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Interstage® Business Process Manager V8 Architecture

"...Version 8 is easier to install, embed, and extend as we continue to expand our support for industry leading BPM standards such as BPMN, XPDL, WebDav, and UDDI"

Centrasite Community

They said you could do more with lesswith technology. But are you? Competitive pressures have resulted inenterprises worldwide adopting technologyto be more efficient, nimble, and responsive -with less.

Sold on SOA

A 21 page Computerworld bulletin (sponsored by Fujitsu) addresses pretty much most of the factors facings organisations today in terms of adopting SOA , in particular drawing attention to the fact "A registry is the linchpin for achieving reuse of existing services". A good read for the bigger picture.

Featured Content provided by Fujitsu

Fujitsu

Centrasite

CentraSite is the only standards-based SOA registry and repository in the market today. CentraSite offers a greater visibility and control of integrated SOA based applications, supports better decision-making, and increases productivity. It serves as a Web services and SOA asset management platform, holding all an enterprise's metadata assets (DNA of enterprise applications), and offering reports on usage.

It has been jointly developed by Fujitsu and Software AG.

 

CentraSite is available in two editions:

  • CentraSite Community Edition

  • CentraSite Enterprise Edition

Interstage Business Process Manager

Interstage Business Process Manager is a complete Business Process Management (BPM) suite designed to help improve the productivity and profitability of your businesses by maximizing the value of your existing IT infrastructure and optimizing the utilization of your workforce. Interstage Business Process Manager is cost effective, easily installs and quickly integrates into existing environments, ensuring a faster path to ROI.

F5 Networks

BIG-IPBIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager v9

The BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager is an application traffic management system that provides the most intelligent and adaptable solution to secure, optimize and deliver applications, enabling organizations to effectively and competitively run their business.

TrafficShield™ Application Firewall

TrafficShield is a Web Application Firewall that provides comprehensive, proactive, application-layer protection against both generalized and targeted attacks.

WANJet™

WANJet™ is an appliance-based solution that delivers LAN-like application performance over the WAN. WANJet accelerates file transfer, email, client server applications, data replication, and others, resulting in predictable, fast performance for all WAN users.

FirePass® SeriesFirePass Enterprise SSL VPN

F5's FirePass® SSL VPN appliance provides secure access to corporate applications and data using a standard web browser.

HP

HP Software’s Business Availability Center™ for SOA

HP Software’s Business Availability Center™ for SOA allows organizations to measure and manage critical business services to deliver intended business outcomes. HP’s solution for SOA management delivers value in three key areas as it:

  • Enables real-time visibility into SOA services so you can proactively manage service levels from a business perspective

  • Facilitates fast problem detection and notification so you can rapidly diagnose and resolve SOA performance issues

  • Allows organizations to quickly detect changes in SOA environments and assess the impact of changes in services on the end-user experienceenable service-oriented architectures.

SOA Management – HP SOA Manager and HP Business Availability Center for SOA

HP SW’s SOA Manager solution provides a purpose-built, single system view of the SOA runtime environment. SOA Manager enforces the policies defined through the governance processes. This brings control to the operational environment, delivering runtime management of the SOA to complement the design time governance of Systinet 2 to provide end-to-end governance and management of the SOA. It allows customers to handle:

  • policy enforcement

  • essential monitoring of services and

  • problem isolation based on the relationships between services

Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF)

The GIF meets customer demands for highly interoperable, multi-vendor solutions for enterprise SOA. In particular, enterprises are seeking interoperability between components of SOA — management, security, integration, composite applications, and business intelligence — and the Business Service Registry (BSR). The registry becomes the 'system-of-record', providing visibility into all aspects of a SOA and richly describing services. The GIF is designed to provide a standards-based approach to publishing and discovering business services information in a SOA across multiple vendor products. GIF dramatically improves SOA visibility, governance, and lifecycle management.

SOA Governance – HP SOA Systinet

HP’s SOA Systinet solution provides the foundation for SOA governance, making IT simpler, faster and standards-based. With its suite of award-winning and proven products, Systinet allows customers to:

  • Standardize an approach for SOA adoption

  • Publish and discover business services

  • Validate conformance of services to specific policies

  • Create and manage consumer/provider contracts

  • Manage full lifecycle of services and other SOA artifacts

  • Report on usage and understanding the impact of change and

  • Ensure interoperability with the broader infrastructure