Oasis Member News: Systinet Expands Product Family for SOA Governance an

Subject: Oasis Member News: Systinet Expands Product Family for SOA Governance and Lifecycle Management

Systinet Expands Product Family for SOA Governance and Lifecycle Management

Company Releases Systinet Registry 6.0 and Systinet Policy Manager; Announces New Platform Codenamed “Blizzard”

Systinet, the leading software provider of the foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management, today announced the immediate availability of Systinet Registry 6.0, the latest release of the industry-leading SOA Business Service Registry, and Systinet Policy Manager, a new product that offers an extensible, standards-based policy framework for achieving quality and consistency of SOA services. Systinet also announced the expansion of the Systinet product family to include SOA lifecycle management, contract management and impact management solutions, coupled with information management capabilities to store and administer key SOA assets. Codenamed “Blizzard,” this is the first integrated platform to offer a consistent, trusted place to organize, understand, and manage an enterprise SOA.

Governance is at the heart of any successful SOA implementation: Reuse, business alignment and the other benefits of SOA will not materialize unless disparate development teams within the enterprise follow the same policies for quality, consistency and interoperability. The latest release of Systinet Registry, coupled with Systinet Policy Manager, provides a complete, standards-based solution that helps simplify SOA and achieve the expected return on investment for enterprise SOA deployments.

“Stop thinking of the registry as just a service repository, and start thinking of it as a vital asset where the metadata about the policies and processes that affect your services live," said Frank Kenney, research analyst at Gartner. "Governance is not just about creating policy, it's about enforcing it. Policy enforcement technologies, in conjunction with a registry, can help you ensure SOA Governance."

As SOA applications evolve to support more and more cross-functional business processes, customers need a unified, integrated approach to SOA information analysis and change management to ensure coordinated agility and responsiveness to business needs. Systinet’s new “Blizzard” platform extends the capabilities of Systinet Registry to allow organizations to store vital information and assets in a unified registry and repository. Blizzard also permits users to create a blueprint of their SOA, simplifying the sharing of both business and technical IT information and unlocking the business value trapped in stove-piped, inflexible IT systems.

Systinet Registry 6.0:
The most complete and proven Business Service Registry, providing a foundation for SOA governance and business services lifecycle management. Systinet Registry captures detailed SOA service description and usage information into a centrally managed, reliable, searchable registry. The latest release offers significant enhancements focused on ease-of-use, interoperability within the SOA ecosystem, and providing an SOA “system-of-record” for all enterprise users, from the development community to the enterprise architect and business analysts.

New features in Registry 6.0 include:

A configurable business service console with pre-defined user profiles that precisely match the information requirements of technical and non-technical users. Systinet Registry provides visibility and control across an enterprise SOA for all user communities.

Implementation of the Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF), the first and only collaborative approach for sharing information about services across multiple vendors and different IT systems. The framework has defined APIs providing integration at the data, control and user interface level between Web services management, security, integration, enterprise information integration, composite application and business intelligence solutions.

Streamlined approval workflow and change notification processes that completely eliminate the need to manually collate complex registry information. Systinet Registry automates these common processes, improving efficiency.

Systinet Registry is quickly being recognized as the de-facto SOA registry solution. Systinet recently announced that BEA Systems will resell Systinet Registry as BEA AquaLogic Service Registry, a core component of the company’s new AquaLogic platform and strategy. In addition, the company also announced a partnership with HP based on the joint value of HP OpenView SOA Manager and Systinet Registry.

Systinet Policy Manager 1.0:
Systinet Policy Manager ensures that all services in a SOA meet enterprise quality and conformance standards, so they can be deployed and shared with confidence. Systinet Policy Manager is a standards-based product that simplifies the creation, management and validation/compliance of policies in an SOA. Additionally, Systinet Policy Manager provides all the capabilities enterprises need to actively govern Web Services and SOA deployments. Features and functionality include:

Policy Creation:
Systinet Policy Manager ships preloaded with an extensive library of policies and assertions for WS-I Basic Profile, checks for the validity of WSDL and XML Schema, document integrity, and more. Customer-defined policies can easily and quickly be created using familiar tools and languages such as XQuery, XPath, Schematron or Java. Systinet Policy Manager ensures service quality without sacrificing developer productivity.

Policy Lifecycle Process:
Systinet Policy Manager simplifies the management of policies with a policy verification and approval process, and a standards-based approach to associating policies with business services and registry information. With Systinet Policy Manager, policies can easily be shared, updated and reused.

Policy Validation, Compliance and Reporting:
Systinet Policy Manager provides design-time and runtime governance. The policy validation and compliance features of the product enforce policies at design time. Systinet Policy Manager also supports the Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF), enabling integration with partner products which enforce policies at runtime in the areas of management, security, messaging, and routing systems, among others.

“Organizations face significant governance and compliance issues as they implement their SOA initiatives,” said Dennis Nadler, CTO, Merlin Technical Solutions. “Systinet Policy Manager squarely addresses this problem by making it easy for developers, architects and managers to create, deploy and manage policies, providing the assurances necessary to align SOA initiatives with enterprise governance requirements in a transparent and cost effective way.” Merlin and Systinet have worked together on several SOA initiatives with the Federal government, most notably the NCES project with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

“Our customers have worked closely with us on the latest releases of our products. We’ve incorporated their SOA experience to reduce the complexity while ensuring trust in their business services and the ability to know and predict how an SOA is being used,” said Tom Erickson, CEO, and Systinet. “When given the solutions to ensure quality, control and consistency, enterprises can rest assured their business processes are not at risk and rather, they are realizing faster time-to-market of products and services.”

Systinet “Blizzard” Platform:
Systinet has also announced a further extension of the Systinet product family, codenamed Blizzard. The new Systinet Platform will include expanded solutions for managing the breadth of SOA information. Blizzard provides a unified approach to defining, understanding and using SOA information, ensuring consistency throughout the SOA. At the core of the platform is an extensible repository that models, stores and manages SOA information. Specific Blizzard applications that expand on existing Systinet Registry capabilities will include contract management, impact management and lifecycle management. Contract management includes the processes needed to establish the contract that defines and enforces the relationship between consumers and producers of business services, and provisions that contract to the SOA run time for enforcement. Impact management applications support dependency and what-if analysis and reporting of the impact of change on services, consumers and applications. Lifecycle management includes the change management processes used to evolve SOA information including relationships and contracts, policies, and business service descriptions, helping to ensure consistency and responsiveness to changing business needs. This unique family of products will provide the first integrated platform to organize, understand, and manage SOA for governance, lifecycle management and services discovery applications.

Product Availability
Systinet Registry 6.0 and Systinet Policy Manager 1.0 are both available immediately. Systinet has created an Early Access Program (EAP) for Blizzard and the product will be generally available in Q4 2005; those interested in joining the customer EAP program should contact Systinet now at sales@systinet.com.

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