SOA Software Announces SOA Development Governance Product

Market Wire, June, 2008

SOA Software , a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced the availability of Repository Manager 6.0 (previously Logidex™). Repository Manager 6.0 enables enterprises to understand what services and other software assets exist, where they're located and how each fits into a company's business and technical landscape. By providing a context for understanding and assessing existing software assets, Repository Manager 6.0 enables customers to rapidly develop, govern and deploy services within the SOA service lifecycle.

Repository Manager 6.0 is SOA Software's industry leading development governance platform that simplifies the creation, integration, management and promotion of enterprise assets and services throughout the complete development lifecycle. Its strong integration with leading application development environments, federation with all major run-time registries like IBM WSRR, HP SOA Systinet, and other UDDI registries, and its integration with SOA Software's Policy Manager™ (Workbench™) enables customers from a single point of control to rapidly deploy services and other software assets within the SOA enterprise lifecycle.

Repository Manager 6.0 extends SOA Software's integrated SOA governance leadership position by adding key capabilities via expanded partner product integrations and increased governance automation flexibility. Repository Manager 6.0 enhances the governance administration user experience through the Configuration Designer, an Eclipse-based graphical development environment. Now from a single point of control users can easily govern and manage services as they progress across the service development lifecycle and provide key feedback at critical checkpoints across the service lifecycle.

This product also includes federation with TIBCO ActiveMatrix Registry, the ability to easily import ungoverned services from run-time registries and a graphical interface to configure development governance policies; further solidifying Repository Manager 6.0 as the unparalleled leader in development governance. Repository Manager 6.0 continues to make it easier than ever for developers, architects and business analysts to create and manage world-class business applications, while simultaneously increasing the business value of their service-oriented architecture.

"Enterprises are looking for vendors to provide seamless governance across the SOA lifecycle while at the same time looking for solutions that increase the visibility and feedback at various governance check points," said Brent Carlson, SVP of Technology of SOA Software. "SOA Software's expanded partner product federation allows us to deliver unprecedented development governance across the lifecycle."

Key deliverables for Repository Manager 6.0 include:

--  Policy Manager Integration - Repository Manager 6.0 processes can
    automatically provision service and schema definitions under development,
    to Policy Manager which in turn automatically applies the correct
    compliance policies for those definitions. The combination of Repository
    Manager 6.0 and Policy Manager allows users to replace what was previously
    a time-consuming ad hoc  exercise with a scalable, automated governance
    process spanning service development through operations.

--  TIBCO ActiveMatrix Registry Federation - Repository Manager 6.0
    automatically populates Web service documents and metadata to ActiveMatrix
    Registry based on design-time governance checkpoints originating from
    Repository Manager 6.0. This federation enables, from a single point of
    control, the governance and tracking of a service across the lifecycle,
    from development to deployment.

--  Asset Import Center Enhancements - Repository Manager 6.0 Import
    Center has been enhanced to support discovery and synchronization from IBM
    WSRR and UDDI registries in addition to HP SOA Systinet. Using this
    facility, discovered and imported services now can be governed based on
    user requirements for enterprise service deployments, reducing the risk of
    application failure, security exposure or other application stability
    issues caused by ungoverned or rogue services.

--  Configuration Designer Plug-In - This Eclipse plug-in enables users to
    graphically design governance processes for deployment to their Repository
    Manager 6.0 installations. Sophisticated governance processing combining
    automated validations, role-based reviews, synchronization with service
    registries and many other capabilities can now be easily built and
    deployed, dramatically improving user's productivity.

--  IBM Rational ClearCase Integration Enhancements - Repository Manager
    6.0 now supports symbolic link-based importation of ClearCase UCM-managed
    files into ClearCase-managed Eclipse projects. With this integration,
    ClearCase and Repository Manager 6.0 users can be certain they are
    accessing and working with the latest version of an asset's artifacts,
    eliminating the potential for code duplication and code compatibility
    mismatches through Repository Manager 6.0-driven ClearCase symbolic links.