Infravio X-Registry Platform(TM) 6 Continues to Define SOA Governance; Newest Release of Infravio X-Registry Features Governance Rules Engine, Service Delivery Contracts(TM) to Maximize IT, Business Agility.CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Infravio, Inc., The 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. Company, today announced the release of X-Registry Platform(TM) 6, the newest version of the company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. . This is a major release of the product, adding 30 person-years of product development above and beyond the already groundbreaking X-Registry Platform 5. Platform 5 led the market in defining SOA Governance platform requirements, such as an integrated Registry Repository, fine-grained access control, 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. Information Model, Infravio's patent-pending Service Delivery Contracts(TM), cross-lifecycle metadata management, portal integration, and change time governance. "Governance has become the crux of many Service-Oriented Architecture See SOA. projects today, and Infravio's technology and products are well-positioned to help enterprises solve their governance issues," said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink. "Infravio's leadership in defining end-to-end SOA Governance from design time, run time, and change time makes Infravio an important partner for any organization's real-world SOA implementation." "Infravio continues to define and deliver Real World SOA," said Miko Matsumura, vice president of marketing and technology standards at Infravio. "This release significantly raises the bar for SOA Governance products." Infravio X-Registry Highlights X-Registry Platform 6 adds hundreds of new features, most notably an integrated Governance Rules Engine, Policy Authoring System, support for complex federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. deployments, Approval Engine, SOA Link(TM) Governance Interoperability technology, and sophisticated multi-tenancy features. Governance Rules Engine: Built on Java JSR JSR Java Specification Request JSR J Sargeant Reynolds Community College (Virginia) JSR Journal of Sedimentary Research JSR Jump to Subroutine (6502 processor instruction) 94 compliant Rules Engine technology, this provides powerful multi-tenant policy authoring and policy reconciliation capabilities to the SOA Governance environment. In addition, the Rules Engine automates complex governance tasks such as configuring detailed access control parameters Control parameters In a nonlinear dynamic system, the coefficient of the order parameter; the determinant of the influence of the order parameter on the total system. See: Order Parameter. during lifecycle events such as service publishing. Policy Authoring System: This provides web-based GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. configuration of Governance Rules and Policies which enables diverse constituencies to establish, communicate and enforce SOA policies. This system enables policy definition by business and operational stakeholders in addition to developers. Federation Support: SOA deployments are increasingly cross lifecycle and involve many organizations. This adds to the complexity of federation, synchronization, promotion and versioning. Infravio X-Registry Platform 6 includes a host of features including autodiscovery and management of federated instances and single click promotion and replication capabilities. This includes implementation of UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. Custody Transfer. Approval Engine: This provides support for parallel, serial and combination approvals which allows for a richer governance interaction paradigm. Approvals can be viewed by approver, by service or through a variety of queues and reports. Audit and Reports: Provides visibility and analysis of SOA usage and verifiable trust in support of regulatory and reporting requirements. SOA Link(TM) Governance Interoperability technology: X-Registry Platform 6 is a run time neutral implementation with the technical foundation to interoperate with a heterogeneous set of run time policy enforcement points. Additional Highlights The product continues to fully support UDDI v2 and v3.02, non-Web Service SOA assets, improved approval processes, EBRS EBRS Electronic Batch Record System EBRS East Brunswick Rescue Squad (East Brunswick, NJ) EBRS Enterprise Backup and Restore System EBRS Eccma Business Reporting Schema EBRS Electronic Business Registry Services Specification replication and synchronization, and enhanced WS-Security support. The Governance API, built on top of the Java API for XML Registries Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) defines a standard API for Java platform applications to access and programmatically interact with various kinds of metadata registries. The JAXR API was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 93. (JAXR JAXR Java API for XML Registries ), provides comprehensive programmatic access to all registry, repository and policy functions, and data. Availability Three different versions of the Infravio X-Registry Platform 6 are available today from Infravio. The Infravio X-Registry Catalog Edition is designed for UDDI catalog functionality. The Infravio X-Registry Governance Edition is designed for organizations primarily focused on internal-facing SOA deployments. The Infravio X-Registry Partner Edition is designed for external partner, customer and supplier facing SOA deployments. For more information, please call 1.877.2INFRAV (1.877.246.3728), email info@infravio.com, or visit www.infravio.com. About Infravio, Inc. Infravio, Inc. is The SOA Governance Company. Founded in 1999, Infravio has deep expertise through award-winning Fortune 1000 customer projects. The Infravio X-Registry(TM) Platform provides SOA builders with visualization, design time, run time, and change governance across the lifecycle. It features the patent pending Service Delivery Contracts(TM) to improve the configurability and agility of services. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Infravio is backed by venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] , Walden International and Crystal Ventures, as well as NetIQ Corp. (Nasdaq: NTIQ). For more information, please call 1.408.861.3000, email info@infravio.com, or visit http://www.infravio.com. Infravio X-Registry Platform and Service Delivery Contracts are trademarks of Infravio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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