SOA Software and Systinet upgraded their Web services management software
Platforms to improve their speed and ability to process more messages.
SOA Software said Service Manager version 3.0, which monitors Web services
and XML transactions in an SOA to detect and correct errors, has been
significantly improved to meet “the most extreme demands placed on it in
enterprise deployments.”
The new version includes dashboard functionality based on the UDDI
and automatic management.
SOA recognizes Service Manager must scale appropriately if needed from
customers who require more infrastructure to handle a greater influx of Web
services
billion messages per hour.
Service Manager 3.0 will begin shipping in July and will start at $5,000 per
CPU.
While Santa Monica-based SOA was trotting out its revised platform in
California, SOA rival Systinet whipped up its own improvements across the
country in Burlington, Mass.
Systinet upgraded its Registry software, a business service console with
user profiles that match the information requirements of technical and
non-technical users.
Improvements to Registry version 6.0 include the Governance Interoperability
Framework (GIF), which helps software share information about services
across multiple vendors and systems. The framework has APIs that tie
together Web services management, security and business intelligence.
Also new in Registry 6.0 is Policy Manager 1.0, a new piece of policy-enforcing software designed to determine who may
access what and improve SOA service delivery. Policy Manager comes with
policies and assertions for WS-I Basic Profile and checks for the validity
of WSDL and XML Schema.
Combined, the Registry and Policy Manager should help Systinet customers
reuse code and cut out other manual operations.
Moreover, Systinet is working on an SOA platform in the form of Blizzard,
which extends the Systinet Registry functionality to allow organizations to
store information and assets in a single registry/repository. Blizzard,
which will be ready in the fourth quarter, supports Web services lifecycle
management and service-level agreement management.
Systinet Registry 6.0 is available now, with pricing for a typical
installation ranging from $40,000 to $80,000. Policy Manager 1.0 is also
available and ranges from $35,000 to $50,000.
Despite the fact that seasoned startups like SOA and Systinet SOAs are well
into multiple versions of their Web services and SOA platforms, distributed
computing models are still in their formative stages.
IBM, BEA and Microsoft, among others, also play in the space. But while the
space has multi-billion-dollar potential, market research from Evans Data
suggests Web services are being done in-house with proprietary builds
instead of industry standards.
Moreover, developers are sharing them internally: External deployment is
rare, according to the Evans survey. Evans analysts said the external
drought is due to a lack of skilled professionals who can architect and
maintain platforms.
