SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products, today announced Repository Manager Version 6.4 which provides crucial support to enterprise SOA governance efforts by automatically discovering dependencies across processes, services and schemas, ensuring the discovered dependencies conform to organizational standards and notifying key stakeholders when change occurs. Combining these advanced capabilities with Repository Manager’s leading support for service and operation-level consumption governance enables organizations to establish an effective ongoing change management discipline for their SOA, giving both business stakeholders and architects clear and detailed visibility over how businesses processes connect via services to underlying data within the enterprise.
Repository Manager 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. Repository Manager serves to automate the path to SOA and Cloud, enabling customers to rapidly develop, govern and deploy services within the SOA service lifecycle. With its strong integration with leading application development environments such as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio, federation with all major run-time registries including IBM WSRR, HP SOA Systinet and UDDI registries, and its extensive integration with SOA Software’s Policy Manager, Repository Manager enables customers to rapidly govern and deploy services and other software assets from a single point of control within the SOA enterprise lifecycle. Repository Manager is used by Fortune 500 customers to drive application agility and reduce cost and risk in their SOA deployment.
“Companies are embracing SOA Development Governance to become more agile and to prepare them for cloud and mobile initiatives,” said Brent Carlson, senior vice president of technology at SOA Software. “Repository Manager 6.4 gives customers deep insight into their SOA as it matures and evolves, and ensures that changes are well managed, proactively dealt with, and remain aligned with core SOA architectural principles.”
Key features of Repository Manager 6.4 include:
Impact Analysis for more Key SOA Standards – By automatically discovering dependencies across all primary SOA XML filetypes (XPDL, BPEL, WSDL and XSD), enforcing that standards such as namespace uniqueness, use of only governed (i.e. canonical) schemas, and attribute and element naming conventions are complied with, and building subscription-based dependency relationships across and within types, Repository Manager ensures that the enterprise’s SOA efforts remain aligned with architecture decisions and also provides architects and other stakeholders with a deep view into the world of loosely coupled SOA dependencies.
Expanded Search Options – Organizations can create tailored search types as desired, hiding the complexity of search rules under a clear and simple to use user interface. Repository Manager 6.4’s automated indexing of all XML-based content including Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 documents, combined with its support for configurable multi-field search forms whose fields are tied to strongly-typed XPath-based search criteria gives IT organizations an extremely powerful search environment coupled with superior ease of use.
Intuitive User Experience – Repository Manager 6.4 introduces a fully redesigned asset layout leveraging the latest AJAX technology. Creating and understanding services, schemas, processes, applications and other development assets flows naturally from intuitive AJAX-based forms with seamless navigation across dependencies, giving Repository Manager users an efficient, concise and easy to use asset governance working environment.
Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/soa-software-delivers-business-impact-analysis-2011-11-29
