Mercury's Systinet Division Unveils Policy Manager 2.0
Monday 19 June 2006The new version simplifies the process for managing and enforcing SOA policies.
Systinet, a division of Mercury Interactive Corporation, and a software provider of the foundation for service oriented architecture (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 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 platform, which helps enable IT organizations to rapidly leverage existing technology investments, provide interoperability between heterogeneous systems, 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 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 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 and SOA deployments.
The new Systinet Policy Manager 2.0 can now help organizations to:
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Express low-level, complex technical policies in easily understood business terms to improve understanding and clarity;
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Increase productivity with wizard-driven automation of common policy-based processes for greater ease of use;
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Easily test services for conformance to policy sets with test automation, failure analysis and diagnostics for correcting substandard services; and
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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.”
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"“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.”
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