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TIBCO Software Inc. have announced the availability of a comprehensive service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance solution comprised of TIBCO ActiveMatrix Registry and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Manager. The new governance products are designed to reduce risk and complexity around the common challenges associated with adopting SOA including defining appropriate services, managing the lifecycle of service assets, and measuring effectiveness. SOA encourages the common and distributed use of services across siloed lines of business. The nature of these business services and the potential composition of them across organizational boundaries is driving the need for governance throughout the entire SOA life cycle. For example, as organizations create, orchestrate and deploy enterprise services, compliance to requirements dictated by factors such as security, reliability, and performance need to be overseen by a complete governance solution that can set policies, measurements and control mechanisms. According to a recent AMR Research article, SOA governance has two essential components--design time and run time. The first is powered by TIBCO ActiveMatrix Registry, which provides a simple and standards-based means for publishing and discovering SOA artifacts. The second component is powered by TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Manager and is responsible for managing and enforcing policy across a heterogeneous SOA. Service Registry and Repository In SOA, there is an end-to-end reuse requirement for a service registry and repository. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Registry provides a simple means for publishing and discovering SOA artifacts, such as services and policies. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Registry captures all the functional and non-functional service descriptions into a centrally managed, reliable, searchable repository. The product, developed in collaboration with AmberPoint, Inc., helps meet compliance challenges, improves agility, and simplifies SOA development. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Manager allows companies to manage authentication and authorization, encryption, logging, auditing and service versioning in a centralized and configuration-driven approach rather than it being hard-coded into all the services. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Registry and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Manager are now available to the public.

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