SOADirector - Enterprise-class SOA Management and Governance Product – News

>>SOAMatrix announces the release of SOADirector™

Bangalore, Dec 11, 2007: SOAMatrix Software Pvt. Ltd., a fast-growing privately held company focused on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) product development and associated solutions, today announced the release of SOADirector, a product in the SOALayers product suite.

SOADirector is an enterprise-class SOA management and governance product that enables users to secure, govern and manage web services and business processes. SOADirector is positioned between the service consumer and service provider and gathers message data and enforces policy on every transaction to provide unprecedented visibility and control. SOADirector is a standards based product that offers platform independence and seamless interoperability with other products. It uses SOAStore (or any JAXR compliant registry/repository) as the underlying registry/repository.

SOADirector manages the runtime delivery of new and existing services across their lifecycle. By actively managing the service runtime, it simplifies the tasks of rolling-out new services, scaling them for performance and availability and ensuring easy upgrades to new versions. Users can govern the runtime processing of messages flowing through their SOAs by enforcing management policies without writing code.

Speaking on the occasion, Kalyan Kolachala, CEO, SOAMatrix, said: "SOAMatrix is elated to announce the release of SOADirector. SOADirector offers a number of advantages over existing solutions for management and governance enablement, including faster implementation and deployment cycles, a flexible platform for future expansion offering a high degree of reuse, easy extensibility, seamless interoperability and an improved ROI.”

Speaking on the occasion, Rajesh Veeramachaneni, Director of Engineering, SOAMatrix, added: “ A major advantage in the product is integration with Registry/Repository makes it easy to model artifacts, resources, their associations, constraints, organization hierarchy and enables composing flexible and powerful policies on them”

SOADirector offers the following management and governance features:

Monitoring and Managing SLAs, Performance, Availability: This involves monitoring and reporting response-time, performance, throughput, availability and other data relevant to SLA management. Based on the configured policies, various actions can be taken to fix/correct the problem.
Security Enforcement: SOADirector can monitor and enforce Authentication, Authorization, Encryption, Identity Propagation and Single Sign-on. This ensures that the business process developer doesn’t need to worry about security details and configuration in the business logic but do it by defining relevant policies using an intuitive and simple UI at runtime.
High Performance and minimal Overheads: SOADirector has been designed keeping enterprise capabilities and needs in mind. The product is highly scalable, reliable, extensible, secure and performant. It has also been designed to minimize the monitoring overheads and ensure they apply only to the monitored services.
Simple and Intuitive UI: The user interface is browser based and simple, making it easy for business users to graphically define policies, manage the SOA infrastructure and take appropriate actions based on a rich, powerful and flexible dashboard, reporting and alerting features.

Governance Policy: Governance policies allow one or more actions to be performed if the associated conditions (simple or complex) are true
Reporting: Reporting provides the users a reliable and secured piece of information in enterprise applications. Reports let you examine statistics over long periods of time. Reporting supports various reports such as Metering Report, Fault Rate Report, Unauthorized Access Report, Authentication Failure Report, root cause analysis report. Reports can be exported in various formats such as HTML, PDF, CSV, XLS and so on.
Standards based - support for BPEL, JBI, SCA, WSDM, WS-Security, WS-RM, WS-Policy, WS-Trust, SAML and so on providing maximum interoperability
Single console and design interface for the complete SOA stack

For additional information about SOADirector, mail us at info@soa-matrix.com

About SOAMatrix

SOAMatrix is a fast-growing privately held company focused on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) product development and associated solutions, with a vision to create the best enterprise products/solutions based on SOA and meet current and emerging challenges of enterprises.