SOA Software Announces Industry's First Registry Independent SOA Infrastructure Product Suite; Partners Flashline, Infravio, LogicLibrary and Systinet Validate This Approach Signaling the Next Phase in Enterprise SOA Adoption.SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif. -- SOA Software SOA Software is a provider of enterprise class SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) security, management, and governance solutions. The company was originally called Digital Evolution, and has taken over a number of specialist SOA vendors. , the leading provider of comprehensive 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. and 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. management, security and run-time governance solutions, today announced the industry's first registry independent SOA infrastructure product suite. This announcement is validated by industry leading registry vendors, Flashline, Infravio, LogicLibrary and 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. This announcement is indicative of the rapid maturing of the enterprise SOA market and in particular the adoption of UDDI-based registries as a fundamental building block. As large enterprises expand their SOA, 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. registries like those provided by our partners, are becoming a ubiquitous part of SOA governance solutions. "SOA management solutions provide a fundamental foundation for run-time governance of enterprise SOA, and when integrated with registries, the whole is definitely greater than the sum of the parts," said Anne Thomas Manes manes (mā`nēz), in Roman religion, spirits of the dead. Originally, they were called di manes, a collective divinity of the dead. Manes could also refer to the realm of the dead and, later, to the individual souls of the dead. , vice president and research director at Burton Group. "Registries can use SOA management solutions to help manage the service provisioning process, and SOA management solutions can use registries to maintain information about managed services and to learn about new services that need to be provisioned and managed." SOA Software offers comprehensive SOA management, Mainframe Web services and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Web services security products. Service Manager, SOLA and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. all offer unique integration with UDDIv3 registry products. They all connect directly to the registry as a service repository without requiring their own proprietary service database. This direct connection avoids inefficient, non-scalable synchronization to ensure a truly enterprise-class solution. "We're glad to see SOA Software offer a registry-independent platform to customers in the rapidly growing SOA market. Flashline's leading registry/repository for SOA governance easily interoperates with SOA Software's products through UDDIv3," said Cathy Lippert, vice president of product management at Flashline. "This allows us to bring the enterprise-spanning capabilities of Flashline's comprehensive SOA repository to our joint customers. We're providing reuse analytics, portfolio investment prioritization and architecture alignment, which are all necessary for a successful SOA transformation." "We welcome a partnership with SOA Software. In this maturing market, customers want a complete governance solution which enforces policies across design-time, run-time and change-time lifecycle stages, and across multiple organizational boundaries," said Miko Matsumura, vice president of technology standards at Infravio. "This is a large requirements stack. Specialization and partnership has enabled Infravio to focus 100 person-years of product development towards building the best unified governance registry repository in the market." "SOA Software's independent SOA infrastructure suite is an important step in the evolution of SOA technology," said Alan Himler, vice president of product marketing and management at LogicLibrary. "The success of an enterprise's SOA is based upon the ability of that architecture and its underlying implementations to meet critical business objectives. The combination of SOA Software's operational infrastructure suite and LogicLibrary's SOA design-time governance solution is the most effective way for organizations to achieve their business goals." "A standards-based registry is a key requirement for SOA governance," said Jake Sorofman, vice president of product marketing at Systinet, a division of Mercury Interactive Corporation. "Systinet Registry is a core component of Systinet 2, the most 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. We are excited to continue to work with SOA Software to offer comprehensive solutions to our joint customers." About SOA Software SOA Software is the leading provider of comprehensive enterprise-class SOA management, security, and governance solutions. SOA Software's products include the award winning Service Manager(TM), Registry(TM), XML VPN(TM), and SOLA(TM). Service Manager provides a high-performance, scalable SOA Management solution. XML VPN makes it easy for companies to securely publish B2B Web services for their partners to consume. And SOLA is the only production proven mainframe Web services solution for CICS programmers. These enterprise-class products combine to create the only complete SOA Infrastructure solution available today. SOA Software is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. backed by leading investors including Redpoint, Mellon Ventures, Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). Ventures Fund and Paladin Paladin archetypal gunman who leaves a calling card. [TV: Have Gun, Will Travel in Terrace, I, 341] See : Wild West Capital Group. For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com. SOA Software and Service Manager are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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