Click here for the details.

DIA 2013

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Boston

Join Bronze sponsor SOA Software executives and staff for the DIA 49th Annual Meeting at the Boston Convention Center and Exhibition Center from June 23-29. The DIA 2013 49th Annual Meeting is the largest multidisciplinary event that brings together a community of professionals at all levels and across all disciplines in the discovery, development, and life cycle management of medical products. This meeting is designed for individuals involved in the discovery, development, and life cycle management of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and related medical products. The Annual Meeting is intended to strengthen professionals� understanding of the value of cross-discipline integration and to foster innovation for better health outcomes.Click here for ther details.

APIs Are The Doors To Web Services - And They Need Locks

APIs Are The Doors To Web Services - And They Need Locks

Microsoft TechEd

New Orleans

Join exhibitor SOA Software at the upcoming Microsoft TechEd North America conference at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. This is the premier technical education and networking event for any technology professional interested in learning, connecting and exploring a broad set of current and soon-to-be-released Microsoft technologies, tools, platforms and services. There attendees will learn how Microsoft can help improve productivity, drive down costs and better advise business decision-makers on future technology investments including Virtualization, Application Lifecycle Management, Building Your Private Cloud, Public Cloud or Hybrid Cloud and Trustworthy Computing and Data Governance.

SOA Software Announces Industry�s First Integrated API Gateway Solution

The Flexible Virtual and Cloud Appliance Combines Security, Integration, Developer Community and Mediation Capabilities to Minimize Risk and Cost

Los Angeles, CA. � May 6, 2013 � SOA Software � a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions � announced today the industry�s first unified API Gateway establishing a new standard for an integrated solution that combines security, developer community, integration and mediation capabilities delivered both in the cloud and on-premise It offers policy-based enforcement mechanisms, mediation of security and identity services across technology domains, and management capabilities that simply and securely converge connectivity of APIs across mobile, web and cloud platforms. The API Gateway also enables enterprises to rapidly publish their internal services and APIs to a cloud hosted developer community, significantly reducing time and cost.

The SOA Software API Gateway is a virtual appliance that streamlines management, deployment, development and operation of APIs, enhancing security and regulatory compliance through authentication, authorization and audit capabilities. It provides central definition and management of security, routing, reliability, mediation, auditing and other operational governance policies across multiple instances. The API Gateway enables the fastest time to market for a comprehensive API solution that can be deployed as a single unit, on-premise, in-cloud or as a hybrid solution. Moreover, the same solution can be used to manage and secure SOA based services, minimizing the risk and cost for our enterprise customers.

The API Gateway transforms and mediates between XML and SOAP based services and JSON and REST without writing code. It also offers integrated process activity and scripting capabilities for sophisticated content mediation and orchestration, including the ability to execute JavaScript and other scripting languages natively within the gateway for message enrichment (such as call-outs and transformations) and mashups (new applications combining multiple backend services).

�The API Gateway allows organizations to quickly and cost-effectively develop, secure, manage and monitor their APIs in an increasingly connected world,� said Alistair Farquharson, chief technology officer at SOA Software. �Customers are now able to extend their business processes and data for consumption as APIs by leveraging our unified API Gateway�s unique ability to centrally secure and rapidly connect applications across platforms, devices and channels.�

Reliable Security, Threat Prevention and Centralized Policy Management
The API Gateway provides a lightweight platform for securing and managing APIs. It supports a wide array of authentication and authorization schemes to secure access and provides a variety of transport and message level security options to prevent inflight tampering of valuable data. An integrated OAuth Server enables use of existing enterprise security systems to manage access rights to APIs and data. The API Gateway also includes threat protection features to detect and prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks, malformed messages or excessive XML/JSON depth and breadth. The API Gateway�s architecture leverages a centralized Policy Manager to ensure uniform administration and management across the unified gateway fabric.

Accelerates Integration between Applications and Business Processes
Brokering authorized web services and applying security policies are key functions of the API Gateway. The API Gateway supports dynamic routing based on incoming messages or tagged metadata, transforms non-XML messages into formats more readily consumed by back-end services or applications and mediates security tokens between mobile, enterprise, web and partner applications based on policy. It also supports code-free virtualization and aggregation of multiple backend API�s or services.

Developer Community Platform
The API Gateway provides a developer community platform as a connecting point to manage, share, and promote APIs and services in a secure, scalable environment to help enterprises drive developer adoption, reach new channels and gain business advantage, addressing all stages of the API lifecycle. It also provides an extensive set of social capabilities to promote the creation of a community of developers either inside or outside the enterprise, or a combination of both. It enables organizations to publish their internal services to a cloud hosted developer community, significantly reducing the time and cost to rollout an API solution.

For more information about the API Gateway, see http://www.soa.com/solutions/api-gateway.
For more information about Enterprise API Management, see http://www.soa.com/solutions/enterprise-api-management

About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA governance products that enable customers to plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance , SOA Management, and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

API Gateway - Simplified Security and Management

Accelerate API Deployment with Streamlined Security, Integration, and Mediation

Organizations are increasingly adopting APIs to deliver services through mobile, cloud and web channels. However, while it is becoming easier to expose and consume these services through APIs, enforcing consistent security policies, monitoring these services on a continuous basis, ensuring performance and high availability through an single integrated solution for APIs is often complex and time consuming.

The SOA Software API Gateway solution is delivered as a virtual appliance that streamlines management, deployment, development and operation of APIs, enhancing security and regulatory compliance through authentication, authorization and audit capabilities. It provides central definition and management of security, routing, reliability, mediation, auditing and other operational governance policies across multiple instances. The Gateway enables enterprises to standardize API and service delivery with high security, performance and availability. The Gateway also enables enterprises to rapidly publish their internal services and APIs to a cloud hosted developer community, significantly reducing time and cost.

The API Gateway allows organizations to quickly and cost-effectively develop, secure, manage and monitor their APIs in an increasingly connected world by securely and rapidly connecting applications across platforms, devices and channels.

Comprehensive Unified Platform

The API Gateway is a single unified platform covering all aspects of API and SOA delivery requirements, on-premise or in the cloud.

API Native and SOA Native � The only platform that supports both APIs and SOA natively, reducing the cost of management and development across all API and SOA initiatives across your enterprise
On-Premise or in the Cloud � You can choose how and where you deploy to best meet the needs of your business

Security and Threat Prevention

The API Gateway lets you secure your APIs, protecting sensitive data while allowing access to authorized Apps and users.

Comprehensive out-of-the-box policies � Choose from a wide array of authentication schemes, standards and token types to ensure that only valid users and applications get access to your APIs
Comprehensive OAuth server - Use your existing enterprise security systems to create an OAuth authorization server so your users can manage access rights for their own data
Built-in PKI and key distribution model - Ensure the privacy of customer data with sophisticated encryption and signature capabilities
First and last mile security - Optional Delegates and Agents integrate with the Gateway to provide a complete end-to-end solution
Threat Prevention - Detect and prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, malformed messages or excessive XML/JSON depth and breadth.

Integration, Mediation and Transformation

The API Gateway lets you deliver the right API regardless of the service type you�re starting with

Bi-directional protocol transformation - Convert existing SOAP or Plain-old-XML (POX) over MQ or JMS services into RESTful APIs with XML and/or JSON content
API & Message Routing - Route based on message content, headers, identity and other factors
Virtualization and Aggregation - Use virtualization to remove operations, aggregate multiple backend APIs or services, perform mediation, or composition - without writing code.
Composition, Orchestration and Message Enrichment - Use the Web-based GUI to define reusable processes and sub-processes for API composition or message enrichment. Author reusable scripts using a variety of languages (e.g. JavaScript, Groovy, Jython, BeanShell) and embed them within processes

Analytics and Monitoring

The API Gateway lets you monitor your API and Services operations and analyze API usage for insight

Real-time system monitoring - Use the Web-based dashboards to get real-time visibility into service and API performance, dependencies, and alert status
Alert Management � Powerful alert management, monitoring, and distribution. Leverage alerts within compositions to control message routing, enforce SLAs or perform other runtime activities
Reporting - Dashboards and out-of-the-box reports provide visibility into the performance of APIs and services from different perspectives, including department, partner, application contract, API/service or operation

Developer Community

SOA Software�s API Gateway provides a sophisticated developer community product to help enterprises attract, manage, and support the developers that build Apps using their APIs.

Publish APIs & Services - After you�ve created your API, the developer web portal allows to actively engage developers
Social Interaction - Integrated forums for finding information, alerts, discussions, trouble tickets and workflow requests for all resources
Groups and Team Management - Allow developer and development managers to create teams of peers who can collaborate on their API consumption aspects of their App.
API & App Visibility - Allow users to create public resources that they can promote and market, or private resources to support beta or development uses, or for sensitive business applications
API Documentation - Upload and manage various types of API documentation and associated table of contents

API and Service Governance

Does the heavy lifting to help build and run APIs. Get the tools to create the innovative APIs that drive business forward.

Define and Manage APIs - Create APIs with multiple interfaces using different standards including REST/XML, REST/JSON and SOAP with no extra development effort
Contract Management - Manage relationships between service consumers and providers
Value Management - Measure and manage the value and effectiveness of SOA in the organization. Assign real or arbitrary value to service transactions for billing or tracking purposes
Comprehensive Integration with SOA Software�s Lifecycle Manager - Control the service production and consumption process from requirements definition to development

The API Gateway Platform

SOA Software Enables REST Services on IBM DataPower To Help Customers Extend Reach Enterprise Data

New Policy Manager Product Enhances DataPower for APIs, Mobile Devices, and Web 2.0

Las Vegas, CA. � April 29, 2012 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced support for REST services in its latest release of Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower. REST technology is transforming enterprise IT by providing easy access to backend data. Customers can now extend DataPower�s ability to work with mainframes and other backend systems to APIs, mobile apps, and Web 2.0 application functionality.

SOA Software has long helped customers leverage IBM WebSphere DataPower as the foundation of their enterprise services infrastructure. Policy Manager for DataPower brings monitoring, security, clustering and a host of SOA governance features to the DataPower product line. Support for REST services is the latest addition to the set of Policy Manager for DataPower features that makes enterprise SOA easily available and cost effective for DataPower users. Policy Manager for DataPower helps customers to model, secure, monitor, cluster, and automate REST services on DataPower in a fraction of the time they spend today.

�For companies who need to extend the reach of their enterprise data to mobile users and Web 2.0 applications, this new REST capability is essential,� said Alistair Farquharson, chief technology officer at SOA Software. �Our enablement of the DataPower appliance has resulted in large gains for customers inside the enterprise. Now we are adding to those gains by securely and efficiently enabling an even larger audience of Web and mobile users through REST services. This will surely be a positive change in how our customers use DataPower to operate, manage and integrate their IT services in an SOA environment.�

Feedback from IBM WebSphere DataPower customers made it clear to SOA Software that demand for REST-based access to their DataPower services is growing. Whether the backend system is WebSphere, mainframe, WebSphere MQ, or other technologies, the ability to use DataPower to secure and expose backend data using REST is becoming a standard requirement. The ability to monitor, cluster, and add valuable SOA governance functionality to these REST services is a persistent theme among customers who have mobile users that demand highly available, fast and secure access, and that feature rich mobile apps.

Policy Manager for DataPower provides a �ready-to-use� SOA governance solution for REST services that builds on the company�s extensive experience enabling SOA on DataPower. It centralizes and automates the management of DataPower services, reduces administrative overhead, and ensures consistent policy and service definition. Coupled with the ease of use and growing adoption of REST services, Policy Manager for DataPower offers DataPower customers the ability to quickly realize powerful API, mobile, and Web 2.0 solutions for their user communities. For more information on this product, see http://www.soa.com/solutions/ibm/ibm_datapower_governance/ or www.soa.com/ibm

SOA Software Attains Microsoft Gold ISV Certification

Microsoft and SOA Software Strategy provides Full SOA and API Lifecycle Governance

Los Angeles, CA � Apr 24, 2013 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced that it has been recertified with Gold Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/Software Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network. As the technologies and strategies of the two companies evolve, SOA Software�s full lifecycle governance of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and APIs is proving to be an excellent fit for Microsoft�s cloud/on-premise hybrid strategy.

�Microsoft�s emphasis on cloud/on-premise hybrids intensifies the need for governance of Web services at every phase of the SOA/API lifecycle,� said Roberto Medrano, Executive VP of SOA Software. �Organizations that are extending their on-premise Microsoft-based SOA solution into the cloud invariably find that the openness of the cloud creates pressure to control Web services without reducing the agility of the overall system. That�s where we can help.�

Microsoft�s concerted push into the cloud, which stresses the advantages of creating hybrid cloud/on-premise solutions, has gained momentum in the last year. New offerings such as Office 365 and Windows Server 2012 leverage a combination of cloud and on-premise IT resources for enterprise benefit. Microsoft stalwarts such as Dynamics CRM are showcasing customer success with cloud/on-premise hybrids that offer unique return on investment by stretching existing infrastructure into new, flexible configurations.

The expansion of connectivity and points of origin for APIs and Web services in the Microsoft cloud/on-premise model creates fresh governance challenges, however. More points of policy definition and enforcement result in more opportunities for governance policies to fall apart, raising risk across SOA and API programs. SOA Software�s API & SOA governance suite for Microsoft offers a solution, enabling enterprises to manage all services, regardless of whether they are Microsoft-based or not, cloud-based or on-premise, across the complete service lifecycle. SOA Software�s Portfolio Manager enables governance of public cloud/private cloud/on-premise Microsoft Web services at the architecture planning stage. SOA Software Lifecycle Manager provides governance and policy definition for the development stage of the lifecycle, integrating with Microsoft Visual Studio, and Team Foundation Server. At runtime, SOA Software Service Manager and Policy Manager provide monitoring, management and policy enforcement for services running on Microsoft IIS & BizTalk Server as well as on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). For more information about SOA Software�s solutions for Microsoft, please visit www.soa.com/microsoft.

Organizations accredited with the Gold Partner status are among an elite group of companies that have proven to be experts in providing customers with quality solutions. As a trusted Microsoft Gold Partner, SOA Software receives enhanced support from Microsoft and has access to a multitude of partner-exclusive resources. To earn a Microsoft Gold Competency, organizations must complete a rigorous set of tests to prove their level of technology expertise, have the right number of Microsoft Certified Professionals, submit customer references and demonstrate their commitment to customer satisfaction by participating in an annual survey. The Microsoft Gold Competency signifies to the market that a company has demonstrated the highest level of skill and achievement within a given technology specialization. All 28 Microsoft competencies are designed to help differentiate a partner�s specific technology capabilities, helping customers find solution providers quickly and easily. Each competency has a unique set of requirements and benefits, formulated to accurately represent the specific skills and services that partners bring to the industry.

The Microsoft Partner Network is designed to equip organizations that deliver products and services based on the Microsoft platform with the training, resources and support they need to provide their customers a superior experience and consistently successful outcomes. Through the Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/Software competency, a firm can gain access to the latest technology, market opportunities, and sales and marketing resources that have been specifically created with ISVs in mind. From planning the development cycle to supporting customers, firms will have the tools and resources they need to build innovative solutions and bring them to market.

Forrester’s Forum For Enterprise Architecture Professionals EMEA

London

Join SOA executives and staff at Forrester�s Forum for Enterprise Architecture Professionals EMEA held at the Lancaster London Hotel. Attendees will accelerate their success through keynote and track sessions, connect and learn from peers and other experts in the field, engage with Forrester analysts, and get exclusive first look at new research and survey data. click here.

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit

National Harbor, Maryland

Join SOA Software executives and staff at the 2013 Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit at the Gaylord National in National Harbor, MD. This is the premier gathering for senior IT and business executives across IT security and risk management, including privacy, compliance, BCM, IT disaster recovery and business resiliency. The summit offers five role-based programs that delve into the entire spectrum of role evolution in IT security and risk, including: network and infrastructure security, IAM, compliance, privacy, fraud, BCM and resilience. click here.

Semantics Manager - Standards and Metadata Management

Semantics Manager™ enables enterprises to define, find, understand, use, and exchange data by managing standards and metadata as organizational assets. It is built upon an industry-leading repository and governance platform that can support requirements through configuration, rather than hardcoded behavior requiring custom modification to adapt to changing requirements. Semantics Manager enables standards development organizations (SDO) to develop, manage, obtain and incorporate reviewer input, and distribute standards more efficiently. It also helps industry to implement standards faster and more effectively while automating and improving business processes.

Based on Object Management Group�s (OMG) Reusable Asset Specification (RAS), Semantics Manager�s metamodel definition infrastructure leverages the flexibility of declarative XML-based specifications to dynamically generate strongly-typed information models with full control over object type, object content and object-to-object associations. These generated models are presented to end users via a modern browser-based UI, giving them intuitive access to repository content organized in a format aligned with their user role.

Accompanying this highly flexible metamodel definition infrastructure, Semantics Manager provides a fully configurable governance process automation engine supporting the need for role-based control by object state. This engine gives repository administrators full control over object approval processes on a fine-grained basis, specifying type-specific processes with content cardinality rules (e.g., information is optional for an object in draft status and mandatory for an object in published status), inline validation policies (e.g., control over field value formats, conditional object content mandates based on associated content values) and role-based approval processes supporting any combination of parallel and sequential commenter and approver steps.

Semantics Manager addresses all of the following core issues around standards development and implementation efforts:

How to create, maintain, govern and use standards in a consistent manner
How to know what the impact of changes will be on other people, processes, or systems
How to get maximum reuse out of existing data assets
How to use standards to improve processes, rather than adding burden to them, and
How to know that the data exchanged with others is being used or interpreted correctly

Semantics Manager Capabilities

Semantics Manager enables organizations to efficiently govern their data standards through:

Standards-based, model driven content control:

Physical metamodel based on Object Management Group�s (OMG) Reusable Asset Specification (RAS)
Strongly typed, configurable content metamodel based on ISO 11179 standard for metadata registries
For BioPharma industry, base library that includes all CDISC Terminologies, CDASH 1.1, SDTM 1.2, BRIDG 3.1, and ISO 21090

Content creation, management and governance:

Build content based on standards and/or standards-based templates
Create content within context or as individual objects, including mapping and transformation logic
Configure role, asset, and state specific data entry forms
Define validations to enforce business rules & policies
Establish role-based approval processes supporting any combination of parallel and sequential commenter and approver steps
Govern content as individual objects and/or as a batch
Automate version control and auditing
Collaborate on content at any level, with notifications to stakeholders on activities that affect them

Impact assessment and change inheritance:

Evaluate content dependencies via visual dynamic diagrams depicting content relationships
Review impact via automated report detailing impact of changes attached to governance request
Automate task assignment to stewards of impacted content to determine whether or not to inherit changes

Content usage association:

Implement consumption-specific governance workflows
Create annotated consumption relationships showing business impact on approved content

Searching & Browsing:

Leverage standard and custom XPath-based searches that can be saved and reused
Configure the dynamic asset tree to navigate content via classification criteria
Navigate content within its context via the launchable relationship tree
Graphically search for content via configurable, interactive reference models

Federation & Integration:

Federate to other internal and external installations of Semantics Manager
Leverage multiple APIs, web services, and XML formats to integrate with other internal or external tools (e.g., terminology services, data warehouses, BI tools, etc.)

Import & Export:

Find and select data to export from UI via multiple standard import & export formats
Build custom importers and exporters
Import new content or changes to existing content through common mechanisms

Metrics & Reporting:

Take advantage of integrated open source reporting tools to view prebuilt and custom fully parameterized reports
Surface reports dynamically within or external to repository
Share reports via multiple report export formats

To learn more, register to download the SOA Software Semantics Manager Data Sheet and other resources.

GigaOM Structure

San Francisco

Join SOA Software executives and staff at the GigaOM Structure conference. GigaOM�s flagship program examines the future of cloud computing and internet infrastructure. This year, Structure will focus on how real-time business needs are shaping IT architectures, how hyper-distributed infrastructure will take you beyond the four walls of your traditional data center, and how your cloud tomorrow will look completely different from everything that�s come before. For the detail, click here.

12th International Cloud Expo

New York City

Join SOA Software executives and staff at the 13th Cloud Expo in New York City. For four days, there will be a vast selection of technical and strategic breakout sessions, General Sessions, Industry Keynotes, our signature discussion “Power Panels” and a bustling Expo floor complete with two busy Demo Theaters. Delegates will kick the tires of solutions and offerings, and discuss one-on-one with all the leading Cloud and Big Data players. Learn about what they are offering and how to make use of it in your particular situation. For the detail, click here.

OAuth Server - Cloud Identity Simplified

OAuth Server� is an enterprise authentication and authorization product. It provides a comprehensive security token server that integrates with enterprise identity and access management systems providing the latest Web and API security standards including OpenId and OAuth.

With the OAuth Server, businesses can publish and interact with secure data; provide a way for users to share private data between different applications, and allow users to approve applications to act on their behalf without sharing passwords.

OAuth Server offers a sophisticated web-based UI that leverages the Community Platform API exposed by SOA Software’s Enterprise API Platform™.

SOA Software�s OAuth Server is the first product to offer comprehensive, standards-based authentication and authorization capabilities to the enterprise. The product offers:

Integration with most common enterprise identity systems including LDAP, Active Directory, CA SiteMinder, Oracle Access Manager, IBM TAM, RSA ClearTrust and more
Comprehensive support for the OpenID, OAuth 1.0a and OAuth 2.0 specifications along with a wide array of other authentication and authorization specifications
A fully brandable user experience allowing users to confidently make and manage their authorization decisions
Built-in grant management so that users can control their own permissions
Support for multiple providers each with its own set of resource and grant definitions, allowing the enterprise to offer a range of different OAuth services for different applications and purposes
Guaranteed interoperability with most common systems, based on extensive lab and field interoperability testing

Cloud Identity Management - Security Simplified

Simplify Secure Sharing of Private Data with Cloud Applications.

Enterprise to Cloud SSO

Apply enterprise security to cloud applications.

With SOA Software’s OAuth Server customers, employees and partners can use their existing enterprise managed user information for single-sign-on with cloud applications

SaaS Application Login - access SaaS applications like Salesforce.com, Workday, Office365 and others using your enterprise credentials without ever having to share your password with the external provider.
Enterprise Application Login - Login to enterprise applications hosted internally or in the cloud using your enterprise login information without compromising your security.

Centrally Managed Access Control

SOA Software’s OAuth Server lets users centrally manage the applications they choose share their private data with. Security features include:

Authentication Policy Options - Choose from a wide array of authentication schemes, standards and token types to ensure that only valid users and applications get access to your APIs
Enterprise OAuth - Use your existing enterprise security systems to create an OAuth authorization server so your users can manage access rights for their own data
Advanced Cryptography - Ensure the privacy of customer data with sophisticated encryption and signature capabilities

Secure Mobile Identity

SOA Software’s OAuth Server provides a way for mobile device users to securely access enterprise and cloud applications without having to share their passwords. Mobile features include:

Single-Sign-On for Mobile Applications - Use enterprise credentials for single-sign-on to native and browser-based applications without sharing passwords
Mobile Application Authorization - Centrally manage authorizations for mobile applications

API Platform Integration

SOA Software’s OAuth Server offers deep integration with the company’s Enterprise API Platform™ allowing customers to extend enterprise security to their APIs.

Resource to Operation Mapping - Define enterprise OAuth resources that map to API operations to allow customer to make meaningful authorization decisions
Choose OAuth options in API configuration - Allow customers to tailor the OAuth capabilities offered by the APIs for mobile, desktop, or browser applications, as well as specific security requirements

The Cloud Identity Platform

SOA Software OAuth Server Simplifies Secure Sharing of Private Data with Cloud Applications

New product extends enterprise identity and access management systems to enterprise and partner mobile, web and desktop applications

Los Angeles, CA � Feb 25, 2013� SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced SOA Software OAuth ServerTM, the industry�s first comprehensive OAuth solution for the enterprise. SOA Software OAuth Server extends existing enterprise identity and access management systems, allowing users to use their enterprise credentials to login and control access to their data from partner and cloud applications.

SOA Software�s OAuth Server is an enterprise authentication and authorization product. It provides a comprehensive security token server that integrates with enterprise identity and access management systems providing the latest Web and API security standards including OpenId and OAuth. With the OAuth Server, businesses can publish and interact with secure data; provide a way for users to share private data between different applications, and allow users to approve applications to act on their behalf without sharing passwords.

The OAuth Server offers:

Enterprise to cloud single-sign-on � customers, employees and partners can use their existing enterprise managed user information for single-sign-on with cloud applications
Centrally managed access control � users can centrally manage the applications they choose share their private data with
Secure Mobile Identity � a way for mobile device users to securely access enterprise and cloud applications without having to share their passwords

�By bringing OAuth to enterprise identity and access management systems, we are revolutionizing the way that businesses secure the integration of enterprise, partner and external applications,� said Alistair Farquharson, chief technology officer at SOA Software. �Enterprises can use the SOA Software OAuth Server to allow their users to approve mobile, web, and desktop applications to act on their behalf and securely share private data, without the need for legally complex, risky and heavyweight mechanisms.�

SOA Software�s OAuth Server is the first product to offer comprehensive, standards-based authentication and authorization capabilities to the enterprise. The product offers:

Integration with most common enterprise identity systems including LDAP, Active Directory, CA SiteMinder, Oracle Access Manager, IBM TAM, RSA ClearTrust and more
Comprehensive support for the OpenID, OAuth 1.0a and OAuth 2.0 specifications along with a wide array of other authentication and authorization specifications
A fully brandable user experience allowing users to confidently make and manage their authorization decisions
Built-in grant management so that users can control their own permissions
Support for multiple providers each with its own set of resource and grant definitions, allowing the enterprise to offer a range of different OAuth services for different applications and purposes
Guaranteed interoperability with most common systems, based on extensive lab and field interoperability testing.

Pricing and Availability
SOA Software OAuth Server� is available now as on-premise software and as part of our Enterprise API Platform-as-a-Service solution. The OAuth Server starts at $50k.

SOA Software CTO to Keynote API Strategy & Practice Conference

Recognized Technology Expert Alistair Farquharson to Speak on Enterprise API Platforms

New York City (February 21, 2013) � Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, a leading provider of API management, and SOA governance products, will be delivering the keynote address at the API Strategy & Practice Conference this week in New York. The keynote, titled How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ from Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?, focuses on how enterprises can take full advantage of application programming interfaces (APIs) to extend their business operations to customers and partners, and recognize increased volume in transactions.

The API Strategy & Practice Conference aims to provide smart insights from many of the world�s leading API and technology providers. The event is held in New York on Thursday, February 21 and Friday, February 22. The conference is intended to be a one-stop event to help technologists bootstrap their API strategies, discover usable and relevant APIs for their use, and to encourage community among API developers. Speakers include API luminaries from such organizations as AT&T, Twilio, Tumbler, Cisco, Singly, Walgreens, and others.

Alistair Farquharson will have three speaker sessions:

Thursday, Feb. 21 � 4:40 PM-5:00 PM: Panel � API Infrastructure Providers
Friday, Feb. 22 � 10:30 AM-10:50 AM: KEYNOTE � How does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?
Friday, Feb. 22 - 1:35 PM � 3:00 PM: 15 MIN. SLOT: Best Practices of API Management

Enabling the API Economy
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more sensitive B2B or B2E applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.

SOA Software�s Enterprise API Platform is the highest performing, most comprehensive API management solution on the market today. It is a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. The platform manages, monitors and secures companies� APIs, ensuring that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected. For more details, please see http://www.soa.com/products/api-platform-as-a-service.

The SOA Software Open platform brings API providers and App developers together, offering easy access to powerful API Management capabilities combined with a social community in which developers collaborate to build dynamic, engaging apps with scalable APIs. The free SOA Software Open service allows users to manage up to 10 million API transactions per month, far higher than other solutions, and offers a powerful developer community platform unlike anything else in the industry. Developers can easily upgrade to SOA Software�s Enterprise API Platform either on-premise or as-a-Service if they want additional capacity, their own brand for their APIs, or a guaranteed SLA. To sign up, please see http://open.soa.com.

SOA Software Expands into Denmark, Sweden and Norway

Danish Home Base to Serve Nordic Region; Key Executives Hired

LOS ANGELES � February 11, 2013 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced that it has established a base of operations in Copenhagen, Denmark to serve its growing roster of clients in the Nordic countries. SOA Software has hired two experienced enterprise technologists to lead SOA Software efforts in the region, which includes Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

�API management and enterprise connectivity are thriving in the Nordic countries, which are home to some of the world�s most respected brands,� said Paul Gigg, CEO SOA Software. �We are investing to ensure customer success by engaging locally to meet the growing opportunity for global service orientation.�

The company has recruited Peter Lau Hansen and Mads Vanggaard to manage SOA Software�s business operations in the region. The executives have over two decades of enterprise software sales engineering and business development experience between them. Mr. Hansen joined BEA (now Oracle) in 2004, working with such clients as A.P. M�ller Maersk on integration, portal and SOA projects. Mr. Vanggaard is an enterprise architect whose primary skillset is with the Oracle SOA stack. He has worked with such clients as PFA Pension and the Copenhagen Airport.

Making APIs Work in the Enterprise
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth, expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more demanding and subtle B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.

The SOA Software Enterprise API Platform� is the first solution to address enterprise requirements across the entire API lifecycle, with planning, development, runtime and community management capabilities. The Enterprise API Platform� provides a rich set of API Management capabilities to ensure the security, performance and availability of APIs, together with a social developer community solution for promoting and supporting the APIs and driving developer adoption. It provides end-to-end management of the API lifecycle, helping you make sure that you build the right APIs, build them the right way, and make sure that they are behaving correctly. The Enterprise API Platform� is available as an on-premise software solution, as-a-service, via an Open developer community as-a-service, or using a combination of any of these options. For example, a customer could choose to run the lifecycle management components of the solution as on-premises software, use the commercial PaaS offering to host and manage their APIs, and federate with the Open developer community to publish their public APIs to an established group of App developers.

SOA Software CTO to Address Apps World 2013

Alistair Farquharson Will Stress the Importance of Enterprise API Management Practices in Two Sessions

LOS ANGELES � February 7, 2013 � Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, will address the audience of Apps World 2013 on February 7th and 8th in San Francisco. Mr. Farquharson�s sessions offer insight and best practices into enterprise APIs, the critical backend interfaces that power many of today�s most popular mobile apps. With over 5,000 attendees anticipated, Apps World 2013 is one of the world�s largest conferences dedicated to the growing mobile app market segment.

�Mobile apps are exploding as a category, driving us quickly to the future of all computing,� said Mr. Farquharson. �With bring-your-own-device policies proliferating and a vast increase in the scope of mobile platforms available, we are seeing a more urgent need for API management than ever before. Enterprise mobile apps hit back-end systems. Those systems need to have their APIs well governed. That�s where we come in.�

In his session, How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix? Mr. Farquharson will discuss the impact of the new API economy and how enterprises are making business applications available through APIs to drive business growth and expose new opportunities. He will explore �appification� and the innovation model of the open API, including the issue of why community is essential for success with enterprise-grade APIs. With Best Practices of API Management, Mr. Farquharson will review proven practices that ensure optimal business outcomes through APIs without inadvertently creating security and system management problems or running up unsustainable costs. In particular, this session will focus on how effective management of enterprise APIs actually begins at the planning and design stages of the API lifecycle and evolves through sharing and production.

Alistair Farquharson is a visionary industry veteran focused on using disruptive technologies to drive business growth and improve efficiency and agility within organizations. As the CTO of SOA Software, Alistair is helping to shape and mature the enterprise API and SOA industry. Alistair is responsible for product strategy and development for this leading Enterprise API and SOA Governance company. He spends a great deal of time and energy shaping customer and industry direction with regular conference keynote appearances, discussions with customers, and even the occasional foray into writing code. Alistair has been at the forefront of many technology waves from enterprise web architecture, through web services and SOA, and now into APIs. His expertise spans a wide range of technologies and businesses, and he brings a unique global focus to everything he does.

Apps World is returning to North America in 2013 for two days of engagement and high level insight and discussion around one of the largest growing industries - mobile apps. The conference will be taking place in San Francisco on February 7th-8th 2013 at the Moscone Center. Over 5,000 developers, mobile marketers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, platform owners and industry professionals are expected to attend.

Dates and Times for Alistair Farquharson�s Sessions

How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?
- Thursday, Feb. 7, 12:00 � 12:30 PM - Enterprise Zone
Best Practices of API Management
- Friday, Feb. 8 - 12:10-12:40 PM - Technical Briefing Room

Enabling the API Economy
The SOA Software Enterprise API Platform� is the first solution to address enterprise requirements across the entire API lifecycle, with planning, development, runtime and community management capabilities. The Enterprise API Platform� provides a rich set of API Management capabilities to ensure the security, performance and availability of APIs, together with a social developer community solution for promoting and supporting the APIs and driving developer adoption. It provides end-to-end management of the API lifecycle, helping you make sure that you build the right APIs, build them the right way, and make sure that they are behaving correctly. The Enterprise API Platform� is available as an on-premise software solution, as-a-service, via an Open developer community as-a-service, or using a combination of any of these options. For example, a customer could choose to run the lifecycle management components of the solution as on-premises software, use the commercial PaaS offering to host and manage their APIs, and federate with the Open developer community to publish their public APIs to an established group of App developers.

Semantics Management - Efficiently Manage Data Lifecycle

In any industry where data is a major component for regulatory approval or compliance (e.g., Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical), regulators need to efficiently review and process this data while reducing the financial burden and effort of compliance to industry, in turn reducing the cost and risk to consumers.

To achieve these goals, many regulators have established data standards. However, as regulation and the number of standards increase, so does the time and effort it takes to develop, manage, and distribute these standards in a way that truly results in the benefits intended.

Not only do issues exist for standards development organizations (SDOs), but implementation of these standards are often very burdensome and expensive for industry due to their impact on business processes. As a result, organizations typically perform duplicate work to convert data to standardized formats after the fact for regulatory purposes to avoid such disruption to their business operations. This inefficient approach results in longer cycle times, higher costs, and lower quality data; the opposite of what was intended.

Solution - Semantics Management

Data standards alone are not enough to overcome these issues. Only through Semantic Interoperability (SI) can regulatory agencies and industry achieve benefits from these standards. Semantic Interoperability is the ability of computer systems to exchange data with an understood or common meaning of the data without human intervention or interpretation. By binding systems to robust common domain terminology produced and disseminated by SDOs (i.e., Semantics Management), industry can more efficiently implement end-to-end data lifecycle processes.

Some of the key benefits of semantics management include:

Regulatory compliance regarding the use of data standards
Decreased time to market, cost, and resources as a result of improved business processes
Improved data quality
Maximum reuse of existing metadata and data assets
Significantly reduced need for human intervention with data exchange
Knowing exactly where and how content is being used, and
Understanding how changes to content affect other people, processes, and systems

SOA Software�s Semantics Manager™ is built upon an industry-leading repository and governance platform. It enables SDOs to develop, obtain and incorporate reviewer input, manage, and distribute standards more efficiently. It also helps industry to implement standards faster and more effectively while automating and improving business processes. Semantics Manager is like a virtual hub for data within your enterprise. It helps users to define, find, understand, use, and exchange data.

SOA Software Announces 52% Revenue Growth

New Enterprise API Management Products, Partnerships and International Expansion Fuel Growth

LOS ANGELES � February 4, 2013 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced a 52% increase in its 2012 revenues versus the prior year. With expansion into new international markets, the development of an enterprise API management solution, and deeper engagement with developers and strategic partners, the company realized a very successful year.

�This past year was one of incredible growth for us, in several ways,� said Paul Gigg, President and CEO of SOA Software. �We expanded into Europe, the Middle East and Africa, delivered the industry�s most reliable and usable enterprise API management product, and continued to serve customers with our leading API and SOA platform solutions. We are uniquely well-positioned to continue to deliver on the incredible demand for merged SOA and API solutions, that are highly functional, easy to use and enterprise ready.�

SOA Software�s impressive growth in 2012 reflects an increasing demand by enterprises to use Web services to connect with customers, recognize productivity gains and increase cost efficiencies. As the idea of the API Economy continues to be embraced in the market, SOA Software developed solutions that provide organizations with effective ways to plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs across their own and partners� systems. The company announced earlier in the year that more than 50 billion transactions were enabled by SOA Software solutions in 2012. �Clearly, the API Economy is the environment in which smart organizations are working,� said Gigg. �We�ve been the prime enabler of this new way of conducting business.�

Among the areas in which the company saw massive growth and change were the following:

Customers
As part of the outstanding year, SOA Software established relationships and deepened ties with many Fortune 1000 companies. The company now names among its customers, the following organizations:

3 of the 5 largest global pharmaceutical companies
1 of the 2 largest international BioPharma companies
2 of the 5 largest global insurance companies
The top retail drug/pharmaceutical company in the world
The world�s largest shipping company
The top 2 banks in the United States
The top title insurance company in the United States
3 of the top 5 airline companies in the United States
1 of the top 2 United States railroads
The largest private pension plan in the United States

Product Innovation
As has been standard for the company, SOA Software stayed on top of customer demand and delivered new and innovative products in 2012. In November, the company launched two important solutions to help enterprises deliver API solutions. The Enterprise API Platform addresses enterprise requirements across the entire API lifecycle and helps organizations reach new channels and gain a significant business advantage. Also delivered by the company was SOA Software Open, the industry�s most scalable and capable API developer platform. This free developer community offers users a real-world, viable solution for their API Management needs without the kind of unrealistic functional and capacity limits imposed by other solutions.

Partnerships
The company received Microsoft Gold ISV certification and launched a new product specifically designed for Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). SOA Software�s long-standing relationship with IBM was solidified with the release of Policy Manager for DataPower. The new �ready-to-use� SOA governance solution builds on the company�s extensive experience integrating SOA run time components, reduction of administrative overhead, and ensures consistent policy and service definition. The company also continued their Advanced Partner status with strategic partner RedHat and also established a new partner relationship with VMware .

Awards
SOA Software was recognized in 2012 for product and corporate leadership. The company was recognized as a �Leader� in two Forrester Research Waves �reports on Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. SOA Software was named as a key vendor dominating the Global SOA Governance market 2011-2014 and was honored as one of the most innovative companies of 2012. As a result of positive reviews of their SOA Software Enterprise API Platform, SOA Software received Gold status by Golden Bridge Awards for API Management. The USCA awarded the company the top recognition in the Unified SOA Governance and API Management category. At the executive level, Executive Vice President and General Manager Roberto Medrano was honored by the Hispanic IT Executive Council as one of the Top 100 Influential people in Information Technology.

Leadership
SOA Software wrote and published the eBook, Building Successful APIs, based on its experience working with global corporations that are facing a transformation of IT requirements due to rapidly evolving business alliances and mobile device proliferation. SOA Software published several articles about APIs in prestigious publications including Forbes, Cloud Computing, and others (these included, Welcome to the API Economy and SOA and the Cloud: Why your Cloud Applications need SOA .The SOA Software blog became an industry-leading resource for information about APIs and SOA Governance with the publication, in 2012, of 36 blogs. SOA Software CTO Alistair Farquharson and SOA Software executives were keynote presenters at a variety of leading industry conferences. SOA Software is the first to converge API and SOA with Application Services Governance. Application Services Governance leverage SOA as the foundation for APIs to build better business applications.

International and US Expansion
Adding to SOA Software�s improved bottom line was a major expansion into new markets. In addition to an established presence in the UK and Africa, the company opened new offices and added new sales, marketing and development teams in a variety of global locations. In Australia and New Zealand, a new team is addressing the needs of large banking, telecommunications and government customers. SOA Software improved its footprint in EMEA with a new base of European operations in France. With inroads in so many parts of the globe, SOA Software is well prepared to continue growth in the coming years.

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SOA Software Adds France to Global Footprint

Strong API Management Demand Drives Move to Serve French Market

LOS ANGELES � December 11, 2012 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced that it has expanded its operations to include a robust presence in France. Strong customer relationships and high demand in France for the company�s much-praised Enterprise API Management platform are driving the strategic move. SOA Software recruited two executives with extensive experience in engineering and business development to lead the expansion.

�We have been active with major clients in France for several years, but increasing traction in the market, particularly for API management, led us to expand our French presence significantly,� said Paul Gigg, CEO SOA Software. �France is home to 39 of the world�s largest companies, ranking 4th in the Fortune Global 500. French commerce spans the world, so their interest in APIs and SOA to connect diverse systems across the globe is strong.�

To realize SOA Software�s market strategy in France, the company has hired Emmanuel Dubois as Country Manager and Olivier Laplace as Technical Director. Mr. Dubois has more than 15 years of experience in enterprise IT sales and business development, including stints at BEA Systems, and Oracle. Mr. Laplace, with a 20 year background in international enterprise technology, is recognized as a leader and trusted adviser in Service-Oriented approaches to application infrastructure. His experience includes development and implementation responsibility for middleware and SOA projects at IBM and Oracle.

Enabling the API Economy
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more demanding and subtle B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.

SOA Software�s Roberto Medrano Named Top 100 Influential in Information Technology

Recognized for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement in IT by the HITEC 100 Awards

Los Angeles, CA � December 6, 2012 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions today announced that Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President, SOA Software, was named to the HITEC 100 by the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC), an award that recognizes the 100 top Hispanic professionals in Information Technology. Candidates were rigorously evaluated on the basis of their achievements, responsibilities, positions and contribution to the IT industry.

�It is a great privilege to receive this honor along with so many other outstanding IT executives,� said Medrano. �It�s been an amazing journey for me and all of the other award recipients.�

Since 2008, the HITEC 100 has been the definitive list of the top 100 most influential and notable professionals in the information technology industry. Medrano received the award at the HITEC 100 Gala at the Valencia Hotel Santana Row in San Jose, CA. The event included keynotes John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, Rebecca Jacoby, CIO of CISCO Systems and Myrna Soto, CIISO Comcast and many more.

Mr. Medrano has helped SOA Software achieve category leader in SOA Governance and API Management. Previously Mr. Medrano was CEO of PoliVec, a security policy vendor. He was General Manager of software divisions for HP. Mr. Medrano has held executive positions at Finjan, Avnet Inc, and Sun Microsystems. Mr. Medrano participated in President Clinton�s White House Security Summit and was an active member on National Cyber Security Summits, and the White House National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. In addition to Mr. Medrano�s extensive experience as a business executive, he holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MIT), a Master in Business Administration (UCLA), and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (University of Southern California).

About HITEC
HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council) was founded by senior Hispanic IT executives who have built outstanding careers in information technology with a strong desire and passion to make an impact within the Hispanic IT community by helping others reach the highest levels. These national leaders include executives leading Fortune 500 corporations on both U.S. and global initiatives while others lead some of the largest Hispanic owned IT firms in the United States.

About SOA Software

SOA Software is a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA governance products that enable customers to plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance , SOA Management, and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software Publishes eBook on Enterprise API Best Practices

Offers a Proven Approach to Building Successful Enterprise APIs

Los Angeles � November 27, 2012 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced the publication of the eBook, Building Successful APIs. The eBook, which is available for immediate free download, provides a thorough look at what it takes to succeed with APIs in a large enterprise. SOA Software wrote and published the eBook based on its experience working with global corporations that are facing a transformation of IT requirements from rapidly evolving business alliances and mobile device proliferation.

According to Paolo Malinverno, Gartner Research VP, �The use of Web APIs is increasing even more, generally supporting new sales channels through mobile applications. This has made API management more popular as a new way of informing and selling to end customers. In particular, Type A organizations keen on exploring new ways to connect with their customers increasingly equate a Web channel to a new business opportunity; for them, having good API management is initially just a way of opening a new opportunity, and evolves into an advanced way of collecting customer behavior data.� [ι]

The need to create new revenue streams and integrate with an ever-shifting set of partners and applications, especially in this mobile era, puts pressure on IT to create and manage APIs. Daniel Sholler, Gartner Research VP, puts the challenge in perspective: �RESTful APIs help organizations integrate with partners and suppliers, lower costs, speed execution and reach new markets. Architects and application managers must follow good designs and best practices to create effective APIs,� he said. [ii]

�The eBook addresses an information gap in how to build successful APIs,� said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President, SOA Software. �While there are some resources for people developing consumer-facing APIs, enterprises require a different approach and more information to produce APIs. This book gives them much-needed information about building APIs in the enterprise context.�

The eBook shares proven best practices that enable businesses to realize success from APIs and ensure appropriate security and system management or running up unsustainable costs. Taking a holistic, integrated approach, it blends technology and business-level issues that affect API development.

The eBook covers the following conceptual topics:

Creating awareness of the challenges and opportunities inherent in APIs.
Determining the business requirements that drive API development.
Understanding what the API does.
Creating an infrastructure and platform to host APIs.
Describing changes needed by IT and business to successfully launch and operate an API.
Supporting a development community for the API.

The eBook can be downloaded at http://www.soa.com/api-ebook.

Enabling the API Economy
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more exclusive group to enable more demanding and subtle B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.

About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA governance products that enable customers to plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance , SOA Management, and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

[ι] Gartner, Hype Cycle for Application Development, 2012, Application Service Governance, Paolo Malinverno
[ii] Gartner, Best Practices for RESTful APIs, March 27 2012, Daniel Sholler

Most Innovative Companies of 2012

Press Release

SOA Software Honored as One of the Most Innovative Companies of 2012

Los Angeles, CA � Nov 19, 2012 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions has been honored as one of the most innovative companies of 2012. SOA Software was recognized for innovation for its Enterprise API Platform, the highest performing, most comprehensive solution for managing application programming interfaces (APIs). SOA Software was named a Silver winner in the Most Innovative Company of the Year in Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts.

Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more exclusive group to enable more demanding and subtle B2B or B2E (employee) applications.

�Our engineering organization has been very innovative,� said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President SOA Software. �This award is a welcome validation of that ethos.�

More than 400 entries were received in this year�s awards program, from a wide array of public and private companies of all sizes and from a variety of industries and regions in the U.S. and Canada. Best in Biz Awards 2012 honors were presented in more than 50 categories, including Company of the Year, Most Innovative Company of the Year, Executive of the Year and Best New Product of the Year.

Winners of Best in Biz Awards 2012 were determined by an independent panel of 32 judges from top-tier news, business and technology publications, as well as broadcast outlets and analyst firms, such as ABC, Businessweek, Computerworld, ECT News Network, Entrepreneur, eWeek, Examiner, Financial Times, Forbes, FOX News, Hartford Business Journal, IDG Ventures, IEEE Institute, Inc., Insight Media, King Features Syndicate, Lab Reviews, Network World, The News and Observer, PC Magazine, ReadWriteWeb, South Florida Business Journal, Tech-Gaming, Techtalk, Upstart Business Journal, USA Today and ZDNet.

About Best in Biz Awards

Best in Biz Awards recognizes top companies, teams, executives and products for their business success as judged by independent panels of members of the press and industry analysts. Best in Biz Awards honors are conferred in three separate programs during the calendar year: U.S. and Canada, EMEA, and International. Any organization from any industry boasting demonstrated success in the awards program�s region can enter any of the more than 50 company, department or team, executive and product categories. For more information please visit: http://www.bestinbizawards.com.

About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA governance products that enable customers to plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance , SOA Management, and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software Launches Open, Free API Management and Developer Platform

SOA Software Launches Open, Free API Management and Developer Platform

SOA Software Launches Free API Management and Developer Community Platform

New platform brings App developers and API providers together to build dynamic, engaging Apps with scalable APIs

Santa Clara, CA [Cloud Expo]. � Nov 6th, 2012� SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions today announced the launch of SOA Software OpenTM, the industry�s most scalable and capable API developer platform. SOA Software Open offers users a real-world, viable solution for their API Management needs without the kind of unrealistic functional and capacity limits imposed by other solutions.

The new SOA Software Open� platform brings API providers and App developers together, offering easy access to powerful API Management capabilities combined with a social community in which developers collaborate to build dynamic, engaging apps with scalable APIs. The free SOA Software Open service allows users to manage up to 10 million API transactions per month, far higher than other solutions, and offers a powerful developer community platform unlike anything else in the industry. Developers can easily upgrade to SOA Software�s Enterprise API Platform either on-premise or as-a-Service if they want additional capacity, their own brand for their APIs, or a guaranteed SLA. SOA Software Open will be on display in SOA Booth #614 at the Cloud EXPO conference in Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8.

�SOA Software Open combines API Management with an innovative social developer community platform,� said Kin Lane, API Evangelist. �This unique solution gives customers the opportunity to secure and manage their APIs and then promote them across new or existing groups of developers.�

SOA Software Open allows developers to connect with published APIs, and add their own APIs for their own and other�s use. It is a public, free-of-charge playground where developers can come together to create innovative Apps around open and private APIs, and publish APIs for developers to find and use in their Apps. Customers of SOA Software�s Enterprise API Platform can federate with SOA Software Open to publish their public APIs to the community at large. �Our combination of powerful API management capabilities with a social community makes it easier than ever for developers to collaborate in building Apps and APIs,� said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. �Open provides a free-of-charge platform for managing API performance, security, and the connections between Apps and APIs, while socially engaging with App and API developers.�

SOA Software Open provides App developers with:

Community � Where you can collaborate with other developers to build Apps, ask questions, search existing discussions and tickets, follow users, APIs, Apps or Groups, build your own groups, or just quietly lurk.
Documentation � Use the products dynamic documentation framework to create interactive documents for your API, or create and upload your own documents.
Monitoring - See how your API or App is performing and where your traffic is coming from with our real-time dashboard, historic charts, and reports.
Debugging - Identify and track issues so you can fix problems before they impact your customers.
Test Client - Send test messages to see how the security (including OAuth) works, and what the request and response messages should look like. API Developers can:
Publish and promote their APIs through the SOA Software Open community for other developers to use.
Enable Search by indexing their API content (name, description, docs, discussions and tickets) so that App developers can easily find the API, together with supporting information to help them use it.
Add OAuth (or other security features and mechanisms) to their APIs.
Proxy their APIs to add security, monitoring, provisioning, QoS management and more. Or simply use Open to provide the social and search features they need.

Pricing and Availability
SOA Software Open� is ready for sign-up and use at http://open.soa.com. The platform is free for up to 10 million transactions per month. For more throughput, branding or an enterprise-class SLA, you can upgrade to SOA�s Enterprise API Platform-as-a-Service. For more details, please see http://www.soa.com/products/api-platform-as-a-service.

SOA Software Launches Industry�s First Enterprise API Platform

Platform transforms business potential with API Management and Developer Community Management via on-premise, Enterprise and Open PaaS, and hybrid deployments

Santa Clara, CA [Cloud Expo]. � Nov 5th, 2012 � SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions today announced the launch of the first Enterprise API PlatformTM, to help enterprises reach new channels and gain business advantage, throughout all stages of the API lifecycle. The SOA Software Enterprise API Platform is the first solution to address enterprise requirements across the entire API lifecycle, with planning, development, runtime and community management capabilities. With this solution enterprises can finally take advantage of the opportunities APIs present while protecting their security and brand integrity.

SOA Software�s Enterprise API Platform is the first platform to address the API needs of large enterprises:

It offers support for the full API lifecycle from planning and development through operations and community management
It is enterprise-class � SOA Software has been delivering software and services solutions to large enterprise IT for years and our products meet enterprise requirements, including security, integration with existing infrastructure, performance and reliability, and much more
It creates a Social Developer Community � other solutions offer API or Developer portals, but they don�t provide the social aspects to drive the network effect for API and App promotion across all developers in a community
It enables federation between enterprise and Open communities allowing enterprise customers to promote their APIs through an open API marketplace
It offers multiple deployment options � the platform is available as on-premise software, managed hosted software, Open (free) PaaS, Enterprise PaaS and a hybrid of these choices

Other solutions only address a small sub-section of the overall requirements; focusing solely on API monitoring, or API security with no developer community capabilities; or offering only cloud or on-premise deployment options but not both. None of the other vendors in the market offer an adequate solution for managing the lifecycle of APIs, this is critical for any serious API initiative, especially for large enterprises with brands to protect. Furthermore, other solutions typically ignore existing investments in SOA platforms and SOA Governance despite the fact that most enterprise APIs will be built on top of existing SOA services. The Enterprise API Platform provides a comprehensive solution addressing all of these requirements and offering optional seamless integration with existing SOA Governance infrastructure and services to ensure end-to-end security, monitoring, management and impact analysis.

SOA Software�s Enterprise API Platform is designed to allow organizations to meet strong privacy policies and comply with SEC requirements, the Frank Dodd Act, the Information Protection Act, the Safeguards Rule and other regulatory requirements commonly used to protect information. It offers integration with enterprise identity and security infrastructure, enabling API security models including OpenId and OAuth. This ensures that App developers and end users remain subject to existing security and privacy policies and requirements.

�The SOA Software Enterprise API Platform�s powerful combination of API Management and an innovative social Developer Community will drive developer adoption and open new business channels,� said Kin Lane, API Evangelist. �This unique solution enables customers to manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs and promote them across new or existing groups of developers.�

The Enterprise API Platform� is available as an on-premise software solution, as-a-service, via an Open developer community as-a-service, or using a combination of any of these options. For example, a customer could choose to run the lifecycle management components of the solution as on-premises software, use the commercial PaaS offering to host and manage their APIs, and federate with the Open developer community to publish their public APIs to an established group of App developers. The deployment options are:

On-premise software � Deploy all or part of the Enterprise API Platform in your own datacenters. The platform includes SOA Software�s industry-leading Community Manager, Portfolio Manager, Lifecycle Manager, Policy Manager, and Service Manager.
Managed hosting � SOA Software will host your software solution in a private managed datacenter allowing you to take advantage of rapid start up and ease of maintenance while maintaining control of your solution and protecting your security and brand integrity.
Enterprise API Platform-as-a-Service � Take advantage of the industry�s most robust API and Developer Community Management capabilities offered as a service running across a global network of enterprise-class datacenters.
Open API Developer Platform � Publish your own APIs or connect with existing APIs through the free, public Open community.

The Enterprise API Platform� provides a rich set of API Management capabilities to ensure the security, performance and availability of APIs, together with a social developer community solution for promoting and supporting the APIs and driving developer adoption. It provides end-to-end management of the API lifecycle, helping you make sure that you build the right APIs, build them the right way, and make sure that they are behaving correctly.

�Our Enterprise API Platform offers customers for the first time a game changing technology solution that will help drive the adoption of their APIs in highly competitive markets,� said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. �We see the creation and nurturing of robust developer communities as critical to API success�

The new SOA Software�s Enterprise API Platform� includes SOA Software�s industry-leading Community Manager, Portfolio Manager, Lifecycle Manager, Policy Manager, and Service Manager products. Key features include:

Developer Community - Take advantage of the viral power of the web with a solution that provides a connecting point where you can manage, share and promote your APIs in a secure, scalable environment. You can manage your own developer community, or plug-in to communities that already exist.
API Lifecycle Management � Define your API strategy according to business goals, maximize benefits and minimize risk, and automate the heavy lifting to help you build and run your APIs.
API Publishing � Publish your API and define the API at whatever level of detail you choose, using privacy settings to determine whether or not you want the platform to index your API content (name, description, docs, discussions and tickets) so that developers can easily find it, or find supporting information to help them use it.
API Proxies - Proxy your API to add security, monitoring, provisioning, QoS management and more. Or simply use the Open developer community to provide the social and search features you need.
Documentation � Leverage a dynamic documentation framework to build interactive documents for your API, create and upload your own documents, or use a combination of the two.
API Security � Secure your APIs via a wide array of authentication schemes, standards, and token types, protecting sensitive data while allowing access to authorized Apps and users. This includes comprehensive support for OAuth and other security standards, with deep integration with existing enterprise security solutions.
Traffic Monitoring - See how your API or App is performing and where your traffic is coming from with our real-time dashboard, historic charts and reports.
QoS Management - Ensure quality-of-service for your APIs, managing quotas and service-levels for individual Apps.
App Management & Provisioning - Manage which applications can use your APIs, and how much traffic they can consume. This includes managing the App to API provisioning workflow, sandbox and production endpoint access, legal agreement acceptance and per App QoS policies.

Pricing and Availability
The SOA Software Enterprise API Platform is available now. It offers a comprehensive set of features, platform support, and deployment options. Pricing is based on throughput. Please contact SOA Software for details.

SOA Software CTO Stresses API Management in the Cloud

Alistair Farquharson Advocates API Management Best Practices at Cloud Expo Session

LOS ANGELES – NOVEMBER 1, 2012 – Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, will be delivering a presentation on Best Practices of API Management at the 11th Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Farquharson�s session will focus ways that IT departments can support business objectives through APIs that open access to core information systems to external developers.

Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) expose enterprise systems to developers, including distributed, unknown third parties that create apps such as those that work on mobile devices. The goal of enterprise API management is to enable the business to realize success from APIs without inadvertently creating security and system management problems or running up unsustainable costs.

Farquharson�s session, Best Practices of API Management, draws on his extensive experience at SOA Software working with large organizations to manage their APIs. The presentation will apply lessons learned from running an SOA, including:

How effective management of enterprise APIs actually begins at the design and build stages of the API life cycle:

Planning the API
Designing the API
Building the API
Sharing the API

How to focus on key areas of concern for APIs:

Security
Policy definition and enforcement
Quality of Service (QoS)
Monitoring

Enabling the API Economy
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more demanding and subtle B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.

SOA Software Speakers Sessions at Cloud Expo

Alistair Farquharson, CTO
Monday, November 5 - Best Practices of API Management
4:25PM - Tech Session/M2 in Mission City Ballroom
6:00PM - Vendor Presentation/Ballroom A-H - General Session Room

Wednesday, November 7 - What is the Cloud Computing Technical State of the Union?
6:50PM - CTO Power Panel | Ballroom A-H - General session room

Ian Goldsmith, VP, Product Management
Tuesday, November 6 - Socially Connecting App Developers with APIs
11:50PM � Cloud Expo Demo Theater

Tuesday, November 6 - How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?-
2:10PM - Track 8 - Winchester/Stevens Creek Room

Cloud Expo Cloud Computing in Silicon Valley at 11th Cloud Expo – being held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA governance products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. Some of the world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance, SOA Management, and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software CTO Keynote Contrasts Enterprise and Consumer APIs

Alistair Farquharson to Discuss Design and Management Differences in Enterprise APIs

LOS ANGELES – October 29, 2012 – Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, a leading provider of API management, and SOA governance products, will be delivering the keynote address at the API Strategy & Practice Conference this week in New York. The keynote is titled How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ from Facebook, Twitter and Netflix? The two-day conference brings together top industry thought leaders and practitioners in the burgeoning field of application programmer interfaces (APIs).

The API Strategy & Practice Conference aims to provide smart insights from many of the world�s leading API and technology providers. The event is held in New York on November 1^st and 2^nd. The conference is intended to be a one-stop event to help technologists bootstrap their API strategies as well as a place to find many interesting APIs to use. Speakers include API luminaries from Stripe, Spotify, NPR ~~and~~Tumblr, Apiary.io, Temboo and Tiggzi.

Alistair Farquharson Speaker Sessions

Thursday, November 1, 5:20–5:50 PM
API Infrastructure Providers : Designing your Enterprise API Platform
Friday, November 2, 10:30-10:50 AM
Keynote: How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?

About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA governance products that help our customers plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

Open API Developer Platform - Accelerate Development

Build dynamic engaging Apps with scalable APIs. Plan, build, and run more, openly or privately.

SOA Software Open™ is an API Developer Platform that brings API providers and App developers together. Open provides easy access to powerful API Management capabilities combined with a social community allowing developers to collaborate to build innovative Apps with scalable APIs.

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Connect with APIs

Experiment with and use the APIs published in the Open Platform.

SOA Software Open™ is an open, free-of-charge playground where developers can come together to create innovative Apps around open and private APIs. Open provides:

Community - You can collaborate with other developers to build your Apps. Ask questions, search existing discussions and tickets, follow users, APIs, Apps or Groups, build your own groups, or just quietly lurk. Learn more »

Documentation - Let Open’s dynamic documentation framework create interactive documents for your API, create and upload your own documents, or use a combination of the two.

Monitoring - See how your API or App is performing and where your traffic is coming from with our real-time dashboard, historic charts and reports.

Debugging - Identify and track issues so you can fix problems before your customers notice them.

Test Client - Send test messages so you can see how the security (including OAuth) works, and what the request and response messages should look like.

Publish your API

Publish your API into the SOA Software Open™ community.

Open lets you publish your API so that other developers can find it and use it in their Apps. It offers:

Search - Open will index your API content (name, description, docs, discussions and tickets) so that developers can easily find it, or find supporting information to help them use it.

OAuth - Use Open to add OAuth (or other security features and mechanisms) to your API.

Define a proxy - Proxy your API through Open to add security, monitoring, provisioning, QoS management and more. Or simply use Open to provide the social and search features you need.

Cloud to On-premise Federation
Integrate Open with your on-premise Enterprise API Platform

SOA Software Open™ provides a cloud-based Developer Community. You can federate your on-premise Enterprise API Platform with Open to publish your APIs into the community.

For details about our Open and Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service options please click here.

SOA Software Open™ API Developer Platform

SOA Software Open is built using our award-winning Enterprise API Platform product family. The Enterprise API Platform products integrate seamlessly with our SOA Governance products across all stages of the enterprise lifecycle. SOA Software Open uses:

Community Manager™ - a sophisticated developer community product to help enterprises attract, manage, and support the developers that build Apps using their APIs

Policy Manager™ - provides the services and APIs that support the rest of the product family.

API Manager™ - an API proxy server providing security, monitoring, mediation and other run-time capabilities

PaaS Deployment Options - Learn more about the Open and Enterprise platforms »

Company Overview

SOA Software is a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA governance products that help our customers plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses.

The revolution of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been with us for a decade, and is now evolving to encompass API Management in a market Gartner is calling Application Services Governance. More than ever, businesses and government agencies are using services and APIs to build applications that leverage internal and cloud systems, across their own and their partners’ systems. As SOA and APIs proliferate, however, the requirement for strong SOA governance and API management solutions becomes all the more urgent. We address these critical market needs, enabling organizations to be successful in planning, building, running and sharing Web services and APIs internally and externally. The market for such application services governance software has been estimated to be in excess of $4 billion.

Products

Customers use SOA Software products to accelerate their adoption of SOA and APIs, and the resulting productivity gains and cost efficiencies. SOA Software provides industry leading products for Enterprise API Management, Integrated SOA Governance, API Platform-as-a-Service, and Mainframe SOA. These products combine to offer a comprehensive Application Services Governance solution. The company provides the industry�s fastest and most scalable solution for platform-independent SOA governance and API management, the critical elements that enable large customers to connect and control applications from multiple vendors and partners.

News Highlights
Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. SOA Software products have been certified to work with IBM WebSphere, IBM Rational and IBM Tivoli products, Microsoft, RedHat/JBoss, Oracle, Tibco and SAP SOA solutions. In 2011, the company received the Gold ISV partner designation from Microsoft, and Advanced Partner status from IBM and RedHat/JBoss. SOA Software has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, including SD Times, CODiE, Red Herring 100, InfoWorld, Hot Companies, Deloitte Fast 500, AlwaysOn Global 250, and Network Products. SOA Software has made a number of strategic acquisitions over the years, integrating Blue Titan, Flamenco Networks, and LogicLibrary. The latter facilitated the release of its Repository Manager and Portfolio Manager product families.

Location
SOA Software�s global headquarters are in Los Angeles, CA. SOA Software has US offices in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles reporting to US regional offices in NY, Chicago and Los Angeles. SOA Software has EMEA headquarters in London.

Experienced Team
The company’s management team comprises executives and managers drawn from Fortune 500 companies, many of whom are entrepreneurs who have had successful exits in the past.

Investors
SOA Software is a privately held company backed by leading investors including:

Redpoint Ventures
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Palisades Ventures
Paladin Capital Group
Navigation Capital Partners

Partners
SOA Software has built a highly successful domestic and international partnership program based on four broad categories: Platform, Technology, Consulting, and Resellers/Distributors. SOA Software Platform partners include:

Microsoft

SAP

IBM

JBoss

Oracle

Repository Manager renamed Lifecycle Manager

As of October 2012 - we have renamed Repository Manager to Lifecycle Manager to better reflect its role in Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance.

Lifecycle Manager™ enables enterprises to understand what services and other software assets exist, where they�re located and how each fits into a company�s business and technical landscape. By providing a context for understanding and assessing existing software assets, Lifecycle Manager serves to automate the path to SOA.

Lifecycle Manager™ is an industry-leading Development Governance platform that automates machine- and role-based signoffs across the software development lifecycle. Development Governance occurs as a service moves through the various phases of the software development lifecycle. Without development governance, SOA initiatives will fail to deliver agility to the enterprise - the core value of SOA. Enterprises must be able to track all of the components of SOA, changing them as needed while maintaining a clear understanding of underlying interdependencies. This holistic perspective can only be achieved through effective development governance.

Lifecycle Manager�s strong integration with leading application development environments, federation with all major service registries and extensive integration with Policy Manager™ enables customers to rapidly develop, govern and deploy services and their supporting assets within the SOA service lifecycle. Lifecycle Manager is used by Fortune 500 customers to drive application agility and reduce cost and risk in their SOA deployment.

Experience has demonstrated that it is 30 times less expensive to make a modification or enhancement during a software asset�s development versus when that asset is deployed. The loosely-coupled nature of SOA in particular demands effective development governance, and the most effective way to discover, access and govern services and other software assets is with SOA Software�s Lifecycle Manager.

Lifecycle Manager�s service development governance platform addresses core issues for any SOA project or reuse initiative:
What legacy assets are needed to facilitate a transformation to SOA?

How do I leverage my open source, IBM and Microsoft based application development tools as we create, use and manage our services?

Is there an easy and effective way to manage and govern the multiple repositories that exist in my enterprise?

Lifecycle Manager Capabilities:

Development Governance
Lifecycle Manager enables enterprises to manage their heterogeneous asset types from a single source. These assets can include services, components (.NET, J2EE, CORBA), legacy systems, and/or knowledge assets, such as patterns and best practices, used by development teams.
With Smart Controls™,organizations can easily control the service production and consumption process from requirement definition to development.Service consumption processes can be defined to control access to sensitive artifacts until approval is granted, minimizing developer access to rogue, and untraceable services.

With Asset Relationship Visualization™,users can quickly and easily understand asset to asset relationships via graphical representation. Viewing such relationships in an impact analysis process helps users understand how Enterprise Architecture architecture relates to IT development projects.

Lifecycle Managereffortlessly shows graphical models representing business and other relevant domains. Model sourcesinclude Visio and UML diagrams, HTML-based graphics and models generated from Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) - based content.

Lifecycle Manager�s Eclipse-based Configuration Manager allows users to drag and drop development governance rules to meet the needs of their project or line of business. Administrators can easily specify governance policies ranging from a simple, single sign-off approval policy to one that has multiple levels of sign-off andautomated validation points.

Strong Federation with Leading Service Registries
Support for native federated repositories allows organizations to share assets around the world, while tightly controlling how services are created, viewed and consumed.

Lifecycle Manager�s federations with leading service registries, including HP SOA Systinet, IBM WSRR and TIBCO ActiveMatrix, automatically synchronize service definitions, metadata and governance states both to and from the run-time environment. This is unique in the market and provides the customer granular control of their various registries from a single point of control, adding consistency and automation to their development governance.

With Lifecycle Manager�s Asset Import Center,users can scan UDDI V2+, HP Systinet, IBM WSRR and TIBCO ActiveMatrix based registries for commonly used services, easily extracting them into a governed service lifecycle process. Once in Lifecycle Manager, these services can be governed based on user requirements for enterprise service deployments; reducing the risk of application failure, security exposure or other application stability issues caused by ungoverned or rogue services.

Deploy and Manage Assets and Services Effectively
Lifecycle Manager can automatically invoke compliance policy validations implemented in Policy Manager. The combination of Lifecycle Manager and Policy Manager allows users to replace what was previously a time-consuming ad-hoc exercise with a scalable, automated governance process.

From Lifecycle Manager, users can launch software artifacts such as executable modules, WSDL files, models and documentation, into the appropriate development tool. Lifecycle Manager�sAnySource Artifact Adapter hides tedious access methods from users, improving the ease of use for artifacts stored in other systems of record.

Discover Assets and Services Collaboratively
Lifecycle Manager�s discovery engine offers capabilities ranging from simple keyword searches to sophisticated, model-based searches.

Active Design™ allows business analysts to create a persistent search specification from a business process model. Developers can then add technical criteria to this specification. This ability to easily define joint requirements also ensures that created applications meet business needs.

Register to download the SOA Software Lifecycle Manager Data Sheet, the SOA Development Governance White Paper and other resources.

Golden Bridge Awards in the Application Development Innovation category

Press Release

API Platform-as-a-service

To pay, or not to pay...

We offer Open (free) and Enterprise (commercial) versions of our API Platform-as-a-Service product. The table below shows you how these versions compare.

Open Enterprise

Pricing Free Priced on throughput
contact us for details

Deployment models Cloud Cloud, on-premises, hybrid,
hosted, federated

Migration services To Enterprise From Open
Between deployment options

API requests limit 10,000,000 API
requests/month Unlimited

Gateway services Massive range of pre-defined policies
Security and Message Mediation for REST and SOAP
QoS Management
Cryptographic Security Massive range of pre-defined policies
Custom policies Security and Message Mediation for REST and SOAP
QoS Management
Cryptographic Security

Analytics services Live dashboard 1 year of historical reports 1 week of message archives Live dashboard
Unlimited historical reports and message archives

Developer channel services Shared Social Developer
Community Unlimited Developers
Unlimited App Keys
Partner and maintenance notifications Shared and/or branded
Developer Communities
Developer Community Federation
Unlimited Developers
Unlimited App Keys
Partner and maintenance notifications

Enterprise Infrastructure Integration None ID & Access Management
IT Monitoring
SOA Governance
IBM DataPower
Source Code Mgmt
Application Lifecycle Mgmt

Platform Support Comprehensive REST and
SOAP (WS-*) Comprehensive REST and SOAP (WS-*)
IBM WebSphere
IBM DataPower
Oracle
Tibco
SAP
Mainframe (CICS ∓ IMS)
Open Source
Microsoft

API and App Visibility Management API Privacy Settings
Developer Groups
Partner Management API Privacy Settings
Developer Groups
Partner Management

API & App Lifecycle Management API Versioning
App Versioning
Document Management API Versioning
App Versioning
Development workflow process management
Compliance policy validation
Asset management

API Security App key
OAuth proxy
OAuth consumer
OAuth provider
HTTP/HTTPS
PKI
Shared Secret
WS-Security
Encryption/Signature App key
OAuth proxy
OAuth consumer
OAuth provider
HTTP/HTTPS
PKI
Shared Secret
WS-Security
Encryption/Signature
Enterprise SSO
Kerberos

App services App lifecycle provisioning App lifecycle provisioning

Support Email and Live community Global, enterprise-class, 24x7 helpdesk, phone, email, online.

Availability 24x7 global operations US and European Datacenters Five 9's SLA US and European Datacenters

PCI compliance No Yes

API access to all
features and your data Yes Yes

Getting Started
Take a test drive

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Enterprise Repository

An enterprise repository is an important part of an Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution. It provides a central place for developers to store and find assets and artifacts offering broad integrations with development environments (IDEs and SCMs tools), federation with other registries and strong service, standards and taxonomy capabilities.

The enterprise repository should be the main driver of the development governance process.

SOA Software’s Lifecycle Manager™ is an industry-leading development governance platform that automates machine- and role-based signoffs across the software development lifecycle. It enables enterprises to understand what services and other software assets exist, where they�re located and how each fits into a company�s business and technical landscape. By providing a context for understanding and assessing existing software assets, Lifecycle Manager serves to automate the path to SOA.

SOA Software’s Policy Manager™ is a comprehensive SOA Policy Governance Automation solution offering unique governance processand collaboration capabilities to instill consistency and accountability and encourage desired behavior.

Register to download the SOA Software Repository Manager Data Sheet, the SOA Development Governance White Paper and other resources.

SOA Software Honored as Gold Winner for API Management

Recognized for Innovation in Application Development

LOS ANGELES, CA � October 4, 2012 - SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products, has earned the prestigious Gold status in the Golden Bridge Awards in the Application Development Innovation category for its Atmosphere API Management software. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, encompasses the world�s best in products and services, innovations, executives and management teams, case studies and successful deployments, product management, websites, blogs, white-papers, videos, partner programs, and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Winners were honored in San Francisco on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 during the 4th annual awards dinner and presentations.
“It�s an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge Awards and receive recognition from the industry and so many esteemed peers,” said Robert Medrano, EVP SOA Software. “These awards attest to our commitment to staying ahead of the curve in the enterprise software field � in this case leveraging our corporate DNA to extend our SOA governance platform into API management.”
Enabling the API Economy
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more sensitive B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.
SOA Software Atmosphere is the highest performing, most comprehensive API management solution on the market today.� Atmosphere provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures companies� APIs. Atmosphere ensures that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected.
About the Golden Bridge Awards
Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring best companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

Community Manager - API Developer Community Platform

Community Manager� is a sophisticated developer community product to help enterprises attract, manage, and support the developers that build Apps using their APIs.

Community Manager provides an extensive set of social capabilities to promote the creation of a community of developers either inside or outside the enterprise, or a combination of both. These developers collaborate to form an innovation engine to drive new channels and improve existing business processes. The network-effect of the social capabilities enable a community commons model for social contribution to the APIs themselves through support and documentation, and to the Apps the developer community creates.

Community Manager unites API providers and App developers through a single common community. It supports a range of different roles, enabling interactions between API developers, administrators, and operations along with App developers and project managers to promote idea sharing, advice and guidance, and technical support for APIs and Apps. Community Manager is designed from the ground using social principles to create an entirely new class of enterprise API management solution allowing API Providers to publish, document, promote and support their APIs, and Apps Developers to find, easily consume and get support for the APIs their Apps use.

Community Manager offers a sophisticated web-based UI that leverages the Community Platform API exposed by SOA Software’s Enterprise API Platform™. It delivers a powerful set of new capabilities to customers:

User Self-Service
Community Manager allows users to create their own accounts (subject to optional approvals) with appropriate email confirmation and password policies. User management capabilities include:

Single-sign-on with common social platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Google

Integration with enterprise IAM systems including Microsoft Active Directory, CA SiteMinder and Oracle Access Manager to facilitate enterprise account management

Avatar management with local avatar upload, and integration with Gravatar and the provided avatars from the social login providers

Social Interaction Model
Community Manager manages a range of different resource types including APIs, Apps, Users, and Groups. Each resource has its own Board providing a single location for finding information, alerts, discussions, trouble tickets and workflow requests about that resource. Users have their own Board, and also have a Dashboard that aggregates all of the activity on the Boards of any resources they are interested in into a single newsfeed. Users register their interest in a resource by choosing to follow it. This social interaction model enables:

Developer and User support - users can open tickets on a resource, e.g. to get help with an issue they are having with an API, and any other user who is following that resource can respond to the ticket. This can considerably reduce the support burden on API providers.

Idea sharing - any user can start or respond to a discussion about any resource, e.g. users can make suggestions for new features for an API, or provide ideas for new Apps

Staying informed - having chosen to register interest in a resource, e.g an API, the user will see an recent activity from that resource in their Dashboard

Workflow interactions - all workflow interactions, e.g. requests for an App to consume and API, or for a user to join a Group happen in the context of the Board and are reflected on the Dashboards of the relevant users. These interactions are subject to role-based privileges and will only be visible to resource administrators and the affected users.

User Dashboard and Notifications
As a key part of the social interaction model, each user has their own newsfeed in the form of their dashboard. They can also choose through their profile configuration to be notified for each type of dashboard activity, and can even choose how they want to be notified. Notifications will always appear in their personal navigation construct telling them how many notifications they have outstanding, with a hover behavior showing them the most recent.
Ratings and Reviews
Community Manager provides a social ratings and reviews system allowing users to rate or review resources. It presents the ratings summary as part of the search results and displays the ratings detail and list of reviews in the resource details. This helps users decide if they want to use a particular API or not, and can help API providers and App team leads figure out what they need to improve.
Support, Forums and Collaboration
Community Manager provides discussion forums in the form of the resource Boards. This means that every resource (API, App, Group, User etc) gets its own forum for discussions, tickets, alerts, and requests. Users can visit the Board on demand, or can choose to follow the resource in which case any activity on the Board will be presented in the user’s personal dashboard. The forums support:

Discussions - a way that users can ask questions, make comments, and interact with others. Other users and administrators can respond to discussions, providing an ideal means to establish dialog in the context of a resource.

Tickets - users can raise a trouble ticket on a resource allowing resource administrators and other users to respond to and resolve the ticket. The ticket is really a special form of discussion requiring the user to enter certain data, and providing a status for the ticket. Tickets can also be integrated with existing enterprise trouble ticket management systems.

Alerts - resource administrators can post an alert to inform anyone following their resource of an important event. Alerts could be used to announce a new version, a planned outage, or even to inform users of a current outage providing details of an expected resolution.

Requests - all workflow actions, e.g. Group membership requests, API Access requests, etc, take the form of request Board items. These are a special type of item that will appear on the Board of both the requesting resource (e.g an App) and the requested resource (e.g. a Group or an API). The request is visible only to the resource administrators involved in both ends of the request, and is used to track the status of the request over time.

Search and Search-engine Integration
Community Manager is a search driven system. Every aspect of every resource (name, description, documents, reviews, etc) and Board item (discussions, tickets, alerts) is continually indexed to create an incredibly easy to find anything you need. This helps in some really important ways:

Finding APIs - the simple search mechanism makes it incredibly easy to find the API you’re looking for. Just by entering “cooking” into the search window you’ll find any API or App with the word cooking in a tag, or any other text field (including in it’s documents).
You can narrow down your results by using the type filters once you have your initial results.

To make things even easier you can sort by popularity, most recent, and other sort algorithms.

The results present useful summary information including resource type, name, description and rating, and for APIs it will even tell you how many Apps are using this API.

Getting Help - because all the tickets and discussions are indexed, if you’re having trouble using an API (or any other resource), you can just search using a description of the issue you’re having, and can find out quickly if anyone has run into this before, and if so, how did they resolve it.

The Enterprise API Platform search index can also be easily externalized and published to a public or enterprise search engine like Google. This means that anything in your search index can easily be found using your user’s current search vehicles. This is critical for supporting the publication of your APIs, and facilitating their support.
Social Platform Integration
Community Manager provides a social platform for your APIs, and also supports integration with the most popular social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. This allows you to promote your APIs and Apps across your existing social networks, and drive the viral marketing of your resources.
Development Groups and Team Management
A really important aspect of the Enterprise API Platform is its ability to serve as a collaboration engine for Developers working together to build Apps and APIs. Contrary to market perception, most commercial (and certainly enterprise) App development is not undertaken by an individual developer working in their parent’s garage. Community Manager allows developer and development managers to create teams of peers who can collaborate on their API consumption aspects of their App. They can use private forums to share ideas and discuss issues, and can share the responsibilities of provisioning and managing their App’s API usage.
Developers can invite each other to participate in teams, and in using the system as a whole, driving viral growth through the social network effect.
Integrated App and API lifecycle management and provisioning
Community Manager is a dynamic environment, where the actions that are agreed as part of the workflow process have a real-world impact. Users can request access to an API on behalf of their App - accepting relevant legal agreements and selecting from pre-defined policies - initiating a workflow process with optional approval and activation steps from the administrators of the API and App. The default workflow provides for:

Automatic approval and activation of requests to a sandbox API endpoint

API administrator approval required for access to production endpoints

App administrator activation required for production access - this allows the App administrators to request access to multiple production APIs, but only switch over when they are ready for all changes to occur simultaneously.

API administrators can suspend and reactivate, or even cancel an Apps access to their API.

API and App administrators can use the workflow requests as discussion objects to engage in dialog about the way that Apps are consuming the APIs, e.g. to discuss abusive, or badly structured use of an API.

Private and Public API & App Management
There is almost a religious debate about the idea that all APIs have to be “Open APIs”, i.e. available to any developer to do whatever they like with. The market reality shows that there are far more high-value use-cases for Enterprise APIs, supporting B2B and B2E (Employee) use-cases. The main capability required to support Enterprise APIs is API privacy settings. Community Manager allows API Administrators to:

Set an API version as private - a private API version has a number of attributes:

It will be added to the search index with a limited scope, so that only invited users can find it

Only invited users will be authorized to view it, even if they are able to find its URL

Only authorized users will see Board items about the private version(s) in the API Board

Invite users to be part of the group(s) that can view and request access to the API version

Create multiple different groups, each of which can see their own posts and users, but who cannot see users or posts from other groups

All of the API privacy capabilities also apply to Apps, allowing users to create public Apps that they can promote and market, or private Apps to support beta or development uses, or for sensitive business applications.
API Documentation
Community Manager allows API administrators to upload and manage API documentation and table of contents. It keeps track of versions and allows for rollback if needed. The table of contents is displayed to users as part of the API navigation process along with other key information.
Downloads - Sample code, SDKs
Community Manager manages downloads, allowing administrators to add SDKs, and sample code to make life easier for App developers to consume their API. At the end of the day, the key to the success of any API will be to ensure that it delivers business value and is as easy to use as possible.

Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance

Enterprise API Management

Enterprise APIs make business applications available to drive growth and expose new opportunities.

Developer Community Management

API Security

Traffic Monitoring

QoS Management

App Management & Provisioning

API Lifecycle Management

On-premise or as-a-Service

Integrated SOA Governance

Comprehensive integrated SOA governance automation solutions.

Service Portfolio Planning

Enterprise Registry/Repository

Lifecycle Governance

Service Security & Management

Policy Management

Application Services Governance

SOA is the foundation for Enterprise APIs.

Open API Developer Platform

API Management as a cloud service.

Platform Governance

Best-in-class governance solutions for all SOA platforms.

Microsoft

SAP

IBM

IBM DataPower

JBoss

Oracle

Mainframe SOA

The industry’s only SOA Mainframe solution.

SOA Software Update - October 2012

SOA Software Update - October 2012

API Manager

API Manager provides a high performance API proxy server for managing API endpoints. It offers comprehensive standards-based security, routing, mediation, monitoring, and management for APIs.

API Manager is build using SOA Software’s industry-leading Service Manager Network Director, adding API specific capabilities for API security (OAuth etc), mediation (XML/JSON, media type conversions, SOAP/REST and more).

It uses the same normalized message router concept that powers Network Director, offer a true abstraction between APIs and the services that support them.

API Manager leverages the capabilities of SOA Software’s Policy Manager for centralized policy definition and management, security token and authorization management, monitoring data collection and processing, and run-time metadata management.

API Manager offers:

API Security

Security features include:

Authentication Policy Options - Choose from a wide array of authentication schemes, standards and token types to ensure that only valid users and applications get access to your APIs

Enterprise OAuth - Use your existing enterprise security systems to create an OAuth authorization server so your users can manage access rights for their own data

Advanced Cryptography - Ensure the privacy of customer data with sophisticated encryption and signature capabilities

Traffic Monitoring

Monitoring features include:

Monitoring - Get visibility into how your API or App is behaving understand how your customers are using it

Troubleshooting - Quickly identify and fix problems to keep your customers happy

QoS Management

QoS management features include:

Performance and Scale - use our proven enterprise platform to ensure that your API starts and remains blisteringly fast

Protect Internal Applications - Avoid overloading your internal applications while providing customers with guaranteed service-levels using our comprehensive QoS management for SLAs and quotas

App Management & Provisioning

Enforce consumer App contracts

Authorize Apps - Validate App credentials and verify that the App is authorized to access the API

Per App QoS policies - Enforce QoS policies for individual Apps

Mediation

Deliver the right API regardless of the service type you’re starting with

Media-type Conversions - Convert between XML and JSON Content

Transport mediation - Seamlessly bridge between HTTP, HTTPS and JMS transports

Message Exchange Pattern - Create RESTful APIs from SOAP services and vice-versa

Performance, Scalability & Availability

High-performance, limitless scale, highly available

Performance - API Manager is production-proven in the world’s most demanding environments, offering low-latency and high throughput

Availability - API Manager supports fully stateless clustered deployments with rolling update capabilities to allow for 5 nines plus environments

Scalability - API Manager’s clustered deployment model allows you to easily add more capacity to a cluster without requiring any downtime

Application Services Governance - APIs & SOA, Better Together

Leverage SOA as the foundation for Enterprise APIs. Build a better business.

According to Gartner API Management and SOA Governance are converging into a consolidated space called Application Services Governance.

Application Services Governance provides the tools to help you make sure that you deliver APIs and SOA together to drive your company to meet its business strategy more quickly, more completely, or more effectively.

To learn more about how APIs and SOA work together click here or check out our blog.
The diagram below shows how API Management relates to SOA Governance. As you can see SOA Governance includes lifecycle governance and run-time management, API Management adds community management and leverages a lot of the run-time capabilities and some of the lifecycle capabilities of SOA Governance.

We can’t take credit for this diagram, it is loosely based on work from Gartner. We have intentionally simplified the original concept, and as such take the blame for any inaccuracy or imprecision.

Agility

SOA Software’s Application Services Governance solution helps you better respond to the changing business environment, bringing new products to market faster, and allowing IT to better align with business requirements with:

End-to-end planning - Improve time to market by making sure that internal infrastructure and services are ready when your APIs need to use them.

Change management - Make sure that agility doesn’t come at the cost of stability by effectively managing change across SOA assets and services and APIs.

Cost Efficiency

Do more with less and build APIs and services more quickly and at much lower cost using Application Services Governance to:

Leverage Existing Enterprise Resources for APIs - Build your APIs using existing enterprise services and assets to bring APIs to market more quickly and cost effectively.

Integrated Lifecycle - Understand the interconnections between activities in your SOA and API programs.

Risk Management

Let SOA Software help you sleep better at night. Application Services Governance can help you manage the delicate balance between delivering valuable capabilities to the market and protecting sensitive data, and between preparing for success and collapsing under the weight of it.

End-to-end Security - Use the appropriate security models and standards for services and APIs even if they are different. Use the SOA Software product set to enable end-to-end security mediation and integration with enterprise security systems.

Capacity and Availability Management - Plan and manage throughput and availability to ensure that you deliver the performance and service levels your customers expect without risking internal system overload.

Stability & Availability

Keep the engine of business running smoothly. Use Application Service Governance to make sure that you understand the implications of any changes you plan, and to quickly identify the cause of operational problems.

Root cause Analysis - Track transactions from the API where they enter your business to the back end services and applications that process them so you can quickly find and fix problems.

Impact Analysis - Understand the relationships between your business systems and applications, SOA assets and services, APIs and your customers and partners. This way you will know the potential impact of any changes you plan to make before you make them.

Application Services Governance Products

Our product family is designed to accelerate enterprise API deployment on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid combination. The Enterprise API Platform products integrate seamlessly with our SOA Governance products across all stages of the enterprise lifecycle.

Community Manager™ - a sophisticated developer community product to help enterprises attract, manage, and support the developers that build Apps using their APIs

Portfolio Manager™ - provides planning capabilities to help ensure the alignment of APIs with strategic IT investments and business opportunities

Lifecycle Manager™ - provides API and App lifecycle management capabilities to help customers build APIs that meet current and future business requirements

Policy Manager™ - provides the services and APIs that support the rest of the product family. It is required by API Manager and Community Manager, and is a recommended option for Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager

Service Manager™ - a suite of SOA intermediaries providing security, monitoring, mediation and other runtime capabilities

API Manager™ - an API proxy server providing security, monitoring, mediation and other runtime capabilities

Enterprise API Platform-as-a-Service™ - Enterprise API Management as-a-Service - get all the benefits of the SOA Software Enterprise API Platform delivered as a cloud service.

Before There Was Cloud Computing, There Was SOA

Before There Was Cloud Computing, There Was SOA

SOA Software Reveals API Strategies at Service Technology Symposium

Scobie and Canton to Present on Proven Approaches API Management

LONDON, UK � September 25, 2012 � Two executives from SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products, will be revealing new API management strategies at presentations today at the 5th International SOA, Cloud + Service Technology Symposium. Corey Scobie, VP of Technology for SOA Software, will be delivering a keynote address titled The API Economy is Here: Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and Your IT Enterprise. Maurizio Canton, SOA Software�s EMEA Technical Director, will participate in the Expert Panel on The Impact of the Cloud on IT and Business Employment.
“We feel honored to be selected to present at such a prestigious forum in our industry,” said Robert Medrano, EVP SOA Software. “The Cloud + Service Technology Symposium brings together some of the best minds in cloud computing and API development.”
The 2012 Symposium is being held at the Imperial College in London. The event explores an overarching theme, "Exploring Modern Service Technologies and Practices", that focuses on contemporary IT innovations and trends, as well as the emergence of proven and field-tested industry practices and patterns. The International Symposium conference series, governed by Arcitura Education, is based on a "substance only" philosophy, meaning that selected speaker submissions are judged primarily on their educational and informational value. Today�s event in London features 80 speaker sessions across 13 conference tracks.
Enabling the API Economy
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more sensitive B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.
SOA Software Atmosphere is the highest performing, most comprehensive API management solution on the market today. Atmosphere provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures companies� APIs. Atmosphere ensures that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected.
SOA Software at the Symposium
SOA Software is exhibiting at Booth C.
Speaker Sessions:

Fourth Opening Keynote

Speaker: Corey Scobie

The API Economy is Here: Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and Your IT Enterprise

September 25: 9:40 AM

Great Hall, Level 2, Sherfield Building

Expert Panel: The New World of Open APIs

Speaker: Corey Scobie

September 25: 19:00

Read Lecture Theatre, Level 5, Sherfield Building

Unified and Automated Service Governance

Maurizio Canton

September 25: 16:55� 17:35

Lecture Theatre 130, Level 1, Huxley Building

About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software Automates Security and Provisioning for IBM WebSphere DataPower

DataPower Customers benefit from centralized governance of business transactions

Los Angeles, CA. – September 24, 2012 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products, announced today that it is releasing a new version of its Policy Manager software with expanded security features for IBM WebSphere DataPower. The new product greatly simplifies Datapower administration by automating complex security and provisioning scenarios. This lowers the total cost of ownership, speeds up service deployment, and lowers risk.
Security contracts are a foundational requirement for any SOA infrastructure, as they help to ensure that the massive number of complex transactions between consumers and providers are managed effectively. Policy Manager allows non-technical users to manage the security and other aspects of these transactions through the automation of contract enforcement through SOA Software�s DataPower governance solutions.
Enterprises use DataPower to expose services that ultimately create new relationships with their customers and partners, and contracts govern these relationships. With SOA Software�s Policy Manager for DataPower, customers can now govern these relationships on the DataPower appliance in a secure, automated, cost effective, and efficient manner.
“Enterprises are using DataPower to expose services that create new relationships with their customers and partners.� said Alistair Farquharson, CTO SOA Software. �Without centralized contract-based management to govern these relationships, enterprises are left with error-prone, manual, and ultimately unmanageable methods for provisioning and enforcing these relationships on the DataPower platform.”
The SOA Software team undertook the enhancement of security features for DataPower working from the premise that an SOA is fundamentally contract based. With this release, users will be able to take advantage of workflow-driven contract definition and enforcement within an overall policy-driven approach to SOA security for DataPower. Policy Manager now also removes the need for security integration to be manually coded into the DataPower appliance, which reduces a major security risk in the process. Coding, specialized configuration for security, and lengthy implementation projects for securing Web services on DataPower are no longer needed. Other security upgrades to Policy Manager for DataPower include automated configuration of industry standard WS-Security Policy built in support for X509 authentication and augmentation of DataPower error processing to support SOA level fault processing.
Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere Data Power�s support for deploying standards-based WS-Security Policy from Policy Manager to the DataPower appliance is fully integrated with DataPower�s AAA policies and DataPower�s built in WS-Security Policy support to enable robust and comprehensive security use cases. With these features customers can easily implement highly secure DataPower service interactions across a wide number of services, consumers, and provider organizations.
SOA Software is a longtime IBM Partner offering specialized solutions for DataPower. Deep integration with IBM WebSphere DataPower appliances provides customers with the ability to control the DataPower Appliance directly from the Policy Manager console, without the need to duplicate configuration manually. This provides customers with a �one-click� management strategy leveraging DataPower as the runtime and the SOA Software�s Policy Manager as the source of service and policy information as well as the reporting console for the monitoring data. SOA Software�s Policy Manager is unique in its ability to manage the catalog of services, drive policy definition and distribution, and collect and display monitoring data for the DataPower devices, which provides end-to-end policy enforcement and transaction monitoring
Click Here for the IBM DataPower Datasheet. For more information about SOA Software integration with IBM Products, see www.soa.com/ibm
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

Forbes publishes “Welcome to the API Economy” from SOA Software

Forbes publishes “Welcome to the API Economy” from SOA Software

New podcast interview uploaded this week with Corey Scobie from SOA Software

New podcast interview uploaded this week with Corey Scobie from SOA Software

SOA and the Cloud: Why Your Cloud Applications Need SOA

SOA and the Cloud: Why Your Cloud Applications Need SOA

SOA Software Exceeds 50 Billion Business Transactions Per Year

Leveraging Enterprise Prowess and Scale for API Management

Los Angeles, CA. – August 28, 2012 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products, announced that its product solutions now handle more than 50,000,000,000 enterprise service transactions per year. Reaching this benchmark is reflective of the company�s scale of deployment in major production environments at global businesses.
�When you�re processing 50 billion business transactions a year, you know you are a core part of critical enterprise systems.� said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President, SOA Software. �Our clients are relying on us to manage the governance of systems running huge volumes of enterprise transactions every day, across four continents.�
SOA is now Business Computing
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is now the dominant mode of computing for most enterprises. A strong demand for governance, high availability and security has naturally followed the exceptional growth in SOA. SOA Software meets this need, with its products deployed at scale in mission-critical, production environments.
Enabling the API Economy
While SOA Software maintains a strong growth trajectory in enterprise SOA governance, the company is also pivoting on its experience and building its presence in the rapidly emerging API management sector. Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more sensitive B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.

The company now provides SOA Governance and API Management solutions for such customers as American Express, Allianz, Astra Zeneca, AXA Equitable, Bank of America, Coca Cola, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Credit Suisse, CVS, Delta, Disney, eBay, Ingram Micro, First Data Corp, Genzyme, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Liberty Mutual, Merrill Lynch, Multichoice, Pfizer, Skandia, TELUS, Thomson Reuters, Transurban, UBS, Verizon and many others.
�API management is an extension of SOA Governance,� said Alistair Farquharson, CTO SOA Software. �Our customers are embracing this new mode of working with their partners and demanding the kind of rock-solid, high-volume API Management solution that they�ve come to expect with any service-oriented system.�
SOA Software leverages its engineering prowess, code-base �DNA� and experience with huge scale to offer Atmosphere, the highest performing, most comprehensive API management solution on the market today. Atmosphere provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures companies� APIs. Atmosphere ensures that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

USCA for Unified SOA Governance & API Management

Press Release

SOA Software Honored by USCA for Unified SOA Governance & API Management

API Management Leader Receives Award for Second Consecutive Year

Los Angeles, CA. – August 21, 2012 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products, announced that is has been selected for the 2012 Award in the Unified SOA Governance and API Management category by the U.S. Commerce Association
(USCA). This is the second year in a row that the company has received this award. Nationwide, only 1 in 70 (1.4%) 2012 Award recipients qualified as Two-Time Award Winners.
We feel honored to be the recipient of this prestigious award two years in a row,� said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President, SOA Software. �It speaks to our company-wide commitment to engineering excellence and customer focus.�
Continuing Validation of API Management
SOA Software�s selection for the Award validates its enterprise API management strategy. Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business efficiency. However, enterprise APIs introduce additional requirements to ensure the security and privacy of the API and the capabilities and data they expose. SOA Software Atmosphere provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures APIs. It ensures that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected.
Renewed Recognition for Unified SOA Governance The USCA Award also recognizes the complete SOA Software product suite, which offers an Integrated Governance Automation solution for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The company�s products combine to ensure that companies build the right services, build services right, and run services right:

Portfolio Manager™ is an innovative Planning Governance product that helps ensure the alignment of SOA Programs with strategic IT investment and business objectives and makes sure that enterprises build the right services at the right time.
Repository Manager™ provides an advanced software development asset (SDA) repository, lifecycle management, and metadata federation solution.
Service Manager™ automatically implements and enforces policies from Policy Manager. It generates usage, performance and policy compliance metrics that it reports to Policy Manager so that it can audit that policies are being enforced in a closed-loop process.
Policy Manager™provides an SOA Registry/Repository and comprehensive SOA Policy Governance solution, with powerful governance automation capabilities.
SOLA™ provides mainframe programmers with an intuitive portal for readily exposing and consuming Web services from CICS applications.

About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA)
U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a New York City based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising. The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America. The 2012 USCA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

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Executive Vice President SOA Software interview with Network Products Guide

Executive Vice President SOA Software interview with Network Products Guide

SOA Software Discusses APP Ecosystem management at Cloud Expo NY

SOA Software Discusses APP Ecosystem management at Cloud Expo NY

SOA Software Discusses API Management at Cloud Expo NY

SOA Software Discusses API Management at Cloud Expo NY

Gluecon 2012: Developers hash over multitude of issues

Gluecon 2012: Developers hash over multitude of issues

An interview with Alistair Farquaharson, SOA Software

An interview with Alistair Farquaharson, SOA Software

Farquharson on API management: “Focus on business-developer relationship”

Farquharson on API management: “Focus on business-developer relationship”

Enterprise APIs

The Enterprise API is a concept we began to discuss in our blog entry: Enterprise APIs - APIs are not just for the cool kids. Quoting from this blog post - “Much of the discussion around APIs tends to center on the well-known APIs published by �cool� companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google. Although these high-profile enterprises do show remarkable innovation, the fact is that it�s not just the household names who can use APIs to expand their business capabilities.

Enterprise APIs have become essential tools for creating innovation both within a company and to outside developers. They can not only fuel growth, but also give enterprises a competitive edge over those who don�t have APIs…...

....A business doesn�t have to be a Netflix or a Google to see similar benefits. Enterprise APIs create a range of opportunities, both internally and externally. They can make systems more flexible, drive growth, deliver services in a customized way, and allow for scalability with more ease. They impact how software is developed behind the firewall, and how that software is viewed by customers.

It�s not just social media outlets or business-to-consumer sites that can reap numerous rewards from APIs. In many ways, the API is poised to be a more important channel than the web site for most enterprises (more on that in an upcoming blog post). As Lane notes on his site, API Evangelist, businesses operating a decade ago were still working to understand the importance of having a website. He writes, �Today, businesses need to understand the importance of the API.�

By sparking creativity and innovation both inside and outside the company, APIs create the potential to make any enterprise into one of the ‘cool kids.’”

A successful API program is about much more than simply throwing an API from a business Application out onto the Internet and hoping that developers will find it. An API is a product that represents your business and brand, and has a lifecycle like any product. You have to make sure you’re building the right API; building it so that it will meet the needs of the developers and applications that will consume it; using effective operational management and security mechanisms to make sure that the API is behaving correctly, and then you have to promote and support your API as you would any other product. This image shows how APIs represent the tip of the enterprise iceberg, and will almost inevitably rely on having an solid internal SOA infrastructure, and yes, this means having an SOA Governance solution in place, as well as an effective API Management solution that addresses the entire API lifecycle.

For details about our Platform-as-a-Service solution please click here.

The Enterprise API Platform

Our product family is designed to accelerate enterprise API deployment on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid combination. The Enterprise API Platform products integrate seamlessly with our SOA Governance products across all stages of the enterprise lifecycle.

Community Manager™ - a sophisticated developer community product to help enterprises attract, manage, and support the developers that build Apps using their APIs

Portfolio Manager™ - provides planning capabilities to help ensure the alignment of APIs with strategic IT investments and business opportunities

Lifecycle Manager™ - provides API and App lifecycle management capabilities to help customers build APIs that meet current and future business requirements

Policy Manager™ - provides the services and APIs that support the rest of the product family. It is required by API Manager and Community Manager, and is a recommended option for Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager

API Manager™ - an API proxy server providing security, monitoring, mediation and other runtime capabilities

Enterprise API Platform-as-a-Service™ - Enterprise API Management as-a-Service - get all the benefits of the SOA Software Enterprise API Platform delivered as a cloud service.

API Management & SOA Governance Solutions

Enterprise API Management
Enterprise APIs make business applications available to drive growth and expose new opportunities.

Overview

Developer Community

API Planning

API Development

API Operations

API Management

White Papers, Data Sheets, Webinars & Videos

Atmosphere Blog

Integrated SOA Governance
Comprehensive integrated SOA governance automation solutions.

Planning Governance

Development Governance

Operational Governance

Policy Governance

For Enterprise Services
Plan, Run and Build

Application Consolidation

Information Services

Application Services

Integration Services

Composite Applications

Software-as-a-Service

Cloud Services

Platform Governance

Best in class governance solutions for all SOA platforms.

Microsoft

SAP

IBM

IBM CICS

IBM DataPower

IBM WSRR

Oracle

RedHat

Mainframe SOA

The industry’s only SOA Mainframe solution.

Overview

Sign up for a demo

Educate Yourself
Learn about SOA Governance.

SOA Federation

SOA Explained - 7 Steps

Closed Loop Governance

Governance Best Practices

SOA Reference Model

FAQ

API Management & SOA Governance Products

SOA Software is a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management.
The products include:
Enterprise API Management

SOA Software�s flagship API management product, Atmosphere�, provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. Atmosphere� manages monitors and secures companies� APIs, ensuring that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected.

The Atmosphere product family includes:

Atmosphere Community � a web-based social developer community platform

Atmosphere Broker � the enterprise-class API operations product

Atmosphere Manager � the Enterprise API Management product

Atmosphere Architect � the industry's only API planning product

Atmosphere Developer � the Enterprise API development product

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Integrated SOA Governance

A comprehensive suite of products that combine to deliver the industry's only true Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution.

Portfolio Manager � an innovative Planning Governance product

Repository Manager � the industry-leading SOA development governance product

Service Manager � the enterprise-class SOA operational governance product

Policy Manager � an SOA Policy Governance automation solution

Mainframe SOA

The industry's only SOA Mainframe solution.

SOLA � the high-performance mainframe SOA solution

A Unifed Product Family

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API Management

Here at SOA Software we take a somewhat more comprehensive view of API Management than most vendors do.

We believe that API Management includes:

Developer Community Management

API Security

Traffic Monitoring

QoS Management

App Management & Provisioning

API Lifecycle Management

On-premise or as-a-Service

Of course, if you want to compare us on an even playing field with lesser vendors then you can just look at the operational pieces including:

API Security

Traffic Monitoring

QoS Management

App Management & Provisioning

And of course, we also support all of our API Management solutions rely on strong underlying Policy Management capabilities to provide centralized, efficient control over your API endpoints and supporting technologies.

For details about our Platform-as-a-Service solution please click here.

The Enterprise API Platform

Our product family is designed to accelerate enterprise API deployment on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid combination. The Enterprise API Platform products integrate seamlessly with our SOA Governance products across all stages of the enterprise lifecycle.

Community Manager™ - a sophisticated developer community product to help enterprises attract, manage, and support the developers that build Apps using their APIs

Portfolio Manager™ - provides planning capabilities to help ensure the alignment of APIs with strategic IT investments and business opportunities

Lifecycle Manager™ - provides API and App lifecycle management capabilities to help customers build APIs that meet current and future business requirements

Policy Manager™ - provides the services and APIs that support the rest of the product family. It is required by API Manager and Community Manager, and is a recommended option for Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager

API Manager™ - an API proxy server providing security, monitoring, mediation and other runtime capabilities

Enterprise API Platform-as-a-Service™ - Enterprise API Management as-a-Service - get all the benefits of the SOA Software Enterprise API Platform delivered as a cloud service.

API Operations

Ideally you’ve used an API Planning solution to decide which API(s) to build and which enterprise assets it/they will rely on. You’ve then used an API Development solution to make sure that you’ve built your API(s) in such a way that it/they are easy for developers to work with and can meet the needs of the application that will consume them. Now it’s time to deploy your API and make sure that it’s running as you intended. It has to be secure, reliable, resilent, robust, and generally meet performance and service-level goals.

This is where your API Operations solution comes in. Most solutions will involve hosting your API in a purpose built API proxy that can handle all of the non-functional requirements for you. It’s pretty common for Enterprise APIs to be built using SOAP services inside the firewall, hosted in a DMZ resident proxy that exposes the service functions as RESTful APIs, often using JSON content to facilitate mobile consumption.

Many vendors will refer to their API Operations products as API Management, but an API Management solution is a much broader platform providing a comprehensive set of capabilities that span the entire API lifecycle.

Your API Operations solution needs to deliver a number of key capabilities including:

Mediation - the ability to easily create multiple different types of API endpoint from a single internal service. The most common mediation type for APIs will be to create a single RESTful endpoint supporting XML and JSON content from an internal SOAP service.

Security Policy Enforcement & Implementation - this is a huge area covering a massive range of functions, but in a nutshell your API Operations solution needs to protect your API from external attacks and integrate seamlessly with your internal security models and infrastructure.

Quota Policy Enforcement - a key role of your API operations solution is to allocate your API’s capacity across the various consumer applications and application classes, while protecting your internal services from intentional or accidental overuse and abuse.

This where SOA Software’s API Manager comes in. API Manager is a high-performance, multi-protocol messaging intermediary. It uses a service virtualization model to expose API endpoints that a fully abstracted from the internal enterprise services and applications that provide the business functions being delivered as APIs. This abstraction includes offering different protocols and standards, security models and tokens, message exchange patterns and more. API Manager provides comprehensive declarative mediation capabilities leveraging Atmosphere Manager for all of its configuration. SOA Software’s Community Manager relies heavily on API Manager for operational enforcement of actions and decisions, and for the collection of metrics, usage data and recorded messages.

API Development with Atmosphere

Once you have identified what APIs you want to build, ideally using an API Planning solution, you have to make sure that you build your API in such a way that you can be sure it will meet your current and future needs.

API Development solutions will often extend and rely on existing development governance solutions m which are an important part of an Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution. Development governance marshals an asset through the development process that typically spans the design, development, testing and staging phases of its software development lifecycle. It typically includes a workflow mechanism to approve migration, policy compliance validation, and a clear separation (logically, physically, or both) between lifecycle stages.

SOA Software’s Lifecycle Manager provides a purpose-built API Development solution as well as the industry-leading development governance solution.

Development governance is the realm traditionally occupied by registry and repository vendors, although it requires much stronger repository capabilities and much broader integrations with development environments (IDEs and SCMs tools), federation with other registries and much stronger service, standards and taxonomy support than most repositories offer.

Development Governance solutions depend heavily on Policy Governance for compliance policy definition, management, and validation. They use policies to determine the relevance, and suitability of services at each lifecycle stage, and to determine if assets meet enterprise standards and guidelines before they can promoted to the next stage of the lifecycle. For example for a service to move from design to development the enterprise may require that there is a design document in the repository, the service has a WSDL, the services is categorized appropriately, and perhaps even that there are registered consumers waiting for the service.

The Development Governance process can often be initiated by the creation of a candidate service from a Planning Governance process. Development Governance will take over the lifecycle of the service ensuring that the candidates are built right.

The later stages of the Development Governance process overlap with Operational Governance feeding services and service consumers into operational environments and responding to feedback about their performance and compliance with security and other policies.

SOA Software’s Lifecycle Manager� is an industry-leading development governance platform that automates machine- and role-based signoffs across the software development lifecycle. It enables enterprises to understand what services and other software assets exist, where they�re located and how each fits into a company�s business and technical landscape. By providing a context for understanding and assessing existing software assets, Repository Manager serves to automate the path to SOA.

SOA Software’s Policy Manager� is a comprehensive SOA Policy Governance Automation solution offering unique governance processand collaboration capabilities to instill consistency and accountability and encourage desired behavior.

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API Planning with Atmosphere

Great APIs result from diligent planning on multiple levels. Atmosphere gives you to tools to think through your whole API strategy, build and deployment processes, ensuring that you plan effectively before going into production.

An effective API Planning solution will help you maximize the return on your investment in APIs by ensuring that you build the right APIs at the right time. It allows you to understand and model dependencies between planned APIs and enterprise services and prioritize development of each appropriately, making sure your organization builds APIs and enterprise services based on current and planned needs according to a well thought-out program.

One of main benefits of an API planning solution is that it will help you make sure that you identify the goals you have for your API program, so that you can manage for success. As the old adage says, if you don’t know where you going, how will you know when you get there. As your company makes its first steps towards APIs, it’s absolutely critical that you decide what you want the outcome of your API program to be, so that you can design and build the right APIs for the job.

It is also important to identify the existing resource that you have that can help form the foundation of your APIs. An Enterprise API should be an extension of an existing business process or application, and as such you should use existing enterprise services exposed by this process or application, or should work with the application or process owner to expose services that you can use as you create your API. The planning process will help tie your API program to an enterprise SOA initiative to help ensure the stability and performance of your APIs.

SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager provides the industry’s first comprehensive API planing solution offering:

A Rich Set of Tools - We provide you with a robust set of tools for API definition, content, as well as policy and lifecycle management. This way, you can rest assured that your APIs are correctly structured and well documented, and integrate well with internal design and development processes.

Decide how you are going to do APIs � start from scratch, leverage existings apps or both. In addition to exposing new capabilities, you can leverage Atmosphere to harness existing investments in web services and enterprise SOA, with new formats and policies specific to an outside developer group.

Understand how your will share and promote your APIs through numerous community options.

Think through usage quotas, security and policy issues at the pre-build stage.

Think about your APIs from the App Point of View - Atmosphere provides sophisticated yet simple security capabilities that enable API developers to gauge how they want to manage and monitor their APIs.

Developer Community Management

API Management is about much more than just monitoring an API.

It is about making sure you build the right API with API Planning; build them correctly using an API Development solution; make sure they are behaving correctly with API Operations infrastructure; and supporting all of this with a common underlying set of API Management services.

Of course, at the end of all this all you have is a service published outside your enterprise. It’s really not an API yet, not until you publish, promote it, and support it through your developer community. One of biggest problems you face is that you really don�t know how to tell people about it, and when you do find someone who�s interested, you have to be able to feed them all the information they need to use it without getting overwhelmed trying to support them all.

This is where the Enterprise API Platform (EAP) shines, regardless of whether you are trying to broadcast your Open API to the whole wide world, or to expose an Enterprise API to groups of developers inside your own business. EAP allows you to market your API or App inside or outside your enterprise with a powerful search driven catalog offering rich social features like ratings, reviews and following. You can publish your API into EAP with appropriate descriptions and tags to make it easy for potential consumers to find it through search and browse, including external (public or enterprise) search engine integration and optimization.

Of course, once someone has found your API, they need to decide if it is the right API for them to use. This is where the definition and documentation capabilities come into play, and where the discussion forums and user following capabilities allow them to ask questions, or see how active the community around your API is.

API Documentation
People need to be able to use your API without burdening you with a ton of questions and complaints. You need to ensure that you define it properly, document it well, and publish the definition and documentation effectively.

EAP provides a robust set of tools for API definition, documentation, and content management, as well as policy and lifecycle management. This allows you to make sure your APIs are correctly structured and well documented. EAP also integrates well with internal design and development processes to help make sure that the internal services and applications that support your API are up to the task.

API Search Index
Good stuff, you�ve defined your API properly and have published it with well-structured documentation. It�s in the catalog with a nice description, an appropriate name and set of icons, and you�ve even convinced a few friends to post nice encouraging reviews and ratings for it. Now it�s time to hope that potential users can find it.

EAP provides a very powerful built-in system that creates an internal search index from all the content about the APIs and Apps that it is aware of, complete with sufficient permission information so that it knows which users it can show search results for particular APIs and Apps to. Hopefully the phrase �all the content� caught your eye, because that�s one of the more interesting things here. The content about your API or App doesn�t just include its name and any description information you typed in, it also includes all the documentation, and most importantly all the discussion topics and comments posted about it. This means that if someone asks a question on your API�s Board about how it handles a particular type of widget, then when someone searches for anything to do with that widget, they will find your API. Think about the use-case where you are writing a piece of code and you run into a problem and use Google to search for the specific error code or exception text. Because EAP is indexing all this information, these types of searches work in real-time.

Maybe even more important in EAP�s search capabilities is its ability to publish and maintain its index in enterprise or public search engines. This means that your developers can find information about your API regardless of how they look for it.

App Connection Provisioning
You�re making real progress with your API now. It�s well defined and documented, you�ve published it into a dynamic catalog where users are able to find it, rate it, review it and discuss it. What more could you possibly want?

How about allowing Apps to actually use your API, and controlling the way they use it? EAP allows developers to define their Apps � in much the same way that you defined your API. In fact, the App definition has all the same features with documentation, ratings, reviews, discussion boards and the whole nine yards, as your API definition. It also allows the developer to create a team of peers that can work together on the App. This may all seem a bit fluffy and useless, until we get to the real purpose of the App definition.

EAP provisions API access individually to each App. It creates an identifier for the App, and the App developer can upload a CSR (certificate signing request) for a locally generated public key. The App will then use this App-id (optionally signed) to authenticate itself to EAP. The App developer will find the API(s) they want their App to use, and will initiate a simple approval workflow to grant their App access to the APIs. Depending on how the API is configured, they can also request different throughput levels based on pre-defined quota policies. Once the workflow process completes and their App�s access to the API(s) is approved, the App can begin sending requests to the API.

There�s quite a bit more to this, including the ability for an API to expose sandbox (test) and production endpoints, with a multi-step approval process for granting Apps access to each of the endpoints. This may sound complex, but in most circumstances, sandbox access will be automatically approved, and getting approval for production access is a simple process involving a single button click for the App developer, and a simple response to a newsfeed item and/or notification from the API administrator.

One of the interesting side-effects of this provisioning process is that Atmosphere is able to monitor the API from the perspective of each of the Apps. The API administrator can see all of the monitoring data and can choose to see a pie chart showing which Apps are consuming their API the most, they can filter the monitoring data by App to provide support for a particular App owner, or can use this data to identify poorly written or malicious Apps that are causing problems for their API, so they can disable or throttle them appropriately. Similarly, the App owner will see the API from the perspective of their App only. They will only see their traffic and performance information, and the usage data and messages their App is generating.

API Socialization
Assuming you�re following along with the various steps above, then by this point you now have a rock solid API that is well structured and documented, published in a catalog with great search facilities, and is protected from all kinds of bad things. Developers are starting to find it through the traditional search and browse models, but that�s not good enough in today�s social-media driven world. You need your API (or App) to go viral. Bring on the social world.

EAP is the social platform for API Management and App development. It brings together API providers and App developers in an online social community. Whether this community exists inside your enterprise, as a private external community, or part of a broad public developer community is entirely up to you. EAP�s social features include:
Invitations

Any EAP user, developer, business administrator, or API provider can invite other users to the party. Invitations can be general, simply inviting a user to check out the specific EAP instance, or they can invite a user to follow an API, App, or Group, or join the development team for an App. In this way you can immediately create your own communities of interest around your APIs and Apps. By encouraging the people you invite to invite their contacts too, you can build a huge social community connected to your resources.

Developer Support
One of the bigger challenges you�ll face with your API is the potential of becoming a victim of your own success. What�s going to happen when you drive this massive social adoption of your API? How on earth are you going to manage the volume of support requests and questions you�re sure to get?

Again, EAP has the answers. The first thing, of course, is to make sure that your API is well structured and well documented, as we discussed earlier. You can make developers� lives even easier by providing them with SDKs and code samples, and EAP allows you to publish and promote these with your API. But where the real beauty kicks in is when your developer community becomes self-sufficient and users start helping each other out by answering questions and even responding to trouble tickets. Because everything is so efficiently indexed, it�s really easy for users to search for errors, issues or questions, and get immediate help and answers from questions and issues that have already been resolved. Sure, you�ll have to put some effort into getting your community moving, but the time and energy you dedicate early on will pay enormous dividends later. As my mother used to say, �A stitch in time saves nine.�

B2B API Integration
Of course not every API will be destined to be truly �Open� - designed to target a broad community of App developers sharing ideas and applications in an open forum. In fact, we expect to see far more private or semi-private APIs that a business uses to share specific functions or data with one (private) or more (semi-private) partners.

EAP enables this by introducing the concepts of API and App privacy settings, enabling a number of key scenarios:

In one of the most common scenarios you may have an API that you wish to use to enable integration with several partners, but you don�t want any of the partners to know anything about each other, or even to know that there are other partners using the API. EAP allows you to define a private API and invite users to follow and connect to it � the invitations are required, because the API will not be published in the search indexes and will not be visible to any user who has not been specifically invited. In this mode, user posts, discussions and comments will be visible only to that user and to the API administrators.

Another common requirement for private APIs is the need to create an API that is visible and consumable by a defined (invited) group of users. Any member of the group will be able to see posts and comments from other members, but the API and all its content will be hidden from anyone outside that group. This is particularly useful as a tool for publishing a version of an API for use by a beta test group, in advance of launching the API to the public.

Share Developer Communities
All these capabilities sound great, but at the end of the day, the success of your API initiative depends very much on your ability to get your API in the hands of as many developers as possible. So how can you go about building your own developer community? Maybe a better question would be, why should you go about building your own developer community when there are already a bunch of communities out there? More to the point, what about your partners or other like-minded companies with their own APIs that a developer building an App that uses your API might also use?

EAP supports the concept of API provider federation to bring together communities giving developers access (with approval) to any API from any provider using a single App ID, and allowing providers to leverage the network effect of all the connected communities to find the broadest possible reach for their API. All this is done with federated trust and permission models that allow API providers to opt in or out at granular levels, and to choose the partners with whom they want to federate.

Because we offer EAP as a PaaS platform as well as via on-premise or hybrid models, there will be a ready-made community for EAP customers to connect to, whether they choose to create their own tenant in the EAPaaS platform, or install the product in their own datacenters. Customers will be able to choose how much or little sharing they do with the broader community, depending largely on how �Open� they view their APIs.

Enterprise API Management - Transform Business Potential

Fast-track API Deployment. Drive Developer Adoption. Reach More Customers. Gain Advantage.

SOA Software’s comprehensive suite of products helps enterprises drive developer adoption, reach new channels and gain business advantage, addressing all stages of the API lifecycle.

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Build a Developer Community

Take advantage of the viral power of the web.

SOA Software’s developer community platform provides a connecting point where you can manage, share and promote your APIs in a secure, scalable environment. You can manage your own developer community, or plug-in to communities that already exist.

Tell People about your APIs - After you’ve created your API our Enterprise API Platform lets you tell the world about it. Or you can choose to inform just your own group of key stakeholders.

Public or Private: your Choice - Our Enterprise API Platform is designed with the enterprise in mind. You can publish your APIs privately and invite selected groups of developers into one or more business communities. Alternatively, you can publish your API broadly while still controlling access.

API Security

SOA Software’s API management platform lets you secure your APIs, protecting sensitive data while allowing access to authorized Apps and users. Security features include:

Authentication Policy Options - Choose from a wide array of authentication schemes, standards and token types to ensure that only valid users and applications get access to your APIs

Enterprise OAuth - Use your existing enterprise security systems to create an OAuth authorization server so your users can manage access rights for their own data

Advanced Cryptography - Ensure the privacy of customer data with sophisticated encryption and signature capabilities

Traffic Monitoring

SOA Software’s API management platform lets you monitor APIs keeping an eye on traffic from individual Apps. Monitoring features include:

Monitoring - Get visibility into how your API or App is behaving understand how your customers are using it

Troubleshooting - Quickly identify and fix problems to keep your customers happy

QoS Management

SOA Software’s API management platform lets you manage quality-of-service for your APIs, managing quotas and service-levels for individual Apps. Management features include:

Performance and Scale - use our proven enterprise platform to ensure that your API starts and remains blisteringly fast

Protect Internal Applications - Avoid overloading your internal applications while providing customers with guaranteed service-levels using our comprehensive QoS management for SLAs and quotas

App Management & Provisioning

Manage which applications can use your APIs, and how much traffic they can consume.

App to API provisioning workflow - Walk developers through a simple process with easy to understand approvals for getting access to APIs

Manage Sandbox and Production Access - Allow easy access to sandbox endpoints for testing, with a more rigorous process for getting approval to use a production endpoint

Legal agreement management - Require developers to accept legal terms for each API before their App is granted approval to access the API

Per App QoS policies - Allow developers to negotiate a QoS policy for their App with the API administrator

Manage the API Lifecycle

SOA Software’s Planning solution helps you define API strategy according to business goals, to maximize benefits and minimize risk.

Optimize IT investment - Ensure you build the right APIs at the right time.

Strategize - Prioritize and build APIs and enterprise services based on your current and planned needs.

Align - Understand dependencies between planned APIs and enterprise services.

SOA Software’s Development solution does the heavy lifting to help you build and run your APIs. Get the tools you need to create the innovative APIs that drive your business forward.

Define and manage APIs - Create APIs with multiple interfaces using different standards including REST/XML, REST/JSON and SOAP with no extra development effort

Document APIs - Define and document your APIs so developers can use them without burdening your support resources

Support for intermediation - Convert existing SOAP or Plain-old-XML (POX) over MQ or JMS services into RESTful APIs with XML and/or JSON content

Provision and Test - Expose sandbox (test) and production endpoints for your APIs with an intuitive approval process for granting Apps access to each of the endpoints

Manage App to API connections - Automate and control the connections between Apps and APIs

On-premise or in the Cloud
You can choose how and where you deploy SOA Software’s Enterprise API Platform to best meet the needs of your business.

On-premise - Deploy the software in your own datacenter so that you have full control of everything and can manage compliance with internal, industry and regulatory standards

API Platform-as-a-Service - Use the cloud-based API platform to get your APIs live as quickly as possible leveraging our ability to scale and manage the platform

Hybrid Deployment - Put parts of the solution in your own datacenters (most typically the API Manager proxies) and leverage the cloud-based services to build and scale your Developer Community

For details about our Open and Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service options please click here.

The Enterprise API Platform

Our product family is designed to accelerate enterprise API deployment on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid combination. The Enterprise API Platform products integrate seamlessly with our SOA Governance products across all stages of the enterprise lifecycle.

Community Manager™ - a sophisticated developer community product to help enterprises attract, manage, and support the developers that build Apps using their APIs

Portfolio Manager™ - provides planning capabilities to help ensure the alignment of APIs with strategic IT investments and business opportunities

Lifecycle Manager™ - provides API and App lifecycle management capabilities to help customers build APIs that meet current and future business requirements

Policy Manager™ - provides the services and APIs that support the rest of the product family. It is required by API Manager and Community Manager, and is a recommended option for Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager

API Manager™ - an API proxy server providing security, monitoring, mediation and other runtime capabilities

Enterprise API Platform-as-a-Service™ - Enterprise API Management as-a-Service - get all the benefits of the SOA Software Enterprise API Platform delivered as a cloud service.

Webinar - How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?

Hosted by SOA Software
Featured Speaker
Corey Scobie, VP of Technology, SOA Software
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The API Economy is here. Enterprises are making business applications available through APIs to drive business growth and expose new opportunities. The business landscape is being reshaped as dramatically as it was during the rush to create an Internet presence with a web site in the late 90s. APIs are becoming the primary way that businesses interact with their customers, reach new markets, and provide the global app development community with the tools to deliver innovative new business capabilities to customers. Join Corey Scobie, VP of Technology of SOA Software as he shows how businesses are harnessing the power of APIs to reach new customers and markets. Corey will walk the audience through the growth and evolution of the API, why effective API management us important, how the game changes when companies expose business applications to the outside world.
Listen to the Recorded webinar here.

SOA Software Enables Enterprise APIs for Business Partner and Employee Applications

Atmosphere API management product provides unique capabilities supporting enterprise as well as open API and app developer communities

Los Angeles, CA. – June 11, 2012 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products, announced today that it has added extensive enterprise API capabilities to its SOA Software Atmosphere^TM product family to enable business to employee and business to business applications.
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business efficiency. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more sensitive B2B or B2E (employee) applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services, taking these services and productizing them with documentation, support, access provisioning, quality-of-service (QoS) management and other API-centric capabilities. Enterprise APIs introduce additional requirements to ensure the security and privacy of the API and the capabilities and data they expose.

Atmosphere provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures companies APIs. Atmosphere ensures that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected. SOA Software�s latest update to Atmosphere introduces comprehensive and flexible enterprise API capabilities, including:

Private APIs – Atmosphere allows API owners to mark their API as private so it can only be found and viewed by invited users. The API administrators can invite users to view and access the API.
Groups – Atmosphere enables API administrators to define specific and distinct groups to access their APIs. Within the product are capabilities for providing different groups with contextual discussion forums which allow users to post questions, comments and get support. The forums can be either private in the context of their own group, or publicly in the scope of the entire API. This allows the administrators to use the same API to support different business partners, without exposing one partner to another.
Teams – Atmosphere defines the concept of an App development or API team. This is a defined and invited team of users who share common responsibilities for administering or accessing an API or App. This enables the kind of collaborative environment that is required for enterprise application development.
User & role management – Atmosphere allows an individual user to have multiple different roles depending on their context (the API or App they are working with). It allows administrators to share and delegate responsibility for certain actions with other users.

�Our large enterprise customers are using APIs to enable business-to-employee and business-to-partner applications,� said Alistair Farquharson, SOA Software chief technology officer. �The private API, group and team capabilities in Atmosphere help these organizations ensure the security and privacy of their enterprise APIs.�
These new enterprise API capabilities extend Atmosphere�s existing functionality which include:

API definition, content, policy and lifecycle management that ensures APIs are correctly structured and well documented with integration with internal design and development processes.
Intermediation to simplify the creation of RESTful APIs with both XML and JSON content from various internal service types with powerful paging and caching to improve app performance.
Sophisticated security capabilities to help protect APIs from abuse and ensure the privacy of customer data.
Comprehensive QoS management (SLAs and quotas) to protect internal applications from overload of the API and to provide customers with service-level guarantees.
Extensive consumer contract monitoring and management of traffic from individual apps.
Integrated sandbox, testing and debugging capabilities to simplify the delivery of high-quality APIs.

About SOA Software Atmosphere™
SOA Software�s flagship API management product, Atmosphere™, provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. Atmosphere manages monitors and secures companies’ APIs. Atmosphere™ ensures that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected http://www.soa.com/atmosphere.
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software Shares Formula for Success in Enterprise API Management at Cloud Expo

APIs are the new way to share information and reach new markets

Los Angeles, CA. – June 6, 2012 –SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products, will share innovative strategies for driving business growth through the use of APIs at Cloud Expo in New York, June 12-13, the company announced today.
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities. As a result APIs are reshaping the business landscape as dramatically as the rush to create an Internet presence with a web site did in the late 1990�s. APIs are becoming the primary way that businesses interact with their customers, reach new markets, and provide the global app development community with the tools to deliver business capabilities to customers.
Corey Scobie, Vice President of Technology at SOA Software and a recognized industry expert in enterprise API management, will be presenting at Cloud Expo and at the Cloud Computing Boot Camp with a featured session titled �Using APIs to Extend Your Business Reach� as well as two other sessions about API management. Cloud Expo, presented by SYS-CON each year in California, New York, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, is the world�s leading Cloud event. Now in its fifth year, Cloud Expo is larger than all other cloud computing events combined.
�We are honored to be selected to present at such a highly regarded cloud computing event,� said Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President of Marketing for SOA Software. �SOA Software experiences will be shared with conference attendees about how APIs and API management provides new value to enterprises.�
In addition to the boot camp, Mr. Scobie will be presenting a technical breakout session, �How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ from Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?�, and at a Demo Theater session, �A Guided Tour of the Enterprise API Management�. The presentations will be based partly on Mr. Scobie�s experience with the SOA Software Atmosphere™ product family, which provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community. Atmosphere manages, monitors and secures companies’ APIs. Atmosphere ensures that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected.
Mr. Scobie brings a wealth knowledge and practical experience to his role as speaker and technology influencer. He has a 15 year history in the IT industry with experience ranging from enterprise networking and data center operations to software development, product strategy, and sales. Prior to joining SOA Software, he was at IBM, where he was Chief Strategist for the Appliance and Application Optimization businesses. Previously, Mr. Scobie held the role of Technical Executive for the IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances business, where he was one of the original members of the DataPower team that joined IBM through acquisition in 2005.
Presentation Details
Bootcamp: Using APIs to Extend Your Business Reach
Tues. June 12: 8:15 - 9:00AM, Hall 1A, Room 1A30
Technical Breakout Session: How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ From Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?
Wed. June 13: 2:25 - 3:10PM, Hall 1A, Room 1A07
Demo Theatre: A Guided Tour of the Enterprise API Management
Wed. June 13: 4:45 - 5:05PM, Hall 1B, Room 275
About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and open APIs. The world�s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business. Gartner placed SOA Software in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2011 �Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies.� The company is also recognized as a �Leader� by the Forrester Research Waves for Integrated SOA Governance and SOA Life Cycle Management. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.
About SOA Software Atmosphere™
SOA Software�s flagship API management product, Atmosphere™, provides a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. Atmosphere manages monitors and secures companies’ APIs. Atmosphere™ ensures that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected http://www.soa.com/atmosphere.

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	Open	Enterprise
Pricing	Free	Priced on throughput contact us for details
Deployment models	Cloud	Cloud, on-premises, hybrid, hosted, federated
Migration services	To Enterprise	From Open Between deployment options
API requests limit	10,000,000 API requests/month	Unlimited
Gateway services	Massive range of pre-defined policies Security and Message Mediation for REST and SOAP QoS Management Cryptographic Security	Massive range of pre-defined policies Custom policies Security and Message Mediation for REST and SOAP QoS Management Cryptographic Security
Analytics services	Live dashboard 1 year of historical reports 1 week of message archives	Live dashboard Unlimited historical reports and message archives
Developer channel services	Shared Social Developer Community Unlimited Developers Unlimited App Keys Partner and maintenance notifications	Shared and/or branded Developer Communities Developer Community Federation Unlimited Developers Unlimited App Keys Partner and maintenance notifications
Enterprise Infrastructure Integration	None	ID & Access Management IT Monitoring SOA Governance IBM DataPower Source Code Mgmt Application Lifecycle Mgmt
Platform Support	Comprehensive REST and SOAP (WS-*)	Comprehensive REST and SOAP (WS-*) IBM WebSphere IBM DataPower Oracle Tibco SAP Mainframe (CICS ∓ IMS) Open Source Microsoft
API and App Visibility Management	API Privacy Settings Developer Groups Partner Management	API Privacy Settings Developer Groups Partner Management
API & App Lifecycle Management	API Versioning App Versioning Document Management	API Versioning App Versioning Development workflow process management Compliance policy validation Asset management
API Security	App key OAuth proxy OAuth consumer OAuth provider HTTP/HTTPS PKI Shared Secret WS-Security Encryption/Signature	App key OAuth proxy OAuth consumer OAuth provider HTTP/HTTPS PKI Shared Secret WS-Security Encryption/Signature Enterprise SSO Kerberos
App services	App lifecycle provisioning	App lifecycle provisioning
Support	Email and Live community	Global, enterprise-class, 24x7 helpdesk, phone, email, online.
Availability	24x7 global operations US and European Datacenters	Five 9's SLA US and European Datacenters
PCI compliance	No	Yes
API access to all features and your data	Yes	Yes
Getting Started	Take a test drive	Contact us