SOA Software Adds SOA Management for Microsoft BizTalk Server
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 13:42:58
a provider of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance. Security. Mediation and Management solutions announces a partnership with Microsoft to provide SOA Governance features for BizTalk Server 2006 R2.
On September 10. 2007 the affiliate that it has extended its Workbench product with a comprehensive governance solution for Microsoft BizTalk Server. Working closely with Microsoft Corp to mouth a closed-loop governance solution for BizTalk Server 2006 R2. SOA Software allows customers to confidently use BizTalk Server to automate mission critical business process ensuring that the resulting applications are obtain reliable and comply with enterprise and regulatory policies. By leveraging SOA Software's Workbench in conjunction with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 customers can consistently govern secure mediate and bring home the bacon the policy and lifecycle of any write of SOA service deployed and accessed on any transport.
The Workbench product combines a UDDI v3 registry with a metadata repository. Registry and repository services can be accessed by a role-based web portal. The product specializes in a policy management solution including design-time and run-time policy features. These features help function designers function developers. SOA architects service owners and stakeholders to bring home the bacon the complete lifecycle of a services within the bounds of an Enterprise SOA Governance. Design-time policies for services define and bring home the bacon service validation and conformance policies for service design and registration. Run-time policies for services define and bring home the bacon security routing reliability mediation. Metrics and according reports help to monitor performance and usage of services. Security and policy exceptions are tracked and reported too.
SOA Software has been working with Microsoft for several months in order to create end-to-end SOA governance monitoring and policy enforcement within BizTalk. The integration has been developed in accordance to the project of Microsoft's patterns & practices aggroup:
SOA Software's Workbench is deeply integrated with Microsoft's ESB Guidance Toolkit and offers essential governance capabilities for BizTalk Server:
Heterogeneous Governance Automation - Workbench provides comprehensive lifecycle management policy management and consumer management workflow capabilities to automate the governance processes for services exposed and consumed by BizTalk Server and any other enterprise service platform.
Dynamic Policy Enforcement and Implementation - BizTalk Server through Microsoft ESB Guidance leverages Workbench's WS-MEX interfaces enabling dynamic policy discovery and implementation as well as dynamic binding and end-point resolution
Trust Mediation and Bridging - Workbench ensures seamless interoperability between the various security mechanisms used by the different platforms throughout the enterprise. It allows users to leverage desktop authentication mechanisms like Kerberos and smartcards providing a mediation solution that ensures end-to-end single-sign-on with backend services provided by a wide range of enterprise platforms.
This partnership surely adds missing governance management to BizTalk Server 2006. Microsoft does not be to have any plans for providing a SOA management solution on their own. They have already established a partnership with another provider for SOA governance and management solutions. AmberPoint Express. AmberPoint's light-weight management solution is bundled with Visual Studio 2005 Team System. The partnership with Microsoft is clearly beneficial for SOA Software. Integrating Workbench with BizTalk opens up the profitable ESB market. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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