SOA

Integrated SOA Governance Automation

software

Build the Right Services,

Build Services Right,
Run Services Right.

REPOSITORY
MANAGER

SERVICE
MANAGER

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Plan
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PORTFOLIO
MANAGER

P OL IC Y
MANAGER

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SOLA

SOA Softwares Portfolio Manager,

Repository Manager, Policy
Manager, and Service Manager
combine to form a comprehensive
Integrated SOA Governance
Automation solution, with SOLA
providing a governable Mainframe
SOA platform. The products
combine to address the 3 major
governance themes of planning,
development, and operations,
supported by a uniform, consistent
policy governance platform.

SOLA

DEVELOPER

Policy Manager provides an SOA

Registry/Repository and comprehensive SOA Policy
Governance solution, with powerful governance automation
capabilities. Governance automation minimizes the
overhead associated with governance processes, and turns
governance from a painful workload, into a productivity tool.
Policy Manager includes a built-in policy and service
metadata repository supporting its policy governance
processes. Policy Manager supports enterprise and SOA
architecture functions, ensuring consistent application of
policies throughout an enterprise SOA program. Using this
solution architects, developers, security administrators, and
operations managers can define and govern policies that are
applied to services throughout the appropriate stages of their
lifecycle.

Portfolio Manager is an innovative

SOA Planning Governance product that helps
companies ensure that their SOA programs are
aligned with strategic initiatives and investment
priorities. It makes SOA Portfolio Management
into a continuous, dynamic process, driven by
automated asset harvesting, flexible graphical
planning and governance process management,
and intuitive SOA roadmap definition,
prioritization and management.

Service Manager automatically

implements and enforces policies from Policy
Manager. It generates usage, performance and
policy compliance metrics that it reports to Policy
Manager so that it can audit that policies are being
enforced in a closed-loop process. Service
Manager support SOA and enterprise operational
management functions, ensuring that services are
secure, reliable, and meet the performance goals
for each consumer.

Repository Manager provides an

advanced software development asset (SDA)
repository, lifecycle management, and metadata
federation solution. It governs leading
development platforms, ensuring consistent
definition and management of services and other
assets across all development environments.
Repository Manager supports advanced SDA
repository and governance capabilities including
the ability to define and manage custom asset and
artifact types, asset relationship management,
integrated development environment (IDE)
integration, and comprehensive asset federation. It
integrates seamlessly with Policy Manager where
policy decisions are required in the Development
Governance process, as well as provisions service
consumption agreements made by developers to
Policy Manager for further governance. Repository
Manager supports application development and
architecture teams, providing a comprehensive
Development Governance solution.

SOLA is a comprehensive mainframe

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution that
cost effectively makes mainframe applications part
of an SOA. SOLA provides customers with a fast
and easy process to expose mainframe
applications as secure Web Services, and allows
mainframe applications to consume Web Services.
Using SOLA, customers can leverage billions of
dollars of existing mainframe investments when
building an enterprise SOA. The SOLA runtime
environment runs entirely on the mainframe,
eliminating the need for expensive, unreliable and
unnecessary middleware. This, coupled with SOLA
Developer, vastly increases developer productivity,
providing faster time to market and lower
application development cost. The combination of
a highly optimized runtime, no middleware and
improved productivity provide the lowest Total Cost
of Ownership in the industry.

Other Assets
Information
Test Cases
Process
Profiles
Policy
Services
Planning Governance
PORTFOLIO
MANAGER

Development Governance

REPOSITORY
MANAGER

Operational Governance

SERVICE
MANAGER

Policy Governance

POL IC Y
MANAGER

Identify

Analyze

Design

Develop

Test

Enterprise Lifecycle

Stage

Release

Operate

Deprecate

Portfolio Manager,
Repository Manager, Policy
Manager, and Service
Manager together deliver an
Integrated SOA Governance
automation solution that
ensures that companies build
the right services, build
services right, and run
services right.

Change Management

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