SOALayers is a comprehensive SOA platform designed to
assemble, manage and govern composite enterprise applications. It enables
business process composition, integration, governance and policy management,
and SOA infrastructure management.
The platform delivers its capabilities using three
components - SOAIntegrator, SOADirector, and SOAStore. SOAIntegrator
facilitates process, service and data integration, including human workflow automation.
SOAStore provides design time SOA infrastructure and metadata management across
artifacts like process definitions, schemas, access control rules and business
policies. SOADirector enables runtime governance and policy enforcement for
increased business process visibility and traceability.
As a platform, SOALayers has a Studio to build composite
applications and an enterprise service bus (ESB) for integration, mediation and
loose coupling. Enterprise
and inter-enterprise services are wired using a process server and a business
rules engine for greater flexibility in adopting policy changes rapidly.
Process automation is extended to human workflows to support requirements like
reviewing, approving, escalating, and exception/error handling.
SOADirector, a component of SOALayers, sits between service
providers and service consumers to gather message data and enforce policy on
every transaction to provide unprecedented visibility and control. SOADirector
is an enterprise-class SOA management and governance product that enables users
to secure, govern and manage web services and business processes. It is
positioned between the service consumer and service provider, and gathers
message data and enforces policy on every transaction to provide unprecedented
visibility and control. It provides runtime governance, policy management, and
business process visibility and traceability.
SOAStore, another key component of SOALayers, brings a JAXR
compliant registry/repository management solution to support the entire SOA
lifecycle from design, development through pilot and production, enabling
better control of the SOA infrastructure. It allows visual creation of a
flexible hierarchy of organizations, departments and users and associated roles
and groups and defines access control policies. SOAStore also supports approval
workflows for artifacts
While integrating services, SOALayers delivers mediation and
enterprise capabilities like load balancing, throttling, failover, security,
content based routing, transformation, identify propagation, reliable messaging
and transactions.
Almost all relevant standards are supported such as JBI,
BPEL 1.1 & 2.0, SCA, SDO, XForms, JAXR, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, WS-Security,
SAML and other WS-* standards such as WS-RM, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy leading
to interoperability with other products and platforms.
SOAMatrix Studio provides Eclipse based intuitive designer
for business process composition and integration. The native business process
execution language (BPEL) engine helps in building composite applications as
well as human workflows. Business process automation and integration is
facilitated through interfaces at various tiers such as User Interface,
Business Logic and data.
SOAMatrix process manager enables monitoring, management and
administration of processes and process instances using easy-to-use web
console. Business Rules Engine captures business policies and enables
flexibility and agility in adopting policy changes.
SOAMatrix Studio extends to human workflow automation to
deal with process requirements such as review, approval, exception handling, or
error notification. Human workflow automation is performed using web console,
email, SMS or IVRS. It provides visibility and facilitates audit of actions
taken through real time notification.
It is a standards-based platform supporting BPEL 1.1 &
2.0, SCA, SDO, XQuery, XSLT and XForms standards, to name a few.
SOAWorld Magazine’s
“SOA World Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards”
SOA World Magazine announced that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers'
Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services
provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also
known as the "Oscars
of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious
industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's SOA awards will be
given in 19 categories and the award-winning products and services will be
selected by SOA World Magazine readers. Winners will be
announced at the SOA World Conference &
Expo 2008 East, June 23-24 in New
York City.
Service-oriented architectures have evolved over the past few
years out of the original vision of loosely coupled Web services replacing
constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major
enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy,
supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA
aspects or entire solutions.
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