Mercury's Systinet Division Unveils Policy Manager 2.0.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Systinet: --Simplifies the Process for Managing and Enforcing 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. Policies --Introduces New Functionality for Streamlining Policy Creation, Testing and Failure Analysis --Provides a Single "System of Record" for Managing the Lifecycle of an SOA Policy Today, 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 service-oriented architecture See SOA. (SOA) governance and lifecycle management, announced a major new version of Systinet Policy Manager. Policy Manager 2.0 is a comprehensive application that helps customers better centralize cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. policy management of SOA business services by simplifying the process of policy creation, management and compliance in an SOA. Systinet Policy Manager is a key part of the Systinet 2 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. platform, which helps enable IT organizations to rapidly leverage existing technology investments, provide interoperability between heterogeneous systems heterogeneous system n. A chemical system that contains various distinct and mechanically separable parts or phases, such as a suspension. , and better align business processes with IT. SOA helps organizations quickly respond to unpredictable changes in a cost-effective manner. SOA policies are a set of guidelines for enforcing proper behavior and operation of SOA-based services. Because of the critical role they play, SOA policies have a lifecycle of their own that must be managed. For example, policies that govern how confidential information Noun 1. confidential information - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" steer, tip, wind, hint, lead such as medical records, personal and financial data is encrypted may change over time as new rules and regulations are introduced. As a result, SOA policies need to be tightly managed to make sure that the right version of the policy is applied to the corresponding service at the appropriate time. Based on Systinet 2 SOA governance platform, Systinet Policy Manager provides a trusted system-of-record for managing and reusing policies, associating policies with business services, providing design time enforcement, and alerting run time management tools for operational enforcement. The Systinet Policy Manager 2.0 enables customers to transform manual, paper-based guidelines and rules into electronic SOA policies, which can easily be shared, updated and reused. Using Systinet Policy Manager 2.0 ensures that all services in a service-oriented architecture meet enterprise quality and conformance con·for·mance n. Conformity. Noun 1. conformance - correspondence in form or appearance conformity agreement, correspondence - compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and standards, so they can be deployed and shared with confidence. The creation and enforcement of policies that establish quality and consistency of services is critical, as is the ability to validate and report on policies. Systinet Policy Manager provides all the capabilities enterprises need to actively govern Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. and SOA deployments. The new Systinet Policy Manager 2.0 can now help organizations to: --Express low-level, complex technical policies in easily understood business terms to improve understanding and clarity; --Increase productivity with wizard-driven automation of common policy-based processes for greater ease of use; --Easily test services for conformance to policy sets with test automation, failure analysis and diagnostics for correcting substandard substandard, adj below an acceptable level of performance. services; and --Capture best practices for faster deployment and time-to-value with new pre-packaged policies designed by Systinet and partners like MomentumSI for quality and integrity of services. "SOA policies must be managed as much as the business services they control. Without a repeatable, automated approach to managing these policies, companies run the risk of chaos and not complying with the corporate and regulatory rules or guidelines that the policies are meant to enforce," said Roman Stanek, vice president of products, Systinet, a division of Mercury. "Systinet Policy Manager helps automate and streamline policy creation and management throughout the policy lifecycle and easily supports policy enforcement wherever it takes place." "A way to maximize your SOA investment is via policy management," said Frank Kenney, Research Director, Gartner. "Invest in technologies that enable you not only to create policy for your services but also to discover, integrate and enforce policies that you already have." About Systinet Policy Manager Systinet Policy Manager is part of the Systinet 2 platform. The application helps streamline the creation of declarative de·clar·a·tive adj. 1. Serving to declare or state. 2. Of, relating to, or being an element or construction used to make a statement: a declarative sentence. n. policies, transforming paper-based policies into metadata that can be associated with SOA business services and artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. , and automatically enforced. Also, it helps automate and standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. policy enforcement allowing business services and artifacts to be automated with the click of a button, while also seamlessly exchanging data and notifications with run-time tools for operational policy enforcement. Systinet Policy Manager 2.0 is available immediately as a standalone product and as an integrated application within the Systinet 2 platform. About Systinet 2 Systinet 2 is a complete SOA governance and lifecycle management platform, providing a trusted "system of record" and a complete set of capabilities for establishing the visibility, control, quality and trust critical to SOA success. Systinet 2 helps to ensure consistent access, management and governance of reusable business services, associated artifacts and information that enable service-oriented architectures. With Systinet 2 organizations can use a service-oriented architecture to drive revenues and control costs, while guarding against SOA chaos and ensuring implementations can scale. 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 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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