BEA Joins Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Systinet, a division of Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, Corporation (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). : MERQ MERQ Mercury Interactive Corp (stock symbol) ) and a leading software provider of the foundation for SOA governance Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance is a concept used for activities related to exercising control over services in a SOA. SOA governance can be seen as an overlay on IT governance, but its focus is more organizational, since services are closely related to business activities. and lifecycle management, today announced that BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has joined the Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework. The Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework provides a standards-based approach to governing and managing SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. initiatives across multiple vendors and technologies. Joining the Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework can benefit BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. customers by helping to make their SOA deployments easier to manage, control, and scale while also helping to dramatically improve the visibility and quality of SOA information. In June 2005 Systinet announced that BEA would OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Systinet Registry as a BEA branded, distributed, and supported component of the AquaLogic product family. Acting as an index of record, the Service Registry is a central and necessary part of the framework. Also being added as a participant of the Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework is the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus. AquaLogic Service Bus is designed to automatically consume and share information to and from AquaLogic Service Registry. With BEA's participation in the Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework, customers using AquaLogic Service Bus and AquaLogic Service Registry can now have the capability to automatically consume information from other partners participating in the program. "Effective SOA governance needs to span all domains of the architecture including security, integration, management, development, and orchestration orchestration Art of choosing which instruments to use for a given piece of music. The sections of the orchestra historically were separate ensembles: the stringed instruments for indoors, the woodwind instruments for outdoors, the horns for hunting, and trumpets and drums ," said Jeff Pendleton, vice president of marketing for BEA. "The Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework is designed to help make it possible to publish services and associated information to a reference system, AquaLogic Service Registry, in a standardized way, which can greatly improve and simplify SOA governance." The Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework is designed to help address customer demand for highly interoperable, multi-vendor solutions for enterprise SOA. The framework is a set of technologies, standards, and best practices that can help enable easier interoperability between the SOA management, security, business integration, composite application In computing, the term composite application expresses a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple services. People often compare composite applications to mashups. , business intelligence, and enterprise information integrator vendors that are included in the framework. Through the Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework, member companies can publish services and associated policies in a standardized way, be alerted about changes within the registry, and have access to metadata about the range of services that make up the customer's SOA. Ten partner companies already support the Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework. "Customers can benefit from the Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework by more easily deploying and leveraging proven and integrated industry-leading products for enterprise SOA initiatives," said David Butler, vice president of evangelism at Systinet. "The BEA AquaLogic product family can already deliver one of the broadest lines of service infrastructure products available designed to ensure successful SOA deployments. By joining the Systinet SOA Governance Interoperability Framework, BEA can significantly strengthen this effort, helping to make SOA easier to deploy and govern." ABOUT SYSTINET Systinet, a division of Mercury Interactive Corporation (OTC: MERQ), provides a leading foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management. Founded in 2000, Systinet's proven and standards-based products include Systinet Registry and Systinet Policy Manager, both components of the Systinet 2 platform, which help enable IT organizations to rapidly leverage existing technology investments, provide interoperability between heterogeneous systems, and better align business processes with IT. Customers receive the benefits of a simpler, faster, standards-based way to dramatically improve IT responsiveness and technology asset reuse, while helping to maximize the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). for SOA. For more information, please visit www.systinet.com. ABOUT MERCURY Mercury Interactive Corporation (OTC: MERQ), the global leader in business technology optimization Business Technology Optimization (BTO), is an enterprise software product category focused on helping businesses ensure that every dollar invested in information technology, every resource allocated, and every application in development or production meets business goals. (BTO BTO British Trust for Ornithology BTO Business Technology Optimization BTO Bachman Turner Overdrive (band) BTO Business Transformation Outsourcing BTO Build-Transfer-Operate BTO Brutto (German: Gross [quantity]) ) software, is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the largest enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services for IT Governance, Application Delivery, and Application Management. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to govern the priorities, processes and people of IT and test and manage the quality and performance of business-critical applications. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit http://www.mercury.com. Mercury, the Mercury logo, Systinet, and the Systinet logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other company, brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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