miércoles, 1 de septiembre de 2010

Product Overview - Comprehensive SOA Infrastructure - IT

SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager™, Repository Manager™, Policy Manager™, and Service Manager™ combine to form a comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution, with SOLA™ providing a governable Mainframe SOA platform.

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. It helps customers identify candidate services and build an SOA roadmap through SOA Modeling, Asset Identification, and a Portfolio Management process. To achieve these goals Portfolio Manager functions as part of a unified SOA Governance automation suite with seamless integration with Repository Manager™ and Policy Manager™.

Repository Manager™ provides an advanced software development asset (SDA) repository, lifecycle management, and metadata federation solution. It governs leading development platforms, ensuring consistent definition and management of services and other assets across all development environments. Repository Manager supports advanced SDA repository and governance capabilities including the ability to define and manage custom asset and artifact types, asset relationship management, integrated development environment (IDE) integration, and comprehensive asset federation. It integrates seamlessly with Policy Manager where policy decisions are required in the Development Governance process, as well as provisions service consumption agreements made by developers to Policy Manager for further governance. Repository Manager supports application development and architecture teams, providing a comprehensive Development Governance 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. Service Manager support SOA and enterprise operational management functions, ensuring that services are security, reliable, and meet the performance goals for each consumer.

Policy Manager™ provides an SOA Registry/Repository and comprehensive SOA Policy Governance solution, with powerful governance automation capabilities. Governance automation minimizes the overhead associated with governance processes, and turns governance from a painful workload, into a productivity tool. Policy Manager includes a built-in policy and service metadata repository supporting its policy governance processes. Policy Manager supports enterprise and SOA architecture functions, ensuring consistent application of policies throughout an enterprise SOA program. Using this solution architects, developers, security administrators, and operations managers can define and govern policies that are applied to services throughout the appropriate stages of their lifecycle.

We also recently announced SOLA™ 6.0 which provides mainframe programmers with an intuitive portal for readily exposing and consuming Web services from CICS applications. SOLA’s runtime is entirely host-based and is optimized to deliver exceptional performance to minimize the cost of leveraging Web services on the mainframe. For more information please see the press release.

Repository Manager, Policy Manager, and Service Manager together deliver an Integrated SOA Governance automation solution that ensures that companies build the right services, build services right, and run services right.

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