SOA Software Delivers Comprehensive SOA Governance Product.Company's Innovative Workbench Product Shakes up the Industry with Powerful Features and Integration Capabilities LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- 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. , a 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, mediation and run-time governance solutions, announced the launch of an innovative 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. product called Workbench. Workbench is a ground-breaking comprehensive, closed-loop SOA governance product, integrating UDDIv3 registry technology with a powerful repository and policy management system. This unique solution provides a way for organizations to quantifiably enforce their run-time policies, accelerating service reuse and adoption. "As enterprises increasingly adopt and scale out their SOA-based implementations, the need to manage and assure services policy adherence in a more integrated and automated fashion across the IT lifecycle becomes crucial," notes Sandra Rogers, director of SOA and Web services research at IDC. "Beyond developing reference architectures and governance guidelines, organizations are seeking techniques to help facilitate more reliable adherence to corporate or contractual specifications." Governance intersects with SOA security Service-oriented architecture (SOA) allows different ways to develop applications by combining services. The main premise of SOA is to erase application boundaries and technology differences. As applications are opened up, how we can combine these services securely becomes an issue. and management around centralized SOA policy management and reporting. Customers need SOA governance to: * Control the proliferation of services * Measure and manage the value of the SOA * Control the relationships between consumers and providers * Make it easier for developers of services and consumers to participate in SOA * Manage and enforce design-time and run-time policies and report on policy compliance "SOA governance requires not just definition of policies, but also enforcement of policies and auditing of the enforcement of those policies," 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. "A comprehensive SOA governance solution must support all three aspects of policy management (definition, enforcement and auditing). Otherwise an organization will have no means to measure the effectiveness of the governance solution or the value that the SOA initiative provides." Built by leveraging SOA Software's years of work with customers who have deployed advanced SOA solutions, Workbench will change the way organizations think about, buy and implement SOA infrastructure. SOA Software's Workbench is a standalone SOA governance system offering state of the art features including: * Full support for UDDIv3 - Publish and discover services, and synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. with 3rd party UDDIv3 registries * Complete design-time policy management for WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services and enterprise architecture policy compliance * Complete run-time policy lifecycle management * Service publishing workflow * Service discovery and access provisioning workflow * Active consumer contracts managing the relationships between applications * Contextual collaboration The capability of instantly switching to a collaborative application when required. For example, if an article on the Web contains links to the person who wrote it, clicking that link might open up an instant message window if that individual were online at the moment. Workbench can also be deployed alongside Service Manager, SOA Software's robust SOA management and security product to provide a comprehensive closed-loop governance system. Workbench defines policies that are enforced (physically actioned) by the Service Manager run-time security and management systems. Service Manager collects metrics and compliance data (manifests) that it passes back to Workbench which implements an audit process comparing these metrics and manifests with the original policies to ensure that they are being correctly enforced. SOA Software has worked closely with several Fortune 500 customers to develop the requirements for Workbench as a comprehensive enterprise-class, closed-loop SOA governance solution. This ensures that Workbench will prove valuable to both IT and the business in a wide range of organizations. SOA Software's products are unique in the industry, providing a wide-ranging SOA infrastructure solution covering security, management, mediation and governance. These products are an ideal choice for large enterprise customers with essential enterprise-class features like central policy management, built-in key management and distribution, and the broadest possible platform support. "SOA Software continues to win marquee customers, delivering the strongest products in the market," said Paul Gigg, chief executive officer of SOA Software. "The launch of Workbench announces our arrival in the SOA governance market, and marks a significant milestone on our path to be the dominant, platform-independent software company in the SOA arena." Availability and Pricing Workbench will be generally available in January 2007 with a technology preview in December 2006. Pricing will start at $50,000. About SOA Software SOA Software is a leading provider of comprehensive enterprise-class SOA management, security, and governance solutions. SOA Software's products include the award winning Service Manager[TM], Workbench[TM], and SOLA[TM]. Service Manager provides a high-performance, scalable SOA management and security solution. Workbench provides a comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution. And SOLA is SOA Software's mainframe Web services solution for CICS programmers. These enterprise-class products combine to create the only comprehensive 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 Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. , 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. 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