IBM and SOA Software

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

IBM WebSphere customers add SOA Software’s Unified SOA Governance Automation solution to the IBM WebSphere SOA Foundation to:

• Ensure that services they identify, design and build using their WebSphere products are relevant and consumable to applications they plan, design, build and deploy using other technologies like Microsoft or Oracle, or buy from other vendors like SAP
• Make services they expose from applications running on WebSphere products visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across other platforms; and make services they design and build using other platforms like Microsoft and open source environments visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across by their WebSphere applications
• Promote and ensure consistent alignment between demand from service consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract Provisioning

SOA Software’s platform-independent Unified SOA Governance Automation solution promotes the use of best-practices throughout an enterprise SOA program regardless of where services and consumers are designed, built, deployed and operated.  Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager and Policy Manager integrate seamlessly with development and runtime products from most commercial platforms including IBM, SAP, Microsoft, BEA, Oracle and Serena, as well as RedHat and other open source providers.  They offer deep integration with WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Application Server, and IBM z/OS, as well as the Rational suite of software development tools including ClearCase, ClearQuest and RAD/RSM/RSA.

Integrated SOA Governance for IBM WebSphere

IBM offers several SOA Governance products in its SOA product portfolio.  Most notable are WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, and Tivoli CAM for SOA.  These products are platform optimized for the IBM product family, and are extended by an enterprise Unified SOA Governance Automation solution.

IBM customers are adding SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager and Policy Manager to provide Unified SOA Governance Automation for their IBM platform to provide a number of solutions:

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

SOA Software’s products support and promote common Unified SOA Governance best practices, and enable the consistent execution of these best practices with the IBM platform.  They offer the added benefit that there is no requirement to introduce another non-IBM platform in order to support the required architecture.
Using Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Policy Manager and Service Manager, SOA Software certifies IBM’s products as Governed Service Platforms, or in the case of WSRR, a Governed Service Repository.  Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms will preserve the fidelity of the governance models, structures and mechanisms supporting an enterprise SOA program. 

IBM offers products supporting numerous aspects of software development, including software configuration management (Rational ClearCase), defect tracking and change request management (Rational ClearQuest) and many others. IBM also provides a leading Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) – Rational Application Developer (RAD), providing software engineers core development tools and integrated access to the above-mentioned underlying development systems of record.  SOA Software’s Repository Manager establishes a Governed Development Platform environment over these and many other development systems of record. Certified Governed Development Platform status ensures that these development systems of record serve as coherent and consistent sources of software asset metadata and artifacts feeding into the IT organization’s SOA development governance processes. Repository Manager automates the gathering and collection of this information and presents it to key SDLC stakeholders throughout the development governance lifecycle.

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

To contact an SOA Software representative to discuss your SOA based on IBM systems, please contact us.

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