WebLayers Inc., which automates SOA governance, recently announced its support of IBM’s new Rational Team Concert (RTC), the first product family to be delivered on IBM’s Jazz technology platform. WebLayers’ flagship solution, WebLayers Center, will enable RTC users to automatically govern services created on the Jazz platform. - SOA Governance Architect - SOA GOVERNANCE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AgilePath Corporation, the industry's leading vendor-independent service-oriented architecture (SOA) consulting firm, today announced a series of new SOA Playbook™ Acceleration Solutions. AgilePath's SOA Acceleration Solutions are a suite of integrated offerings that include targeted SOA training, SOA workshops, and SOA XPE™ "sprints" focused on delivering rapid results for key SOA focus areas, all within the overall structure of AgilePath's patent pending and industry-leading SOA Playbook™ methodology. - SOA Governance Architect - SOA GOVERNANCE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel today unveiled version 5.1 of its XML network infrastructure products, to accelerate, manage and protect XML applications. Vordel 5.1 addresses the need for lifecycle management of policy across the SOA. By combining the central management of SOA policies with distributed enforcement across a network of XML gateways, organizations generate increased returns on IT architecture and maximize their SOA investments. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor today announced that for the third straight year, it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the prestigious AO Global 250 Winners. Inclusion in the AO Global 250 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in the global technology industries. SOA Software was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Crosscheck Networks, Inc., the leading provider of SOA Testing and Governance Tools today announced an industry-first webinar on techniques in design-time SOA Governance via Service Simulation. Service Simulation -- the ability to mimic producer services even before they are implemented -- enables corporations to compress SOA Project Lifecycles, reduce project costs and build a set of best-practice governance policies for seamless integration with trading partners. - SOA Governance Architect - SOA GOVENANCE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming widely deployed as a means of constructing an agile IT environment that can keep up with the accelerating rate of change demanded by the business world. It supports several higher-level initiatives such as Business Process Management and a number of upcoming forms of Web 2.0 collaboration. As such, it has (or should have) high business visibility, and should be seen as a collaborative business and IT issue rather than just another IT platform. In order to fully exploit the potential of SOA and avoid it falling into disrepair over years of iterative deployments, governance of the environment needs to be implemented early with the understanding and endorsement of business stakeholders as well as IT executives. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

WSO2, the open source SOA company, today announced that it has extended its support for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance through enhanced authentication. Version 1.5 of the WSO2 Identity Solution for strong Web authentication based on open standards and open source is now generally available and adds support for OpenID, a popular feature for decentralizing single sign-on. Additionally, WSO2 has joined the OpenID Foundation and is a founding member of the Information Card Foundation, which was launched June 23, 2008. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

A new global survey issued today suggests that enterprise adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has ‘crossed the chasm’. Users also identified SOA governance as a key component of sustainable implementations with holistic, lifecycle approaches viewed as a core requirement. However, the overall maturity of their adoption was regarded as moderate with the state of their governance practices considered lacking. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint announced today that it has joined the SAP® Co-Innovation Lab, where it will work with SAP to provide best practices for integrating its industry-leading service-oriented architecture (SOA) runtime governance solutions with SAP enterprise services. AmberPoint intends to work with the SAP Co-Innovation Lab team to demonstrate and extend its SOA runtime governance capabilities by highlighting new use cases and scenarios, as well as identifying and sharing best practices showing how AmberPoint’s solutions complement SAP solutions. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

CBDI-SAE introduces their SOA Governance Framework - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint announced today a new program to recruit and support leading systems integrators. The AmberPoint Systems Integrator Alliance Program provides the tools systems integrators need in order to implement reliable and manageable SOA-enabled systems with AmberPoint’s runtime SOA governance solutions. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

MuleSource, the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, today announced general availability of Mule Galaxy Enterprise, a new production-ready solution for storing and managing SOA artifacts offering new enterprise-class features such as clustering for high availability, an extensible query engine, and more. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, today announced an initiative to help deliver comprehensive, timely, and trusted data to organizations focused on governance, risk and compliance (GRC). - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The number of SOA projects has accelerated to the point where SOA should be considered to be in early mainstream deployment rather than a ’bleeding edge’ approach to delivering IT systems. However, alongside the success stories there is also a significant set of organisations for which SOA doesn’t seem to be delivering the expected benefits. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc. the provider of cost effective agentless SOA management products today announced availability of their flagship SOA management product JaxView as a soft appliance. JaxView has several different deployment options including XML/Firewall, Agentless, Agent stub and ESB integration. JaxView is offered as an appliance in all of its deployment options. As well, JaxView is the only agentless SOA runtime governance solution to be available both in software and soft appliance form. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that with Repository Manager 6.0 and its compatibility with Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server version control, users can now seamlessly access artifacts stored in Team Foundation Server through the Repository Manager add-in for Visual Studio Repository Manager's compatibility with Team Foundation Server version control enhances collaboration among users of Visual Studio 2008, resulting in high productivity and exceptional quality control of important software development assets and services. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software and iTKO announce a combined solution for continuous management and quality assurance across the entire design, development and change lifecycle of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) applications. The integrated offering includes iTKO's LISA Testing, Validation & Virtualization suite, and SOA Software's Policy Manager and Service Manager solutions. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint announced today that it has extended the reach of its runtime SOA governance software to include enterprise applications from leading software vendors and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. SOA-based systems are heterogeneous composite applications that often include packaged applications—such as customer relationship management (CRM) suites, order management systems and billing systems—as well as hosted applications that are provided on demand. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint announced today industry-leading innovations for analyzing and managing business transactions end to end across distributed applications, services and infrastructure. AmberPoint has extended the reach of its SOA runtime governance software to encompass the transactions flowing across increasingly complex heterogeneous systems. These enhanced capabilities from AmberPoint enable organizations to elevate the business value of their SOA-based applications. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AgilePath Corporation, the industry's leading vendor-independent service-oriented architecture (SOA) consulting firm, today announced its CEO, Eric Marks, has completed his 3rd SOA book focused on SOA governance. The new book is entitled "SOA Governance: Evolving Governance in the Services-Driven Enterprise," published by John Wiley & Sons, and is slated for release in August 2008. In addition, AgilePath announced several new SOA governance solutions to build on the strong demand for its vendor-neutral SOA consulting services. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced the availability of Repository Manager™ 6.0 (previously Logidex TM). Repository Manager 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 enables customers to rapidly develop, govern and deploy services within the SOA service lifecycle. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

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SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that it has acquired LogicLibrary, a leading SOA Repository and Governance vendor. This acquisition combines two recognized leaders, creating a dominant SOA Governance company with an impressive customer base. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced it has been selected as a “Cool Vendor” in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in SOA Governance, 20081 report. Layer 7 provides flexible and simple-to-use gateways for defining, managing and scalably enforcing policy-based governance policies in SOA. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint announced today that it has significantly increased its market-leading customer roster with recent sales of its SOA runtime governance software. The company's enterprise customers around the globe now total well over 200. Additionally, the company's complimentary monitoring and management software, AmberPoint Express, which ships with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, has been distributed to hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint announced today that it has extended the reach of its runtime SOA governance software across a broad set of additional platforms. These new capabilities, which result from enhancements to the company’s ground-breaking architecture for distributed SOA governance, extend AmberPoint’s industry-leading visibility and control across the wide range of components used in today’s SOA environments, including: Cisco, Oracle, BEA, JBoss and Apache Platforms. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that it has certified the Neuron ESB from Neudesic as a Governed Service Platform. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won't compromise the fidelity of the governance systems and structures defined in an enterprise SOA program. The certification process ensures that Governed Service Platforms can implement and enforce governance policies proving reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading provider of application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, has announced that Progress Software will host a three-part SOA Management Webinar series. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced that the Software AG SOA Governance Summit Spring 2008 will take place on May 14, 2008 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City. This one-day, complimentary forum serves as a strategy exchange for practitioners entrusted with implementing their organization’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategies. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint, the industry's leading provider of SOA runtime governance software, announced today that its SOA Management System has been named Product of the Year in the Service Management/Monitoring category by SearchSOA.com. This is the latest in a series of honors for AmberPoint software. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that it has certified IBM WebSphere Message Broker as a Governed Service Platform. This certification allows customers to use IBM WebSphere Message Broker to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise Web services providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process as part of their enterprise SOA. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

German software firm SAP has launched new versions of products across its portfolio of governance, risk and compliance solutions to help customers deliver corporate accountability. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel announced today that the company has been positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the recent inaugural Gartner's Magic Quadrant report on SOA Governance, "Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007"(1). Vordel's XML network management products provide high performance; enterprise-level solutions to enable enterprises confidently deploy SOA. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Parasoft, a leading provider of solutions and services that deliver quality as a continuous process throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), announced today native support for multiple commercial registries with Parasoft’s SOA Quality Solution. This integration enables teams to automatically execute a quality workflow and correlate quality data in the context of an SOA Governance initiative. Parasoft’s SOA Quality Solution allows teams to automatically extract the information needed to create tests for design and development policies, such as standards, compliance, security and best practices for Web services assets as they are defined in a registry. Teams can select a service asset and verify the associated policies, thereby ensuring interoperability and consistency. SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Conncted World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Progress Software Corporation, a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced that the Progress® Actional® product family has been positioned in the leaders quadrant of the ‘Gartner 2007 Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets’. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint today announced the recent addition of dozens of new customers from around the world, further broadening its leadership in the service oriented architecture (SOA) governance market. AmberPoint’s latest customers include global leaders in insurance, telecommunications, financial services, information technology, healthcare and government agencies. The company’s recent achievements round out a successful year of product innovations, industry alliances and accolades from industry analysts and trade journals. SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) today announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance product JaxView 3.7. While providing full support for the SOA and Web service management for the IT operations, JaxView 3.7 expanded runtime policy enforcement features around creation of Service Policy Profiles. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

LogicLibrary the premier design-time SOA governance solution provider, today announced that it has been named a "Leader" among SOA service life-cycle management vendors in a recent Forrester Research report, "The Forrester Wave: SOA Service Life-Cycle Management, Q1 2008.” The report highlights LogicLibrary's Logidex as having a broad and comprehensive set of features and functionality along with extensive integrations. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

WebLayers™ Inc., which automates SOA governance, announced today that due to exploding demand for SOA Governance expertise, it has launched a new channel program to help System Integrators (SIs) rapidly attain expert status. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced a comprehensive set of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance software and services to help companies accelerate SOA adoption and drive increased business value while reducing potential risks, such as service disruption to the business. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced the availability of the Progress® Actional® 7.1 SOA management product family. With unique, new capabilities, Actional is now the industry’s only SOA and Web services management product family that can provide unified visibility within existing business process management (BPM) solutions, and beyond the edges of BPM processes into middleware and services. This ability to automatically connect the business process context to the underlying SOA infrastructure is a key requirement of a SOA governance strategy. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

LogicLibrary®, the leader in design-time SOA governance, today announced its premiere achievements for 2007, which include quarter over quarter revenue growth, increasing marquee customers by 20% and continuing its advancement of the best-of-breed product strategy put in place during the past 12 months. 2007 marked a turning point in enterprise SOA, with organizations realizing that SOA governance provides the means to minimize SOA deployment risks, optimize IT investments and increase business agility while enhancing productivity and effectiveness. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

MuleSource, the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, today announced a new subscription-only enterprise packaging of its popular Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integration platform. With Mule 1.5 Enterprise Edition, enterprise customers now have a fully tested, out-of-the-box SOA infrastructure platform solution complete with monitoring, data management, and patch management tools. Together with today’s announcements of the Mule Galaxy open source SOA governance platform and the Mule Saturn business-level monitoring tool, MuleSource is raising the bar for SOA infrastructure software. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

MEGA International provides enterprise architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA), and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions that are used by corporations and government agencies. The tools help them understand assets, control operations, and govern risks. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM publishes a new Redbook on "Implementing Technology to Support SOA Governance and Management" - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Now, Cisco and SAP have collaborated to create the market’s first enterprise risk management environment that spans the entire enterprise and acts instantly on events. The solution, which combines Cisco Service Oriented Network Architecture and SAP governance, risk, and compliance software, facilitates both realtime event capture across the extended enterprise and instantaneous contextual analysis and response. The result is a much more complete and dependable defense against costly breaches of security and data privacy, exposure to violations of service level agreements, and negation of compliance controls. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORKK << MORE >>

IONA a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced that DZ BANK, a leading international bank with European headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, has selected Artix Registry/Repository to actively govern the use of services across the company's distributed SOA. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced that Lockheed Martin has selected Progress® Actional® to manage an internal service oriented architecture (SOA) initiative within its Enterprise Information Services (EIS) unit. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

HP SOA Center includes the essential elements for governance and management that you need to make sure that your SOA architecture will scale from pilot to full production. It provides capabilities for an authoritative SOA library, end-to-end SOA policy management and essential SOA monitoring. HP SOA Center is an integral part of HP business technology optimization (BTO) for SOA offerings. -SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - Governing SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

This article discusses how to create an efficient Service governance organization to ensure an SOA initiative fulfills the expectations associated with it. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - Governing SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Development-time SOA Governance manages a Service from its inception through development to deployment. In order to clearly understand the importance of development-time governance, it’s imperative to understand the relationships between portfolio and SDLC management, processes, tools and people. - Get this free Download from LogicLibrary Today - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to acquire LogicalApps, a leading provider of automated Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) controls management solutions. The acquisition will strengthen Oracle's GRC application suite by integrating real-time policy enforcement for critical business processes. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - Governing SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

BEA Systems, Inc. , a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced that Sabre Holdings, a global leader in travel services, relies on BEA AquaLogic(R) Enterprise Repository 3.0 to govern Sabre Web Services which manages 36 million daily transactions for air, car, hotel and other travel accommodations. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - Governing SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

LogicLibrary®, the leader in development-time service lifecycle governance and software reuse, today announced the availability of Logidex™ 5.6. This release of Logidex, coupled with its integration with HP SOA Systinet, makes 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. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced the immediate availability of the CentraSite Governance Edition as a comprehensive, standards-based solution for managing and governing the services, processes, policies and business rules associated with service-oriented architecture (SOA). - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

According to a new survey from the SOA Forum, organizations frequently implement Web services without performing any type of compliance review, and those that are examined are typically subject to inconsistent or undocumented manual processes rather than more rigorous, automated review. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

In this paper, EDS outlines the nine processes of a closed-loop SOA governance model and demonstrates how SOA governance facilitates service planning, service funding and runtime policy enforcement. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

kyway Software, the experts in simplifying software delivery through model-based, collaborative tools and iterative processes, announces today a partnership with BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. As part of the partnership, Skyway Software will integrate its products with BEA AquaLogic® Registry Repository. This partnership combines an integrated development and deployment platform with SOA lifecycle governance to help enterprises reduce architecture-build costs and improve business agility. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

This Webcast, presented by Layer 7 CTO and WS-Policy co-editor, Dr. Toufic Boubez, will cover how to declaratively define SOA Policy for SOA Governance applications. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

BEA Systems, Inc. , a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced the release of BEA AquaLogic Registry Repository 3.0, a comprehensive registry and repository that is designed to improve the management and governance of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments. The solution combines the powerful governance capabilities of BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository and BEA AquaLogic Service Registry and can provide organizations with a streamlined approach to governance throughout the entire SOA lifecycle. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software, the leading provider of comprehensive Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services governance, security, mediation and management solutions, today announced that it has extended its Workbench product with a comprehensive governance solution for Microsoft BizTalk Server. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint today announced its support for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, the latest version of Microsoft Corp.’s services oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) server. The combination of AmberPoint’s SOA runtime governance software and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 enables organizations to achieve comprehensive management capabilities as they connect core business processes across applications, platforms and partners. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

LogicLibrary®, the leader in development and design-time SOA governance and software reuse announced the availability of Logidex™ 5.5 for .NET, the first product that enables Service Lifecycle Governance. Key features of this release include improved policy management, expanded impact analysis and the ability to easily customize Smart Controls™ to address customer specific compliance requirements. Logidex 5.5 makes it easier than ever for developers and architects to create and manage world-class business applications, while delivering service lifecycle governance. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SAP and Cisco speak out about Enterprise Information Governance. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

LogicLibrary® Inc., the leader in SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) governance and software reuse, together with Mindreef®, Inc., the leader in SOA Quality software solutions for the successful development and testing of Web services and SOA, today announced a strategic partnership. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc. today introduces a truly agentless deployment option for gaining complete management visibility into SOA environments by passively sniffing on the network. - SOA Govenance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

For the latest SOA governance News and Resources check out www.soagovernance.org and for the latest SOA Management News and Resources check out www.soamanagement.net - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Fulcrum, certified Oracle partner, today unveiled a new suite of web services “GRCMonitor™” at the annual Oracle North America Sales Kick-off conference. Fulcrum GRCMonitor™ is 100% compatible with Oracle’s latest release of GRC application suite and enables Oracle customers to prevent segregation of duty violations, track configuration changes and sample unusual transactions across heterogeneous enterprise systems. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

WebLayers, the market leader for automated SOA governance, today announced at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference its support for the new IBM Rational Asset Manager offering. WebLayers also achieved Ready for IBM Rational software validation for its integrated Eclipse plug-in working within Rational Application Developer. The validation demonstrates WebLayers has met IBM requirements for interoperability and user experience. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Article outlines governance considerations in Enterprise Architecture - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

WebLayers today announced at the IBM Impact Conference the release of WebLayers Center 4.0 for the IBM SOA Foundation. SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBN Unveils Solutions for Resilient Operations with Clearer Insight into Data, Assets and Security - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies today announced general availability of its SecureSpan Custom Policy Assertion SDK (software development kit) for its SecureSpan line of XML software gateways and hardware SOA appliances. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software today announced a strategic relationship with Zensar Technologies, the relationship includes joint worldwide cooperation and the selling of its professional services business to Zensar. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"This article introduces an operational approach to IT governance, describing governance as an intentional activity with its own lifecycle and artifacts. The authors then describes a value-based approach to IT governance processes and a set of principles that IT organizations can adapt to realize the benefits of governance in their business setting." - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Camilion Solutions, the leading provider of insurance product development solutions, today announced a next-generation Policy Administration System developed specifically for the Property and Casualty market. Leveraging a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

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Third Patent Award Gives LogicLibrary Customers Ability to Precisely View Asset-to-Asset Relationships Enabling Granular Impact Analysis - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

webMethods Infravio X-Registry (X-Registry) provides enterprises with a mechanism for capturing and institutionalizing the processes needed for managing disparate services throughout their lifecycle and across multiple user groups. This makes available services easier to locate, understand and deploy, while offering greater assurances as to their long-term performance and suitability. It also provides each SOA stakeholder with a task-based workspace for tracking, enforcing, managing and automating these policies and processes. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

One of the most difficult aspects of SOA implementation is ensuring successful collaboration among the many groups involved. This article offers some sound advice around getting all the players to sing in harmony. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

What a difference a few letters can make: Service repositories and service registries may sound alike but each plays a very distinct role in an SOA implementation. In this article, discover the differences between the two and why your SOA should include both. - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"Dealing with changes is never simple and the complexity usually grows with the size of implementation. Larger implementations typically have more interdependent moving parts, and consequently, the effects of changes are more pervasive." SOA implementations, especially enterprise-wide implementations, are no exception." - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SAP starts blog focused on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) - SOA Governance Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

WebLayers, the market leader of automated SOA governance, today announced its participation in the upcoming IBM Impact 2007 event, IBM’s first and largest worldwide conference on SOA and WebSphere. - SOA Govenance Architect << MORE >>

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Satyam Computer Services, Ltd. announced today that it has formed an alliance with Cambridge Massachusetts-based WebLayers, the leading provider of enterprise policy management solutions. - SOA Governance Architect<< MORE >>

LogicLibrary today announced the availability of Logidex™ 5.5, the first product that enables Service Lifecycle Governance through integrations with HP SOA Systinet and IBM WSRR. Logidex 5.5 features design-time policy management, expanded impact analysis and the ability to easily customize Smart Controls™ to address customer specific compliance requirements. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World<< MORE >>

webMethods, Inc., a leading business integration and optimization software company, today announced that Lenders First Choice, a national provider of settlement services and title insurance, has selected webMethods Fabric 7.0 as its next generation platform for developing its new title insurance and settlement services application. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Amberpoint Further Distinguishes Itself by Earning a Microsoft Competency in ISV/Software Solutions. - SOA Governance Architect - Governing SOA in a Connected World