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NOVEMBER, 2004
Registering governance
As if to make the point that governance is an important issue in the planning
and implementation of SOA environments, Systinet has just announced the
release of Systinet Registry 5.5, which the company is pitching as the centerpiece
of its foundation for governance and lifecycle management.
The Business Services Registry provides a simpler, faster, and easier way
to establish control of a SOA. The company suggests this is especially crucial
during the transition from point-to-point Web services to reusable business
services. The Registry creates the system of record for all information
about business services in the SOA. It also provides lifecycle functions
to enable, publish, discover, and manage business services; allows for on-demand
reuse of business services; and acts as the guide in mapping business processes
to SOA.
The company claims it is the first to provide an open, standards-based Business
Services Registry for supporting any Web services enabled application platforms,
management, and other middleware products. Based on Web services standards,
businesses can enable, publish, discover and manage SOA business services
across disparate, heterogeneous environments. By serving as the central
"hub" of the SOA, the Business Services Registry allows companies
to begin to address the governance challenges such as security, that arise
as the SOA brings together previously disconnected businesses, departments,
and functions.
Some of the new features built into the Registry include a configurable
business service console that provides a simple user experience through
the use of intuitive search and navigation tools, UI controls and portal
integration features, advanced classification management that make business
service views configurable, and maintainable and SOA information mapping
and publishing wizards. These allow for the storing and reuse of business
service policy and governance information using XML-based data standards
such as XML Schema, XSLT, and WSDL.
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