SOA Software Federates IT Services

One of the key attributes of the new version of Service Manager that SOA Software is stressing is flexibility. Service Manager provides an extensible binding framework that offers out-of-the-box support for SOAP, REST and POX services. Users can also add other binding. In addition, Service Manager leverages an OSGi-based open architecture.

Service Manager is also designed to allow users to uniformly perform policy-based mediation across different platforms, message types and transports. Providing an advanced layer of virtual service, Service Manager allows IT organizations to federate services using a declarative architecture across a variety of platforms, including IBM WebSphere, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP and Oracle. This means users can accept messages for virtual services enforcing one policy and send messages to physical services implementing different policies. Service Manager provides declarative binding and message exchange pattern mediation through its built-in JSR-208 JBI bus.

To ensure security, Service Manager features a token server for authentication and token exchange, an authorization server for distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing services authorization policy enforcement, and a built-in certificate authority and public key infrastructure solution allowing for public/private key-pair generation, management and automated distribution. The solution performs encryption and decryption, as well as signature verification and signing.

With the new upgrades and enhanced flexibility featured in version 6.0 of Service Manager, SOA is recognizing that today’s enterprise services market is about more than offering SOAP web services. Modern enterprise services customers need support  for cloud computing and other leading-edge technologies alongside existing middleware technologies. Considering how vast distributed enterprises are becoming, often as a result of disparate enterprises being joined together because ot acquisitions, platform interoperability is also key to fully meeting the needs of enterprise services users.

Available in Q2 2010, Service Manager 6.0 pricing will start at $50,000.